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Angie Stevens
Growing up, I've always been like, really curious. I just, I wanted to solve problems, wanted to be in the middle of everything. I wanted to learn, I wanted to grow. Just very ambitious. People told me that I was in the wrong business, you know, contractors made me cry. But I had to get past that because I just knew that there was a lot more past that.
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Narrator
Angie Stevens is a growth driven entrepreneur, real estate expert and the founder of Top Regency llc, Stevens Construction Group llc. Through her expertise, she helps families and investors build wealth through real estate development and purposeful growth.
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Angie Stevens
I do a lot of investments and I do, you know, fix and flips ground ups. Right. New. But then we do work for clients. Like it's bringing their vision to life.
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Ray Gutierrez
Correct.
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Angie Stevens
It's doing what they want, what they see. It's bringing that to life and I love that.
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Ray Gutierrez
How do you find these clients or do they find you?
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Sam
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Ray Gutierrez
The Living youg Legacy podcast. For those who live to leave a legacy that's extraordinary.
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Sam
The impossible has been. Oh, that is sensational. Jordan Open Chicago. With the lead Usain Paul is the fastest man on the planet. You can live your life.
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Ray Gutierrez
Welcome back to another episode of the Living your Legacy podcast. For Inside Success. I am Ray Gutierrez. Joining me today is a powerful Peruvian woman. Angie Stevens is fresh off the filming of her episode. Welcome.
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Angie Stevens
Thank you. Thank you for having me.
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Ray Gutierrez
Oh, no. Oh, thanks for gracing. We're excited to have you. You are essentially our, I guess our last guest of the day. So the room and the podcast studio is all yours. We can be here. Exactly. We can be here for hours.
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Angie Stevens
Now, say the best for last.
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Ray Gutierrez
Where do we start? Let's start Peru.
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Angie Stevens
Okay.
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Ray Gutierrez
When you're a Latina or Latino, when you have this background lore, there's a lot of mystery to it. What is the mystery of being born in Peru and, and how did that inspire you, who you are today?
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Angie Stevens
Sure. So coming from Peru young, I was only there, you know, up until the age of nine. But I remember seeing my parents grow up. Very hard working individuals. You know, we're immigrants, very hardworking. My parents owned very, you know, their own successful businesses. I grew up with having that drive, that grit, that perseverance. It's definitely a third world country. It's poor. Life is completely different here from over there. You know, the opportunities aren't as many as you have here. Over there, you got to work 10 times as hard. There's people with multiple degrees and not enough jobs, you know, and there's homelessness. I mean, there's a whole bunch of different aspects. It's just a whole another world.
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Ray Gutierrez
Yeah, it's, it's interesting how you kind of describe some states of the United States where it's like, well, that sounds a lot like some of the states here. Where are you currently now?
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Angie Stevens
So I live in Palm Beach County.
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Ray Gutierrez
Right on.
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Sam
Yeah.
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Angie Stevens
Yeah.
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Narrator
Cool.
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Ray Gutierrez
No, Palm beach is great. Anything north of Boca is the, the rest of the United States, as I like to say. But I'm allowed to say that because I was born and ra. Raised here.
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Angie Stevens
Yes.
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Ray Gutierrez
What's that? With your background and as Latinos, we're designed for pain. We're designed to just suffer. Like, like happiness to us is a luxury. We have to build our happiness.
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Sam
We do.
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Ray Gutierrez
How have you built your happiness from back then till today? I know that's quite the loaded question. Yeah, give us the montage.
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Angie Stevens
So I've, I've always growing up, I've always been like really curious. I just wanted to solve problems, wanted to be in the middle of everything. I wanted to learn, I wanted to grow. Just very ambitious coming here. I saw my dad actually restart his own career and he went from having bakery, carpentry, all these different businesses to being a construction worker. And not for it to be negative or anything, but I learned so much from that. I saw both of my parents rebuild their careers, rebuild a second life here. So with that, I worked very, very hard at a young age, bought my first home. And when the numbers, I love numbers within my career, finance and finance and accounting, I just, I was always intrigued with real estate everywhere I could learn and I would find real estate is the best way, the pathway to wealth. And you know, my dad doing construction, I kind of would put the pieces together. Neil wanted to be an entrepreneur like either my mom or my dad, whether it be dentistry or something else. And that's kind of how I put it together. You know, construction is something that came about from real estate investing. Yeah, real estate investing. From my very first property at 20 onto my next property, so on and so forth, into million dollar fix and flips. Now into new construction.
