This is Karen Hunter and welcome to the show somebody that I think I saw her on a YouTube

show called His and Her Money and I couldn't stop watching and after in the middle of the

show I reached out I was like how can I find her Twitter

handle and I've reached out to her on Twitter and DMed her and I was like will you

please come on the show and help us understand all of the things that you know let me

welcome to the show for the first time excuse me economic

activist Iisha Seldin welcome thank you for being here all. I hope the line holds up. Tell me your story. What

intrigued me is you're a woman that grew up in the projects and you became a

millionaire by the age of 30 and you were on his and her money talking about all of the

homes that you rehab and getting into the rehab business the the real estate

rehab business talk a little bit about your journey from the projects to becoming a millionaire.

Yeah, I mean I've got a story that's very similar to a lot of black and brown people.

I mean I was raised by a single teen mom. My mom had two kids. She had my sister at 16, me at 19, and put herself through

college. She was one of those moms that having kids at such a young age to having two kids

before she was 20, she realized that for

her kids she needed better out of her life.

So she put herself through nursing pool, got her degree, her bachelor's degree in nursing and I mean I I up until maybe a year or two ago I used to say that

my journey I was self-made you know like that I did this on my own I got it straight out the mud

and while I worked incredibly hard, I do realize and recognize that I did have opportunities that a lot of people don't.

Most people wouldn't see privilege in being raised by a single-teen mom and

passion owns in South Philly where I came from, but I had a lot of love. I had a lot of

support. I had aunties. I had a great grandmother and my mission was to figure out how I could essentially

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