How an Immigrant Turned Rejection Into Seven-Figure Success

I realized there was more to life.

“I realized that there was a lot more opportunities, and I needed to make a change.”

Elizabeth Pope is a resilient, dynamic, and visionary serial entrepreneur, and the CEO of All Choice Energy. Through her work, she helps business owners strengthen their mindset, build wealth, and create lasting success. I did not want to work a nine to five job, I didn't want anybody telling me myself worth. I didn't want to tell me, "People, you're worth X, Y, and C, for a month or a hour." No, I wanted to tell that to myself.

With my child's worth. I have a famous court that I go and I love, that is, it's not your fault if you are born for, but it is your fault if you die for. Today, half of it is going to reinvent from all over. It's not over, I'm telling how we're.

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You can live your dreams. Welcome back to their episode of Living Your Legacy Podcast, for Insight Success. I am Regretiers. These are one of my favorite guests, not only are the women in power, but they're also

a legacy maker, so they're a powerful legacy woman maker.

I don't know, we'll figure that out later, but for now, I have Elizabeth Pope, join me today. This is your first podcast. Absolutely, yes. I hope I, you're impressed.

Thank you for having me, yeah. Elizabeth, your moments away from filming, not just your women in power episode, but your legacy makers episode for Insight Success. What are we going to learn about you today? Today, we're going to learn about my life trajectory or how I went from the shy,

timid little girl to the strong powerful woman that I am today.

Where does that strong leading with fire come from? From being eager to do something out of life, I have a famous quote that I go and I love. That is, if you, it's not your fault, if you are born poor, but it is your fault, if you die poor. Ha.

Stay poor and die poor. I love that quote. Wow, we're Latinos.

“We're designed for pain, we're designed to, life is going to suck, get used to it.”

Talk about being built for resilience, as a Latino and especially as a Latino woman. Coming from very humbled background, I was born in a race in Ecuador. I didn't have a lot of money, my parents were very poor. To the point that we had to come to the United States for a better living, I have a great gratitude, a great appreciation for the opportunities that this country has to offer.

And I never wanted to take that opportunity away.

I didn't want to be another statistics in this country, I didn't want to be another Latino, as a housekeeper, as skinny houses, very proudly on my parents, they both work really hard to give me the best they could, my mom, work on the laundry mat, my dad was just to watch dishes at a restaurant, but they did the best they could with what they have, with the resources they have.

Now I needed to do something else with all that information, with all the resources that it was provided to me, and I needed to make a change, and I knew that if I work hard, I knew myself worth, I started my own business at the age of 22, because I knew that was the only way to become successful. I did not want to work a nine to five job, I didn't want anybody telling me myself worth,

I didn't want to tell me people, hey, you're worth X, Y and C for a month or a hour, no, I wanted to tell that to myself, when my child was worth. I was going to say, absolutely, when did you realize the moment you switched off and on where you went from surviving to thriving? When I wasn't happy with a woman that was becoming, I was stuck in a dead end job, working

as an administrator, making minimum wage, I realized there was more to life. I realized that there was a lot more opportunities, and I needed to make a change, and the change was for me to go in sales division of my company. I let go my comfort zone, I was no longer behind the desk, answering phones, I put myself

It was commission only. Oh yeah. It was scary times, but I was not afraid of the hard work.

It's funny how Latinos are so good at the guff at salespeople, we're always, I don't

speak to my mother anymore, but she was always a good salesperson, you know, she can always sell you the shirt off your back, and it's because of that survival instinct. Talk about being designed a little different, and being having that superpower, because

“you, in sales, you have to embody the person that you're essentially selling to, as Latinos”

we understand that we have to be chameleons, we always have to be thriving, we always have to be always constantly moving, saying yes to everything, especially your content creators, literally on the floor, filming content, that I would give him the job over the guy that can tell me, "Oh, this land is the ultimate thing you take on." Well you get on the ground and give me a cool angle, just so my person that's feeding

me and putting money on my table looks good, that's why I work for a little more. There's a way of doing things, and there's a way, and that I can only understand that as a Latino, and a lot of folks that understand that fire. Are you communicating that? Are you sharing that knowledge with other folks that need to understand why fire is

important? Absolutely, inside my business, I constantly talk about self-worth, self-development, and

you can always be the best version of yourself.

There's no one stopping you, but yourself. It's all about the choices that you make today. The choices that you make today is what's going to determine your future tomorrow. Absolutely. Always make the right choices, and don't be afraid to take risks.

Also, let's talk about the people you surround yourself with, your tribe. It's also very important, because that's the kinetic energy that you're always surround yourself with. Who is your tribe? Who do you surround yourself with?

I said all the time, I'm allergic to energy people. I can be around energy people, I move away, like, get out of the room, I go somewhere else. My family is my number one supporter. I'm best when I'm with my kids, my family, my system, and the people that work with me.

Those are the ones that we constantly bouncing ideas or how to make the company better, how to grow as a team, so I love surrounding with my team. Rewinds when you're a pair, you're cleaning, you're hustling, you're sorry.