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Ray Gutierrez
Hell yeah.
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Angie Stevens
Good for you. Yeah.
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Ray Gutierrez
Did you always know that this was going to happen? Like that nine year old little girl? Did you feel it in your heart like, I'm going to own this, I'm going to do that, I'm going to be a millionaire. But right now I guess I'm nine.
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Angie Stevens
So I did Know that I wanted to do something. I wanted to be my own boss because I always said, I'm going to be like mom, I'm gonna be like my dad. You know, they own their own businesses, and that is what. What I strived for. What was. What was it going to be? No idea. I really thought I was actually going to be in the dentistry, into dentistry, because my mom always pushed, you're going to be a dentist. You're going to be a dentist. I even took some medical courses in high school, and it just wasn't for me. But numbers always lived within me. It's just made me who I am. The numbers, it was just. It's just so natural to me. So I took a very much like. And wanting to just finance and accounting was like my passion. And I could. I could take that into any business.
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Ray Gutierrez
Oh, for sure.
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Angie Stevens
So I knew I was going to do business. I didn't know what, but I knew that as long as I had the solid foundation, I could run any business.
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Ray Gutierrez
Oh, hell yeah.
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Angie Stevens
And so I wasn't afraid of that.
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Ray Gutierrez
I was just gonna say your superpower, seeing the numbers. My favorite guests, our tax strategists and CPAs. I always say you need a medium, a lawyer and a tax strategist in part of your emphasize on the median. You definitely need that spiritual guidance.
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Angie Stevens
I agree.
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Ray Gutierrez
The reason why I enjoy speaking to folks like you is because you literally see the numbers. You see the art and the numbers. You see the rhythms and the frequencies and the patterns and numbers. What's it like living with that superpower? And how do you attribute that to everything you work on now?
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Angie Stevens
Absolutely. So it's not just like numbers and money or finance, but it's numbers. Like with constructions, I'm really able to play with the numbers with like architectural and plans and the blueprints. Redesigning spaces, turning houses from two bedrooms to three bedrooms or four bedrooms, you know, maximizing that space, that area. And even in one thing is theory. Right? You're building the plants like an architect. You still need your engineer. But even when you're on site, you can have an architect designer. You can have an engineer make sure that it's, you know, hold all the weights, et cetera. But when you're on site and you're doing out that layout, you're like, wait a moment. You know, this, like, one inch here, one inch there really can make that difference. Right on. So I love being there, and I've learned a lot of that from my dad. Yeah, my dad does framing and drywall. And he does the houses that he, that he builds or for the company that he works for. They're five, they're about eight, 10, 12,000 square foot homes. They're like mega mansions. So layouts matter, you know, and if it's off anage here there, it might not seem like a big deal, but it really is.
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Ray Gutierrez
No, it's a huge deal. Like we even designed the studios here at Inside Success where you open the door, your eye catches things. Specifically, we want you, I, I, I'm the studio lead. So I somehow designed the studios with Rudy. And the, the idea was you're going on an adventure. This is the Rudy simulator. Rudy and I have been doing this for quite a while. It's like, all right, let's get guests in here and put them through the rigamarole of what it's like to work with Ray, the team and da da da. Rudy, Rudy. And now you are playing this role of, of, of this experience. Experience. And that's what these properties are. First of all, they're not, shame on you. They're not properties or assets.
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Angie Stevens
Absolutely.
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Ray Gutierrez
You should know better than that.
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Angie Stevens
They're all assets, all of it.
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Ray Gutierrez
But when you buy a mansion, folks live in there. This is a little world. So it's an inhabitants, an incubator of life. The design philosophies are absolutely different. Talk about dealing with these higher power beings that happen to understand that wealth is a superpower and they transform their homes into worlds.
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Angie Stevens
Sure. So it starts with a vision. It's like you've got to have that vision, that idea, but also you got to be able to relate. You know, I'm a mother, I'm a wife. My husband was a chef before he became a contractor.
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Ray Gutierrez
Hell yeah.
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Angie Stevens
So it's like a kitchen, always cooking, very important versus like I have a home with a kitchen in it because it comes with it, you know, like I'm not cooking on a day to day. But if you love cooking or baking, it's like such an important aspect and heart of the home. If you're a mother and you have kids, like you want to make sure that things are laid out properly, they make sense, you know, it has to flow, you know, or you're, or a bachelor pad like you have. It's different for everyone but it's having that vision, what the goal is, aiming for it and then getting there and achieving that perspective, you know, whether it's an investor or for a client. Because remember I do a lot of investments and I do, you know, fix and flips ground ups, right. New. But then we do work for clients. Like it's bringing their vision to life.
