Britnie Turner
| Britnie Turner | |
|---|---|
| Born | Britnie Turner 3 April 1988 North Augusta, South Carolina, The United States |
| 🏳️ Nationality | North American |
| 🎓 Alma mater | MorningStar University |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| 📆 Years active | 2009–present |
Britnie Faith Turner (also known as Britnie Turner; born 3 April 1988) is a serial entrepreneur, real estate investor, humanitarian, and philanthropist from South Carolina, United States. She is founder and CEO of Aerial Group, a Tennessee-based social enterprise company that provides real estate development, media production, education, motivational speaking, disaster relief, nation development, and other non-profit work.
Aerial was listed by Forbes[1] and by Fortune as the "6th Fastest-Growing Woman-Owned/Woman-Led Company in the World" based on the annual ranking by the Women Presidents' Organization (WPO) in 2016.[2] Fortune also listed Aerial as the "3rd Fastest-Growing Inner City Company in the United States" in 2016 as ranked by Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC).[3] Turner was most recently named as one of the "2021 Successful Women in Business" by Start Up Weekly.
Turner's Awards and Nominations[edit]
| Award Title | Organization | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Inspiring Women of The Year From Around America | Glamour Magazine | 2014 |
| 30 Under 30 (Nashville)[4] | Cystic Fibrosis Foundation | 2014 |
| Woman to Watch[5] | Council for Women in the Workforce | 2014 |
| Entrepreneurial Winning Women[6] | Ernst & Young | 2014 |
| Hometown Hero[7] | Glamour Magazine | 2014 |
| Enterprising Women of the Year[8] | Enterprising Women Magazine | 2015 |
| The Gershwin Award[9] | NAWRB (National Association of Women in the Real Estate Business) | 2015 |
| Best in Business[10] | Nashville Business Journal | 2015 |
| Gershwin Award | The National Association of Women in Real Estate Business | 2015 |
| Millennials Making Global Impact Panel Member | Global Leadership Exchange at United Nations Headquarters | 2015 |
| 40 Under 40[11] | Nashville Business Journal | 2016 |
| Women of Influence[12] | Nashville Business Journal | 2016 |
| Forbes #6 Fastest-Growing Women-Owned and Women-Led Business in the World | Forbes | 2016 |
| Rising Star | Women's Business Enterprise Council South | 2016 |
| Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist | Nashville Next Awards | 2016 |
| Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist | Nashville Next Awards | 2018 |
| Inspiring Woman of the Year | Coastal Carolina Women in Philanthropy and Leadership | 2019 |
| Leading Women in Business | Fortune Magazine | 2020 |
| Women Impacting the Community | Hendersonville Chamber of Commerce | 2020 |
| Successful Women in Business to Watch | The Startup Weekly | 2020 |
| Platinum Titan Business Award for the Entrepreneur and Small Business categories | Titan Business Awards | 2021 |
Early life[edit]
Turner was born in North Augusta, South Carolina, in 1988. She is the second of six children born to her parents. Her father, William Turner was a mechanical engineer and entrepreneur, and her mother, Deborah Turner, was a schoolteacher. Turner was homeschooled by her mother until the 9th grade, after which she attended Augusta Christian for one year, then North Augusta High School, where she graduated in 2006.[13]
Turner was a born humanitarian. She began rescuing animals as soon as she could walk, working as a lifeguard in high school and taking emergency medical and survival classes wherever should could find them. Turner started an informal, social group called Bringing U My Savior (BUMS), which she created with her friends. Their mission was to replace the idea that teenagers are “bums” by being a light to people in their community who needed help, specifically helping the elderly for free through yard work and home maintenance. Turner volunteered in special needs equine therapy programs, at her local church running kids programs and led activities in local centers for the elderly. Turner worked an average of five jobs at a time throughout high school, saving money to go on summer mission trips serving abroad. After graduating high school she attended MorningStar University, a ministry school in South Carolina started by Rick Joyner. The school had a program called Special Forces, a leadership and survival program conducted by US Army Green Berets, Rangers and survivalists which taught the resiliency required to stay on mission during extreme and austere conditions globally. In 2007, she went with the group to Costa Rica on a missions trip where she met children who had been extremely sexually abused. This is where she dedicated her life to putting an end to sex trafficking wherever she could. She knew she would need the resources, influence and tools to be able to accomplish this mission and started her first business the following year.
