WhyFI Matter$

HAPPY NEW YEAR!! I want to start off 2022 with an episode focusing on how we can get through this year by having a healthier relationship with our money. I’m super excited to speak with Alexis Howard, founder of ‘Financially Brave’.  Alexis is a personal finance expert helping people around the world achieve financial independence through self-discipline, educational resources, and defining what &...

Happy Thanksgiving! I am super excited to learn more about cryptocurrency from our guest today, Joel Clelland ! Joel is the CEO at Centric , which is a digital currency company making strides in the cryptocurrency industry. With over 20 years of extremely diverse career experience, Joel is able to find creative ways to innovate and develop his company.  I'm super excited to learn more about h...

 I'm super excited to introduce you all to teen entrepreneur and fellow podcaster, Benjamin Wong .  Ben has been featured on many media sites such as ABC and NBC, because of his various entrepreneurial endeavors. Ben is the host of YoungTrep with Benjamin Wong ,co-founder of Rich Kids Global and the founder of Kids CEO media. With all of these amazing ventures and podcasts he's created,...

It's been a few weeks, but I'm super excited to share with you another interesting story on the podcast.  Today's interview is with the founder of a startup-investing app for teens, Luke Moberly.   Luke is a CEO at Bumper investing and also attending Stanford University. Last year, however, he put on his entrepreneurial hat and this combined with his interest in technology and inves...

We are definitely in store for fun and even more so inspirational episode today. I am so excited to introduce you all to Ian Brock 17 year old from Chicago.  And co-founder of Dream Hustle Code and New Nerd . Ian is the coolest teenager I've met. Ian is a computer science activist, public speaker, rookie coder, and soon to be author. And for the past seven years, Ian's been on a mission...

Laura Oldanie is the founder of "Rich and Resilient Living" - money and lifestyle choices for regenerative future. She has been featured on many different podcasts, CNBC, and is pretty well-known throughout the personal finance community. Laura acknowledges the power that her money has and how she needs to direct it in a way that will benefit society and the planet. . And she's just...

I have less than a month before school starts and I'm going into my junior year.  I am a little bit freaked out, not going to lie. If I am going to survive this year,  time management is going to have to become my new best friend. I am so excited for today's episode because becoming more productive is something that I definitely need to work on; I can't wait to learn more from our g...

For college athletes in the United States, the NCAA 'Name Image and Likeness' rule change (which we covered in last weekend's episode) is a BIG deal. I figured now that a bunch of athletes can start making money off of their personal brand, it would be a really interesting topic to discuss on WhyFI Matter$  because it's the intersection of personal finance and being entrepreneu...

This week has been headlined by a lot of athletic news...speaking of athletics,  today's episode is going to be more about college athletics, specifically, the fact that athletes in the NCAA can NOW BE PAID! The NCAA is changing the rules! What exactly caused the NCAA to change after all this time? I'm super excited to speak to Laine Higgins, who's a sports reporter for the Wall Str...

Have you ever asked yourself the big question, " How Can I End Poverty?" Well, 18 year old change maker from England, Lauren Roberts-Turner,  has indeed asked herself this question; she now researches and studies ways that we can lift people out of poverty while creating an economically empowered society.  I met Lauren in April when we spoke  at a conference called the 'Footsteps As...

This summer has definitely been headlined by a lot of sporting events. We've had the, we're having the NBA playoffs, Wimbledon, UEFA Euro 2020, and of course coming up the Olympics.  I wanted to combine my enthusiasm and love for sports into the podcast. So definitely stay tuned for more episodes in the upcoming weeks related to sports, but today's episode is focused on college athl...

July is Disability Pride Month! I am so excited to have Tiffany Yu on the podcast today. Tiffany is the CEO and founder of " Diversability ", which is an award-winning social enterprise that amplifies disabled voices. She's also the founder of the Awesome Foundation Disability Chapter , which is  a monthly micro grant that has awarded $ 49.5 K dollars, to 50 disability projects in 8...