Did you always know in your heart that you were going to be sitting in this chair and

“be on, that you were going to be an entrepreneur, that you were going to lead with power?”

The minute I started believing in myself, but it was not always like that. Coming to this country, I was bullying high school. It took a huge toll on me to the point that my confident was to the ground. I no longer believed in myself, I no longer believed that I deserve to be in this country, because of the custom, the custom people telling me, you don't belong here, you don't

even speak good English, go back to your country, and that gave me a belief that maybe they are right, maybe I don't belong in this country, maybe I'm not worth anything. But the minute I started believing in myself, and I said, no, I am the strong powerful woman. I'm starting, I started visioning who the strong powerful woman was, and for me, at that time I want to become a CFO, I want to become an accounting, I wanted to have, you know,

the nice house, the nice cars, but I also knew that in order for me to become that person, I needed to take massive action because vision with no action is just a dream. Absolutely. You have to take that action. Nowadays, Instagram made it so popular, the vision board, and I see it all the time, but then

what actions are you taking? Yes, this is a beautiful vision board, I love it, they decorate it very nicely, but what

“are you doing on a daily basis to get you to be that strong powerful woman?”

And the action that I took and the choices that I made is why I am here today. It's beautiful philosophy because that philosophy brings through true to the designs of social media. It goes beyond just what you're posting, anyone can have a really pretty profile. Yes.

What do the comments like? What's the engagement? Are the comments, quality comments, are these even real people, is it AI? You grab that formula and apply it to your day-to-day life, it's like you will ascend. It's quite simple, it's the way I personally believe is the human nature.

What is your daily affirmations? Do you wake up in the morning, do you jump in an ice bath, do you write journal, what does do you wake up? What's the first thing you do? For the last couple of years, my business, I run a couple of businesses, a very established

and one of my rewards for myself are my slow mornings. Those are non-negotiable for me.

but once I'm in position to be able to relax and and feel the gratitude to everything that I have accomplished, my mornings are totally different than what it was 10 years ago.

The first thing I do, I meditate, I set up a certain section in my room for my meditation

area, I go to my gym, I go my pilates, I come back, start with my quiet coffee, with my breakfast, and then my day starts. Now, I'm ready to take on the world, because I'm working on myself first. You can not pour out from an empty cup.

“You have to work on yourself first in order for you to help others.”

Absolutely agree. And for folks that are going, oh, all the food food stuff, I'm like, no, my friends, speaking to the mind of where it's drives, this stuff is real. It is real. It is real.

Very much real. It is since catchy or catchy, sketchy, but it's not, you'll be surprised. Once you start doing those daily affirmations, I started doing that on the Saturday, because I did not like the woman that I was becoming. I took a course, that time was 20 years ago, it was called Lifesbury, I don't know if

they're still around anymore. And they helped me with my confidence, they helped me with my self-esteem, and one of the things they told me is to write three words of the person I want to become. And every morning, I will have to recite all that.

And my words were, I am strong, powerful woman, I am strong, powerful woman.

I will wake up and go in the front of the mirror and I will repeat those three words. I am strong, powerful woman, strong, powerful woman. And eventually, it's something I started feeling in it. But again, it had to be backed up with the actions that I was taking daily. Yeah.

“And just to give you a little bit of science of what I think just happened to the affirmation”

is just because we're speaking and we can understand what we're saying. Doesn't mean we're actually speaking a language. We're just making noises. It's her soul is resonating, her desire into the world, and the universe is going, grabbing that data and then evaporating it into the universe.

And the more she says it, the more the universe goes, oh, yes. And this, wherever she's standing, the universe is going, there's energy over here. Let's direct the positive view this way. So when she goes to work, the green lights will go a little faster. She'll find that parking spot, a little sooner.

Someone will be a little nicer to you. And this will just happen overnight. And then you'll start to stack. And then you'll realize you can compress time and go, whoa, I just did what takes a person three days and three hours.

How did I do that? Because you meditated and you changed the way you breathe. You become alignment. Boom. Yes.

You start aligning, things start to get crazy. And that's when you step in. Because you got to coach people that are figuring out the code, now they're just misaligned. How do you realign them and make them part of your tribe? So in my business, it's all about sales and marketing.

So that's one of the toughest things to do. Oh, no question.

So, one of the first things is learning how to take rejections.

That's huge when you're in sales, because rejection is part of the business. And let them understand that they're not telling you no. They're not telling the product no or maybe they're not understanding what you're selling. Don't take rejections personal. And one of the things, and this is for all my strong woman out there, I feel we are very

emotional compared to the guys. That's one of the things that we have that we need to get better. We cannot think things personally and I learned that the hard way when one guy, when I was doing, when I was in the field, doing sales, he was having a bad day.

“And he told me, "You have to speak, get the effort out of my store."”

Good for you for the name of saying the word. I'm trying to be coached. Good for you, honey. I couldn't believe what I just heard. I was shook.

I came outside. I started crying. I called my husband and I said, "I'm not doing this." This guy brought me memories from high school. When people used to bully me, I don't want to do that anymore.

