ORLANDO, Fla. – This week on “Black Men Sundays,” host Corie Murray interviews Tanisha Adjo, a veteran online marketer who’s trained over 10,000 people in the ways of wealth building.
In addition to being a financial coach, an entrepreneur and a mother, Tanisha is an author. Her popular book, “The Abc’s of Wealth Building,” is a reflection of Tanisha’s qualities and missions all combined, as she says it’s being used by school districts to teach kids about making money.
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“During the pandemic, I wanted to do a book about money for adults, but I hired an editor and she had a 4-year-old and she was like, ‘Well, there’s plenty of books for adults on money,’ she’s like, ‘There’s none for kids.’ So, me and her actually came up with the idea for children and then me and my daughter, who’s 15 now, we actually wrote the book,” she said. “(...) My book is in about 15 school libraries right now and I also work with churches, I also work with sororities and of course, you know, schools are the biggest thing, and I feel like now is the time because since we have social media, more people are into multiple streams of income, investing, they want to know what to do with their money, so I feel like my book is on time, right? It’s on time for this and I feel like, being that I’ve been entrepreneur for 13 years, I’m really just getting started.”
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Tanisha says being an entrepreneur for as long has taught her many things, such as how the learning never stops. Being fired from her old job as a social worker, for example, led her cousin to serve as her introduction to network marketing, which Tanisha says has made all the difference.
“What that did helped me to understand that life is not about just going to school and getting a job and hoping everything works out. It’s really about creating the life that you want. What is it that you truly want? We all have opportunity to have the life that we want, but if we’re not taught that and we don’t see that, we won’t think just going to work is it,” she said” “(...) When I first started my journey, my mentor said, ‘You gotta grow,’ and the only way to grow is attend events, get into environments, and you got to read books and you have to constantly be investing yourself, every level is a new layer.”
According to Tanisha, kids are more than often excited to learn about making money.
“A lot of kids are in poverty. So, all they hear all day is, ‘I’m broke, I don’t have it, gotta wait ‘til pay day.’ The kids are sick of hearing that. So when I go to the schools and I start telling them different ways to make money, they’re like, ‘Wait, what? I can make money as a teenager? I can make money as a 11-year-old? I can make money as a 9-year-old? Wait, what?’ So, the kids love me. All my kids, they love me, and I look like them, I’m talking their language, I’m wearing my Jordans and all that, I’m looking like them,” she said. “The children are more open than adults and I love talking to the kids because the kids ask the right questions. The kids say, ‘Coach, why we didn’t learn this in junior high? Why we didn’t learn this in elementary school?’ Or, ‘Why my mother is not teaching me this?’ So I gotta explain all that to them.”
Hear the full interview and more in Season 4, Episode 28 of “Black Men Sundays.”
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