Episode Rerun: From Living in Her Car to Living on Her Own Island and Making a Global Impact with Britnie Turner

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In this episode of the From Adversity to Abundance podcast, wow. One episode with with Britney Turner is just not even gonna scratch the surface. So I don't know. We could have her on for ten episodes, and it and it just wouldn't even wouldn't cover enough. She's been through a ton, and, you know, her story is amazing. She has seven companies now through real estate and business and entrepreneurship. She's been able to impact people across the world, and I I don't say that, like, she's just written a check to somebody in Africa or something. She's actually actively been saving lives and teaching people to save lives and healing, you know, US military veterans and addressing and and, you know, in some large ways, fixing and saving people from sex trafficking, poverty, you know, all kinds of problems across the world. They do disaster relief, immediately after disasters that are happening in in other countries and other continents. And this is all possible because she thought big and thinks big, but also takes action. And, the the biggest takeaway for me really on this one is the fact that, you know, she's not someone who just talks a big game. She actually she was able to purchase her she lives on her own island. She just bought an island. I say just she said it took five years to buy the island, but and this is not it's not an island that she just sits on and and counts her pennies from. It's her whole intent is to impact people for good through real estate, entrepreneurship. She's, you know, just impacting the world. She's a force for good, and it it's it's incredible. I know you're gonna love it. 

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From adversity to abundance, hosted by entrepreneur and seasoned real estate investor, Jamie Bateman, is the ultimate guide for active and passive investors seeking clarity, mental fitness, and the confidence to make inspired decisions in the world of real estate. With a decade plus of investing experience across various niches and a background as a combat veteran, former army officer, and multimillion dollar mortgage note company owner, Jamie brings a wealth of knowledge and inspiring stories to each episode. Through weekly episodes featuring insightful interviews with industry leaders and solo explorations of mindset and strategy, listeners will uncover actionable advice and tips to overcome overcome challenges and build lasting financial success. Whether you're a seasoned investor or just starting, from adversity to abundance is your road map to turning obstacles into opportunities and achieving financial freedom. 

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Welcome, everybody, to another episode of the From Adversity to Abundance podcast. I am your host, Jamie Bateman. And today, I have the honor of being joined by Britney Turner of Ariel Group. Britney, how are you doing? 

Speaker 2

Hi. Great. Thank you for having me, Jamie. 

Speaker 0

Yeah. And you already told me, but for the audience, can you tell us where you're where you're dialing in from? 

Speaker 2

I am calling in from the beautiful British Virgin Islands where it is another Awesome. Perfect day. 

Speaker 0

That's fantastic. And, yeah, and, I guess you've, kind of made made that your home. Is that right? Is that where you Yeah. It is. 

Speaker 2

I'm actually calling in from my island, which is in BVI, and it is called the Aerial BVI on Buck Island. And it's 

Speaker 0

so cool. 

Speaker 2

It's been amazing. So, yeah, I've I'll give you a little background. I wanted to be a missionary since I was twelve years old. I went on a ton of mission trips all throughout high school. I'd worked five jobs at a time to save to go on these trips. I had a huge passion for helping people, and I went on these trips and realized I wasn't really changing life for people. Yes. We'd feed them for a day or we'd build a school, but they're still suffering. You know? They're still having to do terrible things because they have no other opportunities. And when you meet parents that have actually sold their kids, it's something you can't unsee. Or when you meet kids that have been sold, my purpose became really clear. So, yes, I'm calling you from an absolutely beautiful, what looks like absolutely paradise. 

Speaker 0

Mhmm. 

Speaker 2

There's so much more to the story. And if we can get anything today on your podcast, you know, it's just a powerful message that you're looking to share, and I wanna encourage all of you listening to this that you absolutely you absolutely can go from this because I started my career living in my car and and built all these businesses in alignment with my purpose. 

Speaker 0

So you weren't just handed an island and went from there. So, yeah, for the for the listeners, who are you today? And then we'll jump back into your backstory. What what do you have going on kind of today? 

Speaker 2

So today, I get to live on this beautiful private island in the BVI, which is not just an island, and it's not just my house. We actually have a resort here that creates these amazing healing experiences where people come and they find their purpose. It's unlike anywhere I've ever met 

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in 

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the world. I mean, people come here and they find exactly what they're needing in life and they find center, and then they actually go forth and make the difference that they're called to in their their life. And it sounds it almost sounds weird, but you have to go try it. You have to Every single thing is so intentional from the way we integrated with nature to the food that heals you from the inside out, to the activities and the ability to connect to, our equine therapy that's on island, and we have over seventeen horses and zebras and turtles and peacocks that are here that were all rescues. And so when you can come see redemption in every layer, when you can come breathe again in an inspiring atmosphere and you can start to connect to the things that matter most to you and other people that care about changing the world, then you'll start activating into your purpose. And my my career, like we were talking about, started with wanting to help children in desperate areas. But as I've gone all over the world on these mission trips, I realized it's gonna have to take a lot more than me. Because if you drive through eight hours of slums, it's gonna take a whole lot more than Britney Turner 

Speaker 0

Mhmm. 

Speaker 2

And any wealth I could ever build to actually create opportunity in places that don't have the basics. Some places in Honduras, I've met with nonprofits. Their entire life mission is to get people up to the poverty line because there's another layer in Honduras below poverty called miserable, and they just wanna get people up to the poverty line. And I'm like, and poverty in Honduras is different than poverty in America. So 

Speaker 0

Sure. 

