Unfiltered: Transforming Hustles Into Entrepreneurial Triumph with Atte

Ever wondered how to transform a hustler spirit into entrepreneurial success? Join us as we kick off the New Year with "Unfiltered," where I sit down with the phenomenal entrepreneur, Ataneri, to uncover her incredible money journey. From her early days hustling for cash to balancing work and studies, Ati shares how her ambition and resilience have shaped her approach to finances. Her story is a testament to the power of hard work, resourcefulness, and a positive money mindset.

In another inspiring segment, we meet a resilient immigrant who turned life's challenges into opportunities. This brave individual navigated numerous obstacles, from adapting to a new country to working as a cleaner during the pandemic, yet emerged stronger and more successful. Through investing, teaching twerking classes, and community management, our guest underscores the importance of self-education, a positive attitude, practicing gratitude, and believing in a higher power to attract success and positivity.

Finally, we tackle financial wisdom and the transformative power of gratitude. I share my personal journey from viewing bills as burdens to embracing gratitude for the ability to pay them, and how this shift changed my financial situation. We emphasize budgeting, investing, and spending wisely, drawing from lessons in "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" to highlight the essentials of money management. We wrap up with a celebration of abundance, encouraging you to embrace an abundant mindset to attract endless opportunities. Don’t forget to subscribe, leave a review, and follow us on all social media platforms to stay connected and continue your journey toward a life full of abundance.

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:03

Hello and welcome to Find your Inner Glow. Hosted by me, kirsty Harris, I am a manifestation coach and an intuitive healer. I am here to talk to you all about mind, body and soul and how we can find your inner glow together. So kick back, grab a cuppa and let's get into it. Hi everyone and welcome back to the podcast. Happy New Year. Can you believe it is the 1st of January 2024 and there is no time like the present, guys.

Speaker 1: 0:33

So I am launching a brand new series on the podcast today. I hope that you'll celebrate with me if you're not too tired of celebrating, but basically this is called unfiltered. So this is called unfiltered because it's about having unfiltered conversations with people like just real life, people who can share their stories and hopefully inspire others. So today I have Ataneri here with me and we are going to be talking all about growth and money mindset. So I hope you thoroughly enjoy this. I absolutely love doing this interview with Ataneri. She's an absolute incredible entrepreneur. She is so money minded, she is the hustler and she is like no airs and graces. She will graft and make money, but she has created a lifestyle for herself now where she can live that soft life where money does float very easy because she has multiple streams of income. She's a really successful businesswoman and she doesn't really tell that too much. She doesn't like toot her own horn too much in the podcast. But yeah, anyway, I'm going to stop talking. I'm so very, very glad to have you here, so I hope you enjoy, and next up we have Ataneri.

Speaker 1: 1:52

Well, hi, ati, welcome to the podcast. It's so amazing to have you here. When I was thinking about money, I was like, oh my God, I need the money queen to come on and talk all about money. So just a little bit of background. I met Atty in a twerk after work class and then, oh, I didn't meet you in the class. I met you as part of being an instructor and we just gelled. Ever since you are my Notting Hill partner, you are the person who is just like the fun Atty brings the fun. But, oh my God, this woman hustles. So I invited Ati on the podcast today to talk about her money story, about the biggest things that she's learned with money, how money impacts her lifestyle, because I've got to be honest, I never know where this woman is in the world. So welcome, ati. It's so nice to have you hi, kirsty.

Speaker 2: 2:48

I'm super happy and super grateful to be here. Honestly, it is an honor for me to be here and to share my thoughts and my experience with you. I love you so much. Um, kirsty is not just I started like a work colleague from twerk after work, but also an amazing entrepreneur, a glow queen, manifesting queen, and I'm super grateful to share this with my Notting Hill Carnival partners. We've been before in YouTube.

Speaker 1: 3:20

Oh my God, yeah, we were on YouTube. We got stopped. But yeah, now we're bringing it to like our podcast. But, thank you, I literally didn't even pay her to say that, guys.

Speaker 2: 3:28

Like literally.

Speaker 1: 3:28

She said that on her own. So thank you so much, Addie. I love you so much too. So I thought where we could start is maybe talking about your money journey a little bit. So how was money growing up for you and how does it kind of affect your mindset? Now I know that's a big question, but just go for it so let me start there.

