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Michele Correa | Correa Equity Partners🇨🇦

Entrepreneur
Midlife Lifestyle & Wealth
Living with faith & intention
Family • travel • investing • business
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06/01/2026

I didn’t need a new plan; I needed to stop being the woman who kept doubting herself.

I kept calling it confusion. Really, I was just scared to choose differently. I was still overthinking, people-pleasing, hesitating, and waiting to feel ready. Nothing changed until I stopped choosing the version of me that felt safe.

For a long time, I thought I needed a better plan, more information, more skill. What I actually needed was better standards. I needed to become someone who kept promises to herself, made decisions faster, and stopped needing everyone around her to be okay with her choices before she could move. I needed to stop shrinking myself to make others feel comfortable.

This meant tolerating discomfort when having hard conversations. It meant taking action before I felt fully ready. It meant I had to stop caring so much about what other people thought of me. It meant I had to become the person the life I wanted actually required.

That shift changed more than my habits. It changed what I attracted, what I accepted, and what I believed was possible for me.

Most people live by "Do, Have, Be." Once I do this, then I will have this, and then I can be who I want to be. The problem is that order never works. The shift that changed everything for me was flipping it. Be, Do, Have. Who do I need to BE first? That changes everything you DO. And what you DO creates what you HAVE.

A lot of people want life on the other side. Very few are willing to become the person they need to "BE" to have it.
That is the real work.

If you feel like your life is asking more from you right now, it probably is.

Follow if you’re done building your life around fear, approval, and hesitation.

05/31/2026

These are 10 books that changed my life.

They changed how I think about money, time, and freedom. I have reread almost all of them, because you hear different things each time. 10/10 I recommend reading any ( or all) of them!

1. Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki: Assets put money in your pocket and liabilities take it out. Simple concept, completely changed how I looked at money.

2. Rich Dad's Cashflow Quadrant by Robert Kiyosaki: This one deepened that shift. Why where your income comes from matters as much as how much you make.

3. Buy Back Your Time by Dan Martell: Building a business should not mean building a cage. This one is about creating more time freedom.

4. Who Not How by Dan Sullivan: Instead of asking how I can do everything myself, ask who can help me do it better and faster. Game changer.

5. The Go-Giver by Bob Burg and John David Mann: Long term success comes from the value you create for other people, not just what you try to get. Simple and powerful.

6. Atomic Habits by James Clear: Goals matter but systems are what actually carry you there. This book rewired how I approach progress completely.

7. The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy: Big results are built through small decisions repeated consistently. Not glamorous but true. Consistency always wins.

8. Excellence Wins by Horst Schulze: Standards, service, and culture. Excellence is something people feel long before they can explain it.

9. The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel: Money is emotional and behavioral, not just logical. It makes you reflect on why you make the financial decisions you do.

10. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho: Trust the calling on your life even when the path forward is not fully clear. A different kind of book but a powerful one.

My minimum is at least one book a month. I often listen to Audible while walking the dogs, folding laundry, driving, or at the gym. No excuse not to be learning when it fits into the pockets of your day.

Which one have you read? Or do you have a recommendation? Drop it in the comments.

05/29/2026

I thought I wanted to be a real estate investor.

What I actually wanted was a life with more room in it.

More time for my family. More flexibility in how I work. (I love my work from anywhere lifestyle.)
More options for the years ahead instead of just hoping retirement would somehow work itself out.

I started with one property and one decision at a time.
Some parts were messy. (Oh boy were they!) Some were slow.
But each one moved me toward a life with more freedom than the one I had before.

And at some point I realized the point was never just buying the most doors.
It was proving that a different future was possible. It was proving it to myself and showing my daughters what was possible.
That it is never too late to build something that changes everything.

Hit follow if you are building a life with more room in it -- however that looks for you.

05/26/2026

I am not strength training for aesthetics.
I am strength training because I want to stay capable in my everyday life.

• I want to carry my groceries.
• To put my carry-on overhead.
• To move well.
• To protect my mobility.
• To lift future grandchildren.
• To keep doing life fully and freely.

We get one life. I want to live mine purposefully.

Follow along. I share the real stuff here.

I didn’t buy this deal because it looked easy.This deal that turns an old bungalow into 8 units of missing middle housin...
05/26/2026

I didn’t buy this deal because it looked easy.

This deal that turns an old bungalow into 8 units of missing middle housing, is about building another income stream without pretending that I have unlimited time, energy or risk tolerance.

This infill project is a great reminder that the best deals usually don’t look shiny at the start. They are messy. They are slow. They may even be uncomfortable before they make sense. That’s the part that most people don’t see.

I bought this deal for the long term.

Save this for when you’re thinking about your next income stream.

05/23/2026

This is not one decision. It is not one moment.

It is a lifetime of small and not so small choices to keep going toward the life I pictured instead of settling for the one that just showed up.

For me it has always been three things.

1. Get clear on what I want.
2. Pray about it.
3. Take action even when I am not sure how it ends.

That is it. That is the whole formula.

It has not always been comfortable. There have been pivots, setbacks, and moments where the leap felt completely unreasonable. However every single time I chose the bigger, scarier, truer version of the life I wanted, it worked out. Not always the way I planned. Better, actually.

