361. Creating Empowerment Through Financial Literacy - with Bola Sokunbi

The Chris Harder Show

Chris Harder

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

In This Episode You Will Learn About:

Having a financial role model
Discovering your own financial competency
Learning from your mistakes
Getting comfortable talking about money
The wealth gap for women and the Black community
Investing in yourself
The order of investments
Creating quality content

Resources:

Learn more: clevergirlfinance.com
Instagram: instagram.com/clevergirlfinance

Show Notes:

Bola Sokunbi is the founder of Clever Girl Finance, a certified financial instructor, a best-selling author, and more. One of the most impressive things about her is that she has made all of her classes free while we are all facing these tough financial challenges. You're going to love our conversation around what order you should be investing in, her story of how she was inspired to start this brand, how she saved her first $100,000, and some of the financial mistakes she's made along the way. We also dig into the wealth gap that exists not only for women but in the Black community. You're going to love this episode.

Question Highlights:

How did your mother inspire your business?
How did you save $100,000 right out of college?
What are some money mistakes that you made?
What are the most common mistakes you see people making today?
How can we work on getting rid of gender and racial income gaps?
What order should we be investing our money in?
What is your secret for pumping out quality content?

Guest Bio:

Bola is a Certified Financial Education Instructor (CFEI), finance expert, author, speaker, and founder of Clever Girl Finance, a financial education platform and community for women empowering them to achieve financial wellness and live life on their own terms.

Clever Girl Finance has been voted as one of the top personal finance websites for women. In addition, Bola and Clever Girl Finance have been featured by several media outlets including Time.com, Money Magazine, CNBC, Forbes, Fast Company, Essence, Black Enterprise, Cheddar TV, ABC News, Good Morning America, BBC, Fox Business and The Chicago Tribune as well as on several other finance websites and podcasts.

Follow me on social media @ChrisWHarder on Instagram and check out www.ForTheLoveOfMoney.com

Transcript

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0:00.0	First, inform us you are amazing and you have it in you to accomplish anything that you set your heart to.
0:06.0	Welcome, everybody, this is for the love of money where we are making you
0:15.6	unapologetic about your pursuit of success by sharing the tools, tips and
0:20.5	stories of those who have already made it.
0:23.6	My name is Chris Harder and each week I will bring you incredible guests
0:28.3	in order to prove that when good people make good money,
0:31.5	they do great things.
0:35.0	Hey everybody welcome back to another amazing episode of For the Love of
0:40.9	Money and I mean it when I say that today's episode is amazing and
0:44.4	epic and incredible in all the things because I'm sitting down with the founder of
0:48.6	clever girl finance Bola Secumbi. She is probably one of my all-time favorite new human beings by the time I was done
0:56.5	of this interview and she's going to be one of your all-time favorite human beings as well.
0:59.9	So at the core she's a certified financial education instructor.
1:03.5	So she definitely has all the education
1:05.8	to back up the information she's giving out
1:07.4	around personal finance.
1:08.8	But she's also a best-selling author and a speaker
1:12.0	and founder of the Clever Girl Finance community,
1:14.4	which is a massive, I mean, like jealousy level massive community
1:19.8	of incredible human beings consuming her content.
1:22.9	And one of my favorite things in the world about her
1:25.4	is that she has made all of her content,
	...

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