Mind Your Money with MissBeHelpful
by MissBeHelpful
People and stories that'll inspire you to get your money right! Inspiration is what helped me stay the course when I was paying off $20,000 of credit card debt and getting my financial life together, so I want to share inspiration with YOU! Learn more at missbehelpful.com.
Episodes
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Season 5: E2 | Financial Literacy is a Social Justice Issue with Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz
In honor of Women's History Month, I am joined by the amazing Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz! You may know her as the daughter of Charles Schwab, but Carrie is a very passionate and active leader in the financial literacy space herself. Carrie is a CFP and the current President & Board Chair at Charles...
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Season 5: E1 | Making Black History Every Day featuring Teri Ijeoma of Trade and Travel
Teri Ijeoma is the creator of the Trade and Travel Course, which is the #1 selling course on Teachable and has made Teri a multi-millionaire. The course teaches people how to make $1,000 a day by trading in the stock market using a step-by-step framework. In this conversation Teri shares why she...
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Season 4: E14 | Financial Advice on Tik Tok with Poulomi Damany, GM of Assets & Tax at Credit Karma
This week we hear from the awe-inspiring Poulomi Damany, who I first heard speak at a virtual event back in 2018 when she was the VP of Product Management at Credit Karma. Not only has she since moved to the role of General Manager of Assets and Tax at Credit Karma, (#levelup) but she has…
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Season 4: E13 | Lack of Confidence is Holding You Back with Eryn of Her Personal Finance
Eryn Schultz became passionate about helping women with MBA's achieve their financial goals while completing her own MBA at Harvard Business School. She learned that women own only $0.32 for every $1.00 owned by men and in her own MBA program she realized that she learned to manage a…
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Season 4: E12 | Living in a Van to Pay Off Her Student Loans with Isabella Navarro Gomez
Isabella is hands-down one of the coolest people I've ever met! A true independent thinker and free spirit who knew early on that urban living in NYC was not where she would thrive. Isabella moved to California and has been living in her van for years in order to make payments of $2,000 or more...
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Season 4: E11 | Growing Up Spoiled (with Gina Paradis of @inanewyorkbudget)
This is the 4th episode that highlights a Latina in honor of Latinx Heritage Month and it was such a fun chat with Gina from @inanewyorkbudget. Gina is such a real one - she shares her reflections about growing up "spoiled" where her parents would get her the things she wanted and she never…
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Season 4: E10 | What Money Lessons Are Being Taught in High School? Let's Ask Mrs. Collins!
Vanessa Salas Collins is a high school teacher in California who is also an advocate for a required financial literacy class in school. She breaks down what she teaches to her students in her financial education class and tells us why it's such a challenge to make personal finance required in...
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Season 4: E9 | Creating a Million Dollar Business in 2020 with @DelyannetheMoneyCoach
Officially 1 week into Latinx Heritage Month and I am PUMPED to highlight the inspiring story of Delyanne Barros, a money coach who created a business and launched an online course (Slay the Stock Market) that have now generated over $1 million in revenue! Talk about inspiring us to get our money...
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Season 4: E8 | Immigrants Can Invest, Too! Latinx Heritage Series with Maribel of @OurWealthMatters
Maribel is a recent college grad whose family is based in California and has Mexican roots. She is very proud of being Latina and wants everyone in the Latinx community, especially the Spanish speaking population to know that investing to build wealth is for them, too! She strives to make her...
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Season 4: E7 | Crush Your Money Goals with Bernadette Joy
Bernadette Joy is the CEO of Crush Your Money Goals. After meeting at FinCon a few years ago she and I finally had the time to sit and talk about her story, her business and future goals. Bernadette talks about her shopping philosophy and how to use her rule of thumb to make sure you shop...
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Season 4: E6 | Paying Black Women's Student Loans with Bri of The Prosp(a)rity Project
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...
