E13: I Grew a Multi Million £ Property Business from Nothing but my Growth Story is not JUST That with Kristina Castellina

Yes Kristina has built a multi million pound business from nothing, whilst raising her 2 young children which is amazing but in her words that is not her true growth story.

In this episode Kristina shares her life before property with us including all the adversity she has needed to overcome in order to find her true growth.

Kristina Castellina is a self-made property millionaire, best-selling author, and dedicated mentor from Liverpool, UK. With a dynamic background as a former professional performer, Kristina pivoted to property investment, growing a multi-million-pound portfolio from scratch. She empowers aspiring investors with her expert insights and practical strategies through her acclaimed courses and trainings. As a devoted mother of two, Kristina balances business and family life, proving that financial independence and success are achievable for anyone. Her mission is to inspire and guide others on their journey to wealth and freedom through property investment.

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Transcript

Hello and welcome to Dream Business, Dream Life, helping ambitious people like you to grow a business they love. I'm Emma Hein, and I'm on a mission to show you that it is possible to grow a business without sacrificing your life. Having experienced the roller coaster of making millions of pounds but feeling overwhelmed, anxious, and totally unsuccessful, I know first hand the importance of growing a business on your terms. On this podcast, I'm going to share with you lots of tips and advice that will enable you to grow a business that gives you the financial freedom to live the life of your dreams, while sharing with you some inspirational growth stories from other fabulous business owners. Ready to live the dream? Then let's get stuck in. Hello and welcome to today's episode of Dream Business Dream Life. Today I'm joined by Christina Castellani. Christina is a devoted mom of two. She's a self-made property millionaire and bestselling author with a background being a professional performer. She built a multi-million pound property empire from nothing, and she now empowers other inspiring investors with her expert insights and practical strategies. Her mission is to inspire and guide others on their journey to wealth and freedom through property investment. She has the most inspiring growth story and I'm delighted to welcome her to the podcast today. So hello Christina. Great to have you with us today. Hello. Gosh, that sounds so impressive. I feel like it feels like you're talking about someone entirely different. You know, it's funny. It's a lot of people say that. And I'm exactly the same. When people introduce me, I think that's not me. That's not me. But that is. Absolutely. You own it, my lovely. Completely own it. So let's dive straight into this. So over to you, Christina, to share your growth story with us. Okay. So I think I think it's it's quite easy. And usually my growth story would be exactly what you've just read out, that I used to be a professional singer. And then when I got to, I was in my late 20s and I wanted to change and I wanted to build security. I invested my life savings on property training, and then from there have built a multi-million pound portfolio that has given me, you know, such a great life. And I would describe myself as a life, a lifestyle investor, where, um, yeah, live life on my terms, which I don't think you can put a value on that, but actually so that is a growth story. But I think my true growth story is really started for me as a child. That's where all of this, I think. My background and my childhood has definitely influenced the way that I live my life now. So. As a baby. I was actually put up for adoption as a newborn baby. And it's crazy, actually, to say out loud the reason why I was put up for adoption. The reason is because my mom, my birth mom had an affair with a married Indian man. And, um, as soon as her parents found out that the father was, um, Asian, they just said categorically, we're not having this baby under our roof, and this baby will be adopted. And, um, my birth mom tells me that she she didn't really believe it, and she thought that as soon as I was born and they held me that it would change. And she just was in total denial that it was something that would happen. So when I was born, um, she actually said to the doctors, is it is there anything you can say to my parents to make them think that this baby isn't half Asian? And so they started doing, like, tests on my skin. And the doctors said, no, she's not Asian. She's definitely not Asian. So they were they knew what was going on. They were kind of trying to back her, um, when she realized, God, they're going to take this baby away like, this is this is going to happen. Um, and anyway, yeah, it didn't work. So they literally left me in the hospital. And she was kind of carried out screaming like, oh my God, they've done they like, this thing has happened. And she was I was born and she turned 18 the next day. So her birthday's the 28th of July. Mine's the 27th. So she was a, you know, so young when I think of like a 70, you know, if that happened to me at 17 or she was living at home with her parents and, and all of that kind of stuff. So that's kind of where well, you know, straight away my life was different. It wasn't normal. And now I've got my own kids. It just breaks. It breaks my heart more now because they're so vulnerable and like, just all of it, like breastfeeding them. All of. I didn't have any of that. I wasn't, you know, it just it's only now that