Yo Quiero Dinero

This month, we’ll be helping you get started on any financial and investment goals you’ve made. This week, let’s work on goal-setting with your dinero. Listen to episode 68 to hear how this family went from a six-figure debt to a six-figure net-worth in less than five years.

Leo Jean-Louis is a first-generation Haitian-American money coach, author and personal finance content creator.. After Leo and his wife realized that their 6 figure debt was keeping them from living the life they wanted, they made a plan to pay off $224,000 of debt, and they were able to pay it off in 2.5 years! After his post of paying off debt went viral on social media, he and his wife founded Freedom Is A Choice Movement, a business created to teach millennials how to become debt free.

In just 9 months, he has created a debt payoff plan for individuals and families totaling over $4.45 million! His money tips and personal finance journey have been featured on Yahoo Finance, the Steve Harvey TV Show, the His & Her Money Show, MagnifyMoney, and Northwestern Mutual, just to name a few.

You can follow Leo Jean-Louis on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.

• The burden that comes with carrying debt
• The cost of earning a degree
• Starting with your why
• Celebrating the milestones in your journey
• Side hustles as a way of earning more

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Leo situates his financial advice within the realities of communities of color. His advice is culturally relevant to communities who are typically not considered in the world of personal finance and investing.

Thank you, Leo for being such a crucial member of the personal finance content creator space!

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This month, we’ll be helping you get started on any financial and investment goals you’ve made. This week, let’s learn about investing and growing our money. Listen to episode 67 and read on to learn how to invest like a girl!

Mabel is the founder and Chief Education Officer of Girl$ on The Money – a stock market investing education company targeted to women, minorities, and individuals that are underrepresented in the world of investing. She is passionate about investing education, helping women feel more confident around money topics, and empowering them to take action and control of their finances.

Mabel is also the best selling author of two investing books “Stock Market Investing Mini Lessons for Beginners”and Stock Analysis 101. She teaches highly rated courses around the topics of personal finance and investing. Through all of her resources, content, and social media platforms—she shares what she has learned (and continues to learn) thanks to 10+ years of investing experience and 2 finance degrees. You can follow Mabel on Instagram.

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We are excited for you to take a listen! Thank you for choosing to start your year with Yo Quiero Dinero™ Podcast.

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Welcome to Season 3 of the Yo Quiero Dinero™ Podcast! This month, we’ll be helping you if you set any financial and investment goals you’ve made. Step 1? Pay off your debt. Listen to episode 66 and read on to learn how Cindy paid off 6 figures of debt in 4 years!

Cindy Zuniga-Sanchez is the founder of Zero-Based Budget Coaching LLC. After graduating law school in 2015 with $215,000 of debt, Cindy took control of her money by immersing herself in the world of personal finance. In 2018, she launched @zerobasedbudget on Instagram to document her debt payoff journey and simplify personal finance concepts.

After recognizing, through her platform, people’s unique needs and goals, Cindy founded her business where she offers personal finance coaching services and speaks to audiences small and large about budgeting, saving, investing, and more. Cindy practices law full time as a commercial litigator at Venable LLP. She is a graduate of Stony Brook University and obtained her Juris Doctor degree from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.

She was born, raised in, and currently resides in the Bronx, New York.

*Editor’s Note: Since the release of this episode, Cindy has quit her full time job as a lawyer and became a full-time entrepreneur! Congratulations, chingona!🎉 

• Growing up low-income
• Having an obligation to her family
• Money shame
• Imposter syndrome in the workplace
• The steps Cindy took to approach her debt repayment, including how she saved $40,000 in relief this year.
• And much more!

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For our final episode of 2020, we are giving you a list of 8 steps to build wealth in 2021. Take out some pen, paper, and a willingness to reflect and plan! Read on to get our 8 steps and a glossary of helpful Yo Quiero Dinero™ blogposts to get you started on your 2021 dinero journey.

Episode 65 provides you with 8 steps to build wealth in 2021. 2020 has been…a sh*it show, to say the least. But here we are, on the last day of the year. We made it. So take a moment right now to honor that. YOU did that.

Many of us have a ritual at the end of each year: we reflect on our year, feel a certain type of way about it, and then try to set goals for the new year. This year more than any other year got us thinking about our dinero.

So if you’re setting dinero goals, make sure they are not rooted in financial anxiety, but rather a goal to thrive. As you set your goals, reference the below steps for some guidance on how to make these clear, effective goals.

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As women of color, we face different roadblocks towards building wealth. The most common one? Being historically, consistently, severely underpaid for our labor. So negotiate that salary. 2021, we want what we deserve.

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Episode 64, REPLAY, of the Yo Quiero Dinero™ podcast features Natalie Torres-Haddad, MPA, AWA, fromFinancially Savvy in 20 Minutes. Natalie is a two time TEDx Speaker known for her talks “The Foreign Language of Financial Literacy” and “The Confidence Gap.” She is an international Award-Winning Author and the bilingual podcast host of @financiallysavvyin20minutes.

She is also a keynote speaker and educator. After her challenges with student debt led her to battle with depression, Natalie felt inspired to advocate for mental and financial health to be taught in all schools and work environments. What a vision!⁣⁠ Her activities have been featured in Forbes, The Huffington Post & The LA Times.