Speaker 2: 3:49

So since I was very young and I'm talking about child age, five, six, seven, um, I always used to hustle my grandparents like I always would come to my grandparents to be like I know you want, back in the day it wasn't even euros, it was pesetas in spain, so like 100 pesetas would be the equivalent of one pound or one euro, and I used to hustle them like that. So I have one brother and one sister and my dad was the only one was working. We never lacked anything, but I never had like, if I open my mouth to say, hey, I want this, I wouldn't have it immediately. I either had to wait for birthdays or for end of the course, when I get my grades, or Christmas, or maybe do little jobs to make some money, and then I would get whatever I wanted. So, for example, I used to wash cars, um, when my mom used to. My mom used to be housekeeper for a time I used to be with her and be like, okay, if I help you cleaning, you give me a little cash. So like that and so on, until I was 15 and, sort of legally, I was able to get a job in an ice cream shop selling ice cream and ice cream and eating them as well, and that was um. And at the same time, because I used to party a lot when I was younger, all the time I used to get like, you know, if there was a party and I could sell tickets for the party and get commission, I would do it. Um, I used to sell um from catalog like avon, christian lie, you name me, any any company that would have catalogs, and you could become a sort of entrepreneur, sales sales person. I used to do them.

Speaker 2: 5:37

So I've been really hustling since I'm very young, I would say. Always money was in my mind because, like I said, I'm not a single child and many times I was like if I was a single child, everything would be for me. No, I love my brother and my sister to death, don't get me wrong. But I always, I always was very ambitious. Um, and then, yeah, then I kept working, I keep studying. Um, the government in here gave me like some support for good grades which I used to spend in head and nails because I was young and immature and I didn't know how to invest and I didn't know how to look after it. I, I was just not to have money. So, the moment I used to get paid, I used to get the support from the government for my degrees. I used to get paid. I used to get the support from the government for my degrees I used to just go and get clothes, like being very flashy, yeah, and I got 19, and at 19 I was so frustrated back then was the Spanish crisis in 28 and 29,.

Speaker 2: 6:44

So in 2011, I was fed up. I was working on the weekends, um, in the gas station, and then I was always as well during in the week. I was making other jobs, uh, and getting some cash here and there, and I decided to move to London because I was like there's no opportunities for me here. Yeah, just at the same time, I got offered a radio job in here and I declined to go to London. But I believe London gave me much more than a job in the radio. So when I got to London, I didn't speak the language at all, really. So I'm self-taught.

Speaker 2: 7:22

Yes, I took some lessons, but that was when I was able to afford it after five years in the UK. Yeah, I really couldn't pay for much when I got there. Plus, I only went with 300 euros because I spent the money in partying, spent the money I had for the trip in partying in summer. And then I decided to go there with my friends and I got there and magically I got three jobs. I dropped in the next three days from the in the UK so I started to work working subway.

Speaker 2: 7:56

Um, then I got fired after a month because, again, I couldn't understand the people like you would ask me for cucumber on the sandwich and I would put tomatoes like yes, like that. But I was getting paid. And then all of a sudden I got a job in a smaller cafe. That was good for me because you know a smaller cafe working there. Then I got another job on the weekend and so on. That was a time I even had three jobs.

Speaker 2: 8:25

I used to be nanny, I used to work in a hotel cleaning and on the weekends I used to work in a nightclub just serving drinks. Whenever I was able to understand whatever, you saw what was happening to me. The first time I heard Jagger bomb, oh my God, I didn't even know what it was like. Oh, so innocent.

Speaker 2: 8:47

So, yeah, hustling, hustling in the UK until I realized that if I don't really do something like do a course or whatever, I wouldn't improve myself. So I signed up in the Elephant and Castle University to do a course in events management and events organization and I did it and so I started to work as receptionist and so slowly I moved into into the office side of of restaurants and bars and clubs and I started to work like that. But again, that was fun and games until the pandemic got here. Oh god, yeah, like everyone else in the pandemic like that working, hospitality or in any other sector it was affected. It was a disaster. So I got fired and I got fired and I was desperate, like everyone probably felt in the pandemic, with the, with the rent and and everything that is very pricey in the UK. I thought that's it. Now I hit rock bottom so I applied for a job at Tesco and I started working there.

Speaker 1: 10:01

Amazing. Can I just stop you there and just say, like I love your work, work ethic. Like it doesn't matter what job, like you'll just do it like I love that what do you want me?

Speaker 1: 10:15

to say whatever you want to say. I'm just wanting to give you praise to be like not everybody's got that like that work ethic where people will just go and they'll be like, fine, it's all gone to shit after everything I've worked for, but I'm gonna go work in Tesco's, I'm gonna make it work. Not everybody like has that hustle mentality of like I'm just gonna make it work. No matter what card is dealt to me and I just think that's something that you do really really well it doesn't matter what card is dealt to you in life, you always manage to turn it into a positive, even though on the outside you might be go, you know, on the inside you might be going, oh, this is shit, but actually you turn it into a positive and you just make the best of that situation. Like that's just really prominent throughout your story you just go yeah, I'm just gonna do it, and I love that thank you.

