S3 Ep4: How Altro is Helping Build Credit Through Community Driven Solutions

When you don’t have a credit history, accessing even the most basic financial services is almost impossible.

Find out how Michael Broughton is providing a unique solution.

Michael grew up in Japan and Korea before returning to the United States, where he founded Altro, the free credit service helping people build credit through recurring payments and subscriptions

Nicole and Michael talk about the innate discrimination of the credit score system, especially for people of color and those in the LGBTQ+ community. You’ll also hear how Altro effectively functions as a not-for-profit to provide solutions for no credit.

Michael shares why building a community of investors who share in the mission is important and why financial education is built into the Altro platform.

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Timestamps:

00:00 Introduction

02:55 Military Kid to Community Builder

07:04 Building Equity Into An Unfair System

11:53 Finding Your Way Through Fear

16:23 More To Overcome

19:00 The Education Formula For Success

22:37 The A-Ha Moment

25:06 Becoming The Change

29:00 Coming Up For Altro

31:08 My One Piece of Advice