I'm Nicole Lappin, the only financial expert you don't need a dictionary to understand.

It's time for some many rehab. When I started making fun content about finance, we weren't even calling it content back then,

and also everyone thought I was crazy. It sounds unbelievable

now but when I left my comfy job as a TV news anchor to write my first book

Rich Bitch people told me it would flop unequivocally.

They said money talk wasn't cool.

They said money talk wasn't sexy and that I could not make a career teaching people

about it.

Thank God they were wrong. Cut to 2023 and not only have others join me on this

journey but there's a whole term now for this category. Finfluencer. Money talk

entering the mainstream is not only a good thing, it's a great thing.

But the world of Finfluencing has a dark side.

There's nothing stopping literally anyone from creating an Instagram account and giving financial advice even if they have no business doing so. Financial advisors can't just say their financial advisors, they have to get a whole accreditation first.

Shouldn't it be the same online?

Today I'm talking about this

with one of my fave financial educators

on Instagram, Vivian too.

The reason I love Vivian is because she is actually qualified

to be talking about this.

She used to be a trader on Wall Street and now she's helping people learn more about their

money through her content, including drum roll please, her first book, Rich AF,

which you can pre-order now. Today we talk about the financial advice, in quotes, that keeps us up all night, how to confirm if a financial educator is legit, and we also play a game of financial never have I ever that I

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