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The island is designed to find other people again, help you heal so that you have the ability to give to others. You start attracting the abundance to get past living just paycheck to paycheck, and you can help solve the needs of the world. And so Mhmm. That looks like this amazing beautiful picture where there's even so so far back of it. Yes. So I spend about fifty percent of my time in developing nations getting to work on these different hand up programs that my husband and I, are are building or have built, wiping out poverty, creating jobs, and doing these emergency rescue missions after disasters. So we have disaster all the way through redevelopment that our nonprofit is involved in, not just saving lives, but rebuilding livelihoods so, again, you can address poverty at its root. And so that's it's so amazing and so rewarding, but it took my real estate my my real estate business being successful and mindful and intentional Mhmm. Purpose to ever get here. 

Speaker 0

That's exactly what I wanna focus on. That's that's really good. And and to be clear, I I told you before we hit record, I heard you on another podcast. And, I mean, and I'm not just saying this. I was just blown away by the what what you all are doing, and I I just it's one of those things where it's like, I don't even I'm trying to figure out what's for dinner versus trying to stop human trafficking or something like so and I and and, again, not trying to compare, but it was just amazing just the fact that you've even set your goals that high and that you've what you've been able to accomplish. So so, yeah, let's dive into your backstory, and you can start, you know, wherever you want. But trying to focus on some of the adversity that you've been through, and I know that we've all been through adversity. We're all going to face more adversity. Right? It's not we don't pretend on this show that it's, we had adversity. Now we have abundance, and it's not like that. We don't just flip a switch. But we wanna walk through kind of your journey on that, you know, from moving from a in a through adversity and getting to abundance, talk about your real estate and that kind of thing. So what jumps out to you as a as a good starting point? 

Speaker 2

I think the starting point is knowing knowing those desires that are in your heart even as a kid. Mhmm. It's really important because everybody's called to something different. And Sure. My pillar of the difference I wanted to make in the world was to serve those in extreme desperation. And other people are called to put more art in high schools, and other people are called to, like, make sure that little league is the best little league in the world. It's like and you have gotta be confident in being, like, the best mom or dad. Whatever it is, get confident and know that those desires are in your heart for a reason. 

Speaker 0

Mhmm. 

Speaker 2

And then start designing a life to make that reality. And one of the best ways you can do that is to write your eulogy. And the reason that that is such a powerful exercise is it is the only thing guaranteed in your life is that you're gonna freaking die. You're gonna die. And so just like those with terminal illness, things become really clear really fast on what matters in life. Everything people have sold you starts to go away, and it matters to you. What do you want to be true in your one chance center? Now I'm so blessed that at seventeen, I was in a class and somebody had me write that. So I was a very good kid. Wanted to be a missionary because that's as big as I could dream. Mhmm. But I wasn't actually doing anything today that would make that story true. And I wanted to start with sharing that today because it was the guiding light in my life. And I update it every year because I learn more, and my dreams become bigger, just like Jamie was just saying. It's not about comparing. It's not about comparing. But when you can meet somebody who is doing more, you can ask yourself, can I do more Yeah? Absolutely. Possible with my life. And my friends, thankfully, I've got some really cool billionaire neighbors who are, like, solving cancer. They are really lovingly hard on me saying, Britney, we only saved a thousand people. I'm like, oh my god. 

Speaker 0

Why are 

Speaker 2

you not working on twenty thousand people? 

Speaker 0

Do you know 

Speaker 2

how many people need your help? And I'm like, but when because they believe in me and because they've set the standard, I now think it's possible for me, which means I'm gonna do it. Sure. And so Yeah. 

Speaker 0

That yeah. 

Speaker 2

Confident in your calling. Don't limit yourself based on who's around you. Have people kicking your butt and or listen to them like this podcast Yeah. So they can reset what you think is normal because you're only ever gonna do what's normal. 

Speaker 0

So what comes to your mind as far as just some of the adverse personal adversity that you've been through, whether it's financial, health, you know, any relationship, family, things that you've worked through over the years that were real challenges, what keeps your mind? 

Speaker 2

I had that clarity of purpose, but I didn't have any funding for it. And this guy came into class, same classes I was in where the guy had me write my eulogy. 

Speaker 0

Mhmm. 

Speaker 2

He said, did you know you can buy a house with no money down? And I said, go on. 

Speaker 0

Tell me more. 

Speaker 2

He said, you rent that house out for twelve hundred dollars a month, but your mortgage is only nine hundred dollars a month. That's a thing called cash flow. Yeah. And, he said, if you do that ten times, you can live in Africa, and you don't have to ask anybody else for money. And I was like, I love that idea. Because I spend so much time, like, begging, and I was like, I might as well just go make my own money. I can make my own money more than people ever donate. And so I love that idea, but that idea was introduced to me in a year two thousand seven. So I bought my first house at eighteen and then googled what colleges teach you how to flip houses because I learned you can make, like, ten thousand dollars flipping a house if you work hard at that. I'm a hard worker raised on a farm, and no colleges taught you how to flip houses. So I said, okay. Well, I guess I have to learn another way. That wasn't exactly exactly popular with my family. I don't know if you guys have ever had any vetting that not approve. Mhmm. But I had to be willing to do what or be willing to find a way to get educated 

Speaker 0

Mhmm. 

Speaker 2

In what I needed to learn even though there was not a formal education for that, which is sad that there isn't. That just isn't. 

Speaker 0

Right. 

Speaker 2

And so Absolutely. Again, my family stopped talking to me for almost two years. 

Speaker 0

Oh, wow. 

