Who are some people who made the most out of their career move?
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5 - Cash Me Outside How Bout Dat!
Danielle Bregoli achieved fame practically overnight after a Dr. Phil appearance where
she uttered her infamous catchphrase ‘cash me outside, how bow dah’.
Bregoli was thirteen when she appeared on an episode of the Dr. Phil Show, where her
mother spoke about her daughter’s outrageous behavior.
Behavior that the American audience subsequently rewarded her for.
After her appearance, Bregoli attended a school for troubled teens on a ranch in Utah, but
she quickly returned to her old antics when she got home, surprising everyone.
A year after her appearance on the show, Bregoli was in a juvenile court pleading guilty to
charges of grand theft, marijuana possession, and filing a false police report.
She stole her mother’s car and purse and told police that her mother had been using.
Bregoli spread powdered sugar on a bathroom counter and reported it to the police.
Authorities caught her in a car with marijuana as well, leading to her being arrested.
When she appeared in court in Palm Beach, she burst into tears.
A representative from the Juvenile Department of Justice acknowledged that there was a significant
change in Bregoli, who was remorseful for her actions.
Her father, Irta Peskowitz, is a sheriff’s deputy in Palm Beach and expressed concern
that she was being forced into these actions and was worried about who was profiting from
Bregoli’s activities.
After pleading guilty, Bregoli received five years of probation.
Peskowitz wanted her to complete her probation in Palm Beach, but the judge allowed her to
do it in California instead.
She also had to take courses in sexual education, anti-theft, and domestic violence.
Additionally, she had to participate in 100 hours of community service and was given a
curfew of 5 p.m. to 6 a.m.
That same month she announced that she would be launching a rap career.
Her first single was partially leaked by TMZ, where she bragged about her fame and fortune.
She used the stage name ‘Bhad Babie’.
Cashed Out
Five years after she was on Dr. Phil, Bregoli bought a $6.1 million Florida mansion in cash.
The home was 9,200 square feet and had seven bedrooms and seven bathrooms.
She was 19 when she purchased the property, which sat on one acre of land and had a two-story
guest house.
It had many luxurious amenities such as a pool, an eat-in chef’s kitchen, top-of-the-line
appliances, a primary bedroom with three large walk-in closets, an outside Jacuzzi area,
and an ensuite with a walk-in rain shower.
The home also had a billiard/ club room, a wine storage space, and a dry sauna.
It was Bregoli’s second home.
The first house she owned was a five-bedroom, seven-bathroom estate in the same neighborhood
as the new one.
Bregoli has several streams of revenue.
Her manager, Adam Kluger, helped her land multi-million dollar deals and set her up
to work with Atlantic Records.
She has brand deals with online retailers like CopyCat Beauty and Fashion Nova and launched
her own indie music label.
Her music was streamed over 1.5 billion times, and in 2017 she was the youngest female rapper
on the Billboard Hot 100.
Bregoli’s other source of income was her OnlyFans account, which she started when she
turned 18.
In her first six hours on the platform, she earned $1 million, breaking a record.
Despite keeping the amount she earned for her photos and videos on the platform quiet,
she admitted that she would never have to worry about money again.
Unfortunately, life wasn’t perfect for Bregoli.
She dealt with childhood trauma and suffered from prescription pill abuse.
In June 2020, she went to rehab and completed a 30-day program.
Scholarships
In August 2022, six years after Bregoli’s 2016 appearance on the Dr. Phil Show, she
announced she would launch a scholarship.
She wanted to help others create their paths to success as she had.
She partnered with Educapital Foundation and created the ‘Bhad Scholarship’ Award.
The $1.7 million scholarship was designed to help enroll students nationwide in technical
and trade schools.
Recipients of the scholarship would have the opportunity to learn about various professions,
ranging from the business of special plants to cybersecurity to cosmetology.
She hoped to help people become educated in these trades despite not having the money
to do so on their own.
Each recipient would receive $1,000 towards their trade school education.