I think, gosh, I just want to like, give myself a little hug. Really, because I think what I must I have been thinking to be on just to be, I was literally on my own in hospital. So then, um, social services or whoever it is came. I went to foster care for six weeks, and then I went to my mum and dad, who adopted me. Um, so I was six weeks, which I'm really fortunate that it was that smooth, actually. And I went to my mum and dad and, um, my mom. So interesting. She wrote me a letter when I was a baby that she'd planned to give to me when I was 18. She didn't actually end up giving it to me until I was about 25, 26. But this letter, she said in this letter, she said, um, you know, we love you so much. You're the gift that we never thought we'd get. Really good letter. And she said, um, basically I didn't, I wouldn't, I didn't stop crying. And she said that she knew as a baby that I'd need more love than any baby would need. And she'd just say, like, oh, gosh, I must have known, you know, like so she says, I cried and cried and cried to the judge, hold me all the time because I would just cry so much. So this is all in this letter anyway. Um, so kind of then toddler and early childhood was was great. Um, I was quite a laugh look back and laughing that I wasn't. I've never been an ordinary child and I've never been an ordinary person. I think some people think that, but it's definitely true for me. I was an only child. Um, had an overactive imagination. Really overactive. I would just write and do poetry. And I loved animals. I was I would talk to the animals. I had an imaginary friend I thought I could like, a genuinely thought I could fly down the stairs. Are you still run and like, jump off the top? And I can vividly remember it like flying down the stairs. That stuff wasn't normal. I was really into anything that was a little bit like gothic y and vampire y witchy and used to basically chase after all the other children being dead. Scary and weird. So thick black hair and I'd put it over my face and I'd had fangs. I put my fangs over my lips and I'd just go around like scaring the other children. So just. Just not normal. A bit weird, um, but happy enough. Happy enough. Had this ginger cat I was obsessed with. I would, like, carry him around. I give him, like, he'd sit on my back and put his feet over and I'd hold his bum. Um, yeah, just a bit of a child. But then when I got to, I think about 11, my mum and dad were like, we went on holiday to Scotland and my mum was like, this is nice, we should move here. And I was like, all right, okay. So we moved up to, um, the Highlands of Scotland and this little, little village called Aviemore, which I believe now is probably a lot different than it was when I moved. It was I mean, there was literally like a test, let's go with a ski village. And everything got knocked down the cinema that I shrink it just there was nothing really there, beautiful, but nothing there. And, um, from that point where we moved up. So the moment we left, I was bullied horrifically for not fitting in for all the reasons I've just gave. Plus having an English accent and um, maybe being a bit eccentric, maybe, but mainly because I just didn't sound or look like them. And also, let's not forget at this point I actually was half Asian and didn't know. So they used to they used to call me loads of racist things and I would go, what do you mean? But they could add thick black, you know, like a mono brow, actually very hairy, very hairy young girl. Um, and I, you know, they were so they'd say all these racist things to me. And it was so confusing. Because my mum and dad are the most English looking people you've ever met in your life. Um, and obviously I'm not. Um, so it was a horrible, horrible, awful time. But two, two things happen. So I kind of broke, really. I remember going to the doctors because I was just, I was having I had counselling. I didn't have a great relationship with my parents either, which is makes everything ten times worse, I didn't feel. And that's not a reflection of them. That's just maybe a personality. And when you when you're a teenager, like a little teenager, don't get on with the parents. I didn't feel like I had a huge support network, so I felt bullied, but I had I didn't feel like I had anyone to really hold me other than my nan and granddad's, and they lived in Stafford, so there were nowhere near. So when my mom and dad took me to the doctors because I was just so, so not myself. And the doctors advised my mom and dad literally was, I think I should just take her back to England. That was the advice I think you should take about to England, because she's just like. As in, because she's just not going to fit in here. Um, and then in the end, the final kind of crunch came when. I just couldn't go to school because the boss to the to the high school, because Aviemore doesn't have a high school. The nearest high school was about 15 minutes away called Carnoustie. And all the local villages go to this one school. And that bus journey is hellish. If you do not fit in. So anyone that isn't part of the pack, basically it's like we had stickers on our heads that just basically said, please bully me during this bus journey. So traumatic. I would dread it. You know that sicky feeling in your tummy when you dread, um, that home time? Because I'd have to get the bus home. And also as well as humiliating because my friends would be embarrassed of what would happen. So they wouldn't wouldn't want to sit by me because they knew I'd be a target. So they just, you know, just just horrible, horrible, horrible makes you feel like you're the problem. There's something wrong with it. So, so I had I just basically