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Ray Gutierrez
Correct.
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Angie Stevens
It's doing what they want, what they see. It's bringing that to life. And I love that.
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Ray Gutierrez
Who's your common customer? Like who's the person that, that, that, that goes to your underscore. Underscore, underscore social media and goes hey, I want to work with you. How does that work?
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Angie Stevens
So as far as the construction side or which part?
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Ray Gutierrez
As in like hi, I'm Ray Gutierrez. I'm a 42 year old man that owns a house by the airport and it's just sitting there and I've been wanting to look for someone like you. Goes hey, I want to. And make it into something that's either an Airbnb or a production space. Just my home that I can just flip a switch and just turn into whatever I want and be module.
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Angie Stevens
Of course. So I have, I would say two different clienteles. I have one that focuses more on the investor side and the business partner for the new construction. And I love that. I think we all come together as a team to create something greater than ours. And it's putting those ideas, those designs, those visions and investing in it communicatively together and growing from there. And then on the construction side, I have that client who wants to, you know, they have, they either it's their childhood home or it's a home in the water. That's a great investment that they want to make their own. And I love making that into what they see as their vision, helping them along that process, maximize their use and their space and bringing their dreams to life.
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Ray Gutierrez
Yeah, absolutely. I was very blessed to be to own the home or the asset that I grew up in. And I spent my 20s just being an artist and I never had a real job. I was just bouncing. It's a matter of fact my first real job or out of job out of high school was on 12 and Alton, we're on 12 in Washington. I was a casting director. So this house has been in my life and now that I'm back home and I'm 42 and it's been through hell and back because I've neglected it unfortunately. I definitely want to put it back into the zeitgeist of the energy of Miami and go, this house is designed for artists that need that ascension. How do you find these clients that go beyond vision but go ascend to something greater for like quality clients? I guess what I'm trying to find is your quality clients that are beyond Just quality. They're really just world creators. How do you find these clients? Or do they find you?
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Angie Stevens
Well, in the. For the new building, in the new construction. So usually it's for example, like a business partners and investor where we're building. We each, sometimes we have our niche and what we're good at. Right. We're all really good at a specific, specific niche. And when we come together as we're building something, we're putting something together, we're building something together. We have that vision where we're buying a home, we're tearing it down and creating something new.
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Narrator
Great, Great.
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Angie Stevens
And I'm sorry, was that your guess?
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Ray Gutierrez
No, I was just gonna say. No, no, I see. I lost you a little bit. I'm gonna. I'm gonna bring you right back in. I'm actually gonna tease you a little bit. You came in here talking about the Kardashians, and I've been wanting to. The only reason why I asked is because the Kardashians are. Are brilliant. They're masterminds. They're power couple. You keep mentioning your mom, you keep mentioning your dad. I'm like, ah, well, the Kardashians is the prime Kardashian. Was the father, like, beyond O.J.
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Sam
the.
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Ray Gutierrez
The Kardashian senior is a Kardashian. He knows business. And you think he's powerful. It's the mother. The. The true Kardashian. They've created an empire.
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Angie Stevens
Absolutely.
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Ray Gutierrez
They figured out the guff. They were the gift to the guff. And like, even our own president kind of figured that out decades ago. He's been running for President, Home Alone 1. We all know that. Especially if you're sitting in these seats. Talk about where. Where you find your power and folks that make fun of the Kardashians. But no, you. You see mentors, you see vision.
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Angie Stevens
Yeah, well, when I was a little girl, like I said, my father owned his own bakery, he owned his own taxi cab business, he owned his own carpentry shop. My grandfather also owned his own carpentry shop. So it's something that's just within the family. I've seen. Seen growing up in business. And same with my mom. She owned her dental practice. And I, I just. I knew that I wanted to be in a position where I own my own business. You know, grit wasn't something that was just an option. It's really the way we lived. It's how it was taught, how it was brought up. It's to work hard. That really hard work. Work ethic and perseverance Like, I don't give up. I don't back down. Failure is just not an option. Even the first property I ever did, I thought it was. That was. That should have wiped me out. People told me that I was in the wrong business. You know, contractors made me cry. But I had to get past that because. And when I did, I just knew that there was a lot more.
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Ray Gutierrez
Yeah, folks, I like to take this quote from Rudy, like, rudy, Rudy's well off. But no one ever talks about the thousands of millions of failures and the money you've lost and people stealing from you. All the negative. It's very easy to sit there and not talk about this. Like, oh, yeah, things are great. No, it takes quite the hardship.
