Money Advice For Teens: Interview with Eva From Teens Got Cents RPF0127
Radical Personal Finance
Joshua J. Sheats, MSFS, CFP, CLU, ChFC, CASL, RHU, REBC, CAP
4.2 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 29 December 2014
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Today, I bring you an interview with a dynamo: Eva from TeensGotCents.com.
I met Eva in New Orleans at the FinCon conference. She was attending with her mother and I was incredibly impressed with her.
Eva writes about about personal finance for a teen audience. She began at the age of 15 and she shares her own journey and also gives advice for other young people.
In the interview, we weave two themes:
- Eva's advice for teens
- Eva's own experience/example as a financial blogger
Both of these themes are valuable. Frankly, I'm a bit jealous of Eva's early start in writing about the topics of personal finance. I wish I'd had the foresight to begin at her age.
Listen carefully to the story of her site and consider how you can help your children--or yourself--to start something similar. It's a really neat story.
Other topics include:
- Budgeting basics for teens
- The envelope system
- The value of attending professional conferences--especially for young people
- How to teach teens to get jobs
Enjoy!
Joshua
Links:
- Eva's blog: Teens Got Cents
- Spoken Word Performance #1: I Will Not Let An Exam Result Decide My Fate
- Spoken Word Performance #2: Why I Hate School But Love Education
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Radical Personal Finance Podcast. |
| 0:01.8 | My name is Joshua Sheets and I'm your host. |
| 0:03.6 | Today is Monday, December 29, 2014. |
| 0:07.7 | I'm thankful to bring you an interview today |
| 0:09.8 | with Eva from the blog, Teens Got Sense. |
| 0:14.1 | Eva is a phenomenal young lady. |
| 0:16.6 | She is really, really motivating, and really, really impressive. |
| 0:21.1 | And she started writing a personal finance blog targeted towards teens at about the age of 16 years old. |
| 0:28.0 | And so today's show is an interview with her and we talk a little bit about what she has learned and what she's benefited and how she's grown from the |
| 0:36.9 | from her blog experiences and I hope that you're able to enjoy and benefit from that content. |
| 0:44.6 | And I hope you can see how, in my mind, education is being transformed because in a world |
| 0:50.6 | where amazing young ladies like Eva can create content like they're creating. |
| 0:57.3 | Just imagine the leg up that she's going to have in a decade or so based upon her early |
| 1:02.2 | interests and hobbies and and blogging. What an amazing cool |
| 1:07.3 | world that we live in. Before I play the interview though, I would like to share with you as an introduction to the |
| 1:14.0 | interview and something to stimulate your thinking a spoken word performance by a |
| 1:19.3 | performer that I really enjoy and here it is. |
| 1:24.0 | Revolution and represent 107.3 fm. |
| 1:26.4 | My name is Tarrick. |
| 1:27.5 | Now listeners you may remember not too long ago we had a spoken word artist by the name of |
| 1:31.4 | Sully Breaks. |
| 1:32.6 | Came down and dropped a live session |
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