The Clever Girls Know Podcast With Bola Sokunbi

As the holidays approach, we are stepping into the busiest shopping season of the year! However, if you're trying to save money, this season can be challenging! Join Bola, Esther, and Yazmir from team Clever Girl Finance to learn key tips to avoid overspending this holiday season! CATCH OUT OTHER LIVE SESSION REPLAYS ON YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhyh7wVTaE1IZRcbGOZA_c4Hy6QdV2EHt ❤ Get the best-selling Clever Girl Finance Books: https://clevergirlfinance.com/books ❤ Get access to 30+ free courses, worksheets, savings challenges, and our favorite banking resources: https://clevergirlfinance.com/course-packages ❤ Read the Clever Girl Finance Blog: https://clevergirlfinance.com/blog ❤ Follow us on Instagram: http://instagram.com/clevergirlfinance

Every retail website seems to be offering one of these buy now pay later options. However, when it comes to "buy now, pay later", it can be a very slippery slope. In this video, we'll go over how it all works, the pros and cons, and how to create a much better alternative for yourself! ❤ Get the best-selling Clever Girl Finance Books: clevergirlfinance.com/books ❤ Get access to 30+ free courses, worksheets, savings challenges, and our favorite banking resources: clevergirlfinance.com/course-packages/ ❤ Read the Clever Girl Finance Blog: clevergirlfinance.com/blog ❤ Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/clevergirlfinance

Let's talk about achieving your dream job and how to make it possible! Today's podcast guest is Dorianne St. Fleur, a high-performance mindset and career coach, corporate trainer, speaker, and sought-after thought leader. Her mission is to eliminate the pay and leadership gaps for women of color in the corporate world. WHAT DORIANNE DISCUSSED: - The most harrowing and toxic season of her entire career and how she navigated it - What the thriver mentality is and how to leverage it in your life - The "DREAM" job profile and how you can use it - What a total compensation package entails and how should women be thinking about it as it relates to earning what they are worth PLUS MUCH MORE HOW TO KEEP UP WITH DORIANNE: - Via social media @doriannestfleur - On her website at www.yourcareergirl.com ❤ Get the best-selling Clever Girl Finance Books: clevergirlfinance.com/books ❤ Get access to 30+ free courses, worksheets, savings challenges, and our favorite banking resources: clevergirlfinance.com/course-packages/ ❤ Read the Clever Girl Finance Blog: clevergirlfinance.com/blog ❤ Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/clevergirlfinance

Meet Ashley, a meal planning, money managing, motivating mommy on a mission to help inspire millennials and moms like herself to build a solid financial footing while dumping consumer and student loan debt! MORE ABOUT ASHLEY She has a career in construction project management where she leads multi-million dollar projects and has also scaled into her passion of personal finance and advocacy. As the founder of "Talk Cash With Ash", a finance brand, her mission is to inspire and motivate others to organize their money, tackle debt, and gain financial freedom all while having fun! Since starting "Talk Cash with Ash" her fun approach to money has helped numerous families including her own get started on their debt-free journeys. Over 17 months, through the pandemic, and after leveraging my assets, she has paid off over $84,000 of debt! WHAT ASHLEY DISCUSSED ON THIS EPISODE: 1. What her "enough is enough" moment was 2. The specific things she did to pay down her debt 3. How she kept herself motivated 4. How she managed the days where she just wanted to go out and spend money 5. The steps she's taking to ensure her debt freedom is permanent 6. Her goals for the next five years AND MUCH MORE HOW TO KEEP UP WITH ASHLEY Follow Ashley on Instagram: @talkcashwithash ❤ Get the best-selling Clever Girl Finance Books: clevergirlfinance.com/books ❤ Get access to 30+ free courses, worksheets, savings challenges, and our favorite banking resources: clevergirlfinance.com/course-packages/ ❤ Read the Clever Girl Finance Blog: clevergirlfinance.com/blog ❤ Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/clevergirlfinance

On today's episode of the podcast Team CGF's Yazmir interviews Bola on money, business, and more! Enjoy listening! ❤ Get access to 30+ free courses, worksheets, savings challenges, and our favorite banking resources: clevergirlfinance.com/course-packages/ ❤ Read the Clever Girl Finance Blog: clevergirlfinance.com/blog ❤ Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/clevergirlfinance

Today's guest on the podcast is Mel, a registered nurse of 13 years who is also trained as a realtor and cosmetic tattoo artist. She also considers herself to be a serial "dabbler" when it comes to careers and hobbies that become side hustles. I Recently, the pandemic has forced Mel to take a beautiful and blessed pause. She realized that if she wanted to continue to live her best life and create the best life with her husband and their young son, good financial planning needed to happen. WHAT MEL SHARED ON THIS EPISODE: - Why she chose to pursue financial wellness - How she's tackling a $40k business loan and $6k of credit card debt. - How she's found money without earning more - How she removes THE emotion from her finances to stay focused - Why renaming her bank accounts make her more focused on her goals AND MUCH MORE CLEVER GIRL FINANCE BOOK MEL MENTIONS: Clever Girl Finance: Ditch Debt, Save Money, Build Real wealth Get your copy: https://clevergirlfinance.com/books ❤ Get access to 30+ free courses, worksheets, savings challenges, and our favorite banking resources: clevergirlfinance.com/course-packages/ ❤ Read the Clever Girl Finance Blog: clevergirlfinance.com/blog ❤ Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/clevergirlfinance

