Episode 43 - Part 1: Skywalker Consulting a power couple who went from the Vegas Nightlife to building a financial family business

In this Episode we sit down with Shawn Timmons and Tiffany Hill CEO & COO of Skywalker consulting. Tiffany a former educator and Shawn a former manager for Tao Group entertainment are now successful entrepreneurs in the financial industry. They are also hosts of a wealth podcast on Instagram known as Green Table Talk. They are also proud parents to future "Boss Baby" Aiden Skywalker Timmons.

In Part 1 we talk about their upbringing. Tiffany hails from Brooklyn’s Canarsie projects, as she puts it “Brooklyn girls do it best.” Shawn is originally from the Caribbean by way of St. Vincent, the Grenadines and the Virgin Islands.

We talk about how Shawn grew up around the Hall Of Fame NBA player Tim Duncan who played basketball with his uncle and ate at his grandmother’s restaurant. Tiffany shares a story about visiting Shawn’s family in the Caribbean for the 1st time and how she struggled to understand the Caribbean accent. Shawn talks about when his family immigrated to the US, to Alaska of all places. He explains how he struggled greatly at first with culture shock, because of his thick Caribbean accent and about how it made him self conscious as a 12 year old to speak and even forced him to stop speaking for a while until he could get rid of his accent.

Tiffany talks about being in the “get out of the hood project” and always getting straight A’s and being an overachiever because of her mother’s strict high standards. She also shares a similar culture shock experience to Shawn’s, when she left the Canarsie projects to an all white boarding school. Just like Shawn it was a completely new and very different environment, where she had to learn to quickly adapt. They talk about how these similar experiences allowed then to connect on a deeper level when they met.

Shawn shares more culture shock experiences when he came to the U.S. such as “the sun being broken” because it stays up 22 hours a day and seeing snow for the first time. Also he remembers how different it was for him, being from a friendly welcoming culture to coming to a place where nobody talks to people they don’t know. Tiffany talks about being from New York where you don’t talk to anyone you don’t know and walking super fast because she was trained in New York.

Tiffany shares her experience of working extremely hard in school & earning a scholarship to go to an IVY League boarding High school in Massachusetts. And how this experience forced her to develop successful habits. She was on her own for the first time and had her own room for the 1st time in her life. After this private High School in cold and snowy Massachusetts Tiffany decided to head to Florida for college and nice weather. Shawn being a great athlete left Alaska to go to Arizona for college and warm weather.

Tiffany talks about finding her calling as an educator and which kept her in Florida for 9 years until she realized her teaching career wasn’t going to meet her needs financially. So, she followed the money and moved to Vegas to work in the Hospitality industry. Shawn talks about heading down the wrong path when he was young but having great friends around him who believed in him and his talents and motivated him to get into sports, pursue success using his talents and to get out of Alaska and go to a place he could thrive. So, he left Alaska for college in Arizona.

After college he had a short career in the pharmaceutical industry but was bored and felt like he was wasting his talents so he moved to Las Vegas with no family, no friends, no job and started over from ground zero. He began getting into entertainment and started dancing in Vegas, he was so talented as a dancer Shawn was offered a scholarship to Juliart, however he suffered an injury during an altercation at his security job and had to turn down the scholarship. This is when he found the hospitality industry. He climbed up the ladder in this industry and ended up in the same career path as Tiffany. Tiffany shares her story of how she got into the night club industry and how she doesn’t leave things to chance and was able to get in with persistency. Shawn and Tiffany tell stories about the Las Vegas party & night life. Working at the major hotels and clubs at their peak eras. And much more. This is a super talented power couple! Please enjoy the show!

SKYWALKER CONSULTING

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SHAWN TIMMONS

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TIFFANY HILL

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BLISS SEEKERS

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HOST

Isaac J. Estrada

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MUSIC

"The Mantra" by A Dead Desire

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Dionn Renee

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VIDEOGRAPHY/PRODUCTION

Jessica Howell

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