WELL, HEY THERE
I’M WENDY
I’M AN INDEPENDENT BUYER’S AGENT, MENTOR, EDUCATOR, INVESTOR, PODCASTER AND SOCIALLY INTROVERTED BUSINESS WOMAN WITH BIG DREAMS.
As a little girl, I dreamed of becoming a self-made millionaire — and it took me the best part of 20 years to get there.
Now, I’m dedicated to sharing my story and teaching you how to fast-track your own success journey by employing the mindset and skillset that allows me to earn a 6-figure salary year on year.
MY STORY — Growing up in middle-class Australia with immigrant parents, it was clear to me from a young age that if I wanted to have financial security and the finer things in life, I needed to work for them myself. No one was giving me anything - nor did I expect it. Thankfully, I’ve always had a natural inner drive and determination, and it came as no surprise when I opened my first independent real estate office at 23 years of age, becoming one of the youngest Principal Licensees in the game - just six years after I started my career on the reception desk.
Fast-forward another 7 years and everything had changed …
By the time I was 30, I was in the midst of a painful separation and had been diagnosed with clinical depression. What felt like the entire life I had worked so hard to create, had fallen apart around me. I had it all - the dream home, my convertible sports car, two fur baby pugs, a successful business and a property portfolio to be envied. But then, in the blink of an eye, it was all gone and I was forced to start over. Ironically, it had been my decision to end that chapter of my life but it didn’t make it any less painful. My late 20’s / early 30’s marked my rock-bottom era and what kept me going were my pugs, my real estate career, and that inner drive that is still with me today.
Some of my fondest memories and career highlights in picture:
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That time I was on the news
Podcasting with my co-host, Cara
Representing a client at auction (we won!)
Ben and I on our wedding day (Hayman Island, Whitsundays)
17 year old me in my first real estate role
I worked hard to buy my dream car
Studio photo shoot to remember my 30's
The ocean is our happy place
With my brother, sister and my dad in our childhood holiday spot (Burrum Heads Queensland)
3 year old dreamer (contemplating world domination!)
Ben and I after winning one of my biggest auctions to date (first prize for the supportive husband role!)
With our foster-fail Labpei, Lex
My rags to riches story didn’t really go as I had planned.
It wasn’t the typical girl starts business / girl gets rich and lives happily ever after story.
I didn’t always have the success — the business, the clients, the deals, the houses, the multi-million dollar property portfolio.
I had to do the work. I had to be strategic.
And then I had to do it (all over again).
These days, I buy beautiful homes for busy professionals, educate driven women, and grow my investment portfolio from my humble home in Clayfield, Queensland.
My goal is to get all women to 6-figure incomes, working for themselves as independent business owners.
A successful career was my ticket to financial independence — and it can be yours too.
Prioritising my professional skillset in my early twenties gave me the confidence and strength to move forward as an independent woman and in 2015, I re-built a new business, trademarked my personal brand WENDYRUSSELL® and became the very first solo female buyer’s agent in Brisbane, Queensland Australia.
It’s deep, but you could almost say my new business saved me. In the following years, my buyer’s advocacy opened me up to a world of possibilities as I established tribe-like friendships with like-minded professionals and reached income milestones I never imagined were possible for a solopreneur (let alone a girl from middle-class). The prior years of dedication, learnings, set-backs and hardships had ultimately set me up for the success I knew I deserved, and this realisation became the driver to share my story with others walking a similar path - perhaps you?
I founded the WENDYRUSSELL Institute to give career women the confidence to step into their power.
Business (and real estate) is incredibly competitive and when you’re going it alone like I am, finding the right support can be crucial to your success. That’s why I created a community of like-minded professional women to champion you along the way.
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