Kyla Scanlon on Gen Z's Money Worries and Approach to Investing

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4.7 • 17 Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2023

⏱️ 16 minutes

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The content creator talks about how to get young people more involved in their financial future.

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to At Bairns. I'm Andy Surwer and welcome to our guest, Kyla Scanlan,
0:08.0	Financial Commentator and Entrepreneur. Kyla, nice to see you.
0:11.0	Yeah, thanks for having me.
0:13.0	So why don't you start off by telling us a little bit about what you do and how you describe your career?
0:19.0	Yeah, I mean it's definitely a little bit difficult to describe it perfectly, but I produce
0:23.4	social media content, so TikTok, YouTube, I have a newsletter and a podcast, and then I also
0:28.0	work with Bloomberg Opinion.
0:30.1	I'm writing a book with PING On Random House about the economy, trying to do some TV shows
0:34.1	about the economy as well.
0:35.5	So the whole goal is financial education, helping people understand the economy around them. Yeah.
0:41.3	And your company is called Bread, as in, Give Me Some Bread, right?
0:45.3	And how does your business model work, if I can ask?
0:48.3	Well, so bread is one idea that I had where it was to develop some sort of software on financial
0:53.3	education, but now it's morphed into a media company.
0:57.5	And the idea is to produce content at every level.
1:01.2	So anybody who wants to learn about the economy, whether it be they learn through video,
1:05.1	they learn through audio, they learn through written word, will have some way that they can
1:09.1	go and access that content.
1:10.7	So Bread has become
1:11.3	an economics education company. And what about your book? It's called In This Economy? Is that how
1:16.4	you're supposed to say it, in this economy? I would put your hands like that too. Yeah.
1:20.3	What is it about? So it's about the economy. It's about inflation, the labor market, the Federal
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