The Clever Girls Know Podcast With Bola Sokunbi

Meet Dr. Una! Dr. Una is the founder of Ivy League Pediatrics, a multi-site pediatric practice in Georgia. Over the last nine years, it has thrived and has been voted 'Best of Gwinnett' for four years in a row and rated 5 stars by over 250 parents. While building this, she developed a love for entrepreneurship and has since built many other successful businesses. Like many doctors, Dr. Una was ign...

Meet Ashley! Ashley Patrick is the founder of Budgets Made Easy and The Money Mindset Podcast. She helps families eliminate debt using simple strategies so they can stress less and live the life they want. She was able to pay off $45,000 in just 17 months including $25,000 in student loans in just 10 months. She has been featured on Fox Business, Yahoo! Finance, USA TODAY, MSN, CNBC, NerdWallet, a...

On today's episode of the podcast, I'm answering questions from Laura, a listener of the podcast. She has some very specific questions about what to do as she works towards paying off her debt on a five-year plan that she has created alongside her husband. You'll want to tune into this one! Sinking funds article: https://www.clevergirlfinance.com/blog/how-to-set-up-sinking-funds/ Emergency funds a...

The Clever Girls Know Podcast hosted By Bola Sokunbi. On this episode of the podcast, I share how I got in my own way in regards to a goal I wanted to accomplish and then, what I did to get out of my own way to successfully achieve that goal. I'm also answering a listener question on how to get started with their small business idea. ❤ Get the Clever Girl Finance book: https://clevergirlfinance.co...

Meet Okeoma Moronu Schreiner! Okeoma is a mother of two, personal finance nerd and corporate finance attorney who loves helping parents and children grow interest in their money! She's also the founder of the Happy Lawyer Project and most recently the author of the children's book "The missing money monsters". What we discussed on this episode: - Why she's passionate about financial wellness for k...

My guest today is Tess Wicks! Tess is a wealth and mindset coach for online entrepreneurs. Through her podcast and online platform, Wander Wealthy, Tess helps her clients identify their income goals, overcome major money mindset blocks, and implement her Easy Profit System to manage the money in their business and personal life with ease. On this episode we discussed: - Her personal story on how s...

Today's episode is with Leah Gervais. Leah is the founder of Urban 20 Something, the host of the Your Biggest Vision podcast, and a leading business coach. She started her "for fun" blog years ago to document her career confusion and start what she hoped to be a profitable side hustle. She turned that into her full-time and a six-figure business and works with women around the world to scale their...

Long-time no solo podcast! On this episode I'm sharing: - Some new Clever Girl Finance updates - How I got intentional with my summer - My assessment of my finances and goals this summer - Some Q4 motivation - PLUS I interview my 5-year-old twins about money! ❤ Get the Clever Girl Finance book: https://clevergirlfinance.com/book ❤ Join Clever Girl Finance: https://clevergirlfinance.com ❤ Follow on...

Today's guest is Camilla Banks. Camilla is the founder of HollandLuxe Properties (a real estate firm) and HollandLuxe furniture (a custom furniture company). Camilla started her real estate company in 2017 out of a passion of wanting to help people learn the value of real estate and leveraging credit to build assets, not debt. Prior to becoming self-employed, Camilla didn't know much about finance...

It's time for another episode of the Clever Girls Know podcast and my incredible guest today is Alexandra Lebenthal. Alexandra Lebenthal has led companies on Wall Street for over thirty years. Most recently, she was the CEO of Lebenthal Holdings, a diversified financial services firm that included the nation's largest woman-owned broker-dealer. Alexandra comes from a storied Wall Street family. He...

The Clever Girl Finance book is officially here(https://clevergirlfinance.com/book)and today, I'm catching up with Melisa Boutin a student loan expert who is featured in the Clever Girl Finance book. Melisa has paid off over $37,000 of her student loans and shares key strategies and tip to establish the right mindset and get ahead of the interest charges that keep most people in the long term cycl...

The Clever Girl Finance book is officially here(https://clevergirlfinance.com/book)and today, I'm catching up with Brittney Suttle who is featured in the book! Brittney set a goal to achieve a $250k net worth which she has now exceeded and is now in the $300k range. In this catch-up video, she shares her motivations to achieve this goal and what she's doing to continue to grow her net worth! The Y...

