105: Dispelling The Most Common Credit Myths

This episode of the podcast is brought to you by FICO and my guest today is Jenelle Dito! Jenelle Dito is a Director for the FICO Scores team and financial services expert for the FICO® Score Open Access program which empowers lenders to share the FICO® Scores they use to manage customers' accounts directly with those customers, for free.  As part of the Open Access program, she partners with various organizations on consumer credit education as well as lenders on how to create innovative products and manage exceptional client services. Jenelle works with lenders to help them understand how they can bring FICO Scores and financial health content to their customers, the value of doing so, and helps provide the tools they need from FICO to build new programs themselves. For both general FICO Scores and the FICO Open Access program, Jenelle helps facilitate consumer education tools and content so lenders can empower their customers with greater knowledge. Jenelle also helps manage FICO's Open Access for credit and financial counselor program. On this episode of the podcast Jenelle shares: - Her personal story with money and what she learned in the process of making her own money mistakes - How people can empower themselves with the knowledge to improve and maintain their credit - And she dispels some of the most common credit misconceptions that are out there. As you listen to this podcast, if you need additional information, be sure to check out the blog post we created in partnership with FICO on how your credit score affects your financial life + an overview of how your FICO score works on the Clever Girl Finance blog here - https://bit.ly/2BJNiiq Be sure to stop by www.clevergirlfinance.com and check out our learning platform! Do you follow Clever Girl Finance on Instagram yet? You should! www.instagram.com/clevergirlfinance