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Angie Stevens
Very.
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Ray Gutierrez
That hardship is part of the ritual, really, to, like, are you deserving of this lifestyle? Well, let's put you through the. Through the rigmarole called life and test you. And right when you think you've made it, they snatches it from you. How many times have you had that opportunity just snatched underneath you, but had the mental and spiritual education of knowing, yes, next. Move on. I'm going to climb even higher.
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Angie Stevens
Exactly. So every challenge has been set. Such a great lesson. And it happens all the time.
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Ray Gutierrez
All the time.
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Angie Stevens
All the time. I mean, even you hear one of
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Ray Gutierrez
your podcasts, little things.
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Angie Stevens
Absolutely. There's challenges along the way. Like I said, my very first property, I was told I was in the wrong business. I shouldn't have done it. It's. I'm gonna fail.
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Ray Gutierrez
Aren't you a girl?
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Angie Stevens
Oh, what are you doing?
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Ray Gutierrez
You don't know. What, drying your hair.
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Angie Stevens
You don't know what you're doing. There's so many different things that came about that. But. But overcoming those challenges, I think, have only made me so much more stronger. Everything just is so much easier. But it doesn't mean that everything is peaches and cream.
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Ray Gutierrez
Never.
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Angie Stevens
It just keeps. There's other challenges and other challenges. But what I do love and I do crave is finding solutions, right? It's finding those solutions onto the next step. It's like sometimes I think I have big problems, but then it's like, you know what? I want another problem. Like, that's the only way I'm gonna learn. It's the only way I'm gonna grow. I'm gonna come out of my comfort zone. I'm gonna succeed. Whether it's my job, my children as they're growing up, my marriage, my business, my household, all of the above. They're all challenges. But every single Step of those have made me so much stronger. And they happen on a daily basis.
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Ray Gutierrez
I mean, I was just gonna say that sounds like Wednesday. That's today.
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Angie Stevens
That was like yesterday.
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Ray Gutierrez
How many?
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Angie Stevens
Oh my goodness. And it happens. But I'm really grateful for them. I can't imagine running a business and not have had a single failure. I mean, Covid, that was one of them.
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Ray Gutierrez
Sure, I believe.
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Angie Stevens
I mean, I invest. I had to completely stop the world completely paused. I had to pivot my business from investing, completely retract and pivot into the construction side of things and work with clients. You know, when nobody, the streets were empty, nobody was driving, no one, Everyone was afraid of everything. I created a logos, created a business and a website. And I said, you know what? We are, we are going to get this done. And if I'm not, I need cash flow.
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Ray Gutierrez
Oh yeah.
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Angie Stevens
Like investment takes a lot of your money, your efforts. You are the last one to get paid. I mean we, we put in, we invest and we go, go, go. And the last person that gets paid, it's usually us for sure. Right. So with a construction company having that cash flow and it's client based and as we're working through Covid, but that's a challenge, you know, reinventing yourself. But that's only made me stronger. It's only growing our construction side. Right. And then eventually someday do commercial.
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Ray Gutierrez
Right on. I gotta ask, where do you think as a woman in power, your episode that you just filmed with Kofi, where do you think this power is coming from? Where does this download come from?
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Angie Stevens
I definitely have a lot of faith. I'm thankful for that. My parents, a lot of my mentors, I think I love to be a student. I absolutely crave knowledge. Like I can be a leader, but I can also be a student. I like to be in a room where I'm constantly learning. I never once for a moment feel like I'm the know it all in the room. And I feel like that would be the worst room to ever be in. It's being able to constantly be a sponge and, and really my everyone that's been in my life, all of my business partners, all of my mentors, even my friends, even my kids teach me things, you know, along the way and things that I can apply in the business or in the business, in my family, et cetera, vice versa. So if it weren't for everybody else that is involved in my life, my husband, who is my ultimate right hand person, I think I'm the, you know, visionary and I see it And I want it. And it's happening whether everyone likes it or not. And he's just there, and he makes like. He turns my visions into reality, and he's there. And when I'm like rolling a roller coaster and I'm high up high, he's there for me. And when I'm on the low, he's got a shoulder for me too. So if I didn't have that, God knows where I'd be right now.
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Ray Gutierrez
I was just going to say for folks who are listening in or watching and it's a husband and wife driving to work or driving to the next project. Any advice for folks that. That are in your situation? You're clearly a very powerful woman. I'm assuming your husband is as well. But talk about that camaraderie that. That energy flow between the right partner.