Speaker 2: 11:01

So yeah, exactly, I mean I think it's because I'm an immigrant, as well you know any immigrant.

Speaker 2: 11:06

I feel like if it's related, when you go to another country, you don't speak the language. You have to survive, you, you gotta do what you gotta do. Like I said, I work as a cleaner in the pandemic in a supermarket. I got back to working a cafe on the weekends as well, so during the pandemic I worked throughout the pandemic, like I didn't have the time where I was relaxed drinking at home like everyone else, but that is paying off, basically. So while I was there I I signed up to a trading um company and I started learning how to invest and this and that Then, all of a sudden, I felt I was too good investing, that I decided to quit the jobs and just then I decided to trade and invest and of course, like a good beginner, I lost huge amounts of money and I didn't I wasn't able to pay my rent. So I decided to move back to January, while the pandemic was working, and in there I found out about the.

Speaker 2: 12:05

OnlyFans and other stuff that you could do from home to make money. So I decided to do it and then kept learning and investing and taking things on a different perspective, because you need the money to invest, and that's the truth and when you don't know anything about investing, it's normal that whenever you see a little bit of money, you feel really hype and whenever you lose, you feel drawn. But it's not like that. It has a lot to do with your mentality and where you come from and your education. So after that, after the pandemic, finally, I decided to take the step of becoming a twerk instructor because, again, even if I work from home, I have to move my body and I love twerking. I was in 2018, so why not? So I did it and sometimes now I teach classes or I do workshops. At the same time, I keep I keep doing my beats online, but I also keep investing and apparently now community manager for Turk. After work as well, I look after the new girls and and the instructors and, yeah, I'm super, super grateful because I know now, whatever happens to me, I'm gonna make it work.

Speaker 2: 13:17

Okay, it doesn't matter what you do. Sometimes in life, you do have to do things. That is not what you study, it's not what you like, but go to cry it up. You gotta make it work. You gotta wake up in the morning and sometimes you have no motivation and it's cold outside and you have to go to a shitty job just to pay bills, because whatever you make is not even allowing you to to have a nice lifestyle. But if you work on yourself and I feel like if you start to self educate yourself in reading books, listening to podcasts, doing things that make you feel good, that moisture your soul, your mind and your body, eventually you will improve yourself in anything that is easy?

Speaker 2: 14:07

of course it's not. You know it's been a lot of tears, like there was times I was crying in the toilets of Tesco thinking what the heck I'm doing here. My life was so good being an events manager. I'm working in my office, you know, being all nice, and now I'm here people like don't want to even come close to me because they think I got the COVID. And it's hard for every everyone and life is not easy on anyone. We just have different roads, but I feel like it's always up to you to take it from zero to 100.

Speaker 1: 14:44

Definitely do you believe in like a higher power, like the universe having a plan for you, any of those things?

Speaker 2: 14:52

Oh yes, and the unit in the universe favorites, I feel like, um, there's something I I, you know everyone believe on, whatever they want to believe, um, but I do believe there's a higher power. Call it god, call it universe, call it everything, um, and I feel like, thanks to it, my life is how it is because in those moments where all I could do was cry genuinely and feel sorry about myself and hate myself for the situation I was in, like, come on, after 10 years in the UK, I'm working in a supermarket like I just arrived. I'm nothing. I know many people feel like that when you do cleaning jobs. I set up a small cleaning business as well after the pandemic. I was going to clean houses, but that would give me some cash liquidity. But one thing was important for me and that I learned during the pandemic was being grateful.

Speaker 1: 15:47

Yeah.

Speaker 2: 15:56

And apply gratitude on my life and believe that sooner or later I will have everything I want, whether it is you want to. You know, scientists call it quantum physics, spiritualists call it manifesting, people that believe in religion calling the power of God the miracles. I feel like it's all together and I feel like you just need to believe that positive things will come to you and you will attract them when you feel grateful for what you already have. Okay, once you are grateful for what you have, it doesn't matter what situation you're on. Some people don't even have a roof over their heads yeah, and nobody.

Speaker 2: 16:30

So if we look into the bright side of life, which is the opposite of what we tend to do, we usually focus on the negative. Once you do that, you will see that life slowly start changing. Right now I feel like, even though this year was quite tough for me at the beginning, I felt like it was my mindset of being patient and being grateful, what it makes me improve, and nowadays I feel like life can throw anything at me. There's a lesson for me to learn in there, and it must prepare me for what I'm asking for. So let me put this so the people that are listening understand this.

