Empowering Kids for Financial Success with Kiddie Kredit Founder Evan Leaphart

Evan Leaphart founded Kiddie Kredit, a mobile app that teaches children about finance and credit through gamified experiences and tangible rewards. In this podcast episode, he shares his insights on the importance of empowering kids with financial knowledge.

Here are three things we dive into:

1️⃣ Leaphart's journey as an entrepreneur and the challenges of navigating the complex world of fintech.

2️⃣ The importance of instilling positive financial habits in children.

3️⃣ Leaphart's advice for fintech founders emphasizes the need to surround oneself with advisors, mentors, and key hires with domain expertise.

Please tune in to hear more about Leaphart's journey and his shameless plugs for Kiddie Kredit and the Miami Black Men Talk Tech event.

Also, watch the entire episode on youtube.

Links:

Kiddie Kredit

Website: www.kiddiekredit.com

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kiddiekredit/

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Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kiddiekredit/

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Time Stamps:

Entrepreneurship and the importance of focus [00:00:00]

Evan Leaphart discusses the importance of focus for entrepreneurs and the need to have great people around you to cover different aspects of your business.

Introduction to the podcast and guest [00:01:14]

The host introduces the Fintech Confidential podcast and welcomes Evan Leaphart, co-founder of Kitty Credit, to the show.

The mission of Kitty Credit and the importance of financial literacy for children [00:03:22]

Evan Leaphart discusses the mission of Kitty Credit, which is to build a financially free future for all, and the importance of teaching financial literacy to children at an early age.

Financial Literacy for Children [00:09:24]

Evan Leaphart discusses the development of Kitty Credit, a mobile app that provides financial literacy education for children.

Money Scripts [00:10:02]

Leaphart explains the concept of money scripts, including the four types and why vigilance is the most beneficial.

Importance of Responsibility in Personal Finance [00:15:07]

Leaphart shares his personal experience with financial responsibility and the importance of avoiding pitfalls to protect oneself and those around them.

Importance of succession planning [00:18:12]

Evan Leaphart shares his experience with the probate process and the importance of having a succession plan and life insurance.

Advice for fintech founders [00:19:42]

Leaphart advises fintech founders to stay the dumbest person in the room and surround themselves with advisors, mentors, and experts to help them learn and grow.

Working with MX [00:21:20]

Leaphart discusses his mission-driven approach to partnerships and how working with MX has been a natural alignment for his team's goals.

This is a Production of Diamond D3, Media

ABOUT:

Evan Leaphart: As the creator of Kiddie Kredit, Evan is serious about teaching children and their families to have honest conversations about credit. Kiddie Kredit is a mobile chore-tracking app designed to teach kids about the importance of financial literacy. He combines a passion for financial literacy and innovation with a commitment to solving real problems that help the community around him. Evan encourages youth to follow their dreams and pursue their passions - to create great careers rather than jobs that make every day feel like work. Evan is also the co-founder of Black Men Talk Tech, which is an entrepreneurship collective that promotes collaboration between Black men and other members of the tech ecosystem. Black Men Talk Tech’s mission is to create a cycle of access, insights, capital, and inclusion for Black men in tech. The company delivers social and economic impact, high quality, and substantive content. Evan’s had previous entrepreneurial ventures and is focused on sharing all of his knowledge about tech, finance, and entrepreneurship with the next generation.

Kiddie Kredit: Kiddie Kredit’s mission is to leverage technology to educate and empower future generations. Kiddie Kredit is driven to empower families through credit education. Healthy credit fuels power, freedom, and access. The app instills healthy credit habits by rewarding activity completion with a scoring system that simulates FICO.

Tedd Huff: President & Founder of Diamond D3, a professional services consulting firm focused on global payments and marketing. He is also a video podcast host and producer of Fintech Confidential and Head of Corporate Strategy at Corvia. 

Over the past 24 years, he has contributed to FinTech startups as an Advisory Board Member, Co-Founder, and Chief Experience Officer, providing strategic and tactical direction for Global Payments OpenEdge, Heartland Payments, Nuvei, and TSYS, among others, focusing on growth while delivering innovation, process improvements and user experience-driven value to simplify the complexity of payments.

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