Missions[edit]
Britnie wanted to be a missionary serving in the impoverished areas of Africa since she was 12 years old. She wanted to gain the necessary training to be as successful and effective in the field as possible, so she attended Morningstar Ministries, in Fort Mill, SC is where she found their leadership and survival school led by US Army Green Berets, Rangers and survivalists.
During the summer of 2007, Britnie set out on a mission trip to Costa Rica with her survival team called “Special Forces”. It was there she met a little girl who was handicapped due to being sexually abused by her father. She was heartbroken to learn that such abuse was not only common but socially acceptable in that region. It was then that she went back to her tent, prayed, and dedicated her life to finding ways to change that standard, forever.
Turner credits that little girl for being the main reason she started and scaled her businesses and her impact. She realized that she could have been that little girl and if she was she would pray daily that someone somewhere was out there working on a solution to stop this from being accepted as normal.
Real Estate Career[edit]
Turner's interest in the real estate field started from her MorningStar days when she attended a session with a real estate investor as the main speaker. This speaker spoke on the Rich Dad Poor Dad concept of buying real estate assets to provide the cash flow which replaces the need to work for money. She realized at 18 years old she could build up enough real estate assets that she could live as a missionary without having to live off of donors to fund her basic needs or missions. Working as a waitress while going through school, she bought her first house a few weeks later in Charlotte, North Carolina, at the very height of the real estate market in 2007.
Early Struggle Period[edit]
After deciding at 18 years old that real estate investing would be her path to fund her lifelong dream of being a full time, highly effective missionary, Turner looked into gaining an education in the space so she could get this dream off the ground quickly. After purchasing her first home in 2007 (that she lived in and rented out the spare rooms to other students), Turner researched colleges in an attempt to find a curriculum that taught real estate investing, home flipping and/or how to manage these assets on one’s own. After many weeks of research Turner could not find a college that taught the courses she wanted thus forcing her to have to find an alternate to gain the education she needed to get started in Real Estate investing.
Not attending a formal college, was not a popular idea amongst her family and friends at the time but Turner was dedicated and based on the books she was reading, couldn’t see a possibility of this idea not working. Little did she know at the time, her launch was essentially in tandem with the launch of the greatest Real Estate and Economic recession period to face her generation at that time.
Almost desperate to learn, she called the “We buy Houses” signs in the Charlotte area and asked groups if she could work for free for them to learn. The real estate market was tanking so hard that most of their responses were, “Get out of the market now!”, “Stay away from real estate, it's a bad idea.” Disappointed but not destroyed Turner went back to her homeschooling roots and decided to read every book and take every course she could get her hands on to become as self-taught as she could while working multiple jobs and waitressing to survive.
After two years of extreme financial struggle, Turner, 20 years old now, was tempted to give up on this dream. She was waitressing at the Cheesecake Factory and this particular day had multiple guests in her section that did not tip resulting in about $7.00 of profit from a nine hour shift. Her apron full of books on real estate investing she would read in the back of the restaurant whenever there was a gap. This day, she threw her hands up at God saying “God, why am I here? I am smarter than this!” Where she is said to have a voice respond right back “Because I want to bless you.” Right before she went to leave two guys and girl walked in the restaurant. She begged the host to give her the table, after much back and forth he did. She noticed one of the guests’ (Chadd McCall) had a ring on his finger with the logo of a house. She asked them, “Are you real estate investors?” The guests replied “Yes we are.” She said, “ I’m going to be a real estate investor someday.” Looking at her with disbelief because of her age and the fact she was a waitress, the guests proceeded to ask her several challenging questions. When she answered intelligently on the topics, they were impressed she was so young yet dedicated to learning and was so self-taught. They invited her to be a guest at their next real estate conference.
At this conference she spent her last dollars available on her credit cards taking the group of speakers to meals so she could ask them how to get started in the business. It was then she overheard one of the speakers saying he had projects stacking up right and left so he needed an assistant he could teach the business to so he could run projects while traveling as an international speaker.
She quickly volunteered for the position, thinking this was her big break to finally get into the business that would lead her to being able to do international missions that rescued babies and ended human trafficking. She ignored the warnings from loved ones telling her that moving to a far away city where she knew no one and getting into real estate in 2009 was a bad idea, rented her house out to some guys from Craig’s List, accepted a salary that was $600 less than the minimums on her credit card, packed up her mustang and moved to Nashville, TN, a place she had never been before.
