For 25 years, 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗵𝗮 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗮 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝗽𝗲𝗿 worked in other people’s homes. Martha knew how to work hard. She also knew what happened when every hour of work belonged to somebody else. So she saved. She studied hair care. And in 1888, she used her $360 in savings to open a salon in Rochester, New York. There was a catch though... Back then women generally had their hair done at home. Martha was now asking customers to come into a shop for something they had always done in private. However... They came... and lots of them did. Now, Martha could have stopped at one successful salon... but Instead, she asked a bigger question... "𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗶𝗳 𝗮𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝘄𝗼𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗿𝘂𝗻 𝗮 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 𝗹𝗶𝗸𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗶𝘁 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳?" Martha trained women in her method and helped them open Harper shops of their own. Many had worked as domestic servants, as she had. They knew how to serve customers. What they had lacked was a way to turn that skill into a business in their own names. At its height, 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝗮𝗿𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗻𝗲𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗵𝗮𝗱 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝟱𝟬𝟬 𝘀𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗻𝘀. The women running those shops owned their businesses. 𝗧𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗱𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗹 𝗶𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆. Martha did not hand them a prettier job title. She created a way for women to take a skill they already had, learn the rest, and open their own doors. If you have spent years doing valuable work for someone else, please do not mistake that experience for a lack of assets. Somewhere in what you know may be a service you can name, a method you can teach, or a business you can build. What have you learned while building someone else’s dream that could become the beginning of your own? With love, Vickie Helm

It's time to start the week off strong... It's time for 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗦𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗦𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗻... Mine is in the comments below https://www.skool.com/undependentwomen/super-sunday-seven-2a64e777

Good morning, undependent women... I want to tell you about Hetty Green. In the late 1800s she was the wealthiest woman in America, and by some accounts the shrewdest investor of her entire generation... man or woman. Let me explain. When banks panicked and the whole system wobbled, the men who ran Wall Street came to her for loans. She once kept the city of New York itself afloat with her own money. She read financial reports for pleasure. She bought when everyone else was terrified and sold when everyone else was greedy, which is the whole game, and almost nobody has the stomach for it. She learned to read the financial pages at six years old, out loud, to her grandfather. By her teens she was managing the family accounts. Nobody handed her a seat at the table. She built her own table and then made the men come to it. Here is what I love about her. She did not perform wealth. She wasn't a show off. She wore the same plain black dress. She did her own math. She trusted her own judgment over every expert in the room, and when the experts turned out to be wrong and she turned out to be right, again and again, she profited big time. They called her eccentric because a woman who owned herself completely did not have a category yet. She was an Undependent Woman before anyone knew what that was. She left a fortune worth, in today's money, somewhere north of two billion dollars. Built by one woman, in an era when women could barely hold a bank account in their own name. I am not telling you to skip lunch with your girls, or to only wear one dress. I am telling you that the instinct she had... read the numbers yourself, trust your own judgment, buy the asset, own the thing, do not perform for the room... that instinct is not rare because women lack it. It is rare because most people were never told it belonged to them. It belongs to you. It always did. Go read one thing today that makes you a little sharper about your money. That is how it starts. That is how it always started.