Do you find yourself feeling like your budget just doesn't work? Is there always something that throws you off each month? If your answer is "yes" or "sometimes", you may be overlooking some key things that have a direct impact on whether your budget works for you or not! In this episode, learn 4 key reasons why your budget might not be working! ❤ Get the best-selling Clever Girl Finance Books: clevergirlfinance.com/books ❤ Get access to 30+ free courses, worksheets, savings challenges, and our favorite banking resources: clevergirlfinance.com/course-packages/ ❤ Read the Clever Girl Finance Blog: clevergirlfinance.com/blog ❤ Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/clevergirlfinance

Today Christina Mychas is sharing how a low buy year changed her life and her relationship with money! Christina is a lifestyle vlogger behind the youtube channel and Instagram account, Christina Mychas. She is also a full time pharmacist living in Toronto, Canada. On her social media channels, Christina shares insights into intentional living, minimalism and mindful spending as she openly works her way through paying off $120K of student loan debt and overcoming a shopping addiction. Christina discovered that there's a lot more to learn about money than just saving, investing and making more of it. She realized how you spend your money matters, so she spends time unpacking the behavioural sides of money, conspicuous consumption, and understanding why we can be motivated to spend the way we do in an effort to get to know yourself and know your money. WHAT CHRISTINA DISCUSSED ON THIS EPISODE: 1. What prompted her start a low buy year 2. The inner work she did around why she spent money the way she did 3. How much debt she had in total 4. How has the experience changed her mindset and attitude about money 5. How she manages the temptation around slipping back into old habits AND SO MUCH MORE CORRECTION: Christina confirmed her loan term would've been around 10 to 15 years and not 15 to 20 years as mentioned on the podcast. HOW TO KEEP UP WITH CHRISTINA: - On IG @christina.Mychas - Search Christina Mychas on YouTube Video mentioned on episode: Why is it so hard to stop shopping? https://youtu.be/sdQ0OB75Vvw ❤ Get the best-selling Clever Girl Finance Books: clevergirlfinance.com/books ❤ Get access to 30+ free courses, worksheets, savings challenges, and our favorite banking resources: clevergirlfinance.com/course-packages/ ❤ Read the Clever Girl Finance Blog: clevergirlfinance.com/blog ❤ Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/clevergirlfinance

On today's episode special guest Wendy Sterling shares how to go about financial and emotional recovery after a divorce. Wendy is a top divorce media personality, International Divorce Coach, Life Transition Specialist, and founder of The Divorce Rehab™. She helps newly divorced men and women, who are having trouble moving forward and tired of feeling stuck, pain, fear, resentment, anger, and guilt to find joy, self-worth, and freedom. Wendy has been featured on NBC, Thrive Global, Medium, Hello Divorce, Romper and has been a guest on The Divorce Survival Guide Podcast, Moms Moving On, The Smart Woman Show, and The Divorce & Beyond Podcast, to name a few. Wendy is also a speaker, the host of The Divorced Woman's Guide™ podcast, an author, an Advanced ThetaHealer®, and mom to her two amazing boys. WHAT WENDY DISCUSSED: 1. Her personal story with divorce 2. How she navigated the emotions surrounding her divorce 3. The financial impact of getting divorced 4. Emotional and financial advice for women considering a divorce 5. Emotional and financial advice for women recovering from a divorce AND MUCH MORE HOW TO KEEP UP WITH WENDY: On social media @divorcerehabwithwendy Via her website: www.wendysterling.net ❤ Get the best-selling Clever Girl Finance Books: clevergirlfinance.com/books ❤ Get access to 30+ free courses, worksheets, savings challenges, and our favorite banking resources: clevergirlfinance.com/course-packages/ ❤ Read the Clever Girl Finance Blog: clevergirlfinance.com/blog ❤ Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/clevergirlfinance

Today's guest on the podcast is Erin Skye Kelly. Erin is a bestselling and award-winning author, keynote speaker, and entrepreneur who recently released the book "Get the Hell Out of Debt'' which teaches financial literacy in a way that is approachable, entertaining, and inspiring. On today's podcast episode, she shares her story of how she paid off $2 million of personal debt over a 7 year period. She enlisted the help of financial professionals but grew frustrated when their debt consolidation and refinancing solutions only made the problem worse. Instead of paying off debt with debt, Erin set out on a mission to truly understand how money works In "Get the Hell Out of Debt," Erin recorded her findings and her financial advice, along with a healthy dose of love and laughter. Thousands of people have eradicated millions of dollars in debt because Erin Skye Kelly taught them how to get the hell out of it! WHAT ERIN SHARED ON THE PODCAST: - Her personal story with debt - Her mindset and how her debt affected her mental wellbeing - The squeeze method she used to pay off her debt - Practical tips for people currently on their debt pay off journey AND MUCH MORE LEARN MORE ABOUT ERIN VIA HER WEBSITE AT: https://www.erinskyekelly.com/ ❤ Get the best-selling Clever Girl Finance Books: clevergirlfinance.com/books ❤ Get access to 30+ free courses, worksheets, savings challenges, and our favorite banking resources: clevergirlfinance.com/course-packages/ ❤ Read the Clever Girl Finance Blog: clevergirlfinance.com/blog ❤ Follow us on Instagram: instagram.com/clevergirlfinance