The conversation I needed from my trip to a London laundromat.

Hi from Europe,

It was getting late.

And I was running out of options.

The only laundromat open until 8pm was my last resort.

I hopped into an Uber, racing against time...

...Only to be met with a polite refusal from the laundromat owner.

Apparently an hour before closing was too late for a last load.

Desperate to wash my clothes,

I managed to persuade her to let me wash.

But this story isn't about me working my charm.

It is about the unexpected conversation I had with her.

For an hour.

Let's call her Lelia.

Somehow we got into career talk.

She shared her journey with me - from jobs as a secretary to virtual assistant to now an owner of multiple businesses and investments.

What changed?

She realized she was pouring her energy into building someone else's wealth.

No matter how many hours she would put in

Her income will never reach that level of generational wealth.

Determined to change the narrative for herself and her family,

Lelia said f it and took the leap of faith.

It was scary. She did not deny that.

But she also knew if she worked just as hard for herself as she did for others,

She would be just fine.

Today, she has 7 streams of income.

One reason being she gets bored easily. The other is that you can't rely on one source of income.

As I moved my clothes to the dryer, Lelia had words of wisdom for me:

• You will never create generational wealth working for someone else.

• Assets build slowly. It is a marathon, not a sprint. (She laughed when I said I wanted to break even in 2-3 months, not 2-3 years.)

• Start now. Fear is natural, but don't let it stop you.

Yes, I knew these before.

But it hits differently when a stranger tells you it.

This encounter has inspired me to rethink what I'm doing with my time right now.

Sometimes, the universe gives you all the signs to do or say something

And at some point, you just have to take it.

What about you?

Do you need a trip to the laundromat?

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Clean clothes,

Mary F