The real estate market was so bad at the time the speaker could not afford to keep her position resulting in Turner being let go within 60 days of moving to the city. The Craig’s List renters of her home in Charlotte, NC gave her a fake check for their first month’s rent which bounced after they moved in, they proceeded to not leave the property or pay her for 8 months. Turner was left with no income, what felt like overwhelming debt, a mortgage, no education and no place to live and in a city where she only knew the person who fired her.
The day she was let go she met two successful home rehabbers and despite her bad financial position knew that “to be blessed you have to bless others,” so she offered to work for free for them. She spent the following nine months living in her car on and off while working for free 18-21 hours a day to learn the business. Through this 9-month stint and despite the record low economy, she built expertise in identifying properties, managing trades, designing, purchasing and selling homes. She was able to pay her bills by managing rentals for others and taking small commissions and saving money by living in her car.
Turner was able to start flipping homes on her own in early January 2011, re-investing almost all of the proceeds back into her business. She moved on to renovate and sell more than 100 homes the following two years and in 2013 was one of Nashville’s largest and most award winning home renovators.
Turner attributes her success to staying focused on the “Aerial” mission, keeping the big picture in mind, knowing this was not something she was building for herself, but to increase her capacity for helping others. She also attributes her ability to scale her companies over the following years to the fact her early years she “worked to learn not just to earn.”
Early Criticism[edit]
In 2013 Turner returned to Kenya, Africa with her mentor at the time. Feeling under-qualified to truly make a difference she went anyway and toured the orphanage run by Horizon Initiative. She saw how a group of business owners took a very different approach to starting and operating their orphanage. They would invest their money in United States assets and donate the cash-flow from those assets to fund their orphanages. They would design the orphanages to not only house orphans coming from desperate situations but to educate and empower the orphans with skills and the mindset of real future leaders. While on this trip, the group went to tour a new site for a potential orphanage. They selected this area because of its economic desperation, some families were selling their children into sex trafficking for as little as $25.00 because of the lack of other opportunities. At this site, Turner was able to use her skills of real estate development to help the group finalize the land deal, create a site plan, re-create a family model (instead of warehousing children) and helped to complete a market study so the property could grow meat and vegetables that could not only feed the kids and teach them skills but the excess could be sold in the marketplace to help cover the cost of overhead.
The group returned to the site a year later to break ground after gaining title and found that the area was now one of the most economically successful regions within a 20 mile span. The locals opened up new businesses and education centers surrounding the property where the orphanage was going to be built. They believed if outside investment was going into that area it meant there was something good about that region. Parents now had access to opportunities and jobs which provided enough income they no longer had to sell their children. Turner saw that real estate development can bring in economic opportunity that can lead to drying up sex trafficking in entire regions.
Turner decided to completely shift her approach to real estate. Instead of working to build assets for cash flow, she decided to practice revitalization and getting people to believe in and invest in areas that were considered “blighted” so she could take that skillset to the regions she wanted to work in overseas. Turner understood in order for areas to have a chance to change they needed to be considered safe to live and work in. She started this by focusing on buying high crime houses, houses occupied by squatters, planting trees, doing street clean ups with her team, getting rid of garbage and fixing up homes for the elderly in the neighborhood for free.
Initially, her focus on mindfully revitalizing urban areas was viewed with skepticism and apprehension by the banks that she approached for investment. The concept of developing blighted urban neighborhoods was deemed as unsafe and was not a popular opinion when Turner embarked on this approach. Turner was dedicated to learning how to bring hope to areas people didn’t believe in and started Aerial Produced to create media that shared why these areas were worth believing in, investing in and living in. She personally moved into a neighborhood that was previously branded as “Murder Acre” to better understand what it took to truly revitalize an area. Throughout her work she had run-ins with drug dealers and experienced several robberies and even death threats.
Today, those areas where other developers, banks and many times city officials shied away from are now some of the most desirable neighborhoods in the Southeast of the United States. Turner’s approach wasn’t to gentrify neighborhoods but to mindfully revitalize them by working to attract job and educational opportunities for locals while physically cleaning up areas, putting in needed infrastructure and buying homes that were falling apart or had historically high crime. Turner developed a reputation for being able to positively transform blighted regions that has led to government contracts to revitalize entire nations.
