Nadia Sadegh with her camera at a San Francisco tech event

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Nadia Sadegh

Nadia's education in finance started much earlier, and harder, than most. At 13, she immigrated from Iran to the United States speaking zero English. She watched her parents navigate a brand-new economy from scratch: credit scores, mortgages, interest rates, all with no manual and no translator. So she became one, teaching herself how money in America actually works, one YouTube video at a time.

At 19, she bet on herself: she left university and joined the largest insurance company in America, where she earned her California life insurance license and passed the Securities Industry Essentials (SIE) exam. With no network and no warm intros, she built her book the hard way — door knocking, seminars, Rotary meetings, chamber of commerce events — and in the process learned the skill that drives everything she does now: making a stranger care about something complicated. Sales.

But she soon hit the same wall almost every business owner does: keeping a consistent flow of clients. Spending 70% of her time prospecting was eating her life, and that frustration became her next business — a social media lead generation company she grew to six figures, and now the media company she runs today. Together, those experiences cemented her core belief: a business can be brilliant, an idea can be groundbreaking — but without marketing and customers, neither survives.

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