Mind Your Money with MissBeHelpful

This week's episode is INCREDIBLE!!! Briana, aka Bri, is the co-founder of a nonprofit called The Prosp(a)rity Project (TPP). Just a few months into the pandemic, Bri hatched the idea for TPP and hired a team to launch this supportive community that helps college-educated Black women pay down student loan debt by granting them up to $40,000 in aid and offering them career coaching, financial literacy education and more! I'm pumped for you the hear this one!!

TPP was created as a result of Bri herself, graduating college with over $116,000 in student loan debt and subsequently being subject to the pitfalls of this burden. Post-graduation, she experienced adversity at every turn, including inability to establish financial security/ independence, difficulty securing well-paying, long-term career opportunities and having to abandon prior entrepreneurial ventures to take on part-time jobs as a means of stay current on her monthly student loan payments.

Check out TPP here: https://www.theprosparityproject.org/

Follow and support their work on social media here: 
https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-prosparity-project/
https://www.instagram.com/theprosparityproject/

After connecting with her in a slack group, I knew Sofie had a story that needed to be shared widely! A first-gen Latina, Sofia Bastida had very supportive parents who wanted to her to pursue what they had not - graduate college and get her degree. This was a dream they wanted her to fulfill at any cost and it put them over $100,000 in debt from student loans. 

Sofie talks about her upbringing in California and how moving to NYC changed her views about m money and gave her a sense of independence. But the hardest thing she's done and the thing she's most proud of was taking ownership of the debt she put her mother in for her college education. Listen to Sofie talk about it all and sum up the tips she thinks anyone with debt should have in their back pocket!

Follow Sofia on Instagram and LinkedIn:
IG: https://www.instagram.com/savingwithsofie/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sofiabastida/

She's BAAAAACK!!! What is up, #teambehelpful? I know you missed me in July while I took the month off to get things situated with my move from NYC/NJ to Miami, FL. This is a solo pod - an episode featuring me, myself and I talking all things Miami Money Moves!! It's officially been a full month that I've been a Florida resident and it's been a whirlwind! I'm loving it and can't wait for you to hear all the money things that came up as I reflected on this move. 

I'm hyped for August because it's my birthday month, but also because I have some INCREDIBLE guests and episodes for this month. I cannot wait for you to hear them all! If you're not already following my on YouTube and Instagram - do it right now! You don't want to miss me going live to answer all the juicy questions about the move to MIA this summer.

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Happy August!!! #virgoseason

Niqua is SO inspiring! Not only did she move to the U.S. on her own as a teen from the Virgin Islands, but she figured out her finances on her own and made her way to debt freedom in May of 2021 after pursing - not one - but SEVERAL of her passion projects! She has her MBA, she's an accountant, a travel vlogger and a financial content creator on YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and Etsy. Basically, she's killin' the game.

You'll love hearing how Niqua stuck to her debt repayment plan while also making time for the things she enjoys like traveling and hanging out with her loved ones. 

Follow Niqua here: https://www.instagram.com/financiallywinning/

I'm taking it WAY BACK to my high school days with this week's guest, Tiffany Mellard! Tiff and I graduated from the same class at LaGuardia HS in NYC back in 2007! She is an incredibly talented and passionate dancer who turned her passion into her profession. She tells us ALL about the importance of your money mindset when you work in creative arts for a living and she dished the tea about her role in Hamilton as "the Bay bullet" that ended the life of Alexander Hamilton on the Broadway hit, Hamilton: An American Musical. 

When the pandemic shut down everything and Tiffany had to leave her personal belongings at the theatre and fly back home, she found herself soul-searching and made the best pivot I've seen in all of 2020 and 2021! Tiffany's realness and honesty shines bright and makes her easily one of my favorite people to catch up with in real life and also to follow on IG! 

Her money mantra is a quote from Jay-Z: "Difficult takes a day. Impossible takes a week." 

Follow Tiffany on instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/tiffanynmellard

Wow! I could not be more excited to share this episode with you all. My big sister's baby girl (aka my niece) is graduating from high school in June 2021 and before going off to college she saved up $10,000 on her own and opened a custodial Roth IRA with me as her custodian! I know that's right!

Daniela is a vocal major at the most prominent performing arts high school in NYC and she's using her skills now to build her network, start earning income and prepare for the balancing act that is coming up next in her life: College! 

In this conversation, we chat about her biggest money regrets, a big win of opening her Custodial Account, saving $10,000, early money memories and future goals that Daniela has set for herself.

Daniela's money mantra is "It's Never Too EARLY To Start!" #BAWSE

You can follow Daniela on instagram @itsdanieladuran
(https://www.instagram.com/itsdanieladuran/)

This week on the show, I chat with Dyana King of @MoneyBossMama on instagram. Dyana is a money mindset and budgeting coach who made her way into her own financial journey after taking out a car loan that took half of her income. Dyana is now debt-free and on a mission to help other women, especially single moms, to maximize their income and get out of debt the same way she did! 

Dyana's original vision was to showcase three different aspects of her life: her journey with Money, being the Boss of her life and being a Mama. But when she combined the three to create one name on instagram, everyone insisted that she IS MoneyBossMama - and now she is! 

Follow Dyana on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/moneybossmama/

This week I'm sharing a conversation that I had with Danielle Romoleroux, creator of @FirstGenMoney, which is a personal finance platform online and on social media specially designed by and for first-generation American & first-gen college grads who are building generational wealth for the first time in their familiies! Hello, that's me! This conversation is SO great because it took me back to when I was in my mid-twenties and starting out on my personal finance journey. Danielle talks about her careful financial choices that helped her get ahead and pay off her debt and begin to save money for her big money goals! 

Danielle is a Jersey girl who moved to NYC to build her professional life and then, covid happened! She dives into a lot of her money habits and money mindset and she's just one of the sweetest and hardest working young women I know! 

Danielle's money mantra is: "Money does not define your worth!" follow Danielle on instagram at https://www.instagram.com/firstgenmoney/

If you've been following Cinneah on instagram @fly.nanced then you know that she relocated to Mexico in early 2021 and this was one of the LAST conversations she had before her big move! I've been loving her feed with updates about her life and finances in Tulum, but I loved chatting with her even more! We dive into her life as a kid growing up in Baltimore, MD and her big accomplishment of paying off all her student loan debt. You'll love hearing that her biggest fear was creating Flynanced and man, oh man aren't we glad she followed her gut on this one!!

Cinneah's money mantra is "How bad do you want it?" and if that doesn't set you up for this episode, then I don't know what will!!!

Follow Cinneah on instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/fly.nanced/

This week's conversation GAVE ME LIFE!!! So many amazing points made by Julia Menez of @GeoBreezeTravel as she dove right into the ins and outs of the marketing behind major travel hacking blogs! They love to play up the luxury of traveling to many of the countries that immigrant communities call home without inviting immigrant communities to participate in travel hacking - but don't worry Julia's got our backs!

Follow Julia on instagram at https://www.instagram.com/geobreezetravel/