Turner's Companies[edit]
Aerial Group[edit]
Named to the INC 5000 list in 2020, Aerial Group is a global company dedicated to elevating people and places through its social enterprise business model. Aerial operates a portfolio of companies whose sole mission is to elevate people and places through its operations and triple bottom line business model, measuring its success on its positive impact on people and the planet not profit alone. Aerial’s businesses are: Aerial Development Group, Aerial Properties, Aerial Produced, Aerial Recovery Group, The Aerial BVI and G-FORCE. The non-profit arm for Aerial Group of companies is called Aerial Global Community a 501c3 that works on projects globally. Follow on Instagram.
The goal of Aerial Group is to be the global leader in “force for good” businesses. In addition to allocating a percentage of each company’s revenue towards ending human trafficking and wiping out poverty at its root, Aerial acts as an incubator for case studies and best practices across its various industries, while providing resources and guidelines for countries, governments, and communities to live in thriving areas with true sustainable opportunities to live an elevated life.
Aerial Group Awards and Nominations[edit]
| Award Title | Organization | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Forbes #6 Fastest-Growing Women-Owned and Women-Led Business in the World | Forbes | 2016 |
| Highest Corporate Giving | Nashville Business Journal | 2016 |
| America's Fastest-Growing Private Companies | Inc 5000 | 2020 |
| Exceptional Workplace Award | The Startup Weekly | 2021 |
| America's Fastest-Growing Private Companies | Inc. 5000 | 2021 |
Aerial Development Group[edit]
Aerial Development Group is an award winning residential and commercial development company whose focus is on the mindful revitalization and sustainability of the urban core and developing nations. Turner founded the company in 2009 with the vision of elevating communities, not just building structures. This company started out with renovation projects and has since scaled to full revitalization projects throughout the Southeast United States and now the globe. Through a collaborative approach, the company works with the local community & its’ government leaders to design and make cities and countries healthier, safer, and stronger. Each project has multiple local give back initiatives ingrained into the project as well as built into the sale of each property if the property gets sold. Follow on Instagram.
Aerial Development Group Awards and Nominations[edit]
| Award Title | Organization | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Historic Preservation Award | Historical Commission of Nashville | 2015 |
| 100 Fastest-Growing Inner City Businesses (#3) | Fortune | 2016 |
| Highest Corporate Giving | Nashville Business Journal | 2016 |
| Top 3 Best Builder/Developer in Nashville | Nashville Scene | 2018 |
| ULI Best Private Sector Project – East Greenway Park | Urban Land Institute | 2021 |
A few of Aerial Development Group’s Projects[edit]
East Greenway Park: Nashville’s First Health and Wellness Community is Aerial Development Group’s 62 home, 10-acre urban neighborhood located in Nashville,TN. At the launch of the project Tennessee ranked #5 in the nation for highest rating of obesity related deaths. The community was designed as a case study to combat the obesity issue in Tennessee by encouraging an active and healthy lifestyle for residents and neighbors alike. Turner and her team accomplished this by building direct access for not only their development but the greater surrounding community, to Nashville’s longest greenway Shelby Bottoms Greenway, at the base of the community. The project has cheeky street names such as “Go Run” to inspire people to have fun and exercise. Aerial put in hiking trails, sidewalks, incorporated community green spaces, play areas for kids, an outdoor gym and fire pits, neighborhood community garden, dog parks and at closing, every homeowner is given a brand new bike as encouragement to get outside and be active. The project won Urban Land Institute's Best Private Sector Project in Nashville for 2021. Follow on Instagram.
Peace Row: As Nashville has grown to become a more dense jungle of people, Peace Row was created to be an oasis in the urban core. On the cliff sides of Shelby Hills, the project overlooks Music City, the Cumberland River and the rolling Tennessee hills.
Aerial designed the project as a case study for ecologically sensitive development building homes so beautiful people would be even more interested in green development but also to bring homeowner’s back to center through its earth elements, natural light, green roofs and gardens etc. The project was delicately executed to enhance the surrounding ecosystem rather than disrupting it.