Speaker 2

It's very hard because I'm one of six kids, and we're very close. And my boyfriend was super mean. He's like, this just there's a reason eighteen year olds don't buy a house. And all my friends pretended like they didn't know me, and I was like, I'm doing orphans. I wanna save orphans. Mhmm. So I ended up getting a job as a loan officer because, the main guy said he would teach me how to flip houses. Again, two thousand eight. Not one loan closed. I ended up in forty five thousand dollars of debt and have to wait tables. I'm working twelve hours a day studying every real estate book I could possibly get my hands on almost ten hours a day, sleeping two hours ish every night. And, 

Speaker 0

So was this debt just curious. Was this from just living expenses, or was this how did the debt accumulate? Yeah. 

Speaker 2

It was just waiting for waiting for a loan to close and living off that credit card, living off that credit card. I was not out shopping. Don't worry. Not a shopper. Trying to pay my mortgage because my renters in the other bedrooms weren't paying their rent, and and Yeah. Interest rates were, you know, seven percent back then. And so I'm surviving waiting for something to break through. I'm learning everything I can, and I end up waiting tables. And, extremely long story short, these, I got offered a job that I'd have to move to Nashville, place I'd never been, in two weeks. Well, I decided to to kick my roommates out and rent the house out to these guys off Craigslist. I took a job that was less than six hundred dollars or six hundred dollars less than the minimums on my credit card. I moved to a place nobody I don't know anybody. Family's like, you're an idiot. Also, everybody's saying, so worst time to get into real estate is two thousand eight, two thousand nine. 

Speaker 0

Sure. Yeah. 

Speaker 2

Absolutely. What are you doing? So I thought this was my big breakthrough. But instead, it ended up being, the guy's like, well, I was supposed to be his assistant, and he was gonna teach me how to flip houses. He's like, well, nobody's able to flip houses right now and do well, so I'm doing away with your job position. The tenant's first month's rent check bounced. So now I have a mortgage. I have no income. I have all this debt, and I pay my freaking bills. Okay? Mhmm. With all this going on, I still found a way to pay my bills. It might be one from one credit card to another, but I paid them. 

Speaker 0

Mhmm. 

Speaker 2

And I couldn't tell my family, and so I end up moving into my car. And I found these two guys the day I got fired that were actually flipping houses, and I said, can I work for you for free? Because even though I had almost three years of, like, nothing working in my life Mhmm. I knew that you still have to serve 

Speaker 0

Yeah. 

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To give first. You have to be a blessing for people to wanna keep you around. And real estate's, investing is really expensive to learn. Sure. So the only way I could learn is to work for free. So I worked eighteen to twenty one hours a day for them for nine months living in my car on and off, most of the time in my car, having creepy truck drivers banging on my window in the middle of the night in grocery store parking lots. And at the end of those nine months, I'd made them, like, three hundred thousand dollars, and they never offered to pay me. It was just a 

Speaker 0

And and what was your role with them? 

Speaker 2

I they wouldn't even talk to me the first, like, week. I just sat in the car. They let me sit in the car, and I would listen to their problems. And I knew if I could make their life easier, they would keep me around. And so I'd take notes. He's really frustrated at his realtor. The realtor is not a hard enough worker. He's really frustrated at his contractor. He doesn't like this tile company. He needs more investors. He can't find enough deals. And so whatever he was frustrated about, I would ask some questions when he would ever give me any time on how to do those things, and I would take it over on, like, here's what he expects. Here's what he's getting, and I would try to fill the gap. And so I became his realtor and, like, all the I just did everything I could for free to make their lives amazing. 

Speaker 0

You were you were listening and solving problems. I mean, that's 

Speaker 2

And people will keep you around if you make them much better. 

Speaker 0

Yeah. 

Speaker 2

So at the end of nine months, they're like, alright. You're ready to go do this on your own, and it's still gonna sound easier than it was. It still was, like, months of suckiness and, like, terrible, everything going wrong, backstabbing, like, all the not them, but other people. It's a sharky business. 

Speaker 0

Sure. And this is this is one of the risks. Sorry to cut you off. But with with with our with this show, it's like we gloss over so much stuff, and it's like, oh, yeah. You know, I live it out of my car for nine months. Oh, that's cool. But, I mean, that was way more challenging than worth the 

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whole freaking cold. My car didn't beat. It was miserable. And it was like, there's so much more terrible things that went on that I will never have 

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to 

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tell you about. Like, the the shadiness of people, getting robbed, having houses, like, it was I had to put two guys in jail for trying to kill me. Like, it was there's so much drama in that business, but the point was never it was never about making money, and it was never it was never about real estate. It was about getting back to these regions of the world where kids are gonna be alive or dead if I do nothing. 

Speaker 0

Mhmm. No. That's yeah. And and and, frankly and I told you this before we hit record. I haven't said this per se on this show yet, but, you know, I was the cohost of a mortgage note investing podcast, and it it was great, The good deeds podcast. I recommend any mortgage note investors listen to it. Yeah. But, you know, but I found that it's life is bigger than that, and that's and so that's kind of that's why I started this show, was to talk about things like this where it's like your goals and your intention and the reason you were doing learning flipping or learning any any strategy within real estate was to make money to get funding to do these mission trips, right, which was is considerably bigger than flipping a house or, you know, whatever. The ARV is is on a particular property. That's all important, and that's how you make money. But, I love it. It's fantastic. So so talk us through the next, you know, few years, or how did you kind of transition from that rough period? 

Speaker 2

Well, it never got not rough. I'll just tell you that. It just got rougher in different ways. 

Speaker 0

Okay. 

