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Darrah used to be an entrepreneur who built businesses thinking that bigger was better and more was the way to go. Over time, the four companies she has built took over her life, and Darrah hit the burnout phase. She restructured her businesses and her life in order to spend more time traveling and learning. That’s how she got into mentorship and coaching, helping other entrepreneurs and investors who are at a burnout point find their passion again.   Darrah Brustein Real Estate Background:  Founder of four businesses; Equitable Payments, Network Under 40, Network Over 40, & Mind Your Business Accelerator Author of “Finance Whiz Kids” Prolific writer & interviewer for Forbes & other outlets working with Shaq, Seth Godin, Bobbie Brown & many more Her mission is to connect people to the resources they need to elevate what they do. Based in Atlanta, GA  Say hi to her at:   Previous guest on     for more info on groundbreaker.co  Best Ever Tweet: “We don’t know when it’s enough and why we’re building it in the first place.” - Darrah Brustein.

Darrah Brustein is a social entrepreneur and coach.  She is the founder of Network Under 40, Network Over 40, and Equitable Payments. She is also a contributor for ForbesWomen and the author of Finance Whiz Kids, a financial literacy book for children.If you want to connect with Darrah, you can visit her website at darrah.co.Love to give us 5 stars? If you do, we'd love a review from you. Help us reach more people and make them feel loved.