Speaker 2: 17:11

Maybe you're going through a rough patch. Try to think what you ask for. Maybe you ask for a new job, so you're gonna get fired and you're gonna maybe suffer and be uncomfortable in your current job. For the new opportunity come up to you, and when we're in dark situations, we don't see what next door is gonna be open next to us. So, for me, one thing I keep in mind is always now, whatever needs to happen for a person you know broke my heart anything, it is because something better is coming after.

Speaker 2: 17:46

Okay yeah, I'm just myself for that.

Speaker 1: 17:50

I totally believe that as well. I think when one door closes, another one opens, and we have to create space in our life. If we're asking for something new, something else has to go, because our life is already full. So we have to create that space. But yeah, I love that you talked about how it's important to be grateful. When we're talking about law of attraction, it's like if you're grateful for the stuff that you have, then, yeah, the stuff that you want will come to you because you're already grateful for what you have. So, yeah, that's absolutely lush.

Speaker 2: 18:18

What do you think the biggest thing you've learned about money is say that again, my biggest thing, the biggest thing you've learned about money that I'm so happy and grateful now that money comes to me in increasing quantities through multiple sources in a continuous basis and this is not a quote from me, this is from Bob Proctor, which I started listening and studying him years ago, and this is something like that. Yeah, about money, the biggest lesson is that money is is, for me, is energy, and for many people as well, is the energy of abandon okay, and in real life it's just coins and printed paper. So the biggest lesson I learned is like always, always have money.

Speaker 1: 19:07

Like no, seriously.

Speaker 2: 19:09

I used to spend all my money before on things that I didn't need, yeah, and when my paycheck I was minus I don't know how much, and money attracts money. So you have to be very responsible in how you budget yourself and stop buying those silly things that you don't need in order to be like you know what I'm gonna invest, I'm gonna save and I'm gonna spend.

Speaker 2: 19:35

So always have this, this three rule you can invest, it doesn't matter what you invest. You can invest in your new business, even your new hobby, or even to learn something, but you always have to be productive with your money, which is something that nobody teach us. Okay, money will come to you in increasing quantities through multiple sources, but you have to look for the sources. Okay, you cannot as well be negative about it. Let's say, before I used to be negative anytime I used to have a bill to pay. Now I say, thanks god, I have, or thanks universe, I have the money to actually pay it. Otherwise I would be, you know, looking for money around, asking friends, family or making, getting into debt just to pay my own bills. So it's it has.

Speaker 2: 20:28

For me, money has a lot to do with the mindset yeah, it's very to work on your mindset, um when you are, when you want to improve your life in terms of money yeah, I think you're totally right and doing that inner work is just so, so important.

Speaker 1: 20:45

So for you, how would you say money impacts your lifestyle now, because I never feel like I know where you are in the world or what you're doing. She's always like off, like I just see a random story and she's in morocco. I'm like what's she doing?

Speaker 2: 21:00

so I love traveling because, like I said, as a child I was never able to go family holiday, never had the luxury. So the moment I got to the uk was like okay, now I gotta make it. I need to travel. So right now life is good because I'm able to work online for different companies and doing my beats as well. Working here and there.

Speaker 2: 21:25

You need to work in here and that, working every time I can to be honest and my body allows me to, because, girl, I'm in my dirty 30s, so so they are dirty. I didn't have this pain in my 20s. Um, so right now, how money has impacted my life is, first of all, I love London and I love the UK, but life got a bit out of hand in terms of living costs and I'm lucky enough to have my house in Tenerife. So one of the reasons that I'm able to live here is because of money. If I didn't make money online, I will have to go back to live to the UK or to another country. Um crossing here, the opportunities are not as well as in the rest of Europe, salary wise.

Speaker 2: 22:19

So money now for me means freedom, is the freedom for me not to worry every night that I'm gonna put in my fridge, that I'm gonna be able to pay bills, that I'm gonna be able to afford just necessities, because a lot of people I know that is struggling right now just cover the necessities. It's not even trying to go to a restaurant, it's just buying groceries. Even here, like olive oil is nine euros in the country that produce olive oil, which is insane. The inflation is all over the top. So for me, the impact is amazing because I just feel happy, like whoever says that money doesn't buy happiness. So what are you working then? You're asked, excuse me, to just pay bills if money doesn't matter. It's true that some people don't want to be a millionaire, and that's respectable. Everyone is free. But money it is important, like it is important because it's how we eat, it's how you go to sleep at night, worry about whether your car broke down and you don't have money to repair it.

