Fourth Speaker David Truong, Emma Tang

If you open up instagram right now, most representations of wealth are going to look pretty strikingly similar. It feels as though financial influencers are plenty and advice on how to make $100,000 in a month as a 21 year old are absolutely littering the 'for you page'. How, then, do you come to figure out what kind of lifestyle you ought to live (and mindset you should live by) if you want to successfully create and manage wealth without looking like an overly obsessed finance-bro or sounding like a loopy live-laugh-love gal who insist budgets are the be all and end all? In this episode of Fourth Speaker, David & Emma deliver the final segment of Life Skills Day and give personal accounts into their changing relationships with wealth creation, the financial tools and strategies they've had to (unwillingly) drop over time, and how their financial goals have changed since their early 20s.

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