Money Memories

Kavya Ravikanti is a graduate of the University of Virginia, and one of the founders of Young, Not Broke, a personal finance community whose mission is to empower young people to manage their money through various content and events. Since launching the platform, she and her team have successfully expanded the platform to include a newsletter with thousands of subscribers.

Tune in to this episode to learn how starting her own tutoring company while in high school helped ignite Kavya’s passion for entrepreneurship, and why she believes it’s never too early to start on your personal finance journey. https://www.youngnotbroke.co/

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Kim Bridges is the senior vice president and director of financial planning at BOK Financial. Kim shares how she found her way to personal finance after initially joining the marine corps, and how seeing her mother manage financially after divorce opened her eyes to the importance of financial empowerment for women.

Carter Malloy is the founder of the farming startup AcreTrader. AcreTrader is a farmland real estate investment company offering low minimum, passive farm investments.. Carter grew up in an Arkansas farming family and has had a lifelong passion for investing, agriculture, and conservation. Prior to founding AcreTrader, he was part of an equity investment firm and a managing director with an investment bank. Carter shares how his earliest money memory of his parents’ bankruptcy affected him, and what he learned from that experience.

Everyday Finance Gal is on a mission to help people build generational wealth. She and her family immigrated to the United States from Armenia. Her earliest money memory was translating a rent increase to her parents. “That’s when I first realized we didn’t have money,” she recalls. This experience influenced her to become an expert saver. Eventually, she built generational wealth for her family by learning how to invest in ETFs and real estate. Today, she shares the money lessons she has learned on her Instagram platform – Everyday Finance Gal. She is also a single mom. Plus, this week’s listener-submitted money memory shares lessons learned along a paper route.

Latasha Peterson is a blogger, side hustle coach and creator of Arts and Budgets, a blog dedicated to side hustles. In our conversation, Latasha describes why her relationship to debt was like being in an arranged marriage, and how her early memories of her parents’ difficult relationship with money influenced her into adulthood. She shares how she was able to take control of her financial journey, and the lessons she hopes to impart on her young children.

Catherine Wright is on a mission to help make people more financially secure.

She is passionate about developing innovative solutions to promote economic opportunities for underserved communities. We discuss how her earliest money money taught her the value of discipline, and why retirement and estate planning are crucial financial planning milestones.

Catherine is a graduate of Georgetown University and MIT Sloan, and serves as a Sr. Innovation Manager at Commonwealth.

Today’s guest is content creator Brandon from the IG account “Worth Life Balance.” After receiving an athletic scholarship, Brandon was initially set on a career in sports. However, he quickly realized that those opportunities were few and far between, and shifted into a career in finance. Brandon shares how his earliest money memories from a paper route taught him the importance of not spending money until you have it. We also discuss lessons that couples can incorporate into their financial planning, and why an investment in education can have the best ROI.

Karlie Kant lives for the applause, applause, applause.

She is a Berlin-based drag queen with self-proclaimed “big visions…and an even bigger nose!”

We discuss how Karlie defines success – both monetarily and artistically- as well as the unique “startup risks” that drag performers face.

Pray we catch you tuning in to this epic episode!

Marisol Pérez-Chow and Fernanda Cuadra are the founders of agovest.com, a platform aimed at reducing the gender wealth gap for women in Mexico. They met while pursuing their MBAs at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business