On top of that, 50 graduates would receive $10,000 in start-up capital, enabling them
to launch their own businesses.
Bregoli also planned to handpick graduates that would receive full-ride scholarships.
In another life, she could have seen herself as a nail technician, where her interest in
trade schools began.
As well as continuing to work on her music, Bregoli eventually hopes to open more of her
own businesses, one of them being a nail salon.
She likes the idea of opening a franchise so that she could have salons in different
areas.
Bregoli attributes her success to being strong-willed and working hard, and hoped she could empower
others to do the same.
It definitely wasn’t because of America’s appetite for watching trainwrecks.
It was her strong will and notorious work ethic.
4 - Mathieu Flamini Mathieu Flamini is a successful French soccer
player who’s played on some of the best teams in the world.
However, Flamini's true fortune came when he founded GFBiochemicals, a company working
towards revolutionizing the energy industry.
Soccer fans know Flamini as a midfield player that played for Arsenal, Milan, Crystal Palace,
and others.
He represented his country in international games, but he had another passion that would
soon be his focus.
GFBiochemicals
In 2008, Flamini teamed up with his business partner Pasquale Granata to work on mass-producing
levulinic acid.
Their goal was for their product to become a sustainable alternative to oil-based products.
Levulinic acid could replace petroleum in all forms and have other uses that could forever
change the way that plastics, fuel, cosmetics, food preservatives, and even pharmaceuticals
are produced.
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Flamini’s vision was to lessen the environmental impact of oil-based products.
Those products pose a significant risk to our planet and contribute to global warming,
ocean acidification, and rising sea levels.
Through years of research, GFBiochemicals figured out a way to mass produce levulinic
acid on an industrial but cost-effective scale and patented their method.
Flamini was heavily involved in the bio world and sustainability community.
He helped create BIOCIRCE, the first master’s degree dedicated to promoting bioeconomy education
in Europe.
He also co-founded the world’s first e-magazine devoted to eco-sustainability.
Acquisitions
GFBiochemicals increased its investment in the biochemical industry in 2016 when it acquired
Segetis.
At the time, Segetis led the production of levulinic acid derivatives in the United States.
The amount GFBiochemicals paid for the company was never released, although it likely came
at a high price.
However, the acquisition meant that GFBiochemicals gained the company’s assets and intellectual
property.
Segetis had over 250 patents for plastics, biopolymers, personal care products, fragrances,
agriculture chemicals, adhesive strips, and household and industrial cleaners.
Following the acquisition, GFBiochemicals was able to produce a much wider range of
bio-based products, and this was the beginning of significant growth for the organization.
GFBiochemicals’ next move was to partner with American Process Inc, an organization
that operated a Georgia-based biorefinery where they produced cellulosic sugars.
They made the sugars by extracting them from grass, plants, and wood and were able to use
them to create levulinic acid, making them a tremendous asset to GFBiochemicals.
Together, the companies planned to build a cellulosic biorefinery to expand the production
of levulinic acid from 10,000 tons a year to 200,000 tons a year.
The partnership with American Process helped steer the company toward the next step in
its strategy.
They spent a lot of their early days proving they could produce levulinic acid at a competitive
cost to their oil-based competitors.
As for Flamini, GFBiochemicals’ growth steered him towards becoming a billionaire, with the
company on track to make billions.
3 - Khaby Lame Khaby Lame dethroned TikTok superstar Charli
D'Amelio when he overtook her number of followers in July 2022.
Lame moved from Senegal to Italy and worked at a factory until he was laid off in 2020.
Following the loss of his job, he began making funny videos.
Unlike many other influencers on the platform, Lame’s videos had no words.
He relied on his facial expressions to make people laugh, and they did.
Because Lame’s content didn't have a language barrier, he was able to amass a global audience.
As of January 2023, he had 153 million followers, a number that has steadily grown.
Not only did he become one of the app's most popular performers, but he also became a multimillionaire.
Endorsement deals with brands like Hugo Boss and Pepsi helped take his career to the next
level.
