Meet Raven-Symone Simon of The Money Professional in Downtown

Today we’d like to introduce you to Raven-Symone Simon.

Raven-Symone, let’s start with your story. We’d love to hear how you got started and how the journey has been so far.
My story started wayyyyyy back at the age of 16 when I landed my first job at the local Burger King. When the year ended, it was time to file taxes. Though my parents claimed me as a dependent, I still needed to claim in order to get the refund of the taxes I paid during the year. After searching for a professional and receiving ridiculously pricey prices, I decided that I could probably file my own taxes. Little did I know, that revelation propelled me into filing taxes for others and hence I became an entrepreneur.

At the time, I did not think that I would go to college and study business. I was going to be an attorney. However, after shadowing an attorney during my senior year of high school, I decided that my interests had changed. During the fall, I enrolled at Clemson University as an accounting major.

While in college at Clemson University, I built a portfolio of rental properties which propelled me into grossing my first $100K in returns. I was the first in my family to ever do so. In 2015, I opened Simon Accounting Services, which was a very successful technologically advanced accounting firm grossing well over 6 figures in three short years. In late 2018, I sold Simon Accounting services for a hefty price tag. Another first. It became clear that I was the person God chose to break generational curses.

Fast forward to today, my mission is to teach individuals and business owners what I have learned in building wealth and breaking debt cycles. I travel nationally and internationally heralding the message “Going For Wealth.”

We’re always bombarded by how great it is to pursue your passion, etc. – but we’ve spoken with enough people to know that it’s not always easy. Overall, would you say things have been easy for you?
My journey has not been the worst. I have been extremely blessed and God has given me more than one chance to make things right, but when you take a stand that you are not going to repeat the mistakes of your family; you cannot help but be met with opposition. For me, my biggest struggle, and I still struggle with this from time to time, has been the shifting of my mind.

Often times, families go into debt because they live lives that they can’t afford all under the premise that they “deserve it.” While it is true that we all deserve to live fruitful fulfilled lives, that does not always translate to things but more so to a purpose. Keeping that in mind with every decision I make can be difficult especially when we live in a world where your house has to be big, your car has to be foreign, and your wrist iced out.

This shift took me having to become comfortable with being “Raven” and owning my space in whatever space I entered. It took me becoming vulnerable, trusting, going to therapy, and becoming more spiritual. Furthermore, to be able to actually build wealth and sustain it over the years, it took discipline and becoming a unicorn. I moved in a way that after a while everything around me that was once familiar was now strange.

So let’s switch gears a bit and go into the Money Professional story. Tell us more about it.
I do not think of The Money Professional as a business but more so as a declaration. I declare that I will break debt and poverty cycles. I declare that my offspring won’t experience the same hardships with their finances that I did. And I declare that because of the lessons learned that I will live a life of purpose.

I specialize in helping families break the debt and poverty cycles that have been plaguing them for years by educating them on wealth strategies that the upper echelon use to build and sustain their wealth for generations to come.

I am most proud that the Money Professional has been able to at least start the conversations around money. It’s such a taboo subject and people are afraid to admit their ignorance of it. Money is not an emotional concept but much more of a science. You have to be able to make logical decisions; free from emotions which most of us cannot unless we practice doing so. Some are not taught that you do not buy new shoes to fit in or a nice car because your neighbor has one. we are actually taught the opposite.

Pricing:

• 1 0n 1 Financial Coaching: $399/ mo

Contact Info:

• Website: www.ravensimon.com
• Email: hey@ravensimon.com
• Instagram: @themoneyprofessional
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ravensymonesimon

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@worldwidewhit

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