Hard work the key to success for DJ Zinhle
WE ALL know that social media is not real life‚ despite what people may want you to think. DJ Zinhle‚ who recently finished building and furnishing her house‚ said that she’s evolving in her relationship with money and was taught from a young age to work hard.
Speaking on The Money Show with Bruce Whitfield, she said that as a young girl‚ when people used to give her money‚ her mother would make her return it.
“My earliest memory of money is rules. If an uncle or friend would give us money‚ my mom would make us return it because she said we had asked for it and that was not okay.”
She said that she had invested most of her money, but used a lot of it up when she was pregnant with Kairo, and had to take seven months off because of “complications”. She also built and furnished her house.
But she learnt early on that she had to have other revenue streams to sustain her should her DJ life stall or come to an end.
As a DJ, she said she’s only ever missed five shows, because she knew that one moment for her on stage translated to many moments for many other people, and she made a decision early on to respect people’s time and money and not let them down.
As far as bad spending habits go‚ Zinhle said that it would probably be shopping and helping out family.
“Some of us have family who are always asking for money and you feel you have to help out somewhere and you are not able to say no.”
But she’s learnt to balance herself‚ recalling a situation where she was recently headed to Sandton to buy herself a new handbag and then Uturned when she realised she needed curtains for her house more.