97: Love is Blind & Financial Empowerment with Nancy Rodriguez

<p dir="ltr">In this episode, we speak with Nancy Rodriguez from Love is Blind season 3. She speaks about her route to investing on real estate, the impact of the show after filming, reflecting from a backlash, and caring for our mental health. She also talks about the family support in the show, some advice for people who want to start in real estate, Pretty Posh Box, and her future plans.</p> <p dir="ltr">[2:29] Before Love is Blind</p> <p dir="ltr">“I just knew that although that was my passion, like truly what I wanted to do as my career, I also had this urgent side of me to wanna do more in the finance side.”</p> <p dir="ltr">[8:27] Portrayal in Reality Shows</p> <p dir="ltr">“It really was so much exposure of who we are and who we weren’t anymore. People really get to know us at a very intimate space at that time.”</p> <p dir="ltr">[15:08] Different Perspectives</p> <p dir="ltr">“I feel like the perspective that I had when I was on the show was very different from the gap, like the year and a half that we have to wait for the show to actually come out. It was a whole other perspective when I watched it for the first time…I haven’t really talked a lot about these in any of my interviews.”</p> <p dir="ltr">[18:38] People That Were Hurt</p> <p dir="ltr">“I won’t be sorry for what I said about my body… The dm’s or the comments that I received got so bad that I had to block words or certain phrases from my social media.”</p> <p dir="ltr">[23:07] The Takeaway</p> <p dir="ltr">“You should be having uncomfortable conversations with the people you love, because it will allow you to grow, it will allow you to learn.”</p> <p dir="ltr">[28:20] Positive Validation</p> <p dir="ltr">“These are conversations that I would have my heart broken a hundred times over if I knew that I was somehow impacting.”</p> <p dir="ltr">[29:58] Therapy and Mental Health</p> <p dir="ltr">“Mental health in general is truly something that we could at least try to learn and discover in ourselves and figure out which way to go about it.”</p> <p