And my husband's advice was, "That guy's probably having a bad day." Tonight at dinner table, he's not even going to remember you. But he is going to change your whole life if you give up today. Yep, the devil comes in many ways. Yes.

The negative. That's when I realize you're right. I'm letting somebody that I just met for two seconds that turned me my future.

It's very real. I shook off.

I went grab a self-aware and I kept going on my day.

You have to. And that's what I teach the guys. We are able to take rejections and no issues and no, and make rejections part of your life. Because not just in the business, it knows some personal life. I tell my kids all the time, work your law of averages, ask the girl out.

Yeah. She's got a son. Get rejected. Get the next one. Get rejected.

Get excited about those. Yeah, that's exactly what I did. Yes.

“I remember eighth grade, my personality showed up and the girls started looking at me.”

I'm like, "Hi. How are you?" I was like, "Yeah, confidence just came out and I don't know where my life changed." Yeah, yeah. I was just like, "You're not caring about it."

Go for it. Yes.

I never showed up the class ever.

But I'm doing okay. It's a graduated. Talk about, you know, when you are aligned, there's spiritual warfare. You see them. They see you.

You speak of this gentleman. You walk into the his reality. The negative energy knows, "Hey, we have someone that's aligned. Attack. Attack.

We can't make them feel like the one. They can't rise." So you're going to get a lot of these weird cosmic forces trying to push you back. The nose are going to go up. The rejections might go up.

But you're going to realize, "Oh, problem. What made me suffer a year ago now is just like, that was my Tuesday morning." Yes. Can I get another coffee please? Yes.

That's just the way it works. Absolutely. Talk about some of the lives that you've transformed. Is there a specific person, a specific woman that you really, you know, help a send? That's the most proud I am in running my marketing business because not only I change my trajectory,

I help others along the way. When I started the business, I was told by the Vice President of the company that the company was going into a different direction and they signed up a huge client and I needed to bring a different profile of people. Now, my business was in the middle of Manhattan, the capital of the world, the melting

pad. He asked me to bring my five-top guys and at the end of the meeting, he told me, "If you

“want to have access to this client, you need to let go of everyone except the Caucasian guy."”

The message was loud and clear. The message that I wasn't willing to hear. I was devastated because I felt like the company that I fell in love with, the company that gave me the opportunity, because I come from nothing. The only thing I have is my work habits, my skills to work hard, my determination, my mindset.

For them, and I was helping others to the same thing, and for them to tell me to get rid of the people that I was coaching and they were on the way to be successful, it didn't sit right with me. And the guy that they told me to get rid of, he was at that time, he was 17 years old. Now he's still with me earning a seven-income figure.

Beautiful. I love those stories. It was only 17 years old at the time he started reading. Can we talk about how important it is for, this is an fantastic story, I'm 42 now. I feel like I should have been sitting here at 32, and I can only blame myself at the same

amount of blame. It's important for men to have a maternal entrepreneur or a maternal mentor, the two ends. I didn't grow up with my mom, but I grew up with my grandmother. A different 60, and I was four, beautiful lifestyle, I was very blessed. But the necessities of having a mom and dad weren't quite there, so I went a different

route, I find it now that even my mentors are all women, because I'm seeking that maternal

thing that I never got way back when.

And once I find that maternal confidence, like when I speak to women, I find it more comforting than it's being to a man. I speak to a man, it's video games, and fun when I speak to a woman, no, it's serious. It's respect, because this is power. You are the birth of life, you are a woman, you have it in your womb, so there's a sense

of respect to your, especially as I go more Latinos. How important it is for you not to just go and speak to women, but also men that are seeking guidance, because this is a 17 year old soul, could have been anywhere else if you weren't the person I goes, no, you are on the path, you just don't get it because it's a different noise, but it's your noise.

“How do you change their frequency for folks to hear?”

By showing up every day and showing them with examples, like hey, you might not like me because I'm a woman, but you're going to respect me for the results I'm bringing to the table. That's all I want from you. Simple. And it happened to be that this person, because of his nationality, didn't have the respect

are going to respect me for what I'm about to show you.

Absolutely.

“And that's what I, and I feel like you're thriving, but there's still a little bit of survival”

in there, but it's more instinctual now.

It's not like you're clamoring for the attention, just like no.

And I still feel very much the same way where I'm today. How can folks learn more about you?

“I know we're about to learn tons of about you, because you're about to film me up so”

with coffee and coffee is great. Great story, teller. How can folks learn more about you? What's your website? What's your social media?

“So I'm new to social media, I know, I'm like 30 years late, but hey, it's better to start”

now than never to start. So I build my business and mainly on word of mouth. Yes.

I never needed to go myself in social media, but now you know, as my bread and butter, which

is all choice and prodigy energy, are in the autopilot, they're doing great. I am expanding to other business ventures, I started my own health and wellness business. So now I need to get myself out there, and this is my first step. I love it. I love that this is a launching pad.

You're one of the many that are using our platform to help launch yours, so it's quite the honor for us to help you ascent. And let's conclude another episode of the Living Your Legacy Podcast. This is Elizabeth Polk, such a pleasure and honor to have your time and energy. And I'm Regretier, and we are inside success.