Building wealth with Beatriz Acevedo

Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

Careers, Business

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 November 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Beatriz Acevedo began her career as a TV host with a prime time show on Televisa. She later pivoted to run her own tech media company, Mitú. An early financial scare made a deep impression though, and during the pandemic Beatriz launched a new venture with a massive social goal in mind: she wants to help the LatinX community build wealth. In this conversation with Jessi Hempel, she talks about her own experience with money. And she explains how her new company, Suma Wealth, plans to arm the LatinX community with economic power.

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0:20.4	And this is Hello Monday.
0:22.0	It's our show about the changing nature of work and how that work is changing us.
0:26.6	By the time Beatrice Acevedo was in her early 20s,
0:29.7	she'd already made it as a TV host.
0:33.1	She had a prime time show on the Mexican Television Network,
0:36.3	Televisa.
0:37.9	She was killing it.
0:38.9	And then one day, it was canceled.
0:41.9	And she was completely unprepared.
0:44.7	I remember so clearly being in the supermarket
0:48.4	and seeing this magazine that was the most popular magazine of the moment.
0:52.2	And there I am on the cover with Ricky Martin that month.
0:55.9	And trying to pay for a small carton of milk without my American Express.
1:00.8	And it was declined.
1:02.4	Beatrice hadn't planned.
1:04.0	She had no savings.
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