Getting Your Mind Right With Money | Yanely Espinal

About Yanely Espinal

Yanely Espinal is a Brooklyn-born, ball of energy! She’s an educator with a gift for storytelling and a passion for explaining financial concepts in a straightforward way.

In 2015 she started a YouTube channel, called MissBeHelpful, which now has over 4 million views! Her goal is to help others learn the money skills she never learned in school. And - as director of educational outreach for NGPF, Yanely is also working to ensure that every high school student gets a full semester of personal finance education before they graduate.

Yanely is also a member of the CNBC Financial Wellness Council and her debut book, Mind Your Money, was published on May 30, 2023.

What You’ll Learn

In this episode we talk about:

Tips for writing when you have blank page cursor anxiety

How Yanely found herself in $20,000 of credit card debt during college

Approaching financial education in a much more approachable way

Getting your mind right with money

Feeling better about your finances when you’re going through tough times

The behavioral economic philosophy of “choosing chocolate” 

Why we should start with our net worth

The balance between regulation and education

Resources

Grab a copy of Mind Your Money book

Yanely’s Instagram

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