119-How to Pay Off Debt, Stop Sabotaging Your Financial Success & Tell Family "No" So You Can Thrive with Kenishia Mais
Journey To Launch
Jamila Souffrant
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 25 September 2019
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
In this week's episode of the Journey to Launch podcast we have Kenishia Mais, a Jamaican entrepreneur, Financial Educator and the visionary who founded ThrivingDollars. Kenishia was always a good saver. She started saving her lunch money in school & kept this habit into adulthood. But when she became the person her parents and other family members came to when they needed money, the pressure of being the family bank was overwhelming. It drove her to abandon her money habits and become a big spender so she wouldn't have money when her family asked for a loan.
Listen to this episode to learn how Kenishia turned her life and finances around. She became a self-taught investor at age 21 and is now a financial educator spreading the financial gospel to others through her blog and business, ThrivingDollars.
In this episode you will learn:
- How to manage the burden of being your family's bank
- Tips to empower family members to solve their own money problems
- Differences between investing in the United States and Jamaica
- Ways to invest in retirement and brokerage accounts plus so much more
Other related blog posts/links mentioned in this episode:
Check out Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki, a financial literacy classic Keneisha mentions in her interview.
If you want to hear the beginning of this series check out episode 117 featuring Cameron Huddleston, author of Mom and Dad, We Need to Talk: How to Have Essential Conversations with Your Parents About Their Finances.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Journey to Launch Podcast, how to financially thrive and |
| 0:06.4 | succeed with canitia of thriving dollars. |
| 0:10.1 | T minus 10 seconds. |
| 0:13.0 | Welcome to the Journey to Launch Podcast |
| 0:15.0 | with your host Jamila Sufrant |
| 0:17.0 | as a money expert who walks her talk. |
| 0:20.0 | She helps brave journeyers like you, |
| 0:22.0 | get out of debt, save, invest, and build real well. |
| 0:27.0 | Join her on the journey to launch to financial freedom in five, four, three, two, one. |
| 0:39.7 | Hey, hey, journiers, |
| 0:41.1 | welcome to the Journey to Launch Podcast. Thank you for joining me. Today we are going to be talking to |
| 0:48.5 | Canicia of thriving dollars and let me tell you why I really just I was I was so |
| 0:55.3 | interested in talking to canicia about her story about her knowledge and what she's |
| 1:00.0 | been through because she just reminded me of myself and so canesha is |
| 1:05.8 | Jamaican she's a Jamaican entrepreneur teaching financial literacy and how to |
| 1:11.0 | create wealth in Jamaica, my home island. |
| 1:14.2 | And I always think what I would have become |
| 1:18.1 | if I ended up growing up in Jamaica, right? |
| 1:20.9 | I was very lucky to have come to the United States at two years old from |
| 1:25.6 | Jamaica. And for me, right, like I always think back because I still have siblings living in Jamaica, |
| 1:30.3 | I still have family living in Jamaica, so I could have very well grown up in Jamaica and had a wonderful life also there |
| 1:36.6 | But I think about okay what would the Jamaican like me? How would I have been? How would I have sounded and I would like to think I would be teaching financial literacy or talking about this in Jamaica and so I was like super excited to have canesia on the podcast because that's what she's doing. |
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