Today in Radical Personal Finance, we interview Nicole Brian.

Nicole has a fantastic story.

She began her career with very few advantages

working as a teacher in the school system.

However, at this point, she's managed to build financial freedom to the point where by the age of 40,

she anticipates being completely financially free.

Nicole, welcome to Radical Personal Finance.

Thank you for having me.

So I've invited you on, you're a listener of the show, and you have your own unique financial

journey to share.

I love to have listeners of the show on because it profiles that you don't have to be a

world famous financial expert in order to share real life experiences with other people.

So I'd love you to start simply by share with us a little bit about your

story as it relates to money. Sure. I am originally from Jamaica. Came to the

US when I was 13 and so we grew up pretty much in poverty even though it didn't

feel like it as a child.

Now in retrospect I realized that we really didn't have a lot.

My parents struggled a lot throughout.

We celebrated with my dad would get a job.

We would always like go outside and like dance and celebrate.

Then I went to boarding school when I got to the states, then to Georgetown and I remember when I graduated my dad, you know, said to me, you're going to go out and make money now right you're

going to become an attorney or you know something huge where you won't ever

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