One of the things I really have a heart for is children and education, particularly financial literacy.

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I am thrilled for this episode of giving credit to welcome Brighton Barazia, who is a CEO of Wealth Marathon with over a decade of experience working with Canada's largest banks and

providing sound straightforward financial advice

to young Canadian professionals and families. Brighton, thank you so much for being here.

Oh, thank you for having me on. I appreciate me on. Absolutely. So I gave a very little snippet of who you

are, but I'd love for you to share a little more about how you got into this

industry, why you decided to start your own company. Yeah, I've been finance basically since

at a high school, higher university. So I wanted to personal finance largely because of my parents

back on. So we're in a grassroots region from

Nigeria. My parents needed to Canada, and earlier just being a kid, I just saw how, like,

muddy impacts people's quality of life. And when they came to Canada, they just want to get

really good information. So I think it was a kid being kind of watching that experience growing up, kind of just really

wanted me to get into understanding how come people don't know this stuff and how was the information

my parents didn't get that impact them so much. So that's kind of the motivating factor why I wanted

to go to personal finance. So after university, I pretty much looking for a job in personal finance. I spent 10 years doing, you know, for mortgage on the

writing, credit on the writing, personal financial advice. And I just trying to pick up all those

digits. And I learned a lot. I want to think, you know, as you go, as you get all, but you start

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