For The W.I.N. with Karen S. Schaefer

Please enjoy this old episode from my previous podcast titled "Fly It Forward"!

When I first started in business there was a philosophy that Good was Good Enough.   They really weren’t referring to doing crappy work or not providing good information but more so in terms of creating something good and then getting it out there.   Today, with so much access and so much information, I started to wonder, is Goo...

Which is your favorite?

I like them all.

Interested in Real Estate in my 40’s and then lost it all because I didn’t know what I was doing.  Now, in my 50’s---built an 8 figure real estate portfolio using my Slow Money, Medium Money and Fast Money real estate investing strategy.

Story--- Pete telling me we had $200 left.

Fast Money—Flips- Story of S Coyote—used the money in our 401K—made $40k and it changed everything.  St...

My friend Woody---met in a class—made $1m before he was 28 and spent it all.

Lottery Winners Stat—70% of all lottery winners go broke in 1-5 years—they won, they didn’t work for it or invest it.  They just spent it.

As we get older—we worry about having enough money---if you are like me, you aren’t sure the SS or pension will be there for you when you are ready to retire.

I was 48 years old before I really understood how impor...

If you have sisters or ‘sister friends’ you know-- what a blessing they are in your lives.  My two sisters are my best friends.  I love them both so much and there isn’t anyone I would rather laugh, cry or solve the worlds problems with nearly every day.  We all three live in different states so we spend most of our time together on the phone or via text.   But, we are always connected and we can say anythi...

Do you remember the Peter Lowe conferences?  He would have an assortment of great speakers giving keynote presentations, sales presentations and motivational presentations.   His headliner was almost always the amazing Zig Ziglar—famous for saying ‘You Can Have Everything in Life You Want if You Will Just Help Enough Other People Get What They Want.”

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Time to Pull Up Those Big Girl Panties…AGAIN!!!X$%?@!!!  How many times will I need to do this???  As many as it takes said the grasshopper. 

You know how the saying goes’ ‘If I had a nickel for every time I had to pull up my big girl panties, I would be a millionaire!’  Well, it goes something like that!

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Several years ago,--about 10 years ago- I had a  series of TIA’s.—Many people refer to them as small strokes.  I’ve talked about this before but what was interesting was that I lost vision in a portion of my eye during the actual episode of the strokes. It was as though ½ my eye was blacked out.  It was a very unusual experience.

Other times during these strokes, I had 5 of them over a period of a month, I had what w...

Hello and welcome to the next Episode of ‘For the WIN’—I’m your host, Karen S Schaefer and I am in it to WIN it!

Recently, my husband Pete and I were on vacation in Maui.  It was so lovely.  The weather was perfect, our resort had the most amazing setting and we were able to walk right out onto the beach, into the ocean and snorkle every day over a beautiful reef.  Our room was upgraded with a full kitchen, living ro...

This is a podcast I pulled from the 'vault,' and several of you asked to hear it again! Enjoy this episode, and  ask yourself; "What would happen if I don't quit?

What happens if you just don’t quit? Have ever set a goal, got excited, worked toward it for a day, a week or even a month but you eventually quit? What would happen if you didn’t quit? Would you now have maintained your weightloss for years? Would you have fina...

In life it seems like we have been conditioned early on to get approval from someone regarding everything we do. The problem is, once we become a woman, then we still think we need approval. Don’t you think you are enough of a grown up now, to grant self-approval? Trust me, you will deal be dealing with a much more agreeable ‘Board of Directors’ if you are the CEO of your life! 

Why do we seek others approvals? 

1) It’s w...

3 Ways to Create the Greatest Amount of Wealth in Your Pocketbook and in Your Heart.
There  are 3 Ways to create extraordinary wealth…well, there are many ways but  I am not talking about inheriting something, stealing or being given  wealth. I am talking about true bootstrapped ingenuity.   Those 3 ways  are:  

1)      Build a Business  

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As Women in our 40’s, 50’s 60’s and 70’s we have grown accustomed to doing everything for everyone else and then possibly, if we can still keep our eyes open late at night, squeezing in something for ourselves.  But the Universe is shifting and it’s OUR TURN.   The threat of Legal Action made me reevaluate what I wanted to do and it made me change everything for the better. In that moment, I knew it was MY TURN…and I...

Do you ever get tired of not thinking big?  So when I talk about creating wealth, setting yourself up well for retirement and really having financial freedom, what does it look like to you?

There isn’t a specific answer, its just what works for you?  For some people that is a number, for others its about time or maybe a combination of both but it usually involves those two.

And then, there is a third ingredient, which is ...

I had waited years to do what I wanted to do.  Years doing things I didn’t want to do. Years with a dream in my heart that pounded to get out, but silenced, year after year.  With each decade—30, then, 40 and now, into my 50’s I would think ‘Okay, I can’t get any older before I do this.’  And, yet, year after year, I let it pass, putting everyone and everything first.  I think it’s part of being a woman.  H...