had just absolute self-loathing, massive self-loathing, hated myself and had and I think I just didn't have any strength. So maybe that's from being a baby and having a lot of, like, rejection. And it's one of those things that there's no research on it. But I just know I've always massively struggled with rejection and self-love. I've always just repelled it, repelled love. And it's only now an adult that I can reflect and go, well, that's probably because you didn't have a mummy when you were a baby. You know you don't. No one tells you that. But I know that. I know that it would have affected me just the way my lives played out, and the way that my natural go to the way that I tend to react, act, um, probably just come to a lot of insecurities that I've had from a baby. So I was just really broken and, um, I just wouldn't go to school. So in the end, I ended up getting a place in the local. It wasn't local, actually. The nearest, um, city called Inverness, which was a 70 mile round trip. So I went to school there. I travelled on my own and it was through the mountains on this bus. Absolutely. Cairngorm mountain that's just so scenic and so beautiful. And I started using music as like therapy. So I got really into like rap music because I was angry. I was angry and broken. But I got really into like, music and I'll just sit on the bus and just like, listen to music. And I started to feel more independent because I was going all the way on my own, you know, assuming an hour and a half around every day on my own. And that from an early age gave me a lot of independence. And also every summer holiday I could not wait to go home where I would call home in Cannock in the Midlands. That was home for me. And I would get on the train and I would travel. And it was a godly seven hour, eight hour, um, train ride. And my mom and dad would let me go and I'd go and stay with my nan and granddad and friends that I still had there. So I started becoming really independent from a young age and kind of, um, free thinking, you know, and just like, well, this is crap, and I don't want to do this, so I'm going to do this instead and taking a few risks because I'd hit rock bottom. And I think when you hit, when you feel like you hit rock bottom so young, you start to learn to take risks on yourself a little bit and bet on yourself and just be a bit like, I'm not going to turn up every day for you guys to bully me. I'd rather just get the bus and go to Inverness where people are a bit more, you know, well rounded. It was a city and, and the, the difference in the way that they, they thought was incredible actually just different walks of life, different communities, different cultures, people, you know, from everywhere. We're in Inverness, there was a barracks, you see. So it was quite it was a bit more international. So there were much more, you know, welcomed me with open arms and actually ended up making some great friends. And I got a boyfriend and but I was hardened, you know, I was really hung around, had a lot of friends, but I also hung around with some quite scary people, which again, I look back now to think, wow, those people would terrify me and I if my boys were hanging around with the kind of people I was hanging around with, or I would not be happy, I would not be happy. But I felt almost like I needed protection. So if I hung around with people that were maybe a little bit scary and a little bit edgy that I, you know, people wouldn't pick on me. So it's kind of like a defense. Its defense mechanism. Really. So just as I was fitting in, my mom and dad were like, let's move back to England. And I was like, all right, let's do that. Then, um, again, after another holiday, we on a holiday to Blackpool and, um, and I could I was quite a good ice skater. And we'd gone down to Blackpool Ice Rink, and my mum made friends with one of the ice coaches, and I had a few private lessons. And just off the back of that my mum said that it's a great ice rink, let's move to Blackpool. So my mum's really like just comes up with an idea, let's do it, you know? So she's quite impulsive like that and I'm like that. Um, so we moved to Blackpool and I think that's where my healing started to happen, really. When I move to Blackpool, I moved, like a year off. Like a hedgehog. I went into the end of year ten, so I only really had a full year left at high school, but I turned up ready for a fight. Just for everyone to know. Do not mess with me, spikey. With an attitude. Um, but also, um, full of creativity and ideas. And, um, I would pour so much time and energy into ice skating, and, um, when I left high school, I wasn't. I was a bright kid. I'd just moved around. I'd gone to so many different bloody high schools. That and the curriculum between England and Scotland is totally different. So I originally do an English curriculum. Then I'd gone to the Scottish curriculum and then for the last year had to come back and do English again, change it or history was totally different. But in Scotland I did music and I was like an A star and they didn't have it at my school in Blackpool. So I had to take cooking. I was I hated cooking, absolutely hated it. If I had to do that instead, you know? So there's lots of like so I scraped through. I think I got an A in English and a B and some B and C and science, and I did all right. I wasn't really bothered. Um, and then I came out and I said to my mum and dad, I want to go to Phil Winston's, which was this incredible musical theatre college in Blackpool. It was a private college. And I was willing to, like, work all my weekends and put all my money to pay for it. And you have to audition to get in. Had no dance experience, but I