Using Your Inner Wisdom to Deal with Uncertainty with Darrah Brustein We now live in challenging times. Many of us are spiraling into anxiety as we are confronted by uncertainty. But we can turn these setbacks into opportunities if we tap our inner wisdom and intuition. In today's episode, Darrah Brustein shares with us the importance of intuition not only in business but also in our daily decision-making. She also discusses the process of self-inquiry and how this can help us in overcoming limiting beliefs. Darrah shares empowering life lessons to confront uncertainties and doubts we may face as we journey towards self-realization and achieving our purpose. If you want to know more about the importance of your intuition and inner wisdom in making decisions, tune in to this episode! Here are three reasons why you should listen to the full episode: Learn ways on how to do self-care amid the pandemic. Discover valuable insights about the role of intuition in decision-making and tapping into your inner wisdom. How does Darrah feel radically loved? Find out in this episode. Resources Yes or No by Jeff Shinabarger "9 Questions to Ask Your Network To Help You Find Your Path" by Darrah Burnstein Give and Take by Adam Grant FREE meditation ebook! Create a daily meditation ritual in just seven days! Download BUILD YOUR DAILY MEDITATION RITUAL and other freebies at com! Episode Highlights Practicing Self-Care Amid the Pandemic She engages in relationships which can help her bring out the positivity and love. During meditation, she sets up intentions of positivity for herself and the world around her. Our vibrations affect other people. It is our responsibility to take care of ourselves first. She keeps a journal and practices gratitude. She is also into deepening her understanding of how to connect to her spirit guides. Role of Intuition in Business Decisions For Darrah, it plays a huge role. But she incorporates data and logic in decision-making. We need to tap into our inner wisdom and inner body. Most of us are disconnected from our spirit guides, which causes us to miss the signals and information we need in making our decisions. The Importance of Self-Inquiry There is no harm in questioning decisions, narratives, ideas, and limiting We need to question most things, if not everything. Start asking questions to get to the root of your truth. This time of COVID-19 can be the start of a positive change and reset that we want for our lives. Self-Inquiry for Overthinkers You may ask for the guidance of a coach or the people around you. Relationships are there in the first place to help you reflect. They may help you see your blind spots or the things that you take for granted. Go back to the idea of giving and focus more on being of service to other people. Darrah’s Biggest Life Lessons First, you are good enough. If you aim to go to certain places or situations, believe that you belong there. You have a birthright; everyone has a purpose and meaning. Use your doubts to your advantage. They can motivate and inspire you to move forward. Second, you are your own savior. You need to move forward proactively. Always remind yourself that you are the savior you are looking for. Darrah’s Definition of Freedom Freedom is related to time. It is having the freedom to use her time and make her decisions. Freedom is having control of how things are done to make sure that they align with the things she values. Doing yoga and meditation and taking deep breaths can help with anxiety and stress. Oversharing your life can lead to fear. You have to process your emotions first to avoid basing yourself on other people's opinions. Go back to nature and connect to heal your fear. The Power of Relationships and Networks Nothing happens in this life without connection. It is essential to know how to build robust, value-centric relationships. You need to realize the power of networks, especially in this crisis. Darrah's connections enabled her companies to survive. Thus, it helped her keep up with her obligations as an entrepreneur and employer. 5 Powerful Quotes from This Episode “When we are disconnected from our instinct, we’re missing the signals.” “Now I realized that my value, my worth are not based on these external trappings, and accolades, and job titles, and money because, for many of us, those things are going away.” “Remind yourself you are good enough and that any of those doubts and things should actually be things that can motivate and inspire you to move forward.” “You are your own savior.” “Nothing happens in this life without connections.” About Darrah     Darrah Brustein is a social entrepreneur and coach.  She is the founder of Network Under 40, Network Over 40, and Equitable Payments. She is also a contributor for ForbesWomen and the author of Finance Whiz Kids, a financial literacy book for children. If you want to connect with Darrah, you can visit her website at darrah.co. Enjoy the Podcast? 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Darrah Brustein asks a lot of good, pointed questions of herself as well as others. In part because of the questions she has asked herself since graduation from Emory University in 2006, she has gone from the fashion world to building a payment processing system for merchants, to event planner and networking guru, children’s book author and advocate for teaching young people about personal finance, and now, co-host of a video series with Deepak Chopra, Diving Deep with Deepak and Darrah.   Key Takeaways: [:23] Ray Hoffman introduces the guest, Darrah Brustein. [1:00] Darrah began at about eight years old on her path to become an entrepreneur. It started with crafting jewelry, then selling candy bars, and then partnering with her brother to sell wrapping paper for a school fundraiser. She is in business with her brother still; they work great as partners but they are not great friends! [3:25] Darrah double-majored in Religion and Italian at Emory University. Darrah believes you can understand people and what makes them tick by learning what they believe. She tells how her own early conversion experience led her to want to learn more. A holistic view of the world’s religions has helped her to “get” people. [4:36] Darrah decided to major in Italian, being one of the three fashion languages after French and English, which she already knew, to launch a career in fashion. She did start in fashion but never needed Italian. In her liberal arts education, she learned to expand her mindset. She studied abroad for one summer in Italy. [6:12] Now Darrah spends about 60% of her time traveling for pleasure, and she works wherever she is. Her first job out of college was as a sales rep for a Los Angeles-based wholesale jean company while she was in Atlanta. She covered seven Southeast states working with boutiques and department stores in her territory. She beat her sales goals. [7:23] The company went under about a week before Christmas in 2007 and Darrah lost her job. She had bought a home three months earlier. Darrah next tried different things for work, and got laid off or downsized several more times, in the thick of the economic recession. Her inner voice kept guiding her to owning her own business. [9:03] Darrah started a credit card processing company with her twin brother, Garrett. Garrett had been researching the merchant services industry and found an unrepresented contingent of brokerage models he could apply to the credit card processing industry. Darrah’s first reaction was, “You’ve got to be kidding me!” [10:14] Darrah didn’t have any other ideas what to do, so she flew to San Diego to work with Garrett. Garrett had already gotten started with a small team. Darrah shadowed them and looked for problems in the business plan. After a week, she flew back to Atlanta and connected with as many of her former clients as she could. [10:43] Darrah asked her former clients about their current payment systems and what it would take for them to switch. She kept hearing the same story. The merchants had been sold a “bill of goods” with costs that were different from what they had expected. They would switch to a provider with honesty and transparency. [11:12] Darrah had not been initially enthusiastic about this service of credit card processing but she could get really excited about the way in which she could interact with and help these small business owners. So, she became really excited about the service. Now, Darrah calls herself the Chief Curiosity Officer of her company. [11:47] Building the business was a lot harder in practice than in theory. Small companies are tied into their merchant services provider by contract. Many of them believe the pitch they were sold by those providers. Darrah almost felt like the Robin Hood of financial services. It took longer than she expected, but over time, it worked. [13:08] Darrah tells how she started Network Under 40 and then Network Over 40. She just wanted to meet the need of a friend and she was already a success at networking. It snowballed to an event a month, and she expanded it to other cities. In eight years they have served over 30,000 people. It’s about building real relationships, not selling. [16:29] Darrah explains how she established “Friends first and then networking.” From the first event, Darrah stacked the room with people she knew would embody that idea. She told them it was not going to be a place where it’s just a business card exchange or the first question is “What do you do?” They were prepared to work the room as friends. [17:03] As it grew, Darrah used ambassadors in a shirt with the event logo and colors and the slogan, “Let’s talk.” They act as event concierges. They set the tone and help keep the culture alive. People engage on a human level before involving their professional life. [18:08] About two years ago, Darrah had an enduring, intuitive feeling that there was a new incarnation of her career on the horizon; she had no idea what it was. It was her job to figure it out. For six months she dug deep and reflected on what it could be that was coming next. She realized that people kept asking her how she lives the life she does. [19:01] Due to the path she had followed, Darrah had the freedom to travel when she liked and work beside high-profile people. Had she followed a traditional “success” path, she would be asking the same questions her friends asked her. She knew her best skill was connecting people to people and to resources. She felt the need to create a blueprint for others. [20:06] She decided to do a virtual summit so anyone with an internet connection would have access to all her peers and mentors who have helped her along this journey. She broke the summit into three categories: 1) What do I want out of my life? 2) How do I build a career or business to include that? 3) How do I develop a support community? [21:18] Darrah organized 45 speakers with 20 hours of content. The summit ran live online over three days and now is available online for purchase. Each category took one day. The speakers were assigned according to their unique talents, ideas, and skill sets. Darrah interviewed half of the presenters; the rest went solo with resources for action. [22:21] Darrah sees her essential self as the exact person she was ten years ago, but some of her characteristics have changed a lot. She went from being reactive and stressed about “résumé virtues” to being more secure and understanding of her intrinsic human value apart from her career and accolades. [23:22] Darrah explains why she is proudest of her emotional journey and how she can use her vulnerability to help others learn they are not alone, wherever they are in their journey. Close to 10,000 attended the virtual summit. [24:18] Darrah releases a weekly conversation with Deepak Chopra. Darrah says that Deepak Chopra was not chasing a fortune. It came as a secondary component to utilizing his gifts in service to the world while having fun and feeling joyful. In the same way, Network Under 40 was Darrah doing what she loved. Money was a by-product. [25:34] Darrah suggests that when you can understand your unique gifts and skills, and with whom you empathize enough to help them on their way from A to B, that is a melding of who you are as a spiritual being with how you can grow something in a capitalistic way. [26:00] Darrah talks about the shared insights between entrepreneurism and team sports that she observes from her many celebrity interviews. Founders are not lone wolves. The people around you make you a success. [26:57] Darrah wrote Money-Making Sunny after watching the market collapse and seeing how much debt her high-earning friends had accrued. She saw a global epidemic of financial ignorance. Darrah’s parents had taught her very early about money, investing, compound interest, and giving back. She wanted to help others. [28:33] Darrah saw very little children’s literature on financial responsibility. Parents weren’t successfully teaching financial literacy to their children on their own. So Darrah used her writing talent to create a story that includes an appendix of resources for parents to use for teaching. [29:51] There is a downloadable picture to color on the website FinanceWhizKids.com. Parents send her videos and images that show how their children are finding excitement around financial responsibility. They are learning it doesn’t just pop out of an ATM. There are consequences with money. Demonstrate them for your children. [31:37] Darrah’s plan is to let life unfold as it should, following her instincts and seeing where doors are opening. In 2018 Darrah had no goal to do a video show with Deepak Chopra. But then it presented itself, and Darrah is so grateful that it has happened. [32:51] Darrah had assembled a wish list of mentors and people she admired for their expertise that she wanted in the summit. For many of them, she was a student of their work from afar. Deepak Chopra was one of them. Darrah connected with his publicists and shared the vision of the summit but they were on the fence about it. [33:36] Darrah had a hidden connection. She reached out to a friend, who was also Deepak Chopra’s COO. Within hours, she had an invitation to interview Deepak in New York the following week. It was an incredible opportunity and experience. [34:31] Three months later, Chase Bank had hired Darrah to be an onsite correspondent for their Atlanta conference at which Deepak Chopra and Cam Newton were speaking. So she met Cam Newton and had a delightful second interaction with Deepak Chopra. [34:48] This led to two additional interviews of Deepak, arranged by his publicists. Darrah later sent him an email thanking him and offering her cheerleading support for whatever he needed in 2019. That led to the video series. Darrah never engineered the circumstance to happen, it just unfolded naturally from her generosity and work. [36:04] This is Capitalism.   Mentioned in This Episode: Stephens.com Darrah Brustein Emory University Diving Deep with Deepak and Darrah Equitable Payments Network Under 40 Network Over 40 Inc Magazine Dale Carnegie Life by Design, Not by Default Virtual Summit World Economic Forum in Davos TED The U.N. Deepak Chopra Adam Grant Robert Herjavec Shaquille O’Neal Forbes Gary Player Cam Newton Bobby Brown Money-Making Sunny: Finance Whiz Kids: Book #1, by Darrah Brustein FinanceWhizKids.com This Is Capitalism

