Amber Rose Offers Financial Advice to Women Everywhere
Amber Rose recently shared money tips with women everywhere, especially those who might have an eye on entrepreneurship.
"I feel like I'm in a position to give advice to women because I've made all of these mistakes," the "How to Be a Bad B*tch" author recently told TIME. "One of the biggest financial mistakes that I ever made was making a lot of money -- I wanna say I made $1 million in 2011 -- and I spent all of it. And then after that, I had to pay taxes, and I did not have money for the taxes, and I was like, 'I cannot believe I did this.'"
Rose compared her time as an exotic dancer to pursuing an advanced degree and insisted the experience laid the foundation for her current success.
"Being a dancer definitely was like being in business school because I constantly spoke to people," she said. "I mean, I literally had to persuade a man to give me money out of his pocket. And I apply that to my daily life. Even getting a book, you have to have an initial meeting -- Hi, Simon and Schuster! -- with the publisher, and you have to sell yourself."
Rose advised other women to set specific goals, consider timing factors like having a family, and go from there.
"I am a mogul," she said in response to all those who may still doubt her. "I have a bunch of businesses. I'm now an actress. I'm an author. I went on an entire world tour and I don't even sing."
Rose's message to those who would still belittle her seems to be: Do so at the risk of revealing your own ignorance.
"They belittle me like I'm just some baby mama," she said of a recent GQ profile that introduced her as "Kanye's infamous ex [and] Wiz Khalifa's baby mama" before acknowledging her own accomplishments.
"I was married -- I still am married, actually," she added. "And I do have a beautiful son. I'm not a baby mama. I'm so much more than a baby mama.
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