182-Bonus Episode- Everything You Need to Know About Credit Unions and Why Banking with a Credit Union is Good for Your Wallet and Community

Journey To Launch

Jamila Souffrant

Business, Investing

4.9 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2020

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Are you a part of your local credit union? Ron McLean, president of Cooperative Credit Union Association, shares why everyone should join a credit union and debunks common myths associated with credit unions. The mission of a credit union is people helping people, which includes caring for families, communities, and businesses.

Credit unions aim to form meaningful relationships with their customers and emphasize people over profit. This is clear through the ways credit unions uplift their customers, serve underserved communities, assist with economic injustice, and educate it's communities on financial education and literacy.

Joining a credit union can be an integral part of your journey to reaching Financial Freedom because it helps to give you more options to banking. There is a credit union available for any and everybody, with one simple search you can find the one nearest to you today.

In this episode you'll learn:

The mission of credit unions
How credit unions work and serve local communities
Why you can trust credit unions with your money
What myths are not true when it comes to credit unions
How to join your local credit union, and much more…

Special thanks to DCU for sponsoring the episode! Learn more about DCU by clicking here.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Journey to Launch Podcast,
0:04.0	everything you need to know about credit unions
0:06.4	and why banking with a credit union
0:08.1	is good for your wallet and community.
0:10.9	T-minous 10 seconds. Welcome to the Journey to Launch. community. talk. She helps brave journeyers like you, get out of debt, save, invest, and build real well.
0:27.0	Join her on the journey to launch to financial freedom in...
0:31.0	Five, four, three, three, 2, 2 1.
0:37.0	Hey, hey, Journiers.
0:42.0	Welcome to the Journey to Launch Podcast. I'm so excited to speak to you today
0:46.9	to bring you this bonus episode about Credit Eans. Now, I partnered with Digital Federal Credit Union also known as DCU and it's been a great
0:56.8	great partnership because the synergy of what credit unions are all about and what DC you all about
1:01.7	matches my vibe matches journey to launch. all about
1:05.0	helping and what DC you all about matches journey to launch because not only are they about helping their community
1:08.0	they're also helping your wallet as a credit union member
1:11.0	and so I wanted to bring more light about credit unions
1:15.0	and so I wanted to bring more light about credit unions to you, some more education around what credit unions are,
1:18.0	why you should join one and bust any myths that you may have.
1:22.0	I mean I even joined my own local
1:24.7	credit unions and starting this partnership MCU and so it was really important for
1:28.9	me to bring you more information about credit unions.
1:32.8	And so on the podcast today, I am talking to Ron McLean.
1:36.8	Ron is president and CEO of the Cooperative Credit Union Association,
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