The Aerial BVI: Aerial’s first international project. A private island was brought back to life after Hurricane Irma and Maria ravaged the British Virgin Islands in September 2017. Turner personally managed the renovation and design of every element of the project with the vision of creating a space for change. Incorporating her background and heart for missions the project helps people to find healing and start activating into their own purpose. Turner believes if people are walking in their purpose it will eliminate all of the problems on the planet. Disrupting the industry, this operating wellness resort has an occupancy of 30 guests. Some of the amenities include: Full white sand beach, on-island organic garden, a handmade wooden outdoor beach gym, inspiring indoor/outdoor meeting spaces, electric mokes, stargazing areas, a robust trail system, healing therapies and spa treatments, horseback riding, zebra feeding, sailing and more.
Aerial Produced[edit]
Aerial Produced is a media production firm that promotes socially important causes, people, and ideas, utilizing media as a force for good. Its overarching goal is to connect and empower visionaries, thought-leaders, doers, strategists, and change-makers from all over the world in order to accelerate positive transformation, both locally and globally. Follow on Instagram.
Aerial produced has created films that share with people how to get involved in different causes such as the recovery of areas and nations after natural and man-made disasters.
Aerial Produced's Work[edit]
- BVI Strong Story - Watch Here
- BVI Stronger Docuseries – Watch Here
- Social Media and Brand Management for Ray Lewis
- Honduras After The Storm Series
Aerial Produced produces educational materials that empowers people to get control of their finances so they can use their lives as a force for good.
Example of work:[edit]
Aerial Produced Awards and Nominations[edit]
| Award Title | Organization | Year |
|---|---|---|
| 2nd Best Instagram in Nashville | Nashville Scene | 2018 |
| Gold- Honduras After The Storm Series | Stevie Awards | 2021 |
Aerial Recovery Group[edit]
Aerial Recovery Group responds to man-made and natural disasters all over the world with the mission to: Save Lives, Eliminate Confusion, Maximize Support and Accelerate Recovery. Aerial accomplishes this by sharing best practices, harnessing the power of technology & communications, and utilizing the best talent in the world through military special forces veterans and their highly trained teams.
Aerial’s Veterans' vast training and years of experience in austere environments, combined with the resources and aid of partner non-profit organizations allows for highly effective missions and sustainable projects that save people's lives, ease their suffering, and preserve human dignity.
The organization works alongside government agencies and communities to prepare, respond, and recover after natural disasters, assisting nations on their vital journey towards revitalization and redevelopment.
Aerial Recovery Group's Missions to date[edit]
2017 – Hurricanes Irma and Maria
2019 – Hurricane Dorian in Bahamas
2020 – Tornado in Nashville, TN
2020 – Hurricanes Eta and Iota in Honduras
2020 – Hurricane Laura in Louisiana
2021 – St. Vincent Volcano
2021 – 7.2 Magnitude Earthquake in Haiti
2021 – Tornado in Mayfield, Kentucky
2021 – Afghanistan Refugee Mission
2022 – Ukraine Orphan Rescue Mission following Russian Invasion
Aerial Properties[edit]
Aerial Properties is a multi-family residential real estate firm that revitalizes transitional apartment communities into places people want to live, connect, and grow. In partnership with Horizon Initiative, a percentage of the rent of each individual resident in Aerial communities goes towards sponsoring orphans, providing food, shelter, education & a loving environment for children in Kenya, Africa. Each community is engaged with a completely new standard of excellence and elevates not only the residents living in the property but also the surrounding community.
With the vision for forging revolutionary change in apartment communities, Aerial has proven that “communities rooted in purpose” are the most sustainable. Aerial Properties are designed to be creative and inspirational residences in order to provide opportunities for innovation, inspiration, and optimal living environments. Fitness centers offer top-of-the-line equipment and inspirational quotes throughout to keep residents motivated and focused. Buildings have outdoor community spaces created to bring people together and allow for interactive residential communities. Other top-of-the-line amenities include energy efficiencies and green initiatives, such as state of the art LED lighting, and water saving devices and recycling programs.
The Aerial, BVI[edit]
Established in 2020, Aerial BVI is a private island resort in the British Virgin Islands (BVI). Turner’s vision for The Aerial, BVI was to design a destination where world leaders, visionaries, and entrepreneurs from around the globe could come together in one place and help solve world issues. By creating a destination focused on wellness and positive personal transformation, these mission driven individuals can dedicate the time and space to create true change in the world. Turner’s vision to design a wellness resort that offers “purposeful luxury - a place where people can become better versions of themselves,” is now an operating reality disrupting the travel industry. Follow on Instagram.