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We chose Episode 64 as our final episode in our December series of FI/RE for one key reason: our financial health is intimately paired with our mental health, and vice versa. When our wallets aren’t doing well, chances are neither is our mental health. Because when you’re first-gen (be that a student, wealth-builder, or immigrant), our financial background may not have been the most stable. That means that now, as adults, we tend to operate and view our finances from a scarcity mindset.

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Episode 63, REPLAY, of the Yo Quiero Dinero Podcast features Julien & Kiersten Saunders, the powerhouse couple behind the award-winning blog and forthcoming book, rich & REGULAR. Their mission is to inspire the African American community to consider and adopt the FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) lifestyle as a path to building generational wealth.

Julien and Kiersten are the couple behind the award-winning blog and forthcoming book, rich & REGULAR. Their mission is to inspire the African American community to consider and adopt the FIRE lifestyle as a path to building generational wealth. The couple has used frugal living, real estate investing and their online business to set themselves on a path to achieving financial independence by 2021. Their story has been featured in publications like Forbes, the NY Times and CBS This Morning.

When they’re not sharing stories about their experiences with money, they are parents to their son Beau, traveling the world or searching for their next great meal.

You can follow Julien & Kiersten’s journey on their blog rich & REGULAR and check out their new YouTube series, Money On The Table. They’re also on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest!

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The Millers are a couple in their 30s sharing their money optimization skills and journey to reach FIRE. Mrs. Miller is a Latina and native New Yorker. She is a first-generation college graduate who is on the FI/RE journey along with her husband. On her blog, she focuses on financial independence and early retirement. Millers on Fire is full of money hacks, cost-cutting tips, money mistakes, and what the Millers have learned about budgeting, saving, investing, and travel hacking.

You can also follow her on Instagram and Twitter!

• Lifestyle inflation that comes with a salary raise
• Her FI/RE investment vehicles
• The imposter syndrome that often comes with being a first-generation wealth builder
• Family & money
• And much more!

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Episode 62 is for all first generation wealth builders. Mrs. Miller will affirm how you are feeling, as will Yo Quiero Dinero. Poderosa, you are in the right space. If you are trying to gain financial literacy, you are a radical. If you are trying to build wealth, you are paving the path.

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Delyanne Barros came to the United States as a child from Brazil, and spent much of her life in Miami as an undocumented immigrant. She was eventually able to go to law school, but when she graduated in 2008, she had $150,000 in student debt and no wealth to her name. After discovering the FIRE movement (Financial Independence / Retire Early), she began pursuing her own debt-free journey, paying off $110,000 in student loans in 10 months.

Today, Delyanne carries no debt and has built a net worth of over $300,000. She plans to achieve FIRE by 2028. Through her digital course, Slay The Stock Market, she provides her clients with investing coaching so that they can achieve their own financial goals to fund their dream life.

You can follow her on Instagram and Twitter or join her Facebook Group.

*Editors Note: Since this episode was recorded, Delyanne paid off her student loans 5 months ahead of her originally scheduled debt free date of December 25, 2020, and has accelerated her FIRE journey even faster! You can read her story in NextAdvisor and Business Insider.

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If you are new to FI/RE, this episode will give you the perfect overview. Not only does Delyanne walk us through her money journey, but she also talks through how she found FI/RE and what it will look like for her. When things feel intimidating, sometimes the best thing we can do for ourselves is listen to other people’s stories. Delyanne’s story and platform is truly one of inspiration; listening to it is a great first step to anyone who has been too afraid to step into this world.

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Episode 60 features Cat Del Carmen, Creator of Follow That Fear Podcast. Learn how Cat faced her fears and quit her job to start her own biz!

Cat Del Carmen is a business & life coach and the host of the @FollowThatFear podcast. She started her podcast because she was sick & tired of seeing bad ass women around her playing small and fearing their own greatness. Cat set out to build a community where women follow their intuition, go after their goals imperfectly, and take massive action. Her podcast pushed her to start her coaching business & now she helping women build and monetize their businesses through her digital courses and group coaching sessions.

You can follow Cat on Instagram, and check out her programs here.

• How to identify your fears
• How to take action in your projects and goals
• Balancing motherhood and entrepreneurship
• Building a business while in a relationship
• Identifying what we need in our life to prevent burnout—and how to communicate it!

This is the perfect episode to wrap up our second season. As we dedicate this last month of the year to set ourselves up for 2021, this episode will support your reflection, growth mindset, and goal setting for next year.

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Episode 59 is all about how Marc Russel from Better Wallet went from foster care to financial advisor and paid off $80k in 3 years.

Marc Russell is a financial advisor and creator of the personal finance Instagram account @betterwallet. Marc has amassed over 50,000 followers by providing no-nonsense financial advice and sharing his amazing journey to pay off $80,000 in 3 years. He’s passionate about educating people of color about the importance of building generational wealth, avoiding lifestyle creep and debt, and investing. He’s been featured in NextAdvisor.

• Going to college and getting hit with the surprise of having to pay for it!
• Hustling to pay your way through an education
• His moment where his path to debt freedom just clicked
• The changes he implemented to achieve debt freedom this year
• The beginnings of his investing journey

Marc’s story is an incredible one. He takes us through his journey in this episode. By the end, he’ll make you feel like anyone can be an investor. Because that’s the truth.

Are you a beginner investor? Marc talks through his experience as a financial advisor and his investing journey. Have thousands in debt? Marc will walk you through some of his personal strategies!

This episode is great for people across the finance spectrum. Take out your pen and paper and follow along to what Marc has learned through his experience as an investor and as someone who paid off $80k in debt!

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