2020 and 2021 have been like no other years. Wedged between a pandemic, a bonafide recession, and unprecedented social upheaval, the average American (if such a thing exists) continues to struggle to make ends meet. Rising from this struggle like a phoenix, are small business people, entrepreneurs, and long-term stock market investors. Turn on any new channel and you will hear about the social justice issues facing women and people of color. Unfair and inadequate policing, the glass ceiling, a lack of political representation. These are but a few sentences in a book that currently is too long to read here and indeed is still expanding. Today we are going hear from three real estate investors. Women. People of color. Immigrants. And they are going to answer one simple question.     Kavell Taylor is a real estate investor with a portfolio currently valued at almost $10M. She also manages commercial and medical office buildings for a New Jersey-based developer. Santana Perez is a real estate investor in her early 30s, pivoting from a career in energy trading and corporate finance. Santana spent 21 years in poverty and in the foster care system. She discovered the financial independence retire early community in 2018 and has been steadily accumulating properties, with plans to retire in her late 30s. She has single handedly built her real estate portfolio to 10 doors valued at $1.2M while raising her son as a working parent. Ming began real estate investing in 2014 in her early 20s, then quit her W2 job in 2020 when her real estate income surpassed her family's expenses. With a portfolio valued at $2M, she now spends most of her time with her husband and two young children, plus works on her non-profit "Build Her Village," which empowers working women with knowledge. Ming also owns Alina Mae Maternity, a fashion brand providing pregnant women professional-looking comfortable clothing.          Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices