Georgia Ragsdale	The Week of April 2nd, 2005

Girl In Transition

1. What’s in your wallet right now?

One company credit card, one personal credit card, 60 bucks, business cards, and two pics of my 9 month old nephew (Awwwww).

2. What do you wish your parents taught you about money?

How to make it! They did a good job teaching me how to be smart about spending it, like buy only ONE of necessary personal items (e.g., overcoat, watch, briefcase, etc.) but buy the best one made, and it will last you for years. They tried to get me to be classy. Oh well.

3. What is your worst habit around finances?

Keeping the books and commingling accounts.

4. What makes you happy?

Being a woman of my word. Learning. Accomplishing goals of any kind. Doing things I never thought I could do!

5. Personal philosophy around money?

It's a game, how you earn it, spend it, keep track of it. It's fun to have it handled and be responsible. The ultimate freedom is when your passive income pays for your current lifestyle whether you work or not. Nice, huh?

6. Where does money come from?

Money is an illusion for the most part, someone trading an invisible sum from one place to another because someone signed a paper that said so. It's all fake. Just try reading about what the Fed does, and you'll soon agree.

7. What would you do with a million dollars?

I would turn it into 7 million by buying land, preparing it to be built on, then selling it. Buy, rinse, repeat.

8. What is your most prized possession?

My deceased mother's wedding ring that she lost while gardening, then found 7 years later, also while gardening.

9. Who is your role model?

Corny, but my mom for life stuff, and dad for business stuff.

10. What is your greatest achievement?

Failing miserably over and over again, and coming back stronger each time.

11. How'd you make the switch from comedy to real estate?

I started by reading voraciously. Then I hired a personal real estate coach for 4 months. On my 43rd birthday, I jumped out of an airplane to physically experience the parallel of stepping out into nothing, which was what my career move first felt like.

12. What contributions to society do you want to make?

I enjoy encouraging people to GO for it, I like people around me to experience being supported and thought of in their highest light and in their highest possibility.

13. If you could buy one thing right now what would it be?

A smaller car that does not hog gas.

14. Favorite activity that doesn't cost a dime?

Walking around a nice neighborhood enjoying the flowers and lovely homes. Playing with a dog or two, and cooking while kids tangle around my feet.

15. How do you indulge yourself?

Why did you have to ask about those blood sugar crashing Girl Scout cookies?

Georgia Ragsdale toured nationally as a comedian for 14 years and worked in film and on television before moving over to the business end of things as a producer. Georgia now runs her own land acquisition and development company and works in Southern California.

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