Speaker 2

But, yeah, it is perspective. Your problems change. It's not no money, more problems. It's unless you've made your money in terrible ways, then it comes back by you. It's more money, different problems. And every day that I have different problems, I got somebody dump a boat in my bay, and the the numbers to get it out, it's like eighty five thousand dollars, something insane. And I was like, and I was so annoyed because somebody just dumped it there instead of actually disposing of it properly. It was after the storm. And it's like, well, you get to have these kinds of problems. 

Speaker 0

Right. Right. 

Speaker 2

You get to have these kinds of problems, and all of these are better than not being able to fill your gas tank up. I hated those. I'll still pick these because it's not even that the problems aren't actually harder or bigger. It's that you're more confident in yourself. 

Speaker 0

Mhmm. 

Speaker 2

You're more confident that you have a track record of knowing you've gotten through that before. You can also get through this. Mhmm. God always makes a way. God always brings you through it, and it always ends up working out for your good. Mhmm. And instead of labeling things problems 

Speaker 0

Mhmm. 

Speaker 2

You can call them expansion tools because they really are blessings made and designed for your expansion so you can go to the level that you're asking to go to. Mhmm. Because it makes you smarter. It makes you dive in. It makes you ask better questions. It makes you learn more, connect more, talk to other people, listen to more podcasts, whatever it is to grow to be able to handle those things. Now I'm not into, like, attracting extra problems, trying to cut off the stuff. I'm saying if you don't label them problems, then you're gonna have a more joyful journey. 

Speaker 0

Sure. 

Speaker 2

And that is the biggest I wish I I had understood earlier on because I was I was upset thinking this shouldn't be happening to me. I'm a good person making money for good. Instead, I get to deal with these. I've been entrusted with these. 

Speaker 0

Yeah. 

Speaker 2

How can I be a leader amongst time? How can I help other people? How can I grow? What's the person I'm becoming? And am I fueling my life with anger and rage, which is my go to, or am I feeling it with purpose and remembering my why in a powerful way? 

Speaker 0

No. That's really good. And we we've one of the major common themes that's come through all these episodes so far, this is episode twenty two. So through twenty one, now twenty two episodes, one of the common themes has been just that, which is, okay. You may not see it in the moment that this this is great. I'm I'm so happy I'm going through this, you know, tear terrible time, this struggle. Right? But but over time and it's different for everyone. It's every situation is different. But over time, you look back and you see because you've shifted your perspective, you see that, actually, that was a blessing. And because of that hardship I went through, all these personal growth or or, you know, you're better off actually, and you're able and the other thing is you're able to focus on helping other people. That's that's the big one that I found through all of our guests, whether it's health challenges, financial challenges. They are I don't think we've had a single guest who hasn't mentioned, hey. I shifted my focus to others in order, and that's what really got me through, this hard time and this adversity. So I just that's I mean, you're all about serving others, but it just that's been a a major takeaway for me personally is look. Yes. You do need to focus on yourself at some point. You know? And this is this is a a real challenge that I'm going through. We're not saying it's not, but but at some point, to get past that and to think bigger, you've gotta focus on serving others. And that's that's just been a a big part of this show so far. So if you would, so take us through just kind of from, I guess, that flipping that initial real estate phase through through today, and I know that's, like, a ton to cover. But so in real estate and business, kind of what it hit some of the highlights that that you've, got you know, got, worked through to get to today. 

Speaker 2

Yeah. So I I was flipping houses to make money so that I could buy cash flowing assets so that I could move to Africa. That was my plan. Got it. And I didn't wanna have to ask other people for money. So I went out on that journey again, started the worst time you could get into real estate. Yeah. The process of flipping houses, I kept going back to Africa, and my mentor took me to one of his orphanage sites and showed me how these business guys who saw things they couldn't unsee. They designed an orphanage that was so beautiful, and it was so inspiring that these kids they pulled out of garbage heaps were dreaming about being the president. These little girls were dreaming about being president of Kenya one day and having loving relationships and a family. And it was so cool to see the power of environment, and we went from that orphanage site to another one where I helped them do the land deal, and then I helped them do the site plan. And then I helped them recreate a family model versus warehousing children, and then we came up with enough cash flowing. I don't know if you wanna call them assets, but, like, a guard that you not only feed the kids with and teach them skills, you can sell the extra in the marketplace and create cash flow to where that orphanage is self sustainable. I I this is such a an integral part of my journey because I went from trying to make cash flow to understanding that my skill set is how you solve poverty. Because I was actually mad at God, a lot of my journey thinking, like, why am I learning real estate? Mhmm. Yeah. I'm flipping houses. What the heck does that have to do with Africa where I really wanna be? Mhmm. Came back to the orphanage site that we had helped tie up a year later, which we hadn't even been able to break ground yet. It takes forever to get title there. I saw how the area we had picked because parents were selling their kids for twenty five dollars, like, forever. Gone. They knew what was gonna happen to them. Oregon harvesting or sex trafficking. It picked that level of desperation area because of that poverty. All these businesses had had moved in, and now it was one of the wealthiest areas within, like, a ten mile radius, and we're like, what happened? It's because the Americans are investing there. Mhmm. They still had the fate to start these, like, second branches that are companies or whatever, the little African company. And and I saw how real estate development can shift what's possible for communities. And I said, how can I start practicing in areas people don't believe in, areas that are similar to this environment, areas that need help? How do I get people to believe in these broken places? Because if they believe in them, then opportunity will come and elevate the people up with dignity instead of gentrifying. It's Mhmm. Mindful revitalization and giving the people who want it that chance to pull 

Speaker 0

it up. You're getting getting the buy in from the people who are already there, as opposed to forcing forcing 

Speaker 2

the change in buy in. It's not them. It's that Okay. People bringing in the opportunities pick that spot. 

