Getting Your Mind Right With Money | Yanely Espinal
Episode description
About Yanely Espinal
Yanely Espinal is a Brooklyn-born, ball of energy! She’s an educator with a gift for storytelling and a passion for explaining financial concepts in a straightforward way.
In 2015 she started a YouTube channel, called MissBeHelpful, which now has over 4 million views! Her goal is to help others learn the money skills she never learned in school. And - as director of educational outreach for NGPF, Yanely is also working to ensure that every high school student gets a full semester of personal finance education before they graduate.
Yanely is also a member of the CNBC Financial Wellness Council and her debut book, Mind Your Money, was published on May 30, 2023.
What You’ll Learn
In this episode we talk about:
- Tips for writing when you have blank page cursor anxiety
- How Yanely found herself in $20,000 of credit card debt during college
- Approaching financial education in a much more approachable way
- Getting your mind right with money
- Feeling better about your finances when you’re going through tough times
- The behavioral economic philosophy of “choosing chocolate”
- Why we should start with our net worth
- The balance between regulation and education
Resources
Grab a copy of Mind Your Money book
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