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Season 4: E5 | Parent Plus Loans Almost Buried My Family in Debt with Sofia Bastida
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…
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Season 4: E4 | MIA in July - Finances Behind My Move to Miami
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...
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Season 4: E3 | Having a Life While Paying Off Debt with Niqua of @financiallywinning
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...
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Season 4: E2 | Hood to Hamilton to Harvard with Tiffany Mellard
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…
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Season 4: E1 | My 17 Year Old Niece Talks Roth IRAs + Saving Her First $10K feat. Daniela Duran
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!...
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Season 3: E15 | Become the Boss of Your Life with Dyana of @MoneyBossMama
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,...
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Season 3: E14 | First in the Family to Create Generational Wealth with Danielle Romoleroux of @FirstGenMoney
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...
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Season 3: E13 | The Other Side of Financial Fear with Cinneah of Flynanced
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…
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Season 3: E12 | Travel Hacking, but Make it Inclusive with Julia of @GeoBreezeTravel
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...
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Season 3: E11 | Side Hustle Your Way to the Top with Cassandra of Brie on a Budget
Cassandra Bustamante is the creator of the blog and instagram brand called "Brie on a Budget." Her realness is SO refreshing! After weeks and weeks of stalking her on social media, I finally invited her on the show to share more about her brand and her personal story, not to mention her wisdom...
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Season 3: E10 | The Financial Stress of Divorce with Dannie of Pennies to Wealth
This week on the show my lovely guest, Dannie Vann, opens up about the difficulties she faced when transitioning out of a 7-year marriage during which she created a platform called "Pennies to Wealth" with her ex-husband. As if all the complications that come with separation weren't enough…
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Season 3: E9 | Women DO Have a Seat at the Table featuring Jannese Torres-Rodriguez of the Yo Quiero Dinero Podcast
This week you get to meet my homegirl, Jannese who is the host of the Yo Quiero Dinero Podcast among many, many other things! Jannese has had a lot of success with her food blog, Delish D’Lites and she has such a passion for talking about money in a real and raw way - no beating around the bush,...
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Season 3: E8 | Breaking Generational Cycles While Breaking into Tech with Gigi of @FirstGenMoneyMusings
Gianni goes by "Gigi" for short and is one of the most down-to-earth guests I've had on the show! Talk about keeping it real - Gigi tell it like it is!!! She's a 90’s baby who is already a homeowner and has had experiences in Finance, Corporate Law, Teaching and is now transitioning into the Tech...
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Season 3: E7 | The Story of Freedman's Savings Bank (Rebroadcast)
In honor of Black History Month 2021, I'm taking it back to an episode that originally aired on June 1, 2020 in order to highlight events that most people do not know about because just like financial literacy it is rarely taught in schools - Black history. This episode is a solo one, where I...
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Season 3: E6 | Started Chasing "Debt-Free," Now We Chase Financial Independence with Tancy of @HerWellSpentLife
Tancy is a self-proclaimed penny pincher and travel lover! She and her husband are a military couple with 2 children ages 10 and 5 - covid changed life for them like it did for all of us and in this convo, we get to dive into Tancy's life pre and post-covid, chat about her side hustle which you...
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Season 3: E5 | Her Goal Was $1 Million By Age 40 & She Did That! (feat. Tiffany from @WealthyTiffany)
Tiffany Thomas calls herself a "wealth mentor" for a reason! She focused her late 20's and 30's to building up her wealth through real estate and the stock market, and later opened her own business! While she has reached financial freedom early in her life, she says that it isn't just about the...
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Season 3: E4 | From Knowing Nothing About Investing to Retiring by Age 47 with Soledad of Wealth Para Todos
Soledad (Rita Soledad) is known for her instagram account and larger platform where she is hosting monthly workshops, called Wealth Para Todos. She's a former classroom teacher, just like me and is a certified party animal, too! She tells us who the first person to ever teach her about how stock...