The Look
In 2021 he joined the gaming world and made a commercial for the Xbox Series S in his
unique comedic style.
Other brands that monetized off his international fame were Netflix and the fantasy sports platform
Dream 11.
His content was used in ads for Instagram and TikTok.
While his popularity made him very wealthy, the cost of producing his content stayed low.
His innovative videos were small-budget productions, making it easy for him to keep making them
and profit along the way.
Unlike others on the platform, Lame stayed true to his roots and continued producing
the material that made him successful.
He has never said a word on the platform and has amassed an estimated $15 million net worth,
all from just doing a simple motion that gets everyone to relate.
2 - No More School A former high school teacher became a millionaire
after ditching the classroom and turning to OnlyFans for her income.
Courtney Tillia was once a special-needs educator in Arizona and struggled to support her family.
She was in her early thirties when she knew that something had to change, and found an
unconventional way to rapidly increase her income when she started sharing explicit content
on the popular platform.
After three years, she was raking in millions of dollars from her accounts.
She managed three accounts, one that was a VIP page, a free page, and a merchandise store.
The VIP page was her most profitable, bringing in roughly $380,000 in monthly subscriptions.
She’s also made hundreds of thousands of dollars from messaging fans, as customers
would tip her for performing requests, the ones she was willing to do of course.
No longer tied to a teacher’s salary, she started enjoying solo vacations to Colombia
and Jamaica and family getaways to Hawaii and Nashville.
She didn’t just spend her earnings on herself, though, as she frequently donates money to
homeless shelters across Los Angeles.
Teaching
Tillia decided to leave teaching in 2016 when she was so stressed about money that she began
to hate her job.
She also became depressed as the financial struggles of the job took away her enjoyment.
As a mother of four, she had her family to worry about.
If she hadn’t stopped teaching, she would have had to wait 25 years to make the money
she’d made through her OnlyFans accounts.
Tillia’s situation was nothing new for teachers, who have seen their salaries decline over
the past decade and are often underpaid.
Financial Freedom
Once she gained financial freedom, she could do the things she’d always wanted to do
and is happier than ever.
Tillia doesn’t feel shame over her newfound career and has her family’s support for
her change in occupation.
As well as being an OnlyFans model, she started a life coaching business where she helped
other women emulate her success.
Her focus was to remove any guilt or shame over embracing their sultriness.
Tillia wanted to create a safe environment where the women felt comfortable enough with
themselves to feel free to express themselves.
Her clients live worldwide, including the US, Australia, and Europe.
Ultimately, her goal was to make others feel as free as she did by helping them change
their lives and gain financial independence.
1 - Turning Blonde Sometimes, making a lot more money doesn’t
take too much effort, and in this case, it only took a change in hair color.
A tiktoker by the name of Rachel decided to dye her brunette locks blonde and swap her
minimal makeup routine for a more glamorous one.
Just a simple change of the color of her hair dramatically increased her earnings by more
than triple as a casino cocktail waitress.
Rachel used to rock a plain and subtle style but found that customers preferred a more
over-the-top image.
Not only did she change her hair and makeup routine, but she also revamped her closet.
Rachel always wore crop tops and pink attire but altered her style to have a more bimbo-like
appearance.
She added corsets that cinched her waist and accentuated her figure.
More Fun
Following the makeover, Rachel made much higher tips, averaging around a $5 tip per drink.
She could sell up to 70 drinks during a shift, and her annual earnings were between $80,000
and $100,000.
Rachel spoke out on TikTok about making more than people with college degrees and that
the older generation didn’t have a clue how much her generation could earn in tips.
Color Experience
Many other users shared similar experiences, talking about how they lost tips when they
dyed their hair from blonde to another color or that their tips went up when they went
blonde.
They also said that people would beg them to dye their hair other colors but that blonde
was the most lucrative for them in their professions.
Some users commented that a degree is better to have as it lasts a lifetime versus working
as a server which wouldn’t be sustainable forever.
They pointed out that they were once servers, but youth and beauty would fade, but that
just sounds like haters to us!
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