037- Understanding Credit and How to Use Credit to Build Wealth W/ Shante Harris
Journey To Launch
Jamila Souffrant
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 21 March 2018
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
When it comes to building wealth, credit can be a key component in helping you to achieve your financial goals. Credit expert, Shante Harris, joins us on the show to talk about everything from credit scores, credit reporting, and even credit card utilization. A Maryland native, Shante shares an incredible story of triumph in which she survived cancer, becoming a mother of a child with autism, divorce and even homelessness.
Throughout her times of adversity, Shante gained the experience of bouncing back from credit card debt and becoming an expert in transforming not-so-perfect credit. Today, she leads a Facebook group of more than 58,000 members where she shares her expertise and inspires others to work toward their credit goals. She is also the founder of the non-profit organization, F.A.C.E. (Facing Autism with Children Everywhere).
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In this episode, we talk about:
- Why credit is important
- How credit works
- The 5 components of a credit score
- The importance of the average age of accounts
- How travel hacking can affect your score
- Vantage scores vs. FICO
- How student loans affect your credit
- How employers check credit scores and other financial information
- Tips for paying off your credit card balance
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- Your Financial Common Cents Facebook Group
- Annualcreditreport.com
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- How We Saved $169,000 in 2 Years With the Help of This Budgeting System
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to episode 37 of the Journey to Launch Podcast, |
| 0:05.0 | understanding credit and how to use credit to build wealth. |
| 0:10.0 | T-minous 10 seconds. |
| 0:12.0 | Welcome to the Journey to Launch Podcast with your host |
| 0:15.0 | Jamila Sufrant as a money expert who walks her talk. |
| 0:19.0 | She helps brave journeyers like you, get out of debt, save, invest, and build real well. |
| 0:25.7 | Join her on the journey to launch to financial freedom in... |
| 0:29.7 | Five, four, three, two, one. |
| 0:39.1 | Hey, hey, welcome back to another episode |
| 0:42.3 | of the Journey's Launch Podcast. I'm so excited you are here with me listening, learning, and continuing on your journey to launch to financial freedom. |
| 0:55.0 | So last week I had a guest talking about student loans. |
| 1:00.0 | And this week I have a guest expert talking about credit, your credit score, your credit cards, how to increase it, why it's important and everything in between. |
| 1:12.0 | And remember I said, I said this in the last episode but I really want to dive deep into |
| 1:17.0 | certain topics that I think are very important and so some of it might seem a little |
| 1:21.3 | basic to some of you guys or maybe not as important. |
| 1:24.8 | But I know for some of you that are listening, getting your credit score up, |
| 1:28.7 | understanding what's involved in your credit score so you can qualify for whatever it is that you're looking to |
| 1:35.1 | purchase or do is very important to you so I do not want to overlook that I |
| 1:39.2 | want to talk about it and I get asked a lot about credit in my private Facebook group, on my |
| 1:46.0 | Instagram, just anywhere you know people typically bring up credit. So we're going to |
| 1:51.3 | talk about that today with special guest, |
| 1:53.8 | Chante Nicole. |
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