During her senior year of college, Mabel Nunez finally learned about the stock market. It took a few years but Nunez finally started to invest and once she began, she was hooked. Fast forward to today, Mabel is the founder and Chief Investment Officer of Girls on The Money, a financial education service that provides resources for marginalized communities.

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Instead of a regular episode, I've decided to just sit and have a little chat with you guys about life.

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Alessandra Malito is the retirement reporter at MarketWatch, a financial website that provides financial, stock market and business news.

On today's episode, we discuss how millennials can still save for retirement without feeling like you're spread too thin, the different types of retirement accounts and alternative options if your job doesn't provide a retirement program.

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Dana Shirley is a lifestyle blogger, marketing director and young mom. On today's episode, Dana shares the importance of money not just for herself but for her young son, she also describes how she started paying on her student loans while still in school!

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Shari Penn is the author of the Kai and Izzy Tales. Almost two years ago, Shari left her home in Central Florida to pursue her dreams in Atlanta. The life of an entrepreneur is not for the faint of the heart and Shari can whole-heartedly agree. She opens up about the struggles of believing in your dreams when your bank account states otherwise, not wanting to become a slave to money and why going to graduate school may not have been the best option for her.

On today’s episode, we have Shannon Arthur. Shannon is currently obtaining her Master’s Degree in Communications and once she’s completed that, she will be attending law school. We discuss her biggest money moment, being able to negotiate your financial aid packages and having a credit card but no credit card debt.

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Lauren Finley is a Senior Digital Content Specialist here in Atlanta. After graduating from college, Lauren decided to move back in with her parents to save for a down payment on her very first home. Over the last two years, Lauren has learned a lot about being a homeowners and is now currently in the selling process of her home. On today's episode we discuss what the process was like for her to buy a home, homebuying hacks and how she knew it was time to move on from her condo and enter into a single family home.

On today’s episode, we have Champagne Jones. She is a licensed cosmetologist and California native. In just 19 months, Champagne was able to pay off $36,000 in debt, which included credit cards, an auto loan, and student loans. Now just to clarify, at the time of our conversation Champagne had paid off all of her active debts. She still has one debt that is in collections but she is currently working towards paying it off. We talk about the horrors of payday loans, why motivation can’t be the only factor when paying off your loans and what the term “affordability” really means.

Kicking off the new #Homeowners Series is I'sha Schultz-Spradlin. She and her husband recently purchased their first home in Detroit, Michigan. We talk about housing affordability, Detroit’s housing crisis and being the first in her family to own a home. ⠀

**BONUS EPISODE**

I get so many questions about the best tools to create a budget and how to create one. So today's episode is all about the tools that I use to create a budget and how to create one.