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How Maria Menounos Went From Sweeping Floors to Raking In Millions

2024/10/10
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Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin

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Maria Menounos, daughter of immigrant janitors, shares her inspiring journey from cleaning nightclubs to building a successful media career. Driven by a desire to provide for her family, she learned the value of hard work and resourcefulness early on. Maria discusses her first investment in MacroChem and the financial challenges she faced during college.
  • Maria's parents were janitors who instilled a strong work ethic in her.
  • She made her first investment in a company called MacroChem after winning Miss Massachusetts Teen USA.
  • Maria faced financial difficulties in college due to a misunderstanding about her student loans and being cut off by her father.

Shownotes Transcript

Maria Menounos has had— and continues to have— a phenomenal career in media, which she built herself from scratch. Maria is the daughter of immigrants who hustled to make a rich life for herself. Today Nicole and Maria talk about her experience of the immigrant hustle, being in the “sandwich generation” where she is taking care of the generation above and below her, and what her cancer diagnosis taught her about financial planning.

Listen to Maria's podcast Heal Squad here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/heal-squad-x-maria-menounos/id1320060107