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Angie Stevens
Okay, so super important to have the right partner by your side. My husband and I are almost complete opposites, which is really, really wild.
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Ray Gutierrez
Which is actually kind of great.
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Angie Stevens
It is actually. It is the most. It is the most perfect balance. Because in every area that I lack or I'm weak or I'm just not the best at, he is like the ultimate rock star.
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Ray Gutierrez
Right on.
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Angie Stevens
And in areas where he's like the, you know, where he lacks, I just, like. I'm just like, bam, bam, bam. I can knock things out, you know, but like, simple things. Certain simple things. Like, like I can do, like, cooking. Like, I can cook. I'm not really gonna cook, but it's some of the smaller things, like laundry, you know, or in the operations. Like, I have the vision. I see this. I know what it's going to look like, the end goal. And I can put it all together, draw it, their numbers, dah, dah, dah. But he's like, very meticulous. He sees the. Like, I have a to do list of 10. He looks at my to do list. It's like, no, that's more like 150 things. You know, it's really only 10. He's like, no, no, no. Each one of these has about 10 or 15 things within that item. I'm like, oh, okay, yeah, I guess. And. But it's that balance, you know, that opposite is so important, especially if you work with your significant other. I mean, a family member, one thing, but your significant other. I mean, where does work and family kind of end and start in a day?
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Ray Gutierrez
Yeah.
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Angie Stevens
And that took us a while. We've been doing business now for about 10 years now, and it took us a while. It's, you Know from business and you know, running. Someone's got to run the show. Right. And make the bigger calls, which I, I like to make, I make those decisions, those bigger calls and. But then it's, you know, your husband, wife too.
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Ray Gutierrez
Yeah.
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Angie Stevens
So it's tough. But listen, if you can get through that, you can get through anything.
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Ray Gutierrez
Yeah, I was gonna say you can get through anything. I do. You guys have like ground rules when we're at work. It's only first name basis and none of this honey crap. No, no, no, no cute voices.
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Angie Stevens
Listen, we've definitely had those conversations.
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Ray Gutierrez
Very important.
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Angie Stevens
Absolutely. Because If I have 10, five, eight workers and we're all in a meeting or business setting and something goes wrong and somebody needs to take responsibility. But it's like, hey, you know, this is that. Or you know, there's always accountability. Whether it's. I need to take accountability for sure, whatever decisions I make. Same for every employee or my husband, etc. But yeah, we have to kind of separate that being, you know, in the, in the work setting and then the family setting.
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Ray Gutierrez
Right on.
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Angie Stevens
So in the family setting, he's like so amazing. I'm so thankful for that because he's, he's just, he's an amazing father.
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Ray Gutierrez
I hope he's watching this and playing that part on loop over and over again.
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Angie Stevens
He is. I'm really so thankful. I can't imagine if I didn't have that right hand.
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Ray Gutierrez
That's, that's an amazing blessing. Congrats on that. We do another show called Legacy Makers. I gotta ask, you talk about a lot of your legacy, your dad, your mom, and what does it mean to be a legacy maker or legacy world builder?
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Angie Stevens
Sure. So in part of the reason why our construction side of our business is called Stevens Construction Group is because we foresee that future within our family and continuing that legacy. You know, now what my children are going to do, I can't say. Sure, they will invest, they will invest. They don't have to be an architect or be an engineer or anything like that, but you can, you can be whatever you want in a career and you can still invest and make the right decisions with investments and, and building wealth and have that freedom. So I very intentional, I think my husband and I over the course of time with our business, he has seen, you know, that I want to build like that is. I mean, I even talk about my grandfather, he was a carpenter and my uncles are architects and also contractors and builders. My dad is as well. And now it's just, it's within Me, it runs. And my kids love numbers as well, so I'm thankful for that.
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Sam
Look at that.
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Angie Stevens
So they're going to. And they're already showing signs of their interest in business and all of that. So I want to be an example for them. I want to be that strength and I want to continue that legacy through my children. And when I'm older, I want to see my children continue their legacy for their families and their kids and have that freedom and have that wealth because I mean nine to five is great, but if you can grow beyond that and, and have your own business and build wealth to. You can just. There's so much you can do and give back. So I look, I look, I look forward to.
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Ray Gutierrez
I'm excited, I'm excited for you folks. It's quite bizarre. It's like the nine to five. It's like once, once you convert from the nine to five to the four hour weekend, four hour week, how does one stay in that reality where it's like, wow, my life is quite amazing. How do I stay in this dopamine reality reality without having to go back down, this darkness?