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Season 3: E3 | If You Want It, TAKE IT with Ashley Copeland of Stacks and the City
Ashley is a first-generation college graduate just like me. We also both grew up in low-income families and now have personal finance podcasts! As a young Black woman, Ashley was taught to save money and fear investing. After learning about money she did something wild - and it completely changed...
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Season 3: E2 | Escaping A Toxic Workplace with Alexis of FinanciallyBrave
Alexis Howard is a personal finance educator who teaches people how to achieve financial freedom through education and successful self-discipline. She founded her company, Financially Brave LLC so that she could help empower ordinary people all around the world to build wealth through simple...
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Season 3: E1 | Similarities Between the Psychology of Money & Food featuring Ashley of The Fiscal Femme
Ashley Feinstein Gerstley, is an author, entrepreneur and feminist whose mission is to end inequality through financial well-being. She took her 30-Day Money Cleanse program and turned it into an interactive workbook, which has helped thousands of people improve their relationships with money and...
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Season 2: E14 | Year in Review (Top 7 Podcasts)
1. Yo Quiero Dinero Podcast hosted by Jannese Torres-Rodriguez (https://anchor.fm/yoquierodinero/episodes/12--How-Yanely-Paid-Off-20K-in-18-Months--Yanely-Espinal-of-MissBeHelpful-ebhpvf/a-a2pot56) 2. Choose FI Podcast hosted by Brad Barrett and Jonathan Mendonsa...
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Season 2: E13 | Can Money Actually Buy Happiness? with Clarity Coach Diana Morris
Diana Morris is a life coach and specifically a clarity coach who addresses questions like: What would your life look like if you were able to define success beyond your job title and your resume? She works with her clients to guide them through the critical journey of self-discovery so they can...
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Season 2: E12 | Preparing Your Budget for a Baby featuring Brittany Polanco
Formerly on instagram as @accordingtomycalculation, Brittany Polanco now goes by @britpolanco on instagram and posts about money and motherhood and where the two overlap. As a new mom she is enthralled in all things baby, but I had the chance to sit down and talk to her wayyy before her baby boy...
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Season 2: E11 | The Credit Repair Disaster That Ended in Court featuring Cleo from CleoYogaFinance
Cleo was born and raised in Nashville, TN, but currently lives in Dallas, TX. After experiencing her own share of financial ups and downs, she realized that life is the best teacher. As a financial educator and yoga instructor, she mixes yoga and finance to help people create a healthy financial...
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Season 2: E10 | Would You Bring Up Money on a First Date? featuring Alli from "Financialli Focused"
This week on the podcast you'll meet Alli Williams, financial coach and blogger at Financiallifocused.com. She's originally from NY, but moved to South Carolina and now lives with her husband. Alli talks about how important it is to start talking money as early as possible when dating and like…
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Season 2: E9 | Going HAM on Student Loan Debt with Joely Liriano
This episode is sponsored by: https://www.snowballwealth.com/ While working with Berna Anat on a series of free workshops called #HELLAHELPFUL, I had the pleasure of meeting her social media strategist, Joely. I knew she was a special kind of #bawse when I found out more about her passion for...
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Season 2: E8 | This 22 Year-Old Black Woman Manages Wealth for Multi-Millionaires featuring Akeiva of The Bemused
This episode is sponsored by: https://www.snowballwealth.com/ Akeiva is such a rare find! This Brooklyn-born Certified Financial Planner works with uber-wealthy individuals to manage their wealth. She has her masters in Financial Planning, which led her to be one of just 3.5% of Black and Latinx...
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Season 2: E7 | Tackle Student Loan Debt with Latina Tech Founder, Tanya Menendez
Tanya Menendez is one of the very few Latinas in tech who has created multiple successful companies after working in finance. She's a true badass! Her story is a commonly shared one among Latinx families: immigrant parents on a limited income working unforgiving jobs to get their child to and...
