So, money episode 1243, Desha Kennedy, creator of the award-winning financial advocacy group,

The Broke Black Girl.

You're listening to So Money, with award-winning money guru, Farnoosh Karabi.

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When I was getting online and I was finding communities around personal finance,

or when I was going into other financial institutions looking to work with someone one-on-one,

it just seemed to be a major disconnect. I always felt like they were talking

at me, not doing me, not with me, not trying to really understand who I was, what my background

was, what money, what was a good learning style for me.

Welcome to So Money, everybody. I'm Farnoosh Karabi.

Kicking off this week, we are in conversation with one of the rising stars in personal finance,

Desha Kennedy. She's the creator of the award-winning financial advocacy group, The Broke Black Girl,

as a digital community leader and financial activist. Desha provides culturally competent and

relevant financial literacy resources to over 70,000 African-American women to combat

economic inequality. Desha started this community out of her own frustrations. Together,

we discuss some of the systemic issues that people of color still face when it comes to achieving

wealth, the hot-button issue of childcare, and how fixing that broken system could help so many

women and parents. And advice for couples, Desha learned the hard way after a divorce,

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