Women Who Went From $0 to Wealthy & How You Can Too

Inspiring Stories of Wealth Heiresses

Many Wealth Heiresses started out just like you and me. Some of these women had very humble beginnings. They were not born into a privileged life.

They had hardships, challenges, and failures.

Things did not go perfectly, and they certainly did not have overnight success.

No, they started just like we did—unsure, unconfident, and, in most cases, underfunded; yet they were able to realize their Wealth Heiress.

The women we will be showcasing in this chapter did not start out as the people they are today. They had to grow into it. They had to study, improve, take action, and course-correct.

They had to take risks and build the plane as they were flying it. They had twists and turns where they could have been bucked off the bronco if not for their fortitude.

They got stronger and more confident. They found their way and the finish line of their vision for success. They did not require brain transplants; they developed the abilities they were given.

The Wealth Heiresses they became were within them all along. They activated something that was already there from birth. Your potential Wealth Heiress is there inside you too.

 

How are Wealth Heiresses Different?

The biggest difference is they went after their dreams and developed certainty that they could achieve them. Many of us do not even try to achieve our dreams or even perhaps know what our dreams are.

We put our own glass ceiling above us and think we cannot rise above it.

We can. You can.

What’s stopping you is fear—For Ever Alternate Reality (FEAR).

The alternate reality where perhaps lack of certainty fuels doubt, negativity, and, eventually, quitting. We can be afraid of moving outside of our comfort zones, being criticized, putting ourselves out there, failure, and maybe even being seen.

For some, there is too much risk of failure and it results in never even trying—and perhaps worse, never finding your life’s purpose.

There are a lot of fears we believe are real because it can be really frightening to step outside of the box, away from the crowd, and out of our comfort zone into the scary place that is the great unknown.

When it is outside of our control, it can seem the scariest.

 

How to Develop Your Wealth Heiress

To develop your Wealth Heiress and all that she embodies, you have to go after your dreams, take your power, and grab the brass ring. It would not come knocking on your door.

You have to take the taxi to the subway, the subway to the train, the train to the plane, and the plane to the rocket ship.

There’s no direct path. There’s no perfect way. There’s no plan without mistakes, failure, and course-correction.

The way to do it is to set your course on your vision of your Wealth Heiress and meet her halfway. She will do the rest of the work if you do not give up.

You may have a hard time believing that inside of you already exists this amazing woman. You may be afraid to take action. Often as women we are taught to wait, not take risks, be polite, and maybe even be passive.

Ladies are supposed to sit quietly and be seen and not heard, right?

Forget that!

One of the most powerful ways to activate your Wealth Heiress is to be inspired by the stories of women who have achieved their financial dreams and embody traits such as confidence, persistence, and determination.

There are many women who have achieved amazing success and wealth, but you have probably never heard of them.

They are all women I admire because they believed in themselves and had clear goals. They went after a dream. They were not afraid to make mistakes and learn from them.

They realized the faster they failed, the faster they recovered, course-corrected, and succeeded.

Here are brief stories of entrepreneurial Wealth Heiresses to inspire you:

 

Michelle Schroeder-Gardner

Michelle graduated as an accountant with $38,000 in student loan debt which she was able to pay off in 7 months.

She got her Master’s Degree and worked as a financial analyst, but she wasn’t happy.

One day she saw an article in a magazine about a woman blogger who made a lot of money.

Michelle decided to investigate starting a financial blog. As a new blogger, she was spending about 10 hours a week on learning how to make money with a blog.

While she worked full time, she spent 40 to 50 hours a week on her blog.

She created her own product teaching people how to blog and make money called Making Sense of Affiliate Marketing. She makes between $20,000 to $50,000 a month from this course.

In 2017, Michelle made $1,536,732. She has helped thousands of people learn how to generate passive income (including me!) Today, she and her husband tour the country in an RV while she tends to her blog.

 

Judith R. Faulkner

Growing up in New Jersey, Judith enrolled at the University of Wisconsin to pursue a master’s degree in computer science.

She has since spent her entire adult life in Wisconsin after founding the healthcare records management company Epic in 1979. Eleven years after its founding, she still had only 30 employees.

The turning point was when her Windows-based medical-records software stunned the industry and became the standard.

Today Epic has 9,000 employees and Faulkner has a net worth of $2.6 billion according to Forbes. She is America’s wealthiest self-made woman in tech, and she still drives around in a 5-year-old Audi.

Judith took the route of higher education and took a risk starting a business. Her success didn’t happen overnight, but over time with steady improvement.

Her Wealth Heiress outsmarted the competition and leapfrogged to the front of the industry. Eventually, her tenacity, intelligence, and ingenuity paid off.

 

Zhou Qunfei

Zhou grew up in a small village in central China. Her mother died when she was five and her father became partially blind in one eye and lost a finger in an industrial accident, so she began raising pigs and ducks to bring in additional food and money for the family.

At 16 she was forced to drop out of high school and went to work in a watch-lens workshop for one dollar a day. At age 22 she and a few relatives struck out on their own, starting a lens workshop for $3,000.

The business grew steadily, but the turning point was when she decided to make glass screens for mobile phones and touchscreens, including Apple’s.

Lens Technology now employs over 74,000 people and has 32 factories in seven locations. Zhou became the world’s richest self-made woman with a net worth of $8 billion.

When Zhou was working for a dollar a day, do you think she knew she would be worth $8 billion one day? Of course not!

But through sheer determination, hard work, and course-correcting, she was able to become the world’s richest self-made woman.

Her Wealth Heiress was within her all along.

So is yours.