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June 17, 2015
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Natalie Lue-Fung steps up to financial success

Natalie Lue-Fung

Bjorn Burke, Staff Reporter

Entrepreneur and success coach Natalie Lue-Fung has faced her fair share of hardships growing up. This did not faze her in the least, as today she is a laudable businesswoman who has conquered and overcome.

The triumphant mother of four, who is from Arnett Gardens, shared her accounts of living in different places - with brief stints of homelessness - and becoming pregnant at age 15. Lue-Fung was hardly disconcerted and used her personal anecdote as a tool to motivate others.

Shortcomings

"In sharing my story and owning my story, I realised that I could give back and it motivated me," Lue-Fung said. "If I can feed persons the positive things about them and give them a way to improve on their own shortcomings, they automatically do well financially. I wouldn't take credit for it, but it's by way of God using me. Everybody has it inside of them."

Having earned over 40 scholarships, Lue-Fung has worked diligently over the years garnering three separate undergraduate degrees from Morgan State University in Baltimore, which catapulted her to financial opportunities where she worked in the financial district of lower Manhattan, New York City, on Wall Street.

Her latest project, First Steps to Success, is set to take place on June 27 at the Jamaica Conference Centre in Kingston, starting at 9 a.m. For this project, Lue-Fung has embarked on a journey to assist persons, especially young adults with varying opportunities, whether financially or otherwise, to help them achieve their version of success. The event is also aimed at redefining the view of success in the minds of youth and adults by way of exposure to positive perceptions and practical training.

Career development

Hosted by the Wealth Improvement Network (WIN), the first staging of First Steps to Success also seeks to engage participants in creating a personal brand, in view of promoting career development. The event provides participants with access to information and systems to increase their opportunities for creating and ensuring physical, spiritual and financial realms of success in alignment with the nation's development programme Vision 2030.

"If we don't start building Jamaica for the Vision 2030, who will?" Lue-Fung questioned. "Hopefully, this event can spiral into what it is that we're really trying to do."

Lue-Fung told THE STAR that she was inspired to develop the event based on her own personal experiences, noting that she believes that she is able to assist persons with actualising their maximum potential.

"I got to a point where I literally said to myself 'Think on the times when things were so hard', and it seemed impossible, but God came through. I started to recollect those times, and I started to focus more on my success. Do you know what started happening to me? I started to get more of it," Lue-Fung said.

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