Speaker 2: 23:30

Or simple family gotten sick and you are not able to help them. You know, I feel like money is everything and money is nothing at the same time. For me, my life is a very important thing and I always have to and I'm always looking for incomes, because you never know. You never know when a business will not work anymore. You never know when you're going to get another crisis or you just we just don't know. So I feel like being good with money is like having a good mattress at night. You can go to sleep super comfy, okay. You can go to sleep super comfy, okay. You can go to sleep nice, you are not worried and and you just get better quality of life. It's, it's simple. To me, money, it is important and it does make me happy. If it doesn't give make you happy, just give it to me yeah, send all your checks to auntie yes, definitely, just give it to me if it doesn't make you happy.

Speaker 2: 24:32

I know how to be happy with money. That doesn't mean that is the only thing that will make you happy, of course. No, you can't have money and be unhappy, absolutely. But again, this is inner work. Again, you know you, you have to work on you, not just on money, and it's. It's just like drinking water. You need water to live, you need money to live totally so.

Speaker 1: 24:54

With that being said, what do you think the best piece of money advice you have to give to the world? What's the best piece of advice? Your smile, you're like I have a few things.

Speaker 2: 25:06

I have a few things, because I feel like not just one thing have been impacting my life, but this I got it from um rich dad, poor dad. It takes one knowledge to make money, takes another knowledge to um keep money and takes another knowledge to budget yourself. Yeah, so three different things that you have to learn. You have to learn how to budget yourself and being responsible. And whenever you pass in front to a shop, don't buy those flashy shoes because you don't need them. You just want to buy them for fashion. Okay if you can't buy them, but there's a time where you have to budget yourself and and organize your priorities and see like you want to grow or you want to flash issues. It's simple then, once you start to make a little bit of money.

Speaker 2: 26:00

One thing that I learned from the book as well was like you gotta put it into something that will maybe make you more money so you can be more relaxed. For example, I was saving money and I invested um and I was able to to afford a vending machine. So I'm into the business now, which is something that I always wanted. So this is something. I'm not going on like a flashy holidays. I'm investing my money in something that eventually will give me more money, right? And the third thing is um, you always have to find new sources, okay, uh, okay, there's times where you have to just focus on what you're doing, but once you got the things under control, just find for a new ways of income. You can find passive and active income.

Speaker 1: 26:52

Okay, um, you have certain time in the day so you cannot work 24 hours, so you must find something that maybe allow you to earn some passive income yes, that's, that's such a good piece of advice, and especially like the the part about prioritizing your finances so resonates with me, because I feel like sometimes I will go into somewhere and be like, oh, that's too expensive, and I'm like, no, that's putting a block there, like I'm prioritizing my money now so that that thing that's expensive won't be expensive anymore. It'd be something I can effortlessly buy. So, yeah, prioritizing your spending is so important. Yeah, budgeting yourself. I think when you're younger, you just spend money like you buy the shoes, you buy the party and you do all of that.

Speaker 1: 27:37

Um, but yeah, no, that's a really, really good piece of advice, addie. And yeah, I guess that kind of brings us towards the end of the podcast. I want to thank you so much for coming on, but before we go, I really want to know how we can find you. How do we find you on socials? How do we just take all your loveliness in after this podcast?

Speaker 2: 28:00

okay, first of all, thank you so much for everything again. I love you so much too. Um, my instagram and tiktok is at the neri d, so let me spell that for you a double t e n e r I d I. Okay, and if not, just go to my um kirstie instagram and you can find me there as I follow her as well, and I hope everyone have enjoyed and can make something productive and positive from what I said. I'm not a financial advisor, just to let you know, but this is my experience and I've been super broke and I've been okay, so it's always better to be okay than being broke.

Speaker 1: 28:44

Yeah, defo, and I will link your links below as well, below the podcast episode, and thank you so very much for sharing your insight at. It was so, so amazing to have this chat with you. This is actually something that we've not really talked about in depth before, so just even getting to know you that a little bit more has been so lush and, yeah, I just love you loads. Thank you so much thank you so much.

Speaker 2: 29:08

I love you, too, as well. I think you're a money queen, too, and manifesting queen. You know, once you are in abundance, you just keep attracting this opportunity. This is also an opportunity for me um to be in your podcast today and, yes, I'm feeling super grateful. Thank you, love you so much.

Speaker 1: 29:28

I love you so much, babes. Thank you and, with that all being said, guys, you know how to find the podcast. Find your inner glow anywhere that you listen to podcasts and, uh yeah, subscribe, leave a review. You can find us on instagram, tiktok, all of the socials, and we will see you soon. Bye.