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Zen Parenting Radio

Teaching Your Kids About Money Podcast#296 An Interview With Bill Dwight From Famzoo.com

Zen Parenting Radio

Todd and Cathy Adams

Education, Philosophy, Parenting, Self-improvement, Kids & Family, Society & Culture

4.8 • 636 Ratings

🗓️ 18 March 2016

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

We interview Bill Dwight, the Founder of Famzoo.com.  Famzoo is an online family banking designed for kids, teens, and parents. With this amazing resource, it makes it easier for families earn, save, budget , and spend.  We've been utilizing Famzoo for several months and have loved it.  Listen in to help teach your children the power of money. To learn more about Famzoo- click on the Famzoo link on the lower right hand side of zenpopparenting.com  Make sure to enter "zenfinance" to get an extra month free.  You won't regret it.   Other Resources   Cathy’s 3rd book, Living What You Want Your Kids To Learn won the National Indie Excellence Award!Go here to order your book. Click the following links to purchase Cathy’s books The Self-Aware Parent Part 1  & and Part 2 The Tribe Men's group   Tree of Life Chiropractic Care have some interesting workshops planned. If you shop Amazon by going through our website first (there is an amazon link on the bottom right hand of our home page), a portion of your sale will help fund future Zen Parenting programming. How important is a good smile?  Just ask our new partner John J Kelly DDS.  They are located on the northwest side of Chicago and will meet all of your family’s dental needs. Painting or remodeling?  Don’t forget about our parnter Avid Co. Looking for a Vitamix blender?  Don’t forget to use our coupon code 06-007296 for free shipping.       [/et_pb_text][/et_pb_column][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section][et_pb_section admin_label="section"][et_pb_row admin_label="row"][/et_pb_row][/et_pb_section]

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0:00.0

Do do do do do do do here we go my name's Todd Adams this is Kathy Adams welcome back to another episode of Zen Parenting Radio we have a special guest with us today and his name is Bill Dwight from famzu.com and Bill welcome to Zen Parenting Radio.

0:20.0

Hi Todd and Kathy.

0:21.4

Delighted to speak to your audience.

0:23.5

Thank you.

0:24.0

Well, we're delighted to have you.

0:25.5

We get a lot of requests that people contact us and say, hey, I want to be on your show.

0:30.7

This actually happened in reverse.

0:32.4

I contacted Bill because, I don't know, some reason on a Saturday morning early, I decided that I needed to

0:40.5

have some better resources to teach my children about money. So I got on Google and I said

0:47.5

family resources, financial management, and FAMZU, which is the website that Bill created back in, when did you get created, Bill?

0:57.9

Well, it was nine years ago.

0:59.5

Okay, so nine or ten years ago, depending on when in the year you started in 2006.

1:04.9

And Bill's came the highest recommended.

1:07.6

So I'm going to give you a quick bio on Bill.

1:10.0

Bill is the founder and CEO,

1:12.6

or as he likes to call himself, the chief dad of famsu.com. And what famsu is, it's a virtual family

1:18.9

bank that integrates prepaid cards accounts and online family finance tools to help parents

1:25.4

and kids develop responsible money habits.

1:29.4

So that is kind of what FAMZU is.

1:32.6

So Bill's going to do a much better job than I am about what FAMZU is.

1:37.6

But I kind of feel like a good starting point, Bill, would be to help me understand not what it is,

1:44.2

but why you started this in an effort to help families

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