Speaker 0

Okay. 

Speaker 2

And so Gotcha. The people who live there get those opportunities versus having outside people have to move there, and 

Speaker 0

that's Got it. 

Speaker 2

Got it. A good idea. 

Speaker 0

Uh-oh. Are you there? Go ahead. 

Speaker 2

So I practice in my own backyard. How do you take, everything from a house to a street to a neighborhood and get opportunity to come to it through the revitalization? And it's mindful. Mindful sounds like a girly word. It's not. It means to consider others, means to take all of it into account and care about it versus just taking the piece you need to be profitable. How can you be profitable while considering others and elevating everybody? And as much as that, again, takes a lot more effort, it's so amazingly worth it. And I never would have dreamed, like, people would bring us their deals because they demanded we're the only ones that give a crap about the community. Only we're the ones that are allowed to buy it, which was so cool. It was like this amazing blessing that came from having this, like, great heart. And so I actually went from I don't know. We won Forbes' sixth fastest growing woman owned and woman led company, in the world in the next couple of years, and then Fortune number three, urban fastest urban, male or female, fastest growing company in the nation, and a bunch of other really cool awards, like tons of Princeton Young. And Yeah. I didn't even go to pick up half of them, not that I'm a rude, it's that I I have met the kids that are suffering. And if I can impart anything to my listeners today, it's that your why can actually make you scale your business so much bigger than yourself, and you can tie purpose to every transaction. If you can start integrating your impact in small ways to where you can then be getting to do it full time. As you grow your company, your impact grows. Don't give away all your money tomorrow. Mhmm. Give proportionally. Dedicate a portion of every transaction to the impact that you wanna see in the world, and you're gonna start having a reason to wake up in the morning. Every business gets old. Every business gets old. And so if you're feeling burned out, shut up. Shut up. I don't wanna freaking hear it. I wanna hear activating into your purpose better. Start integrating things you care about, and thank God for the blessing of your business. Never curse it or whine about it because gratitude is what leads to abundance. Being grateful for what you've already been given, you will be given more and more and more. But if you are selfish with that and you hoard it and you keep it and you're not a conduit for good to flow through you, you're not gonna be given more. So start tapping into ways to being impactful with anything you've been given, and you will be given more. 

Speaker 0

Wow. I am definitely gonna have to listen to that last, two minutes myself. But, yeah, that was fantastic. So just for the listeners out there, and I know you're not saying you care about all these awards too much. I'm on your website right now, and there's I mean, I there's a ton of awards that you and your team have been have earned. So I only bring that up to say, it's you're not just some person that's saying all this stuff. You've actually we should actually listen to you've actually accomplished quite a bit, and that's just these awards. But what you're saying is these awards mean nothing in comparison to your greater purpose in serving serving these kids, serving these, impoverished communities. Right? And so, I mean, it's just yeah. I could go. There's so many ways we could go with this. So so just to kind of, like, complete the so as far as your real estate and your businesses, and what does that look like today? And what is your you know, we don't have to get into, like, like, dollars and cents or or number of units, but what is your kind of real estate or business look like today from, if someone looked at it from the outside? 

Speaker 2

Yeah. I I have seven companies, and all of them are forced for good companies, which means we do good in the way we make our money, and then we do good with the money we make. And quite honestly, like, I just don't care otherwise. Like, I'm absolutely not motivated. I'm not one of those wake up driven people. But when you see a kid Yeah. Can't speak because of the level of abuse they experienced as an infant and it's they're still going through that, like, you can't nothing else matters. And, thankfully, I have been entrusted with amazing things like a private island. That's really cool, but the private island is fully surrendered to making a difference in the world. And if I can orchestrate more good through this place than anywhere else, not a competition, but, like Right. Want it to be that impactful. I want every element of it to be that impactful. I want people to come here and understand how powerful they are. Mhmm. Nothing nothing pisses me off more than finding depressed Americans. Why why are you living your life with so much access to 

Speaker 0

Yeah. We're we're totally spoiled. 

Speaker 2

Yet Yeah. You're you're consumed with yourself. It's because you're not loving your purpose. Now I'm not mad at them for that. But I 

Speaker 0

don't like 

Speaker 2

this I don't like this privilege idea. 

Speaker 0

Mhmm. 

Speaker 2

There with every ounce of what you have access to or were born into, it comes a responsibility. I'm not telling you to go give away all your money tomorrow. I am saying understand the calling on your life and keep asking. Take that aerial perspective on your life. What is possible? What is all the good things that can happen through me if I so choose to activate into this instead of living a life of escaping? Mhmm. Living a life of intentionality, not limiting, but going towards something that matters even if there are obstacles, even if there's adversity. There absolutely will be every day, and it's gonna be dumb stuff to big stuff. But you gotta stay on track with that mission. 

Speaker 0

That's really good. So your question popped into my head. How does your, like, how do you and your husband work from a business standpoint? You know, because I've I've worked with my spouse as far as on rental properties and our real estate and mortgage notes and things, and, it can be challenging. Let's be honest. So I'm just curious how do you how do you break that out as far as what's your role, what's his role? 