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Season 2: E6 | Shame Doesn't Last and Lebron James Invests in Index Funds with Amanda Holden from Dumpster Doggy
This week's episode is a super fun conversation between me and Amanda Holden who has an Investing course called Invested Development, which you can find on her blog Dumpster Dog. Originally from Portland, Oregon she moved to NYC after working in finance over in San Francisco. After years of...
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Season 2: E5 | One Change To Dramatically Improve Your Budget featuring Shana Green of "The Wealth Vibe"
In this episode, I get to know Shana a little better after meeting her in Orlando last year for a financial conference. She sat front row as I presented my session about getting started as a YouTuber, and since then her channel has really grown!! We dive into her biggest mistakes and she shares...
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Season 2: E4 | Talking Money with my BOYFRIEND: Sleeping in a Hammock + Dating a YouTuber
This week, I switched it up on ya and brought my boyfriend, Jamil, to the mic with me! We had a super long conversation - over 3 hours - which I edited down for ya. You'll hear all about how he feels about creepy and thirsty comments on my YouTube videos, what our AIM accounts were back in the…
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Season 2: E3 | Surviving the L.A. Riots, Having 2 TED Talks and Advocating for Latinx Financial Literacy
Natalie is the creator of "Financially Savvy in 20 Minutes", a platform that tells her story of struggling to make it in L.A. being in an immigrant family and learning the tough life lessons that come from not having a financial education. She created a non-profit that helps teenage girls pay for...
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Season 2: E2 | From Waitress to Business Owner with Kara of Bravely Go
Kara is the creator and owner of Bravely Go, a financial education company centered around financial feminism and activism. In this conversation with Kara I learn all about her background and upbringing, why she will never regret having over $20k of student loans debt from college, and how she...
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Season 2: E1 | Trapped in Debt by Victoria's Secret, Black Representation & Making Peace With $75K Student Debt
Mykail is the creator of boujiebudgets.com. She is proud to be "boujie" and shares how this mentality has helped her create a money system that works for her! She shares SO much in this episode about her upbringing as the youngest of 6 children in a blended family, being trapped in credit card…
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Season 1: E17 | Used Cars Only, College Mistakes and Paying off $33K in Debt with Budget Girl
Sarah is known on YouTube and all over the internet as "Budget Girl," and she has put ALL the details of her personal finance journey out there for the world to see. She has an incredibly inspiring story about learning from past money mistakes, being low-income for most of her life and STILL...
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Season 1: E16 | Overcoming Abuse, Studying Finance + Getting SUED For Student Loans with Carmen of Make Real Cents
Carmen (@makerealcents) was my very first instagram friend in the world of personal finance and the debt-free community. Since meeting online, we've met in person at FinCon and even hosted a live event together in NYC! Her story is an amazing one that is sure to inspire EVERYBODY who listens....
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Season 1: E15 | Creating a Financial Web Series & Buying a House with Melissa from Millennial in Debt
Melissa Jean-Baptiste is a NYC high school teacher who has a truly creative side that she expresses through a brand called Millennial in Debt. Wanting to do more than just chase clout, Melissa decided that posting content about money and debt could help so many young people out there struggling…
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Season 1: E14 |Going from Materialistic to Realistic with Jully from Investing Latina
Jully-Alma Taveras is the ambitious Latina behind the platform called "Investing Latina." Born in the Dominican Republic and raised in Brooklyn, NY, Jully has so much in common with me! After meeting in person and working together on a few projects, I've come to know Jully well and can truthfully...
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Season 1: E13 | Stop Feeling Shame About Money with Stefanie O'Connell Rodriguez
This episode was so much fun to record because Stefanie is so easy to talk to! She's open and honest about her own money journey and spills all the tea about her wedding costs. She jumps into money regrets she has and why it's really important to eventually let go of any shame you're feeling…
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About this show
People and stories that'll inspire you to get your money right! Inspiration is what helped me stay the course when I was paying off $20,000 of credit card debt and getting my financial life together, so I want to share inspiration with YOU! Learn more at missbehelpful.com.
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