Financial Independence Forum

Carolina Nucamendi from Elemnt Financial [Financial Independence Forum, EP.004]


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My guest this week is Carolina Nucamendi who is starting a fintech company.  She started her first career by moving to Los Angeles after college and began a career in entertainment, a few failures and the need of a reset led her o business school, got MBA at UNC Chapel Hill in North Carolina and moved back to Los Angeles to begin a career in the intersection of Technology and Entertainment at Sony Pictures.  Sony gave her a stepping stone to City National Bank, a bank based out of Los Angeles, CA focused on high net worth clients and it was then that I started this journey. Her experience in Wealth Management propelled her to want to start her own tool to help people to holistically manage their finances to connect the various financial decisions we make and that’s how Elemnt Financial (3rd E is omitted) was born. She’s currently part of an incubator program, Startup Launch and the LA Chamber of Commerce.







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Eugene / Host: (00:05)Hello and welcome everyone. I’m Eugene Ting and this is the Financial Independence Forum. This show is an open ended exploration of stories, methods, and mindsets. How to better invest your time best in yourself and invest your money. You can learn more and please contribute your voice iand story at financialindependenceforum.com. Hi, my guest this week is



Eugene / Host: (00:33)Carolina Nucamendi, who is starting a FinTech company, but her journey started in her first career when she moved to LA after college it to begin a career in entertainment and a few failures and a need to reset. Led her to business school, got her MBA at UNC Chapel Hill in North Carolina. Then she moved back to LA to begin a career at the intersection of technology, entertainment, Sony pictures. Sony gave her a stepping stone to city national bank, which is a bank based out of LA, California, focused on high net worth clients in the wealth management industry and it was then that she started to holistically think about her journey. Her experience in wealth management propelled her to want to start her own tool to help people manage their finances, to connect the various financial decisions we make. And that’s how Elemnt Financial, which is their current startup was born.



Eugene / Host: (01:20)She’s currently part of an incubator program, Startup Launch and the LA chamber of commerce, welcome Carolina Nucamendi to the Financial Independence Forum Podcast. Thanks for joining this week. So you know, and even in the preamble as we were talking about and in the intro it sounded like you had a lot of different career paths and different, different things that led you to helping people with their personal finances. Maybe you could go back a little bit before we had to talk about Elemnt Financial, about your interest in your career, entertainment, you know, take us back a little bit about, about when you, when you started on that.



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