{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"SWE Accelerator Podcast","title":"#5: How She Makes $1.9M/Year at Age 28 on AirBnB","html":"<iframe width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" seamless src=\"https://share.transistor.fm/e/31edd9e0\"></iframe>","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":5013,"description":"Today, I talk to Karen Bello. We discuss how she started as a personal assistant making minimum wage to starting her own Air BnB empire with millions in revenue. Enjoy!\n💌 Free weekly productivity insights/advice - https://amanmanazir.com/newsletter \n📕 Get all my free Notion templates discussed here - https://www.amanmanazir.com/notion \n📄 Get my free resume template - https://www.amanmanazir.com/resume \n📝 Sign up for Notion - https://affiliate.notion.so/2nh3pjr6l5l6 \n📷 Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/amanmanazir/ \n🐦 Twitter - https://twitter.com/amanmanazir\n0:00 - Intro \n0:45 - How Did She Become a Personal Assistant? \n3:54 - What Did She Study in College? \n4:07 - How Did Her Mindset Change? \n6:02 - Rich Dad Poor Dad \n7:40 - Transition After Being a Personal Assistant \n9:22 - What Made Her Think She Could Start A Business? \n10:25 - Working as a Therapist \n16:00 - Airbnb Business \n21:55 - Growing her Business in The First Year \n23:18 - Getting The Confidence to Start \n26:20 - Rental Arbitrage \n30:53 - Managing Time Working Two Jobs \n32:05 - Scaling Her Business \n34:05 - How Does Cohosting Work? \n40:02 - Profit From Year One \n41:04 - Cohosting vs. Rental Arbitrage \n45:05 - Balancing Two Full Time Jobs \n46:10 - Where Did She get her Drive From? \n48:30 - The Value of Networking \n51:07 - 3rd Year Numbers\n 54:50 - How is The Business Now? \n58:45 - Where Does She Want to Take The Business? \n1:00:00 - What Does The Team Look Like? \n1:01:27 - How to Find an Assistant \n1:04:15 - What Does an Assistant do? \n1:09:04 - Advice for Airbnb Businesses \n1:12:30 - How Does an Advanced Person Learn? \n1:16:15 - What's The Next Step? \n1:20:52 - Focusing on Your Niche\nKaren's Contact Information: \nbhstr.com karen@bellohomesstr.com \n336-459-9756\nI'm Aman Manazir, a career coach and former software engineer. I make videos about making it as a computer science student and landing your dream job. I post new videos regularly, run a tech interview podcast, and run an email newsletter...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/Jajbzp05Qj4iGVS1aj8odO1sfQWp6AUqc-EjGBpRqpo/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS8zZDYz/ZTI1YjZmZWY0Y2I2/ZDVkMGRhMDY2YzQ2/NTQ5Mi5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}