Success Isn’t a Paycheck: Christine Valdes on Money Mindset, Real Estate & Women in Leadership

Send us Fan MailWhat if success stopped being about a paycheck and started being about the people you help rise?In this powerful conversation, corporate sales leader and investor Christine Valdez shares how she shifted from survival mode as a single mom to building long-term wealth through rentals, multifamily investing, LP syndications, and private equity.We talk honestly about: • Growing up in an immigrant family and navigating WIC • Scarcity mindset vs. abundance thinking • Why flipping houses failed the return-on-time test • Real estate strategies that don’t require a huge bank balance • Down payment assistance, set-aside units & city auctions • Why women struggle to ask for the sale or a raise • Charging for high-value work without guilt • Leadership without pretending to be someone you’re notChristine shares a practical three-part reset for anyone feeling financial pressure right now:Upgrade your inputsRewire negative money beliefsChange your circleIf you’re juggling career, family, and ambition, this conversation will challenge you to rethink success, pricing, leadership, and opportunity.Abundance often looks like access. Sometimes it’s just the next step in front of you.✨ Subscribe for conversations about women, leadership, money, ethical influence, and building a life that actually fits you.Tell us in the comments: What belief about money are you unlearning?If this conversation stirred something in you… good. That’s where change begins.Make sure you’re subscribed, share this with someone who needs it, and if you’re ready to tell your story, step into your voice, or build a life that actually feels like yours… You’re in the right place.I’m Julie Fairhurst, and this is where stories turn into power.Go to my website if you would like to be a guest on the Women Like Me Stories & Business in the toolbar click Let's PodcastJulie's Website