Winning on Your Own Terms
- Apr 7
- 2 min read
By Denise Supplee
Founder of the Co-investing Club at Spark Rental
Hope you are having a great day! My name is Denise Supplee, I am co-founder of the Co-investment Club by SparkRental.com where we help everyday people build passive income through real estate investing, and work toward financial independence. I'm also an active, licensed Realtor and property manager with Long and Foster in Pennsylvania. I’ve been licensed and have worked in the real estate industry, in many facets for over 35 years.
Winning used to look like survival. Keeping the lights on, showing up no matter how tired I was, and proving that I could make it work. When I was a single mom of four young girls without a college education, winning was not about titles or recognition. It was about resilience and persistence. It literally was about survival at times. I had figure things out when there were no roadmaps and no safety nets. I learned that I could move beyond society’s definitions and still move forward on my own terms.
Winning and success have taken a turn for me. It now looks like building a life and a business that is sustainable. It is knowing when to push and when to protect my time, my energy, and my family. Winning is no longer about doing everything by myself until I literally drop! I can now focus on doing what matters TO ME. It is being able to say, “this is enough,” and truly mean it. I will no longer hand over my financial future to someone else’s decisions. I had to learn this the hard way.
Without formal education or inherited advantages, I had to teach myself how money actually works. I learned how to invest, how to assess risk, and how to build long-term security. I absorbed as much as I could get my hands on that would teach me. That knowledge changed everything. For me, real estate became the path forward. All of the struggles led to lessons learned, and those lessons led to freedom. It meant choice! It meant stability! It meant no longer living one emergency away from disaster.
Today, I help other women do the same. I teach them that you do not need permission, perfection, or a traditional path to build wealth. You need information, confidence, and the willingness to take ownership of your future. Women are becoming more financially savvy not because it is trendy, but because it is necessary. We are building lives that do not rely on luck, timing, or someone else’s plan.
Success, for me, is knowing that what I have built did not require me to disappear or conform. It is creating opportunity for myself and opening doors for other women to do the same. That is what winning looks like now.
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