So Money episode 858, Kara Perez, founder of Bravely.

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If you don't have money under your control, then money controls you and

that's where people get into problems. Our guest today discovered her love of

money courtesy of her quarter life crisis.

Kara Perez is here.

She's the founder of Bravely, which she started in 2017, not too long ago.

At that time, she was in the midst of what she calls a

quarterlife crisis. She was broke, saddled with student loan debt, she had no

career direction. She realized that what was holding her back was her lack of financial knowledge.

So she buckled down and paid off over $25,000 worth of debt on a $30,000 salary.

Today, her online site bravely shares helpful financial tips and

Kara also speaks across the country about personal finance.

Kara and I discuss some of the steps that women and men and society need to take in order to achieve things like

gender wage equality, financial literacy for all, and how she herself managed to

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