#DontBeBrokeBeWoke Adrien Salomon

For the second week in a row, I had the pleasure of speaking with a wonderful person named Danielle. I can promise you I did not plan it, it just kinda happened.As the first person in her family to graduate college, Danielle is using her financial knowledge to help educate others. Like many of us, Danielle was at one point living paycheck to paycheck and went through several years of financial struggle. But today, she paid off most of her debt, boosted her income from a variety of side hustle...

I got to talk to Danielle today, a single mother who is killing it on Youtube and Instagram with her finance videos and posts.When she became a divorce single mom making $25,000 a year, Danielle knew she had to make major changes. She took command of her finances by increasing her income, doing side hustles, paying off debt and investing.She then decided to start a YouTube and Instagram page and she quickly realized that there we so many people, most notably women, that needed to hear what sh...

Throughout this process of connecting with personal finance influencers, the overwhelming theme is to build wealth for them and their kids. Talking to Maria, she brought something new to the conversation.In addition to building wealth for her and educating her kids to make sure they get generational wealth, her and her husband are doing this for their parents. Maria moved to California from Mexico as a young girl and knowing all her parents did for her, she wants to make sure they can enjoy t...

Y'all wanna hear more about crypto, I get it. So finally, I am bringing the the episode so many of you had been had been asking about. I had the pleasure of speaking with Sarah @thecryptoclique about all things crypto and boy did I learned a ton. No lie, I have done alot of reading on the crypto world but it's so different when an expert can break it down for you in very simple terms.What I think we can appreciate from this episode is that it was educational. Most crypto people I know cant ev...

Guys, you ever find yourself scrolling through Instagram seeing the same ol' stuff and you stop at something and you keep rewatching it? Well that's how I felt a few months back when I stumbled on Billy Guan Money Magic IG Page. He was using a coin with a clear glass to demonstrate something that had to do with finance. I kept watching it and watching it to see if I can see he was cheating me. After a few mins I started going over his page and his message was different than most finance ...

Jully-Alma Taveras also known online as Investing Latina, is a Plutus Award-winning bilingual (spanish) personal finance expert. She writes for publications like CNBC, Time's Next Advisor, HuffPost, and others on money topics ranging from saving to investing. On her YouTube channel, she tells money stories from the lens of a Dominican Republic-born immigrant living in New York that went from being a shopaholic to a smart spender and diligent investor. Her money philosophies have inspired thou...