190- Teaching Children to be Financial Goal Setters & Starting, Funding and Growing a FinTech Company w/ Tanya Van Court
Journey To Launch
Jamila Souffrant
4.9 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 16 December 2020
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
How we were raised to handle money as children has an impact on the financial decisions we make as adults. Tanya Van Court had over a 20 year career in Corporate America in companies like ESPN, Nickelodeon, and Discovery Education. She is now the CEO and founder of Goalsetter, a savings and financial literacy app that helps kids and families get better with money.
Her goal is to teach all kids in a fun and relatable way to be financially responsible, independent, and literate. Tanya has a powerful and motivating mission through her app to educate young people from all backgrounds, especially those who are underserved, the value of money. Tanya also shares more about her journey as Black woman entrepreneur in the FinTech space, and the obstacles she had to overcome to start, fund, and grow her company.
Tune in to hear Tanya's inspiring message and transparent conversation about how being bold, courageous, and speaking up helped her build Goalsetter from the ground up.
In this episode you'll learn:
- What the Goalsetter app is about
- How you can start teaching your kids about the value of money
- How much it can cost to start a FinTech company
- The obstacles you can face as an entrepreneur and much more...
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Journey to Launch Podcast teaching children to be financial |
| 0:05.5 | goalsetters plus starting funding and growing a FinTech company with T |
| 0:10.6 | T- |
| 0:12.6 | minus 10 seconds. |
| 0:14.6 | Welcome to the Journey to Launch Podcast with your host |
| 0:17.7 | Janila Sufrant as a money expert who walks her talk. |
| 0:21.4 | She helps brave journeyers like you, get out of debt, save, invest, and build real wealth. |
| 0:28.0 | Join her on the journey to launch to financial freedom in... |
| 0:32.0 | Five, four, three... to launch a financial freedom in five four three two one |
| 0:41.5 | Hey hey hey journeys welcome to the Journey to Launch Podcast. If you are completely new around here, I call |
| 0:48.4 | listeners and people on the journey with me to Financial Freedom and Independence |
| 0:53.0 | Journey. |
| 0:53.6 | So that's what you are right now. |
| 0:55.3 | And if you are returning journeyer and listener, |
| 0:57.8 | welcome, welcome back. |
| 0:59.4 | I have an exciting conversation for you. |
| 1:01.8 | I am sitting down with Tanya Van Court, CEO and |
| 1:05.1 | founder of Goldsetter. Goldsetter is a savings and financial literacy app that |
| 1:11.0 | helps kids and family get better with money. It helps to uniquely |
| 1:16.2 | engage kids from all backgrounds in understanding how to build wealth and learn |
| 1:21.2 | financial language by offering fun quiz-based games that are |
| 1:25.8 | developed using memes and gifts from hip-hop artists, social media influencers, |
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