Darrah Brustein is a serial entrepreneur and networking guru who's founded Equitable Payments, Network Under 40 and Network Over 40. She also authored Finance Whiz Kids to teach children financial literacy through fun and engaging illustrated stories. In the simplest of terms, Darrah is a connector. When not working, writing, or volunteering, you’ll most likely find me traveling, hanging with friends, eating dill pickles, reading a non-fiction book, doing acroyoga, and/or taking black and white photos.

Today’s Best Ever guest talks about how she entered into a world of credit card processing – an industry that hadn’t evolved much at the time – and flipped that industry upside down by taking a different approach. Then, she applied those learnings to her other investments – one of which is real estate. She has 3 lessons she learned along the way and shares them with you in our conversation – let’s go! Darrah Brustein’s real estate background: –        Author and Founder of and is based in Atlanta, Georgia –        Passive real estate investor via hard money lending –        Founder of Atlanta’s largest monthly social and professional networking org called Network Under 40 and then Network Over 40 in 2014

Today’s Best Ever guest talks about how she entered into a world of credit card processing – an industry that hadn’t evolved much at the time – and flipped that industry upside down by taking a different approach. Then, she applied those learnings to her other investments – one of which is real estate. She has 3 lessons she learned along the way and shares them with you in our conversation – let’s go! Best Ever Tweet: You can’t see the spot in which you stand.   Darrah Brustein’s real estate background: -        Author and Founder of and is based in Atlanta, Georgia -        Passive real estate investor via hard money lending -        Founder of Atlanta’s largest monthly social and professional networking org called Network Under 40 and then Network Over 40 in 2014   Subscribe in    and    so you don't miss an episode!     Sponsored by Cozy - Simple, free online rent payments, tenant screening and credit checks. Get Cozy for free at .