Business Owner vs. Self Employed

Over the last three days, I’ve been staying in Puerto Rico helping my uncle make some renovations on the condominium for his AirBNB. It’s a few sandal steps right off the beach of Isla Verde, a 7-minute drive from the airport.

During this time, so many realizations came to my mind about being a lifestyle entrepreneur that you will need to hear, regardless of where you are in your entrepeneur journey.

For those of you that have been following my story at https://www.facebook.com/8figurevision, you will have seen that I spend most of my days in the hollow walls of the offices of the financial district in New York City in the alternative lending sector. You may also know that my involvement in this lending company has catapulted my success past the six-figure mark for the year.

But you may be asking me, “Vinnie, I see you work very hard, but do you ever get to enjoy it?” Exactly. I work hard, but I play harder. On the off days outside of time I spend trading in the markets and helping people build healthy financial habits, my uncle, a real estate investor in NYC, has taken me under his wing as a mentor and has been teaching me the nuts and bolts of contracting, real estate, renovations, electrical, plumbing, and remodeling, knowing that I will be buying a property in 2021.

We have secretly been taking excursions to Puerto Rico to remodel his AIrBNB, and after over a year, it’s finally complete, and I have to say, the progress is eye-opening. You can see the before photos of the…