Eliza Diop Biography
Starting a business can be as scary as deciding a person to spend your entire life with. The uncertainty involved in starting a business discourages people from leaping forward. Most would rather stay in their 9 to 5 jobs because it promises income security at the end of the month. For Eliza Diop, starting a business was the only option because she had faced the unreliability of a 9 to 5 job.
Her courage to remain determined to see her business succeed led her to exactly what she wanted. Currently, she is an Instagram celebrity posting content on financial literacy, taxes, and a superior mindset. She is also a 7 figure business owner running Ellie Talks Money, Ellievated Academy Online, and Mommy to Millionaire.
Personal Details, Age and Husband
Eliza Diop was born on the 21st of June 1992 in Compton, California before moving to Inglewood where she was raised. She is the daughter of a Senegalese man, Latif, and an African-American woman, Raquelle. They did not grow up with much but their parents instilled in their children the value of working hard and believing in yourself.
As an adult, Eliza Diop has been reflecting on her parent’s values. She got married to her current husband Ibrahima Mbaye in December 2022. The marriage has 4 children, whom Eliza got from her previous marriages that ended after they divorced in 2020. Eliza described her new Senegalese man as a present father to her four children. The couple are yet to have their biological children.
Education and Career
Growing up all her parents instilled in Eliza Diop a sense of responsibility which she reflected from her childhood and through to her adult life. She got a scholarship to an all-girls school in Pasadena and later joined Oberlin College to study political science and Africana studies as a minor in sociology. At school, she was actively involved in leadership.
She served as the co-chair of the Black Student Union and the first Vice President of her senior class in the Student Senate. As part of the senate, she resigned from her post after noting irregularities and inefficiencies displayed by some members of the board. She dropped her participation in the student organization but continued to serve as a student leader on other platforms.
After graduating, Eliza Diop was priveledge to get an opportunity with American Express Business where she was a virtual small business relationship specialist. She served years for 16 months before moving to Nelson Financial Services as a Head of Sales for 3 years.
In 2019, months before the pandemic and pregnant with her twins, Eliza received a layoff letter from her company. Being a natural leader, she tried to keep her life in balance by applying for 50 jobs all of which rejected her. Her situation jumped from the frying pan straight to the fire when she divorced her husband in 2020.
Jumping into Entrepreneurship
With no finances and 4 kids depending on her, Eliza moved back to her mother’s home to strategize her next moves. In the midst of her troubles, she got an idea that would transform her life. She made a list of the skills she had learned from her previous job and made a deliberate decision to monetize these skills.
In 2020, she received a $1200 stimulus check from the government and used it to buy a phone, develop a website, buy a domain name, and file for her LLC. She started Ellievated Agency, which at that time was called Eliza Revella Consulting Services. She used her years of experience in sales, marketing, and leadership to create an online course to educate and coach people on money principles and how to scale their small businesses.
For the first three months, she offered free services and later launched her first producer for $20 and coaching calls going for $47 an hour. Within the first year, year nearly 50,000 people had purchased her courses and she had made sales of $1.1 million. The success of her first venture made her realize a gap in her financial literacy and ways to expand her business.
She later re-invented the course by making it deeper in knowledge and more engaging. Her investment in her course paid off as more students enrolled in her class. Three years into the business, Eliza has been able to sell her course to more than 70k students and help others reach $1 million in one year.
Growth and Influence
Ellie Talks Money has also expanded from just an online course to a platform where women can share ideas about generating wealth and leaving a rich legacy. She created Elliavated Academy specifically for creating courses for her students and Mommy to Millionaire to educate mothers on ways to become wealthy. Diop has also used her digital marketing skills to increase influence and engagement on her Instagram page, which currently has 563k followers.
Her ability to leverage skills she learned from her 9 to 5 to become a multi-millionaire has made Eliza Diop an inspirational figure. She has been invited to Office Hours with David Meltzer to share her tips for success. Her story has also been featured on Forbes, Business Insider, ShoutOutLa, Bloomberg, and Entrepreneur. Mrs. Diop also authored the book Ellievated: How to Start Your Business, Tap Into Your Resilience, & Make $1,000,000 in 12 Months!, which narrates her experience as a beginner to a millionaire and how readers can apply strategies.
Eliza Diop has become a phenomenal woman for consistently following the rules of success. She now owns a home, and a Mercedes G-Wagon and can travel around the world. Eliza has also helped the community by providing job opportunities for the people she has hired. Her unique strategies have also been observed by other powerful women entrepreneurs like Supa Cent and Eileen Wilder.
Eliza Diop Personal Details
Ethnicity: Senegalese
Nationality: American
Age: 31
Marital Status: Married
Children: 4
Occupation: Entrepreneur
Height: 5 feet and 8 inches
Net Worth: approx $10 million
