How Marc Went From Foster Care to Financial Advisor & Paid Off $80K in 3 Years | Marc Russell of BetterWallet
Yo Quiero Dinero
Jannese Torres
4.9 • 607 Ratings
🗓️ 29 November 2020
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Episode 59 is all about how Marc Russel from Better Wallet went from foster care to financial advisor and paid off $80k in 3 years.
Marc Russell is a financial advisor and creator of the personal finance Instagram account @betterwallet. Marc has amassed over 50,000 followers by providing no-nonsense financial advice and sharing his amazing journey to pay off $80,000 in 3 years. He’s passionate about educating people of color about the importance of building generational wealth, avoiding lifestyle creep and debt, and investing. He’s been featured in NextAdvisor.
Episode 59 Highlights:
- Going to college and getting hit with the surprise of having to pay for it!
- Hustling to pay your way through an education
- His moment where his path to debt freedom just clicked
- The changes he implemented to achieve debt freedom this year
- The beginnings of his investing journey
Marc’s story is an incredible one. He takes us through his journey in this episode. By the end, he’ll make you feel like anyone can be an investor. Because that’s the truth.
Are you a beginner investor? Marc talks through his experience as a financial advisor and his investing journey. Have thousands in debt? Marc will walk you through some of his personal strategies!
This episode is great for people across the finance spectrum. Take out your pen and paper and follow along to what Marc has learned through his experience as an investor and as someone who paid off $80k in debt!
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Yo Quiero Dino, a personal finance podcast for the modern Latina. |
| 0:07.2 | I'm your host, Janice Torres Rodriguez, personal finance expert, speaker, writer, and business coach. |
| 0:13.6 | I teach women of color how to build wealth and gain financial independence through side hustles and investing. |
| 0:19.1 | On this show, we're serving up POC-friendly personal finance knowledge, always with a side |
| 0:24.2 | of SaaS. |
| 0:25.0 | We're talking about how to make Dineiro, how to keep it, and how to make it grow. |
| 0:29.5 | If you're ready to become Foderoza with your Dinero, you've come to the right place. |
| 0:38.1 | Hello, my gente. |
| 0:39.3 | Welcome back to another episode of Yo Quiro Dino, the podcast. |
| 0:42.6 | This is your host, Janice. |
| 0:44.3 | And I can't believe I'm saying this right now, but this is actually our season finale. |
| 0:49.0 | Oh my God, I can't believe we're wrapping up season two. |
| 0:51.6 | I feel like it just started. |
| 0:53.8 | But then again, doesn't this whole |
| 0:55.6 | year just feel like, oh my God, what happened? Where are we? What day is this? I have no idea. |
| 1:02.1 | So anyway, y'all, yeah, this is our season finale. And I think we are wrapping it up with an |
| 1:08.8 | amazing episode. We're actually going to be talking to Mark Russell, |
| 1:13.2 | who you probably know as Better Wallet on Instagram. Mark is a financial advisor and creator of |
| 1:19.1 | the personal finance Instagram account Better Wallet. When we recorded this episode, he had |
| 1:24.1 | around 30,000 followers. He's now amassed over 50,000 followers since recording |
| 1:29.9 | this episode by providing no-nonsense financial advice and sharing his amazing journey of paying |
| 1:35.7 | off $80,000 worth of debt in three years. He's passionate about educating people of color |
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