003 // Jennifer Taylor // Always Be Learning

Welcome to Full Circle with Garland!On Episode 003, Garland interviews Jennifer Taylor, Managing Director of Ambiculture Real Estate Advisors. Highlights of Episode 003: Upbringing - 2:00 Work Ethic - 4:07 Advice to younger yourself - 4:46 Serial Entrepreneurship - 5:55 Learning from failure - 7:10 Hawaiian expertise - 8:45 Current challenges - 11:20 Keeping up with trends - 13:50 Living & loving the dream - 16:05 What Jennifer is in love with - 17:11 FIIRE - 18:48 Swirls for Girls and SIPA - 21:06 Books/Podcasts - 22:35 What inclusion looks like in Jennifer's industry and what Full Circle means to her - 24:50 Meet Jennifer! Jennifer Taylor brings a unique vision to investing, an enthusiasm for professional cultural connection and commitment to best of class practices. She is a 25+ year veteran of commercial real estate investing and management. She launched a female- and minority-owned platform, Ambiculture Real Estate Advisors, focused on an urban ambiculture real estate investment strategy in the Western U.S. including Hawaii. Jennifer was recently partner at Archere Investment Management which targeted investments in markets with rapidly changing demographics. Prior to Archere, Jennifer launched Atalanta Realty Investments, an investment firm targeting office and retail assets. In 2014, her firm acquired two prominent office assets in downtown Honolulu. This is a re-acquisition for Jennifer as she owned the buildings prior and disposed of assets in a portfolio sale to institutional investors. Atalanta's team also worked on development deals in 4 of the Hawaiian Islands. Prior to investment management, Jennifer spent a decade working in property/portfolio management. Jennifer is a licensed CA RE Salesperson and holds the Certified Commercial Investment Member (CCIM) and Certified Property Manager (CPM®) designations. She is Board President and co-founder of industry organization Filipinos in Institution Real Estate (FIIRE). Jennifer co-founded the LA chapter of African American Real Estate Professionals (AAREP) where she sits on the Advisory Board. Jennifer is a board member of Search to Involve Pilipino Americans (SIPA). She was on executive council for the Institute of RE Management (IREM) LA Chapter. Jennifer founded the non-profit, Swirls for Girls, a diversity and enrichment program for girls of all identities. Connect with Jennifer: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifertaylor626/ Ambiculture Advisors: https://ambicultureadvisors.com FIIRE: https://www.fiireusa.org SIPA: https://sipacares.org Swirls for Girls: https://swirlsforgirls.org Resources The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance Malcolm Gladwell: Outliers: The Story of Success NPR's How I Built This by Guy Raz // Connect with and learn more about your host, Garland Fuller: Web: garlandfuller.com Instagram: @FullCircleWithGarland LinkedIn: Support the show