Speaker 2

Wonderful question. I mean, I think the most important thing with any couple, period, whether or not you work together, is to find a way to view them as a blessing, not a burden. Because anything you view as a burden will get taken away from you and or you will miss the blessing, and life will suck. So every day that I start getting just annoyed at him, I'm like, damn. He's a blessing. How can I see that he's a blessing today? And and, again, an asset in your life. So for us, it's we have a really weird story on how we met at an airport. He was in a wheelchair just goofing off. Like, we just I never thought we had any potential on actually being together. But the more we actually went overseas and served together, he was active duty, but we come on these, disaster response trips with me. I saw him step into his purpose. And and my life calling is to to knock out sex trafficking as much as humanly possible, and the best way to do that I found is through economic development, giving people better opportunities than selling their kids. Just be real. That's, like, an amazing way to knock it out because it just stops there. So I I wanna live in these developing nations and helping them. He has all the skills to navigate in austere environments. And so it was so interesting to see because we go in after disasters because people will like, they need the help. It's an emergency, and they also it's a nice time to, like, build trust because I'm not always the right color. I'm not always the right gender. I'm not always the right age for people to just wake up and be like, I feel like listening to the best practices of recovery from this chick. You know? So but when you really prove your heart to help, they listen. So, anyway, how we work together is I thankfully, God took me down this path of, like, some of the hardest ways to learn how to be successful in business at the same time as authentic with your your mission to really help and serve at the same time as being able to be profitable by validation, like, through for good company creation. So I've got this awesome background in, like, making companies for real sustainable. 

Speaker 0

Mhmm. 

Speaker 2

And he has this amazing background. He's got over ten million dollars of training in him from the government because he's special forces that we now get to repurpose into saving lives. And so we are we've merged our life passions, and his big thing now that he's, like, awake and can see the opportunities, that veterans can have versus your only opportunity to stay in the military. That's what a lot of them are told. And I don't blame the military. They put a lot of money into them. They wanna keep them there. 

Speaker 0

So Yeah. Absolutely. 

Speaker 2

But he wants them to see how many other people they can help after they retire. And so we have a heal the heroes program where we take these guys that that don't see their purpose. They don't understand what they're capable of, and they go through this year long healing program. And then on the other side, they have these crazy amazing opportunities to give back, serve, teach, work with entrepreneurs, get these amazing jobs. It's it's been one of the most rewarding things that we do. So and it saved a ton of lives. 

Speaker 0

It's awesome. And I and it's it everything you're I mean, it's always forward thinking, and it's, you know, you're not just teaching them you're not just giving them a fish. Right? You're teaching them to fish. Right? And you're it's bigger. So you're you're not only healing that that veteran's life, but how many lives is that veteran then impacting in a positive way? That's awesome. 

Speaker 2

We rescued over fifty five hundred people in Ukraine already. Over nine hundred of them are orphans that were trapped in bomb shelters, and our team, who's used to those environments, were able to go in without any weapons and conduct these rescue operations and getting these people to safety. So 

Speaker 0

That's that's amazing. 

Speaker 2

Crazy rewarding. 

Speaker 0

Yeah. I, got a chance to work with some of the SF guys in, in Iraq, and, they're just on a on a whole different level. It's pretty pretty awesome. We were, working to try to try to create a a special forces battalion for within the Iraqi army. Now, I mean, it's it's not it's a different, you know, it's a different, just their army is very different than the US, military. But but, yeah, it was I mean, we did submissions with them. It was, I mean, phenomenal. Just it it's a whole different it's mind blowing. They're just on a different level. And one of the things I I took away was that they they're always prepared. It never goes I mean, this is more than one thing. It never goes the way they think it's going to. Yeah. Right? But they also travel really. Like, you mentioned no weapons. It's like, we were all up armored and slow, and, you know, they're just in and out and just very efficient. So that doesn't directly, relate to the to what you just said, but it just, I I can only I can just picture you know, I can imagine what what it's like, on some level as far as you guys going in and and serving. 

Speaker 2

Really, to answer your question, though, is I had a clarity of purpose, and he had a purpose. And then Yeah. You can start that way. Yeah. And you build a life with your significant other that harnesses each other's gifts. And then you feel like this amazing force for good versus, like, I see you and I I kiss you when I get home. And even if you get in that relationship, how do you go deeper with it? How do you start asking more questions and helping your significant other find what they're passionate about and then support it any way you can? Like, find a way to be a blessing. Find a way to instead of just, well, we live together, so she's my secretary. And, or he pays for everything, and I take care of it. Like, don't just coexist. 

Speaker 0

Sure. And 

Speaker 2

it's bigger than that. Amazing things in the world that I mean, you're in each other's life for a reason. Don't don't let it suck. 

Speaker 0

That's really good. So as we move toward, toward the end of the show, I do have some kind of rapid fire questions that I'm gonna throw at you if you're okay with that. Is that alright? 

Speaker 2

Sure. 

Speaker 0

What's one thing that people misunderstand about you? 

Speaker 2

Oh, man. I don't wanna misunderstand. I think the everybody typically assumes until they know anything about me that it's another daddy's money or divorce money or something because I am a woman. And Yeah. I blame women for that. 

Speaker 0

Speaker 2

But it's we are so amazing, and there's so many women who've done incredible things, but we don't share it and are ten times more insecure than men on average. And the less women share through this false humility bullcrap, the less they share, the harder it's gonna be for our daughters because until humans see that someone that looks like you can do this thing or in this industry, you will forever be, it it's just not normal yet. And if it's not normal, then that doubt will make people have to work ten times harder to prove it's possible. And so Mhmm. I'm not a whiny women don't blah blah blah. I understand why people do that, but I'd rather just share what's possible through my life. But that does take intentionality. I do have haters. I have had people try to hurt me. And so I know why people hide, but stop hiding. If you have something amazing you're doing, be willing to share on behalf of humanity so that more people can be entrusted with more. 

