Today is Monday, June 19th. I'm Virginia Allen. After years of teaching, Ariana Craig

Jola began to see a big problem within the education system. Many students lack knowledge

of how to handle finances. So she decided that she was going to create a new education

tool for students. And as the author of Teach Your Own Kids, School Can't Do It Alone,

Ariana Craig Jola is a true advocate for stepping up and filling in those gaps within

education. And Ariana Craig Jola, she joins us now. Ariana, thanks for being with us.

Thank you for having me. I appreciate it for taking you.

I'm really excited to talk with you about how you are going about tackling a big problem

within our education system. And that is that so many kids leave school without an understanding

of how to handle money, how to handle finances, how to grow wealth. That's an issue that

you're tackling through an app. We're going to talk about that here in just a moment.

We're also going to talk more about the fact that today we are celebrating June 10th

and how parents can be a part of celebrating that day with their kids and really communicating

the significance of the day to those kids. But I want to start by talking a little bit

about your story. You taught in public schools for a long time, correct?

Absolutely. I have been an educator for 21 plus years. I'm beginning to lose count.

But 21 plus years, I started off in the public school system here in New Orleans and

a surrounding parish called St. Tamini Parish. But I've wanted to do it since I was in

fourth grade. Since I walked into my favorite teacher's class, Mrs. Weber, the late Mrs.

Flora Weber, and taught in the public school system here and was completely disillusioned

with what I saw and felt like our kids were being set up for failures. So fast forward,

I actually started my own school. Once I was about five years in right after Hurricane

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