{"id":29635,"date":"2022-06-11T03:49:57","date_gmt":"2022-06-11T07:49:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/?p=29635"},"modified":"2022-09-19T07:21:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T11:21:20","slug":"brenda-gentry-crypto-mom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/brenda-gentry-crypto-mom\/","title":{"rendered":"Brenda Gentry is using crypto to usher in generational wealth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/png_20220611_083211_0000.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29653\" width=\"539\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/png_20220611_083211_0000.png 1024w, https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/png_20220611_083211_0000-300x150.png 300w, https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/png_20220611_083211_0000-768x384.png 768w, https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/png_20220611_083211_0000-150x75.png 150w, https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/png_20220611_083211_0000-360x180.png 360w, https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/png_20220611_083211_0000-750x375.png 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 539px) 100vw, 539px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Brenda Gentry<\/strong> left USAA as a mortgage underwriter in October 2021. This was after working there for more than ten years. She quit her job in conventional banking to focus only on <a href=\"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/how-to-read-cryptocurrency-charts.html\">bitcoin<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, Gentry is the CEO of <strong>BundlesBets.com<\/strong>, a Web3 Sports betting platform and <strong>Gentry Media<\/strong>, a marketing firm also run by her daughters, <strong>Cynthia<\/strong> and <strong>Imani<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Covid-19 lockdown of 2020 provided the chance for Brenda to begin investing in cryptocurrency. After this, she focused fully on crypto thereby quitting her 9\u20135 job.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She started small then invested more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2021, she made an interesting discovery. &#8220;My investment portfolio surpassed my 401(k) \u2014 what would have taken me 11 years to make, I made in six months\u201d, Brenda explains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although she is aware that investing in cryptocurrency is dangerous, Brenda Gentry hinges her success on her background in finance. This includes taking reasonable care before investing by doing ones research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She resides in San Antonio and views cryptocurrency as a means of acquiring and spreading generational wealth. Her excitement about the &#8220;<em>extraordinary prospects that bitcoin presents as a fair playing field for the unbanked and under-banked<\/em>&#8221; is shared by her family. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Pics-with-daughters.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-29639\" width=\"590\" height=\"443\" srcset=\"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Pics-with-daughters.jpg 640w, https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Pics-with-daughters-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Pics-with-daughters-150x113.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><figcaption>Brenda Gentry and her daughters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-16-years-in-banking-and-finance\"><strong>16 years in banking and finance<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Mentally she was done with day-to-day finance. Still, it took a year for her to walk away from her job. The main cause was she wanted something more exciting and it came in the form of <a href=\"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/tron-becomes-the-third-largest-defi-blockchain.html\">DeFi<\/a>. She had also started a media company and was taking on marketing and consulting jobs in the <a href=\"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/best-nft-marketplace-for-artists.html\">NFT<\/a> and DeFi space.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Transition<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The transition was rocky at first because she loved her job and loved the work relationships she had built over the years. She felt like it was the end of an era. The reason for the rocky start. What made it smoother, however, was looking forward to being at the front of a new technology and a new asset class that was going to usher in generational wealth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, Brenda Gentry is known on the internet as the \u201cCrypto Mom\u201d. She continues to invest in digital assets but primarily runs her own brands which she oversees with her daughters Cynthia, 24, and Imani Gentry, 20.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On how she became the crypto mom, Brenda has this to say, <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;My daughters got me into crypto and at first, I was like\u2026maybe I should try and be like everyone else, and just blend in. Then I was like, Nah, I love being a mom and I will own up to it!\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Brenda feels blessed to have both her daughters in the space with her. Cynthia and Imani both run Gentry Media Productions with her. This allows them to spend even more time together than they did when the Crypto Mom had a 9-5 job at the bank.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her biggest win in cryptocurrency, asides her family, is taking ownership of BundlesBets.com where she is building a great product in hybrid sports prediction pools. This adopts the <a href=\"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/top-7-web3-vulnerabilities-the-challenges.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Web3<\/a> space that will also incorporate some aspects of Web2. Brenda has also advised on NFT projects such as <strong>BossBeauties<\/strong>, <strong>WomenAndWeapons<\/strong> and <strong>TheRoyalsNFT<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>On losses and lessons<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Brenda Gentry is not without hers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-text-align-left is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;I lost money trusting other people to host my mining but I came to find out later they were scammers. To me that's a loss. Otherwise, you don't lose until you sell&#8221;.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>When asked what she would change in the blockchain ecosystem, Brenda maintains that the ecosystem is still in its infancy. And like any space, in the beginning, one has to deal with <a href=\"https:\/\/coinscreed.com\/staging\/how-to-detect-rug-pull-crypto-projects-and-avoid-crypto-scams.html\">scammers and rug pulls<\/a>. &#8220;It\u2019s like the wild wild west right now&#8221;, in her own words. She advises that it is important to educate people about scams because it needs to be highlighted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brenda Gentry left USAA as a mortgage underwriter in October 2021. This was after working there for more than ten years. She quit her job in conventional banking to focus only on bitcoin. 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