Speaker 0

Yeah. Well, if you don't have any haters, you're probably not probably not challenging yourself, probably not doing what you're called to do. So that's really good. Some people push back on the phrasing of this question, but what's what's one of your biggest failures, and what did you learn from it? Failures, regrets. You know, it doesn't have to be I'm not saying you would go back and change it necessarily, but, you know, something you've learned from something you wouldn't repeat maybe. 

Speaker 2

I think it's something that's shown up many times in my life. I'm I've learned the gift. I don't think at all I was born with this, but I can, through rehabbing. You can train yourself to see things done as if they already are. Mhmm. So you can walk in, like, the crappiest building full of, like, dog poop, and 

Speaker 0

you 

Speaker 2

see beautiful thing as if it like, because you're you're trained to think that way. Now I've taken that from a building to regions now, which is very cool, but I also do it with people. I can find the highest and best in everyone. And something to note is the best advice I think I've ever been given, which is to feed the hungry. Don't try to drag everybody with you. You can open doors, but you can't force people through them, and Mhmm. 

Speaker 0

They'll let 

Speaker 2

you see what's possible for someone. If they don't want it, then it could end up breaking your heart or stabbing you in the back. So my point is just you can speak life over people. 

Speaker 0

Mhmm. 

Speaker 2

But I've had a lot of people, throughout my life just either stab me in the back or hurt me for even believing in them. And so just don't it's the it's just a it's a gift and a curse that you can see the best in everyone, but you have to just know humans are gonna make their own decisions. 

Speaker 0

Right. It 

Speaker 2

shouldn't stop you from speaking life over them. 

Speaker 0

Right. You can't always control the outcome or other people's choices. Yeah. 

Speaker 2

That makes sense. 

Speaker 0

If you could have coffee with any historical figure, who would who would you choose? 

Speaker 2

Other than Jesus, you mean? 

Speaker 0

No. Could be Jesus. I don't know if, 

Speaker 2

you know, 

Speaker 0

I I don't know if he drink drank coffee. I I don't think I I 

Speaker 2

But they have ice cream, because I don't drink coffee. 

Speaker 0

Okay. 

Speaker 2

Well If 

Speaker 0

you could have ice cream with anyone. I mean, Jesus is a perfectly acceptable answer. 

Speaker 2

Jesus is a great answer. Other than Jesus, I would say Napoleon Hill. I love Yeah. Napoleon Hill. Yeah. 

Speaker 0

He's in Absolutely. It's really good. Now I wouldn't be surprised if you've written I don't know if you've written a book or anything, but if you had to write a book this year, what would it be about? 

Speaker 2

I am writing a book this year, and 

Speaker 0

it's Okay. 

Speaker 2

This weekend, which I'm so excited about. There's a, a waiting list on my Instagram Okay. Tree. So, yeah, it's it's about being a force for good, and it is all one hundred percent about how to be so clear on your why and that you can design a life to where everything flows in to being in alignment with that. Your your your body, why why do I want or need to be fit to where that fitness is bigger than me being fit. It's not about looks. It's about that. It's about my relationships have to align. They have to make sense. I cannot be friends with this person because it's not in alignment. You know? So Mhmm. Having this amazing clarity because when you have clarity, you can make decisions quickly, and that's how I won all those awards. I moved fast because I knew what to say no to, and it wasn't without obstacles. There's so much Right. But you can move fast when you have clarity, and so that's what the book is about is understanding how you really can be a force for good in the world and make a meaningful difference in your one chance. 

Speaker 0

What's the name of the book? Did you did you say it? 

Speaker 2

It's called Force for Good. 

Speaker 0

Force for Good. Okay. And and it's not out yet. Right? 

Speaker 2

Out yet. 

Speaker 0

Gotcha. 

Speaker 2

It'll have to be 

Speaker 0

on the trademark. 

Speaker 2

Don't worry. 

Speaker 0

Got it. Okay. So you've I mean, yeah, so much. You've you've dropped a ton of knowledge, bombs, and and a ton of, really good advice. I mean, and and that's not even that's such an understatement. These are, like, so big. I I definitely need to listen to this one again. If you what occupation would you would you, try if you could just try any occupation that you're not involved with or haven't done before? 

Speaker 2

I don't know if it would be to get a job doing something else, but I am growing my medical education right now. 

Speaker 0

Okay. 

Speaker 2

I do we have what's called a SOAR team, special operations, advanced reconnaissance team for aerial recovery. We go in as soon as humanly possible within a couple hours to twenty four hours after disasters depending on how far they are, and when I responded to the one in Haiti, this big seven point two earthquake that happened last fall, I'm amazingly talented at identifying the issues and, like, as an entrepreneur, being able to figure them out and, like, master plan and tell everybody where they need to be. But when you can't help, medically at the level you want to, It's like a kid's leg dangling off because you just pulled them out of rubble and they're screaming daddy, and nobody has any pain meds in Haiti because the hospitals collapsed. And, like, like, it was so we we saved over two hundred people's lives. My team was so amazing, but I want to advance my medical education so I can be even more helpful in the field and on those missions. 

Speaker 0

That's really good. 

Speaker 2

I've been passionate about it my whole life, but I went into business and real estate instead of getting medically educated. So Yeah. 

Speaker 0

Yeah. Gotcha. 

Speaker 2

Furthering that even more. 

Speaker 0

That's a great answer. So now how do you stay aware of these, like, world events? I mean, this wasn't on my my list of questions, but, I mean, do you watch the news or what's how do you 

Speaker 2

send them? You get notified immediately, but I also have the right apps. We have, joint special operation centers that we have monitoring storms, monitoring earthquakes, monitoring tsunamis, monitoring tornadoes. Like, we have teams that work twenty four seven monitoring these events around the world, but there's some pretty easy apps. Like, one is called MyRadar. It's the bomb. Yeah. 

