856: Tonya Rapley, Founder of MyFabFinance.com

So Money with Farnoosh Torabi

Farnoosh Torabi

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.7 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 6 March 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Tonya Rapley is the millennial money expert and creator of the award-winning site, My Fab Finance. In 2014 she was deemed the “New Face of Wealth Building” by Black Enterprise Magazine and featured as their cover subject. A millennial herself, Tonya’s mission is to help millennials break the cycle of living paycheck to paycheck so that they can become financially free and do more of what they love. She is the creator of the #BanishTheBalance challenge, a debt elimination challenge that helped over 4,000 participants pay off more than $200,000 of debt in sixty days. Selected by TV One as a modern day history maker, Tonya is a full-time entrepreneur and tours the country providing workshops for private and nonprofit clients. Her client list includes Fidelity Investments, Prudential, the National Endowment for Financial Education and FinCon ( the financial blogger's conference). Tonya has spoken at Bloomberg, Essence Fest, Millennial Week, PepsiCo, the Blogging While Brown Conference, BlogHer, Circle of Sisters and a host of colleges and universities. You can learn more about Tonya at www.TonyaRapley.com and www.MyFabFinance.com. Also, follow her on Instagram @Tonya.Rapley and @MyFabFinance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	So Money episode 856, Tanya Rappley, founder of My Fab Finance.
0:05.0	You're listening to So Money, with award-winning Money Guru Farnu
0:10.0	Farnu Shkorabi.
0:11.0	Each day, get a 30 minute dose of financial inspiration from the world's top business minds, authors, influencers, and from Farnuish yourself.
0:20.0	Looking for ways to save on gas or double your double coupons?
0:24.0	Sorry, you're in the wrong place.
0:26.0	Seeking profound ways to live a richer, happier life.
0:30.0	Welcome to So Money.
0:32.0	So we had a housing facility for low-income women.
0:36.0	Some of them were doctors, ballet dancers, performers on Broadway, attorneys, and they were spending their retirement in this
0:45.3	low-income housing facility and some of them it was not unusual for me to be
0:49.3	walking to the train and some of the residents would be begging for money at the subway. I was like,
0:55.0	wow, life comes at you fast and if you don't plan properly for your future
1:01.0	this is how you could possibly end up.
1:04.0	Our guest today says she was driven to create financial freedom for herself as well as others
1:09.8	because of life's experiences like the one you just heard as well as her own battles
1:13.8	with money and domestic violence all led her to take the reins in her life
1:18.2	including starting her own business. Welcome to So Money everybody I'm your
1:22.4	host Farnoosh Terabi Glad to have you here.
1:25.0	Our guest today is Tanya Rappley. She started a blog called My Fab Finance in 2013 which has blossomed
1:31.6	into a highly successful financial education business.
1:36.0	Today Tanya is an entrepreneur, millennial money expert, consultant to brands, professional
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