Real Estate Rich, Young, & Spiritual - Softcover

Tammy Friedman ... is devoted to freeing women from limiting beliefs that have held them back from achieving their full potential. Born in Brooklyn, Tammy started her career at 13 with her first sales job, was photographed for Avon's catalog when she was 16 and worked in the fashion industry as a showroom model. Her natural flair for fashion led her to found her own company Heartbreakers, after which she was asked to help start L.A. Gear Jeans, the only jeans line ever to be launched from a shoe business. She was pulling in $100,000 a year when the bottom fell out of her world. Success at a young age came with ill-advised business advisors that left her penniless. But she credits this period of her life with giving her the tools that eventually led her to realize her dreams. She was literally living hand to mouth, but through hard work and the kindness of others, she began a new career. She studied for and passed the difficult exam for becoming a stock broker and when she had learned the ropes on Wall Street, she attracted partnerships with wealthy clients during the prosperous Clinton-era. She purchased distressed real estate and used her creativity to renovate and rejuvenate the properties using feng shui to heal any defects in the energy and her eye for fashion to work on the interiors. She used her knowledge on Wall Street to judge the value of the properties and her sense of numbers to know how to structure a deal. With her new abundance under her own control this time, she was able to expand her horizons. In 2000, she became certified in hypnotherapy. Along the way, she also learned the benefits of daily meditation. She made pilgrimages to India to experience life in Tibetan Buddhist communities. She developed a stable spiritual practice for herself. Gradually she was able to surpass the prosperity of her early adulthood, and have enough left over for the projects of her heart - caring for and rescuing animals and empowering others to