could ice skate and I could sing. I was a naturally a very good singer, but I was quite nervous about, quite embarrassed of. It's quite personal to sing, and I didn't want that again. I didn't want the judgment of, like, singing. And people go, oh, she's crap. Um, but I got in and that was definitely the turning point. And when I look. So it was three years training at Phil Winston's, um, and I trained as a singer. And so when I started, I couldn't really dance. And when I left, I was just as good as everyone else. Not the best one. I could definitely hold my own as a dancer. Worked my ass off. It was in my bones to dance the music. It was just what I was meant to do, really. Um, but I was so riddled with insecurity. Riddled with it. I didn't know anything about personal development. I didn't know anything about Law of Attraction. I didn't know about self-talk, I just didn't. So I just was constantly putting myself down. I seeked validation, I was obsessed with boys because I wanted to be loved. Had all these. Really? I was so selfish. I was so, so selfish because I. I was so self-obsessed because I was so empty that everything was about me. Everything was about me. And I would her boyfriend just to make, just so they would give me more attention. And it would be a flick them and I'd do horrible things just to just so they would cry. So I'd go, they love me good. I'd do all this weird stuff that again, I didn't understand why I was doing it. I just thought, that's what it is to be young, even though no one else I knew was such a lunatic and everyone else was quite normal. And I was like, up and down, like an absolute yo yo, acting like a. Yeah, just a lunatic, really. Um, and basically for ten years I went out and I worked professionally as a singer, mainly singer. I did do dancing as well in shows, pantos, Snow White, you know, was always like the princess and stuff. And then on cruise ships, I was the lead singer, um, and danced and it was just incredible. Um, I sang at the MGM Grand in Vegas. I've done loads of stuff, um, production shows, UK tours, amazing life. However, the one thing that's really unforgiving about showbusiness is because it is so you are a product and it's so judgmental. It's a really difficult place to be if you don't have real self-love, self-compassion, true self-confidence. If you don't have true self-confidence, it's very draining. And I didn't have true, I faked it. I just didn't really have true self-confidence. Um, so I never felt fulfilled. It it didn't matter what job I was doing, I always felt I should be doing better. I'm not as good as them. Why am I not thin enough? It's exhausting to live like that. Um, and then something that was a real turning point for me is I was living in London. I was about 23, 24, quite, quite young, really. Um, and I got approached by a friend about network marketing, and this was before. The age of Instagram and digital marketing and all of this stuff that, you know, it's now renamed as. This is like when you walk, you're going around with like a bag of products and knocking on doors, and it's old school, old school. She was earning really good money from it. And at that point I was open to anything, literally to make extra money. Um, and yeah, she just came in like a fairy godmother, really, to be honest, and totally wooed me in. And she was drive around in this gorgeous white Mercedes that she got. And she was a great community. And the best thing about it was all these positive people and a lot of them, West End dancers and performers, this community in London of pure excitement, this bubble of like, this is exciting, like, what is this? And then we'd meet, you know, we'd have, um, training in London like, every other week, and it would be book club and they'd be talking about these books that are like changing your mindset and how you should read every day and like, you know, just just realizing like, oh, wow, why have I not knowing this? Why have you been so horrible to myself? So I went I got obsessed with personal development, reading all the books, um, had insane work ethic, so I would work my backside off on my network marketing business. Um. Um, started using like, the secret and, um, vision boards and all that kind of stuff. And then I was singing as well, still singing of an evening and buzzing, absolutely buzzing. Like it was just like this secret had been revealed of, like, passive income. And it was just such an exciting time to be alive. Really. And then from there, um, I was quite successful in the top 10% of the company, but I found it actually quite exhausting. Um, and then I was like, I actually don't want to speak to anyone ever again. Please leave me alone. I just got to that point of like, I don't want to speak to anyone ever again. Which is unfortunate, really. If you've got a network marketing business, you don't want to speak to anyone. It's not ideal. Um, and at that point, property dropped into my life and I went to a free rich dad, poor dad seminar. Didn't know what it was going to be about. It was about property investing. And there's this American guy, and he was talking about buying property, using other people's money and creative strategies and how, you know, getting all your money back out of the deals and flipping and. All of this stuff, and it blew my mind. And at that point I'd done enough. Personal growth. So think actually and we're it's worth taking this. It was a big investment. It was like 18 grand. Um so yeah when I think about it now, Crikey. It was a different time back then though. There was no, you know, it was like that or nothing. Everyone charged that if you wanted to be a property investor, you know, there were two big