The family. The work. The adventures. The people. None of it happened by accident. It happened because at some point I decided it was worth going after.

What does the life you actually want look like? Not the responsible version. The real one.

Picture it. Pray about it. Go after it.

Create the Freedom to Live Life on Your Terms.

05/22/2026

I’ve seen too many smart people get tunnel vision on the numbers and assume the rest will work itself out. That’s how expensive lessons happen. (Yes, I’ve learned some of those, I call them “education expenses”.)

The deal looked fine. The problem showed up later — when the market shifted, the buyer pool got thin, or the plan depended on everything going right.

Because if there is one thing I can guarantee you, it is that the deal will rarely go according to plan. Meaning you always need to have at least two exit strategies.

After 6 years investing, I’ve learned the real question is simple: What happens if this underperforms, stalls, or turns into a headache?

If you can’t answer that before you buy, you’re not investing. You’re hoping. Hope is not a strategy.

Follow for more of the unsexy questions that save you money.

05/21/2026

I’ve spent the last few days overthinking and stuck in analysis paralysis.

I joined a course to learn how to show up more as myself online, and promptly stopped showing up at all. (The irony is not lost on me.)

This is analysis paralysis happening in real time, and I figured the most honest thing I could do was just say that out loud.

I’ve built a real estate business from zero. I’ve raised capital, managed projects across multiple provinces, and navigated more surprises than I can count. Somehow this felt harder than all of it.

But the lesson I keep learning is always the same: you don’t get clarity before you start. You get it after.

So here I am. Starting anyway and taking action because I know that growth happens outside of our comfort zone.

If you’re in the same place with something, follow along. I’m sharing more of the woman behind the business, faith, family, real estate, and all the growth that happens in between.

05/18/2026

I'm about to tell you something I wish someone had told me a whole lot sooner.

You don't need to have all your own money to invest in real estate.

When I first started looking at real estate investing, I thought you had to have all your own cash ready before you could do anything meaningful. So I waited. I told myself "not yet" more times than I'd like to admit. Time is the big multiplier in real estate, so waiting cost me!

Then I learned about OPM. Other People's Money.

You've probably already used it and just didn't know it had a name. If you have ever taken out a mortgage on a home, that is OPM. The bank funded the bulk of that purchase so you didn't have to show up with 100% of the price in cash. You used the bank's money to buy an asset. And the bank is using other people's money also, it isn't their money they are lending out. That's it. That's the concept. In real estate investing, it just expands from there.

Beyond the mortgage, investors bring in other sources of capital to fund their deals. At Correa Equity Partners, that looks like two things. The first way is private lenders who loan us their money at a fixed interest rate, fully secured against the property, meaning they become the bank. And the second way is equity partners who participate in the project and share in the returns.

Every single person knows exactly what they're getting into. The terms are clear, the agreements are documented, and nobody is surprised by anything.

What OPM does is remove the idea that the size of your personal bank account is the only thing that determines what you can build. Most successful real estate investors are using some combination of a mortgage, private capital, and equity partnerships to fund their deals. Not because they don't have money. Because it's a smarter way to structure growth.

If you've been sitting on the sidelines thinking you don't have enough of your own money to get started, it might not be the barrier you think it is. Maybe you start with private lending, as that is the quickest and easiest way to start.

Questions? Drop them below.

Invest with Purpose. Build Wealth. Create the Freedom to Live Life on Your Terms.

05/15/2026

If you were choosing between two rental units, what features would matter most to you?

We think about this constantly when we are designing our Edmonton infills because if a tenant has two choices, we want them to choose ours. Which would you choose?

1. Basement suites that actually feel like a home. Full two bedroom suites, not the typical one bedroom. We bumped them out under the front deck for extra square footage, added large windows with no window wells, and designed them with nine foot ceilings. Bright, spacious, and warm with hydronic in floor heating which is perfect for Edmonton winters and means no ductwork running through the ceilings.

2. Real soundproofing between units. ICF concrete walls from the ground all the way to the roof between the front and back units for sound separation and extra fire protection. We also added additional insulation between the upper main bedroom suites so your neighbour's morning alarm is not your problem.

3. Storage that actually works. Linen closets, pantries, and every bit of storage we could fit. Because people have stuff and they need somewhere to put it. (Seems obvious, but it often gets skipped.)

4. Laminate throughout, including the stairs. Carpet looks great for about six months and then it does not. Laminate holds up, stays clean, and keeps the units looking sharp long term.

5. A functional walk-in closet with lots of shelving in the main suite.

6. Air conditioning and triple-pane windows. Edmonton summers get hot. Triple pane windows keep the sound out and the temperature in. Both matter more than most people realize until they have lived without them.

7. Gas fireplace. Because coming home to a warm, cozy space after a long Edmonton winter day is a nice luxury.

8. Separate utilities so residents pay only for their own consumption.

9. We walked through the units in our head on paper before they were built to make sure furniture fits, there are no pinch points, and doors and windows are not fighting with where a bed or couch needs to go.

None of this shows up in a listing photo. However, it is exactly what keeps residents happy, long-term, and renewing their leases. With many options in Edmonton right now for rentals, it will also help our units rent first.

Which number(s) would be important to you if you were renting?

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