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EP123: Lifelong Entrepreneurship with Heidi Cortez

Ben Reinberg: I Own It

Release Date: 01/18/2024

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Do you have what it takes to reach your dream life?


Heidi Cortez joins Ben Reinberg in today’s episode of the I Own It podcast. She’s a renaissance woman excelling as a business owner, best-selling author, model, reality TV star, marketing guru, and, most of all, a mother.


As a lifelong entrepreneur, Heidi finds joy in coaching and helping other business owners get their companies to succeed. She inspires others to dip their toes into everything they’re good at and use it as leverage, just as how she did with modeling and reality TV.


Even at a young age in an underprivileged household, she loved the trial-and- error of testing marketing and business methods that work. Now, she’s living her dream life!


For over two decades, Heidi has helped her clients land book jobs, get verified online, and build foolproof modeling careers with a cushion.


Heidi takes on Ben’s hard-hitting questions, diving deep into her childhood, her motivations, and the ups and downs in her life that made her who she is today. Get in on how you, too, can profit like a boss!


Timestamps:

0:00 - Introduction
0:18 - Guest intro
2:07 - Heidi’s first foray into business
8:27 - Goals and motivations
9:47 - Modeling and tips for aspiring models
15:24 - Being an entrepreneurial single mom
17:01 - Push forward and take action to prove yourself
21:22 MySpace networking to creating an agency
29:19 Owning your successes and failures
30:52 Heidi’s secret to staying fit
36:53 Heidi’s advice to her 16-year-old self
38:14 Heidi’s last meal on Earth
40:35 Heidi’s favorite band


Quotations:
“You have to go through tough times in order to come out and start creating the life you want.” - Ben Reinberg


“Without my failures, I wouldn’t be a success.” - Heidi Cortez


“If I can help other people’s lives or their businesses, that’s the best reward I could possibly have.” - Heidi Cortez


“I never wanted to stick to one thing.” - Heidi Cortez


“Having a child the second you turn an adult, you are really forced to grow up fast. If I hadn’t had a child, I wouldn’t be in this exact position as I am today.” - Heidi Cortez


“I felt I had to work harder for people to take me seriously. Once everything started coming…people were like, ‘Wait a minute. Maybe there’s something more to this girl. She keeps proving herself.’ I’m past that point now and probably just another hardship that God wanted me to go through.” - Heidi
Cortez


Get in touch:
Website: heidicortez.com
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Instagram & Twitter: @heidicortez
TikTok: @heidicortez_


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