Unboxed: Van-Lifer Samia Burton Featured

After becoming a millionaire at the age of 28, popular podcaster, producer, and mother Samia Burton should have felt on top of the world. Instead, she was second-guessing her success and in need of a change of pace.

“I should have taken some time to explore it, but I was uncomfortable with the success,” the former Sexual Essentials host says. “I was uncomfortable with the idea of retiring at 28 as a millionaire. So, I got scared and said, ‘Well, I'll invest all the money into this house in Atlanta, and I'm gonna convert it to a content house.’ But when that faded away, it was a call for me to elevate. I chose to take everything that I had earned to pour into trying to do something for the community that the community didn't ask me to do.”

That decision eventually led her to file for bankruptcy just a few years after reaching millionaire status.