Beware of guarantees

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🗓️ 4 October 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Host Yanely Espinal talks with Kevin Matthews, financial educator and author, about how to find financial advice you can trust.

Think you’re financially inclined? Dig deeper into how to evaluate financial advice:

Protect yourself from social media “finfluencers”
More tips for choosing a financial adviser
Questions to ask a financial adviser
How to get cheap or free financial advice

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0:00.0	Hey Parents and Teens, Financially-Inclined is presented in partnership with Green Light,
0:04.8	the debit card and Money App for Teens.
0:06.9	Today we're talking about financial advisors.
0:10.0	When you build healthy financial habits and you know how to manage your money like a boss,
0:14.0	you can trust your gut when it comes to money matters, even if you enlist some support along the way.
0:20.9	How do you start that, though? With Greenlight, the debit card and money app for teens.
0:25.0	Get $10 when you sign up for Green Light today at greenlight.com slash inclined.
0:30.0	That's Greenlight.com slash inclined. That's Greenlight.
0:32.0	com slash inclinC.L I NED. So, What's up everybody? I'm Janelle Espinal and welcome to Financially
1:00.6	inclined for Marketplace. We're sharing money lessons for living life
1:04.5	your own way. Now every time I log on to social media there's just so many people
1:10.8	trying to tell me what to do with my money. It can feel overwhelming and
1:15.9	everyone is calling themselves something like a money coach or a finance guru and
1:21.1	we just got a wonder do these titles actually mean anything like how
1:26.7	are you supposed to know who you can really trust so today I'm talking to Kevin Matthews.
1:32.8	He's a financial educator and an author,
1:35.2	and he used to be a financial advisor.
1:37.5	So he has a certificate in financial planning
1:40.0	and he knows a thing or two about managing money and also about how to make sense of all of these so-called experts.
1:48.1	All right, let's get into it.
1:52.0	Nowadays there's so much content on social media. It feels like everybody's giving money
1:56.2	advice left and right, but you don't know who you can trust getting money advice from and who you
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