companies, both charging the same, you're in or you're out. I wanted to be in, um, and that was ten years ago. And it's been an absolute blur of madness ever since. So, um, the biggest turning point I would say, in my growth journey is again, when I went, when I started, you know, made friends with property investors and I got in the property community in this company. Unfortunately, the company's not around anymore, but it was a great community, and they were all about doing these experiences, like Tony Robbins doing the fire walk. And there was a speaker called, um. Row. Row, doctor row is called. He's got a book called The Turning Point, and he put an event on called Turning Point. And I said, come on, we'll go, we'll go. And at this point, I was quite successful as a property investor. And, um, you know, I was in a happy relationship with, you know, met my husband and I was kind of from the outside, I look like I had it all, like, had a really successful, you know, property business with the guy of my dreams, you know, look like I had it all together. And I said, I don't need to go to a turning point. I'm fine. I'll come because I was a binge drinking. I'll come because I want to give up binge drinking. That'll be the thing I come for. It was a three day, like nine in the morning till 10 p.m. at night proper, full on. Anyway, the first day I'm there and he says, the guy says, whatever you think you're here for, you're not here for. We'll start there. Um, and I was like, no, I really am. I'm here for health. I'm fixed, I am, I am ten out of ten. Good. Anyway, by that evening I had had a full on breakdown, uncontrolled sobbing eyes like golf balls. And it was the first time I'd ever opened up about being adopted. And I. And there was obviously a lead up to this. He was asking thought provoking questions. Lots of stuff that had happened, but I my heart broke into a million pieces and I cried and cried and cried. And it went on for three days, cried for three days for three. And, you know, at one point he said, tell everyone, what is it? That's what's moved you. And I said, I can't say it. He said, you have to say it. You have to say. And that's the way that you will heal and move forward. And I just sort of adopted anyone. Is anyone else in the room adopted? And there was about five people. And he went, come over and we all had a big hug and I sobbed and sobbed and sobbed. There was a lot of hugging. I mean, really, it sounds mental, actually, but it was. It's it will always be the most transformative thing I've ever done. I needed to release. All the pain that I'd been carrying. And he put me back together. And I'd love to do it again, actually, because it was so perfect and, you know. However, eight years ago. And I'd love to do it again. I probably need a little top up because you think you're fixed and then, like, you know, life changed. You have two kids and you think everyone should do it. So actually, even though, yes, I've built a multi-million pound portfolio and I've of gone against the odds in that I did start with no money and I have raised millions of pounds of private investment and, you know, done stuff that people would think is not possible. I have done it. But actually, I think the most important thing of my journey, the most important meaning thing to me, is actually the transformation in my heart and the self, um, confidence that I now have. And I'm not perfect and I still wobble. I've still definitely got I don't think that I've got a little hole in my heart. I don't think we'll ever fully be filled, but, um, it is most of the time. Yeah, I'd say that's my biggest growth story, really. And I love that. I love the fact that, you know, so many people, when they think about growth, they think about the the money that you've made, the properties that you've got in your portfolio, all of that sort of thing. And they would assume that that would be the growth. Um, they would assume that's the bit that you're going to say, this is the big bit of my growth when I went from nothing to this multi-million pound portfolio, which is amazing, you know, absolutely amazing. Nobody's going to take that away from how amazing that is for you. But actually, you're saying it was something much. Simpler, I suppose, to do, but the thing that we actually found the hardest, isn't it? And that is to actually allow ourselves sometimes to get to that point where you sort and hugged those five people and just let all of that emotion come out and let yourself be at the point where you said, you know what? This is me and this is okay. And now I've got to that point. Now I can start to do something that's going to enable me to feel happier and enjoy this multi-million pound business that you have built, because I think for as long as there's something underlying going on in you personally, it doesn't really matter what you've got going on, does it? From a from a business perspective or from how much money you've got in the bank perspective. There is always, always something niggling away at you that is is making you feel that that's not quite enough. Um, so I absolutely love that you've done that. And the bit you haven't mentioned here that I know is part of your, you know, the next bit up, but you know, you have built this business with two young children and your priority is always going to be about those children, isn't it? You know, you do all of this around your children, and I love when I see your Instagram sometimes and you're looking at, um, is it grunt as is that the word that you use for your properties? I love that, by the way. And you know, you've got your children with you getting involved in, in the business. Really. Um, and I love that because