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Angie Stevens
Oh well, the down happens for sure.
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Ray Gutierrez
That's where resilience kicks in.
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Angie Stevens
That's where resilience kicks in. Absolutely. Grit. Never stopping. Never stopping.
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Narrator
So,
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Angie Stevens
so funny, right? Get out of the nine to five. Get out of the nine to five. Here I am. You'll find me working like 12 hours a day on my computer. Way longer than a 9 to 5 work though.
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Ray Gutierrez
that point you're just kind of like manifesting it's not working.
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Angie Stevens
When you do what you love, you'll never work a day in your life. You'll never work a day in life. So when I'm sitting on my computer and looking over these plans or, or running over the business or the accounting side, etc. I'm just, I just feel like I get lost in it. I just get play, I just, I get lost in it and I love it and I have fun and I think my kids see that. And when you love something you have passion for and you're just so ambitious to do more and more and more. Like I write down my goals and, and then as the year goes by, I'll cross them off the list and my goal's gotta get bigger. But yeah, it's, there's doubts.
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Ray Gutierrez
I love it.
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Angie Stevens
There's doubts all the time.
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Ray Gutierrez
This is necessary, it's absolutely necessary for you to enjoy the sweet. You need the sour.
- [25:28]
Angie Stevens
It is, it is. You know, and so I'm Thankful for, I'm even thankful for my 12, 13, 14 hour work, you know, days and they happen. But I do have some days where I work two hours a day, you know, and sometimes I get as much done on certain parts of the business and so it's a balance. But again, freedom, right. I have the freedom to work as much as I want or as little as I want. It's not just that, you know, and then I'm building for myself and my family. So I love that.
- [25:59]
Ray Gutierrez
Fantastic. I love the fact that you know how to gauge your, your, your optimal side and you can decrease, increase. That's very powerful. A lot of folks don't understand how to do that. So hopefully you are on your adventure to train as many folks as you can.
- [26:12]
Angie Stevens
I, you know, I am looking forward to that. I think in the next. It's taken me a while. I. Sometimes you always feel like, you know, you need more experience, you need more experience, you need more experience. And it's definitely taken me a while. Again, adversity, right? It's taken me a while to get to the point where I feel like, you know what I have done all these things, you know, I can encourage other women if I can do it. Really anybody can do it.
- [26:36]
Sam
Right on.
- [26:37]
Angie Stevens
You know, I tell my kids now and they're little and they get it, you know, so I look forward to the future. I think in the future I would love to, you know, whether it's in the church or mentor or just like in the kids, schools, etc. Friends, whoever. I really love it so much. I love to train and teach and we, we're changing the world one church at a time.
- [27:02]
Ray Gutierrez
Can you imagine? You just wake up and you're just building churches for fun. A pink church, a blue churches, art deco churches, all sorts of fun churches. But it's all the same energy.
- [27:09]
Angie Stevens
I mean, I'm not gonna purple churches. I'm not good with colors. But I the design inside, I'll tell you the optimal.
- [27:17]
Ray Gutierrez
I love it. How can people find you and discover more about you after they're done listening to this podcast.
- [27:23]
Angie Stevens
So@stevensconstructiongroup.com and find us on our construction business page and then at Top Top Regency llc, that's my company where we do all the investments for any investors out there. If you are a doctor, a lawyer, you just, you're trying to find where to invest in. We have a lot of opportunities right now. We have 10 new ground ups coming up where we'll buy them, we're tearing them down, we're building up new construction spec homes and looking forward to do more.
- [27:53]
Ray Gutierrez
So, yeah, the self employed person will start a business in a building. The entrepreneur will buy the building.
- [28:01]
Angie Stevens
Sure, absolutely.
- [28:03]
Ray Gutierrez
But you, you build the building.
- [28:05]
Narrator
Both.
- [28:06]
Angie Stevens
Yeah. Buy it, sell all of the above.
- [28:09]
Ray Gutierrez
Gosh, Angie, thank you so much for your time and energy.
- [28:11]
Angie Stevens
Thank you so much.
- [28:12]
Ray Gutierrez
Such a great way to wrap up our Wednesday. And with that, that concludes another episode of the Living youg Legacy podcast, the Woman in Power edition for Inside Success. I am Ray Gutierrez and this is Angie Stevens. And we are Inside Success.
- [28:25]
Sam
Sam.