How I Invest My Money + The Importance of Human Capital With Lazetta Braxton
Stay Wealthy Retirement Podcast
Taylor Schulte, CFP®
4.7 • 678 Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2021
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Today I'm joined by special guest, Lazetta Braxton, MBA, CFP®.
It's almost impossible to miss Lazetta these days!
She's been seen on NBC Nightly News, CNBC's Closing Bell, and she's a regular contributor to the Wall Street Journal Financial Experts blog.
Lazetta also co-wrote a new book titled "How I Invest My Money" which was illustrated by friend of the show, Carl Richards.
In this conversation, we talk about:
- How I Invest My Money + Investing in Human Capital
- Lazetta's "Go to Hell" fund
- What she's doing to provide broader access to financial advice
If you want to learn how investing in human capital can be part of your retirement plan, you're going to love this episode.
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| 0:00.0 | So within the four years of us marrying, I had student loan debt, he had student loan debt, |
| 0:05.2 | we had consumer debt, we knocked it out in four years and started to bill, I go to hell |
| 0:09.8 | fund or get out of hell fun because oftentimes when you're part of a oppressed population, |
| 0:17.1 | that's exactly what you're dealing with. |
| 0:21.4 | Welcome to the state Wealthy Podcast. |
| 0:23.6 | I'm your host, Taylor Schulte, and today I'm joined by special guest, Lizetta Braxton. |
| 0:28.4 | Lizetta has appeared on NBC Nightly News and closing bell. |
| 0:32.2 | She's a member of the CNBC Digital Financial Advisor Council, |
| 0:36.0 | a Wall Street Journal blog contributor, and she co-wrote |
| 0:40.0 | a new book titled How I Invest My Money, which was illustrated by friend of the show Carl Richards. |
| 0:47.4 | In our conversation, we talk about investing in human capital, Lizetta's Go to Hell Fund, |
| 0:53.0 | and how she's working to provide broader access |
| 0:56.4 | to financial advice. For the links and resources mentioned today, head over to you staywealthy.com |
| 1:02.2 | forward slash 106. |
| 1:08.0 | Okay, so you're the co-founder of 2050 wealth partners and your bio, which really I enjoy to read, |
| 1:15.0 | your bio states that you're on a mission to provide access to financial planning for the rest of us. |
| 1:20.5 | So I thought just to kick us off today, I'd love for you to just tell us a little bit more about |
| 1:24.8 | that mission that you're on and the why behind it. |
| 1:28.5 | Yes. So the financial planner for the rest of us is really allowing people to know that you |
| 1:35.1 | don't have to be in the 1% to be able to have a financial planner, a financial advisor. |
| 1:40.9 | And what we often find in terms of our conversations is that people are like, do I deserve a |
| 1:48.5 | financial planner? And I even often hear what is a financial planner? And that's another whole |
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