Hello, my name is Sophie Gold. I thought that it was better for me to write the ‘’about me page’’ as this is my story.
The first thing that is important to know about me is that I like to laugh, love tequila and I love helping women to own their self-worth and become everything that they can be.
Without sounding egotistical, I am the ‘’Golden Girl’’ that business owners should have on their power team. Why? Well, let me explain.
I unofficially started my first business when I was 16. I was working at McDonalds at the time as the Party Manager and one day one of the mums asked me, “do you do any party planning outside of McDonalds?” I paused and then said yes. For two years after that, I planned kids parties. The extra income was welcomed as I had begun supporting myself after my mum died two years earlier.
When I was 17 I decided that I needed something a little more stable. The income was great from party planning but it was a lot of work. So I decided to supplement my income by working for a charity as a teaching assistant. Within a few months, I was put on a training course and was then Qualified to teach ESOL ( English for speakers of other languages ). Using my sales and networking abilities, I helped the charities ESOL program get accredited by Cambridge University. Not bad for a dyslexic girl!
I also helped the charity to raise money by planning events, and for one of their plays they brought me in as the stage director. I think it was because I did ballet for 10 years, beginning when I was four. I had done hundreds of plays. Whatever the reason, the event and play were successful at gaining local media attention.
I have always been a big achiever. Dealing with death teaches you that life is too short for excuses and underachieving.
I believe that the best way to learn anything is to be thrown in the deep end because that is when the creative/survival part of your brain kicks in and looks for solutions.
By the time I was 18, my party business had evolved into a full-fledged events company – organizing birthday parties, weddings, conferences, seminars and the occasional launch.
I wanted more, however. I wanted to be able to support my younger brothers and sister who too had lost their mum and were struggling to cope. I wanted to help them to be better, to put them through college and university – an opportunity that I did not have.
I quit my teaching job and sought out another opportunity to make money, something more lucrative that could also leave room to do my events. I was looking at the back of the Metro ( a British newspaper ), noticed stock charts, and then remembered an advert I had seen growing up about two traders that were living large and decided in that moment that I was going to become a Stock Market Trader.
I attend seminars but, due to my dyslexia, found it difficult to understand the lectures. So I bought a laptop, downloaded software and spent the next 12 months teaching myself how to trade. Everyday for 12 hours I watched the markets, making notes and identifying patterns.
It was during those 12 months that I learned about leverage, the power of money, and multiple streams of income.
Within those 12 months I was still doing events, and then started offering my sales services. I was great at sales. I understood what made customers tick and how to sell the dream. I calculated that if I kept up my events business, worked on my sales business and traded, that would be three streams of income. I felt powerful. For the first time since my mum died I didn’t feel like a victim of circumstance.
After 12 months of studying the market, everything clicked in place. I understood the market so well that I was able to predict movements that others didn’t see. I become know as the Dow Jones Girl. After a further year of just trading stocks; mainly the Dow Jones Index and its 30 components, I decided it was time to move onto Foreign Exchange. FX is a bigger market and more liquid and I wanted to go where the money was. For three months I watched the FX market and began to understand the patterns and started placing trades and started winning 7 trades out of 10.
By that time I had four streams of income; FX trading, stock trading, events and sales. I felt on top of the world!
After four years of trading, I was approached by a small group of novice traders who wanted me to teach them the ropes. They had heard about me through a blog that I used to write. I was reluctant at first as I didn’t know if I could teach the trading patterns that I was using to a group of novice traders. This group was persistent, so I agreed to teach them for 40 hours, charging them £4,000 each. They were more than happy to pay and so I started teaching them. To my amazement they understood what I was explaining and after 40 hours and 3 months of support, they were trading successfully, winning 6 or 7 trades out of 10.
After that, word of mouth spread and I had people emailing me every day asking me to teach them how to trade, which gave birth to my third company and fifth steam of income.
I went onto trading commodities, and wrote a post for the Financial Times about gold that went viral and created Wealthy Women Inc. to help women own their self-worth, create lucrative revenue models and step into the leading role of their lives.
The punch line of my story is that an orphan, young dyslexic girl built four successful companies , multiple streams of income, became a sought after speaker, Huffington Post writer, Financial Times guest writer and has been featured in numerous business, sales and trading publications.
The lesson I hope that you learn from my story, is that things are never perfect. Your ducks are not always going to be in a row, however, you have the power to create whatever you want.
One of my favorite quotes is ‘’ The world moves out of the way for he or she who knows where they are going.’’
I know what it takes to build a multi-million dollar company, I have walked the path, made the mistakes, learned the lessons, and came out smiling on the other side.
If you want to do the same, call me!
Sophie Gold
