Turn Your Passion Into Profit: The Key to Success
While casual side hustles can sometimes pay off, the most triumphant people prioritize their passion to turn it into profit.
Business coach and ex-Wall Streeter Codie Sanchez says all the successful people she’s met have one thing in common: “They’re obsessed.”
“That’s it. That’s the secret,” says sanchez, who has nearly 2 million TikTok followers and has interviewed nearly a dozen billionaires, including Palantir cofounder joe Lonsdale.
While all of the billionaires she’s interviewed on her podcast BigDeal are “wildly different,” she says in a video on her TikTok account that they’re all obsessed with what they do “almost to the point of it being uncomfortable.”
Sanchez actually got her start in journalism, winning the prestigious Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, before transitioning into finance, working for firms such as Vanguard, Goldman Sachs, and State Street. She’s the founder and CEO of Contrarian Thinking, a media and finance education company with millions of followers and subscribers, aimed at empowering people to take control of their financial future through unconventional paths like small-business ownership. She also runs venture fund Contrarian Thinki