Today we are going to listen to a story. The two characters? Netflix and Blockbuster. I would say the majority of people know about Netflix; it's become such a big part of mass culture. Blockbuster, on the other hand, is a little less familiar, so I will let Gina Keating help us understand the history and evolution of the movie and rental space and the rise of Netflix.   Gina worked as a staf...

Today's episode is on the importance of investing for younger generations, but also how financial education as a system can improve. Our guest is all the way from the across the Atlantic, the UK's leading millennial money expert, Iona Bain . Iona is an award-winning speaker, author, and broadcaster, and she's the founder of the Young Money B log , which is Britain's first blog,...

These past few weeks, millions of Indian Americans have been living two realities. Here in the United States, thankfully COVID 19 infections have continued to decline, but India is experiencing a devastating COVID 19 crisis. The Indian diaspora has been oscillating between different emotions of  frustration, anxiety, nervousness, anger, and even guilt.  Today I wanted to share with you the circums...

If you're like me, then you are always online doing personality tests. So I've always wondered how our personalities can actually affect our careers and affect the way we manage our money. Today I'm really excited because we have Merrick Rosenberg on the podcast. And he's the author of " The Chameleon- Life-Changing Wisdom for Anyone who has a Personality or Knows Someone...

I'm super excited for today's episode with film producer, virtual storyteller and entrepreneur Nina Froriep. Nina has over 30 years of experience in the filmmaking industry, and has worked with stars such as Sophia Loren. I really wanted to learn more about innovation and Nina definitely embodies this word; she identified that video was the best and most innovative way of marketing at th...

If you're like me, you might feel a bit caught up in this rat race conforming to, a single path in life. This is a mentality that a lot of American have in general. So, I've been interested in breaking off of this path, trying to forge my own path as Henry David Thoreau would say. Today I'm super excited to speak to a social entrepreneur, digital nomad, philanthropist, and investor,...

Happy Financial Literacy Month! And...  April of 2020 I released my first podcast episode, so,  happy anniversary to WhyFI Matters! Thank you all so much for listening to this podcast. Today I wanted to talk about a subject that I haven't really discussed on the podcast before, but it definitely relates to economic empowerment, poverty, and also current events like the pandemic. I wanted to l...

HAPPY FINANCIAL LITERACY MONTH!! #tbt: So the purpose of my podcast is to help educate us teens to become more financially literate. "But why?" some people may ask. "Why do teens need this education?" Well in this episode, you will learn about the reality of financial education and literacy in American teens, and why it is ever so important for us teens to know learn more in th...

Today we are going to improve our financial wellbeing as a whole, focusing on SPENDING!! Today, I'm interviewing Kenadi Silcox. She's a reporter at Money.com and  graduated from the University of San Francisco in 2018 where she received a degree in journalism. Today we will discuss what financial health is and how our decision making can lead us to make impulse purchases. Kenadi wrote an...

#tbt: Take a moment to look around you...Have you spotted an advertisement? Or maybe two. Well that's no surprise because we see more than 3000 ads a day! That is a crazy number and it is getting larger and larger, as these advertising companies spend billions and billions more on getting us to buy stuff. Stuff. Stuff. How much stuff do you have? Is it all necessary? Us teens have to stop con...

Since the pandemic started last year hearing about investing in the news has become pretty prevalent in our lives. I invest and it's through a FinTech app that's for teenagers and kids and young investors. And sometimes  I feel like I'm investing blindly. So, I really want to start expanding my investing knowledge so I can start making better and informed decisions in my own investm...

I'm super happy to have the head of growth at FINTech startup " STEP " Tyler Doremus on the podcast today. A specific issue that STEP is trying to solve is a lack of financial literacy in teenagers and young adults. They've created an innovative banking app for teens plus a visa card designed for the GenZ population.  Some of you might be thinking, "Hey, this company sound...

I'm so excited to introduce you all to another financial literacy platform created by two girls in college,  Anisha Arcot and Grace Baghdadi. It's called Females For Finance! What's so special about their organisation is that they aim to bridge the inequalities in the financial industries, through financial education, empowering girls with skills that they need to invest and start c...