Articles Featuring Aerial BVI[edit]
Business Coaching and Consulting[edit]
G-FORCE[edit]
Turner is also the Founder of G-FORCE, a mastermind group of entrepreneurs that have dedicated their lives, businesses and resources to being a force for good resulting in solving global issues through their businesses. The mission of G-FORCE is to provide the tools, network and resources to help members scale their income and impact in the world. Her 6th business, she says, was started as a conviction to share everything she’s learned in her journey of growing force for good businesses with other purpose-driven entrepreneurs. It is everything she wished she had access to when starting out and growing businesses. Follow on Instagram.
Following Aerial’s triple bottom line business approach, members base their success on their contributions to helping people and helping the planet - not just focusing on profit alone. G-FORCE coaches its members on how to achieve “whole life success” - success in every every area of one’s life: relationships, impact, health, lifestyle and wealth.
Turner hosts weekly meetings with her network of high-profile entrepreneurs, covering a range of topics such as wealth-building, entrepreneurship, health, accountability, and marketing. Turner coaches that people really can “have it all” and to filter all things that look like opportunities through the understanding of one’s major life purpose.
G-FORCE members are taken through a series of exercises, leading them to excavate their purpose and truly get clear on their WHY. “Why build a business if it's not furthering the change you want to see in your lifetime?”-Turner. G-FORCE then provides the weekly training and resources to strategically translate that purpose into their life plans, business plans, financial plans, and brand plans. These plans allow members to integrate what really matters into their life to be able to actually achieve the impact they want to see both professionally and personally, having it all (aka whole life success).
G-FORCE also won the 2021 People's Choice Stevie Award for "Favorite New Product".
G-FORCE has 2 podcasts and hosts multiple retreats throughout the year for its members.
Business Coaching[edit]
Turner has been a business since 2017 where she works 1-on-1 with top business leaders from all over the world to align the purpose for their life with the vision of their business so they can accelerate the impact, creating a ripple effect of global positive change.
Non-Profit Consulting[edit]
One of the biggest passions in Turner's life is to help elevate the missions of the people that are helping others. When she isn't running her multiple Aerial companies, aiding in natural disaster recovery, or coaching entrepreneurs, Turner works with non-profit organizations both nationally and internationally to formulate plans for more effective impact, fundraising and mission-scaling. She has worked with several organizations including:
References[edit]
- ↑ "The Fastest-Growing Women-Owned Businesses". forbes.com. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
- ↑ Valentina Zarya,"Exclusive: These Are the 50 Fastest-Growing Women-Owned Businesses". fortune.com. 6 April 2016. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
- ↑ "100 Fastest-Growing Inner City Businesses". fortune.com. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
- ↑ "Tennessee Senate Joint Resolution" (PDF). Legiscan. April 8, 2014. Retrieved June 29, 2017.
- ↑ "2014 Women to Watch". Council on Workforce Innovation. Retrieved June 29, 2017.
- ↑ "Entrepreneurial Winning Women, 2008–2015 Winners". EY. Retrieved June 29, 2017.
- ↑ "Hometown Heroes: 50 Phenomenal Women of the Year Who Are Making a Difference". Glamour. Retrieved June 29, 2017.
- ↑ "Enterprising Women Magazine Announces Its Class of 2015". Enterprising Women. Retrieved June 29, 2017.
- ↑ "NAWRB recognizes Aerial Development's Turner with Gershwin Award". Nashville Post. September 10, 2015. Retrieved June 29, 2017.
- ↑ "NBJ Announces Finalists for 2016 Best in Business Awards". Nashville Business Journal. January 21, 2016. Retrieved June 29, 2017.
- ↑ "40 under 40: Britnie Turner, Aerial Development Group". Nashville Business Journal. October 19, 2016. Retrieved June 29, 2017.
- ↑ "2016 Women of Influence on Their Strongest Trait for Success". Nashville Business Journal. February 9, 2016. Retrieved June 29, 2017.
- ↑ Susan Adams,"How A Former Miss North Carolina Went From Living In A Car To Bootstrapping A Real Estate Business". forbes.com. 9 February 2017. Retrieved 14 April 2022.