Speaker 0

Gotcha. 

Speaker 2

You can see exactly where it's tracking, what it's scaled supposed to scale up to, where it's supposed to hit. Mhmm. And, and you can prepare. And then we have different deployment locations throughout America and the Caribbean to be able to go quick. 

Speaker 0

So the reason I ask that is because, you know, a lot of people get stuck watching the news or consuming the the the mainstream media, and then it it leads to, I think, maybe depression or something where because, personally, I I made a shift in twenty fifteen, twenty fourteen to kinda just turn all that off and just focus on what I can control. Now that may seem smaller than what you're what you're working on, but it really elevated my mental health. And, you know, I guess that that, you know, just that balance of how you're obviously aware of what's going on with world events, whereas I feel like in some ways I'm not because I'm trying to focus on what I can actually influence and maybe maybe this is a good challenge for me that I can influence more than than I think I can. 

Speaker 2

I I I've never watched the news. I'll tell you that. 

Speaker 0

Gotcha. Never watched Don't start. 

Speaker 2

And if I've ever been by a TV that's playing the news, I've watched less than five minutes of it. Yeah. I will skim headlines to be in the loop on, like, what other people are 

Speaker 0

Sure. 

Speaker 2

Zoomed by, but you can either watch the news or you can make the news. You can watch TV or you can make TV, and that's the way that 

Speaker 0

we were 

Speaker 2

because we actually weren't allowed to watch TV growing up unless Okay. We made it. So we grew up with video camera in our hand, and it was really good if you have kids out there. That was one of the best things my parents did was say which side of the the TV do you wanna live on, and, do you wanna have a life worth other people watching? Well, it takes getting out there and doing stuff. And so we had a lot of fun with home videos and things like that, but, I think the lesson was powerful. You do need to know what is going on. If you're a stock trader, you need to definitely know what's going on, but you don't have to sit there and get engulfed in it because you realize that the news is a for profit business that gets paid more if they scare you enough to click it. Then you can do it with the right filter versus actually believing it's that bad. 

Speaker 0

Yeah. So you don't have to bury your head in the sand, but you've gotta be intentional about what you consume. Something I mean 

Speaker 2

Yeah. 

Speaker 0

Yeah. That's really good. So what's one, as we wrap up, what's one question you wish I'd asked that I haven't asked? Anything you wanna touch on or, direction your business is headed or anything you that we haven't covered? 

Speaker 2

I think it's it's not necessarily a question, but if there's someone listening to this that does want to learn how to I have a business, for example. How do I actually make it a force for good? How do I even get clarity on my purpose or the kinds of impact that I I wanna be making? Everybody wants to make an impact, but if you don't have any clarity or direction on that, like, we can help you with that. And it is our privilege and our joy to light you on fire so that you can you can make the difference. Because I can't do everything, and my team can't do everything. That's what we found is the most impactful thing I could actually spend my time on is creating this ripple effect through everybody doing their thing. As many people could like, whatever I've learned that could possibly help you, we will get and so there's everything from I have a podcast called Broke to Woke. We have very inexpensive courses. I have a mastermind called g Force, which is force for good entrepreneurs, and I also have immersive summits here on the island, which are life resets for people. And I never thought I would be a speaker, a teacher, and that's not how I even think of myself. It's what has worked, what has provenly worked, and how do we actually help other people know about that stuff? And that's that's it. I never tried to be I get paid for doing these things. Like, it's how can I empower other people to make a difference, and that's the way we think about it? So, there's lots of different ways to start activating into it. And like I said, if there's something we we have that can be of value to you, start diving in. It is your responsibility to take responsibility for your own life and your own impact. Nobody in the world is ever gonna care about you in the way that you need to care about you. 

Speaker 0

That's a good point. No. I just I mean, I gotta say it's it's just, the way trying to think how to phrase this. It's I mean, you have people who talk a big game, right, and think big as well and and, you know, wanna solve big worldwide problems, but they don't actually know how to take practical, tactical steps to make that happen. And I don't know. Somehow, you you and your husband, you you your team has just been able to, do all of the above. So, it's really inspiring to you know, and it's encouraging to me and hopefully for our listeners that you can think bigger and you actually can solve problems. You you can actually get the you know, it's not an either or. You you can do more if you have clarity of purpose. That's for me, the biggest takeaway from this episode is is all about clarity of purpose. And, yeah, this has been Britney, this has been fantastic. Thanks. Haven't you? You mentioned a you mentioned a couple places our listeners can find you online. Do you wanna highlight any others? 

Speaker 2

Yes. Aerial b v I dot com is the island website. G force mastermind dot com. Britney turner dot com probably has it all. And then, the podcast is called Broke to Awoke, and it's on all the podcast platforms. But I look forward to getting to know you even more. And, again, thank you for having me, and, hopefully Absolutely. I'll see some of y'all here. 

Speaker 0

Wow. That that is awesome. Thank you so much, Britney. Really appreciate your time. I know you're I know you're busy, so really appreciate it. And, to our listeners out there, thank you so much for spending your time with us. We know that's also a very valuable resource. Thanks, everyone. Take care. 

Speaker 1

Thank you for joining us on from adversity to abundance. We hope today's episode has equipped you with valuable insights and practical advice to elevate your real estate journey. For more inspiring stories and resources, visit us at w w w dot adversity to abundance dot com. If this episode has inspired you, please share it with a friend who could also benefit from our conversation. Together, let's turn adversity into abundance. Until next time, keep building your mental fitness and your real estate empire. 

Speaker 0

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