The Clever Girl Finance book is OFFICIAL! Celebrate with me at my upcoming book launch party on Thursday, June 27th at 9:00pm EST! HOW TO REGISTER: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/the-clever-girl-finance-book On today's episode of the podcast, I'm catching up with Monica Louie who was on episode 54 of the Clever Girls Know podcast and who is also featured in the Clever Girl Finance book. Monica and her...

The countdown to the launch of the Clever Girl Finance book on June 25th, 2019 continues! And today, I'm catching up with Molly Stillman who was on episode 47 of the Clever Girls Know podcast and who is also featured in the Clever Girl Finance book. She shares how she dealt with the various emotions that come with going through the process of paying off $37,000 of debt. She also shares how she cre...

The countdown to the launch of the Clever Girl Finance book on June 25th, 2019 continues! And today, I'm catching up with Dorianne St. Fleur who was on episode 61 of the Clever Girls Know podcast and who is also featured in the Clever Girl Finance book where she shares specific tips on how to get the career of your dreams, career mistakes to avoid and tips to negotiate your salary! TAKE THE COURSE...

I'm counting down to the launch of the Clever Girl Finance book which comes out on June 25th, 2019. With that mind, here's another catch-up video with one of the women I feature in the book, Adeola Omole to see how she's doing now that she's achieved a net worth of 7 figures. Help make the Clever Girl Finance book a success as one of the best personal finance books ever :) Pre-order your copy - ht...

The Clever Girl Finance book comes out on June 25th, 2019 and I am super excited. I'll be sharing some catch-up videos with some of the women I feature in the book to see how they are doing in the aftermath of them achieving some major financial goals. Help make the Clever Girl Finance book a success as one of the best personal finance books ever :) Pre-order your copy - https://clevergirlfinance....

My guest on the podcast today is Raegan Moya-Jones. Raegan built aden + anais while working a full-time job in ad sales and with only $15,000 in initial capital, and didn't quit her 9-5 until they hit the $1 million mark in revenue. After working with a manufacturer to have prototypes made of the swaddling blankets, Raegan knew she was onto something after giving birth to her second daughter and r...

Meet Lauren Jackson. This episode is all about how Lauren went from a medically induced coma to 400k in medical debt and now is on the path to financial recovery. Lauren Jackson is Content Marketing Manager at Self Lender, a fintech startup with a mission to help people build credit, particularly those who might not have access to traditional financial products. She's a writer who's passionate abo...

Let's talk about buying a home the right way! My guest today is Petal Van Rossum, a dear friend of mine and a licensed real estate broker at Citizens International Realty, a family owned and run real estate company located in Brooklyn New York which she runs with her brother Raul alongside an incredible staff. She's a graduate of Pace University in New York City and is married with 2 beautiful boy...

Fo Alexander is a Millennial personal finance expert whose story of paying off nearly $47K in debt in less than 6 months took the Internet by storm. She is the editor and chief of the GirlTalkwithFo blog -  a personal finance platform created to teach women how to dump debt, build bank, and create the life they want. Fo is also the former Miss Black South Carolina 2013, using her platform to promo...

On this episode of the podcast I'm sharing some exciting updates on Clever Girl Finance and answering two listener questions! Updates: 1. The Clever Girl Finance book officially has a launch date and it's June 25th AND it's now available for pre-order here: http://www.wiley.com/buy/9781119580836 2. Manifesting my vision of being able to ring the opening bell at the NYSE (New York Stock Exchange) w...

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 vari...

Michelle Ives is a long-time listener of The Clever Girls know podcast and she got in touch with me because Clever Girl Finance has been a part of her financial education and she wanted to share her incredible story with all of us! About Michelle Ives: Michelle is a copywriter and brand strategist for her own business, Wordy and Smith. She lives in Sydney with her husband, Andy, and together, they...

Today's episode is all about negotiating. Negotiating is an important skill set to have whether you are a professional or entrepreneur and Devon Smiley, shares on key tips on how to get good at it! About Devon Smiley: Devon is a negotiation consultant for entrepreneurs, startups and professionals who are sick of settling, and ready to go after what they want, need and deserve. 
 She's distilled ne...