that's sort of you doing all of the things with your children that you didn't necessarily get as a child yourself. You're giving them the love, the support that everything that they need to give them the right foundations to start off with. Yeah, exactly that. And I always think you can't expect your kids to do what you're not willing to do. You know, be like, I want my kids to be brave. I want my kids to, you know, to work hard or what my kids drive gratitude and like. But if you're not demonstrating that to them. So that's why I take them with me, because I'm like, this is what mommy does. Mommy buys houses. We buy houses that, uh, you know, they, um, very smelly. So sometimes Grayson goes, oh, that was a really smelly one. Mommy, are we going to buy that one? I go too far gone, babe. To smelly. That one. Yeah. So they're you know, they're learning. They're seeing you know we're going around all these. And also it's such a great lesson for them to see how other people live. Yeah. To have some. You know, that's because he'll go, mommy, why? Why was, you know, why were there lots of children in that one room or, you know, so sometimes you see some really sad, sad things. And I say because, um, that's where they live, darling. They that's what they can afford to, to live in, you know, and it's that then realizing that there's other people and people, you know, different circumstances. Yeah. It's real life lessons, isn't it? And, and I think as parents, we have the opportunity to, to show them that, don't they, in a way that they still feel safe and loved and surrounded. But we have the opportunity to to show them all of that stuff, which, you know, is beautiful, absolutely beautiful. So I know we haven't spoken a great lot today about, you know, your property journey as such, but I know there's lots of ways that people can come and, you know, understand that your book, for starters, is a great place to come and do that. If somebody was, um, you know, wanting to to potentially go into property, what would you say would be your top tip for them to get them on that journey? My top tip for anyone getting into property is do some research and do training. Not even with me, just any form. And now it's so accessible. You can do it online. Like you know, there's so many ways to get this information and it's so cheap now. It's so accessible because when you're talking property, hundreds of thousands of pounds, and it's one of those things where unless you enter the world of property investment and get some knowledge, you just don't know what you don't know. And property, if you get it wrong, can cost you a lot of money, and it it can become a headache. And you know, there's so many a lot of properties I buy from what I call amateur landlords where they don't know anything about property. They've just bought a house in the local town or anything. You know, they've just bought at asking price and then, um, you know, they've made some mistakes and they're selling it at a loss to me. And it's because they haven't invested a tiny bit of time and a little bit of money in learning, actually, what makes a good investment, how can you maximise your returns? How can you maximise the property? How can you provide really good quality accommodation to for people to enjoy? You know, so it's a and the government, without a shadow of a doubt are wanting professionals and have been driving out people that are doing this as a hobby because the standard of rental property in the UK is not good enough. So I think, um, do it because it's the best pension point you'll ever have. And if you invest well, it'll give you a great income in the meantime. But just go into this, um, with your eyes open, with knowledge prepared because you'll just have such a better business model. Yeah. Which is amazing. Says. And would you say to anybody that, um, that to start this as soon as you can. Oh, God. Yeah. Because property prices over time just go like, even in the ten years from since I've started now, I was buying houses for 40, 50 grand. And then I with 120, you know, just the on the cheap, you know, the cheaper ones. And that's in ten years. So it's it's inflation. It's just inflation. The more money that's out there, the more money that people earn. Wages keep going up, rents go up, property prices go up. The sooner you can get on the ladder. And if you if you can build a portfolio, let's say for properties, what does that look like in ten years time? In 20 years time. So instead of just getting the growth on your home, if you're getting the growth across five properties, that's how you become a millionaire without doing very much at all. That's just letting inflation do it. Yeah. Amazing. Amazing. So finally, if any of our listeners want to come and learn more about property and get to know you a little bit better, Christina, where's the best place for them to connect with you? So I'm really active on Instagram, which is at the Good Life underscore property investor. Um, and then on my website, it's just my name Christina Castellano. Co.Uk. And on there it will say anything up to any trainings I'm putting on. And also we'll link off to Empress Hall, um, Highcliffe and Botanical House, which is 11 of my serviced accommodation properties. So if you're looking for a holiday or you've got 20 friends that you want to come and come to Empress Hall because it is incredible, it absolutely is incredible. Absolutely is incredible. So thank you so much for joining us today, Christina. It's been amazing chatting with you and listening to your growth story. And of course, thank you to everybody for listening. I will see you next time. 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