1179: Helping Refugee Youth Gain Financial Literacy with Charlie Grosso, Founder of Hello Future
So Money with Farnoosh Torabi
Farnoosh Torabi
4.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 29 March 2021
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Guest Charlie Grosso is the founder of Hello Future, a nonprofit organization that bridges the education gap for adolescent refugees. The organization teaches the essential skills needed to become entrepreneurs and community leaders, starting with digital literacy and basic digital skills and later, storytelling, media literacy, critical thinking, problem-solving and financial literacy.
More about Charlie: She is Chinese-American and has 20 years of experience as an entrepreneur, having founded her first business at the age of 20. On the show, she describes the challenges of navigating her personal pursuits with her family's cultural expectations for her future, as well as how she's been able to stitch together so many wonderful and different career paths from being a photographer to documentarian to now, running an education non-profit.
Learn more at www.hellofuture.io and charliegrosso.com
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| 0:00.0 | So many episode 11.79, Charlie Grasso, founder of Hello Future. |
| 0:06.0 | You're listening to So Money, with award-winning money guru, Farnoosh Karabi. |
| 0:11.0 | Each day, in a 30-minute dose of financial inspiration from the world's top business minds, |
| 0:16.0 | authors, influencers, and from Farnoosh yourself. |
| 0:20.0 | Looking for ways to save on gas or double your double coupons? |
| 0:24.0 | Sorry, you're in the wrong place. |
| 0:26.0 | Seeking profound ways to live a richer, happier life. |
| 0:29.0 | Welcome to So Money. |
| 0:33.0 | I think we mistaken having wealth buys you a lot of control. |
| 0:37.0 | Over your days, your time, what you do with yourselves. |
| 0:41.0 | Money buys you choices, which I'm not disputing at all. |
| 0:45.0 | But if it's really choices that we want, |
| 0:47.0 | is it about how much money that we're chasing? |
| 0:49.0 | Is it that payday that we're chasing? |
| 0:51.0 | Or is it that we're just chasing the freedom to choose? |
| 0:55.0 | Welcome to So Money, everybody. |
| 0:57.0 | I'm your host, Farnoosh Sharabi. |
| 0:59.0 | I hope you're having a great start to your week. |
| 1:01.0 | Thanks for joining me. |
| 1:02.0 | Our guest today is Charlie Grasso, who has 20 years of experience as an entrepreneur. |
| 1:08.0 | She founded her first business at the age of 20, |
| 1:12.0 | and she went on to wear many hats. |
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