The Clever Girls Know Podcast With Bola Sokunbi

Learn how to set boundaries with friends and family for better relationships, covering topics like time, money, and advice. Explore the importance of clear communication and protecting your well-being during the holiday season.

On today’s podcast episode, join Bola and Esther from team Clever Girl Finance as they discuss facing crossroads and key tips to navigate through them. WHAT BOLA & ESTHER DISCUSSED: - What it means to be at a crossroads and how to navigate the discomfort of being at one. - The best time to seek mentorship and guidance and how to apply the advice you get - Navigating from failure as you work through your crossroads AND MUCH MORE ❤ Get the best-selling Clever Girl Finance Books: https://clevergirlfinance.com/books ❤ Get access to 30+ free courses, worksheets, savings challenges, and our favorite banking resources: https://clevergirlfinance.com/course-packages/ ❤ Read the Clever Girl Finance Blog: https://clevergirlfinance.com/blog ❤ Follow us on Instagram: http://instagram.com/clevergirlfinance

On today’s podcast episode, Dawn Paul AKA "The Dr. Dawn" shares key tips to help cultivate healthy and thriving friendships in your life. Dawn Paul is an award-winning certified life coach, author, media personality, entrepreneur, and national public speaker. You can listen to her radio show, "It's No Judgment! Just Realness!" live every Thursday 7-10 PM CST on Raise The Praise 100 where she brings engaging and entertaining interviews and takes audience prayer requests and life love questions. Dawn is also the owner of Obsessed With Media®, a company providing clients with strategic marketing efforts to increase brand awareness for national and global expansion. Dawn is active in the community and serves Celebrating You, Inc. as a board member. WHAT DAWN DISCUSSED: - The benefits of cultivating healthy and thriving friendships in our lives as women. - Some of her personal challenging and positive experiences with friendships.  - Ways we can set healthy boundaries to cultivate healthy and thriving friendships. - How to let go of or salvage a friendship. - How we can become the type of friend that we want. AND MUCH MORE HOW TO KEEP UP WITH DAWN: - On Instagram: https://instagram.com/thedrdawn - On Twitter: https://twitter.com/thedrdawn - On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thedrdawn - On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/thedrdawn ❤ Get the best-selling Clever Girl Finance Books: https://clevergirlfinance.com/books ❤ Get access to 30+ free courses, worksheets, savings challenges, and our favorite banking resources: https://clevergirlfinance.com/course-packages/ ❤ Read the Clever Girl Finance Blog: https://clevergirlfinance.com/blog ❤ Follow us on Instagram: http://instagram.com/clevergirlfinance

On today’s podcast episode, Cindy Zuniga-Sanchez shares how you can be a conscious spender while building wealth! Cindy Zuniga-Sanchez, Esq. is a money coach, speaker, and the founder of Zero-Based Budget Coaching LLC. After graduating from law school in 2015 with $215,000 of debt, Cindy documented her debt payoff journey on social media, while sharing the personal finance knowledge that she was learning in a simple and relatable way. She has spoken to thousands and coached hundreds on budgeting, saving, debt payoff, investing, credit, building generational wealth, and more. She is committed to helping millennial women, particularly women of color, create a realistic money plan to achieve financial freedom WHAT CINDY DISCUSSED: - What inspired her to write her new book, Overcoming Debt, Achieving Financial Freedom: 8 Pillars To Build Wealth! - Her past relationship with money and spending - How consumerism in America has evolved, how it's impacting our ability to build wealth and key actions to take to avoid this issue - How to get clear on your value-based spending AND MUCH MORE HOW TO KEEP UP WITH CINDY: Via her website: https://www.zero-basedbudget.com On Instagram: @zerobasedbudget TikTok: @zerobasedbudget ❤ Get the best-selling Clever Girl Finance Books: https://clevergirlfinance.com/books ❤ Get access to 30+ free courses, worksheets, savings challenges, and our favorite banking resources: https://clevergirlfinance.com/course-packages/ ❤ Read the Clever Girl Finance Blog: https://clevergirlfinance.com/blog ❤ Follow us on Instagram: http://instagram.com/clevergirlfinance

On today’s podcast episode, Mabel Nunez shares her experience being the first investor in her family. Mabel is the founder and Chief Education Officer at Girls on The Money - a stock market investing education company for underrepresented individuals in the investing world. She is passionate about helping women feel more confident around money topics and empowering them to create wealth. Mabel teaches highly-rated courses centered on stock market investing and is also the author of two best-selling books on the subject. Mabels holds a Bachelor of Science and an MBA in Finance. However, most of what she's learned about the markets came from experience! She strongly believes investing is for everyone. No fancy degrees are necessary. WHAT MABEL DISCUSSED: - How she discovered stock marketing investing. - How she overcame her fear of investing. - Her biggest investing mistakes and wins. - Tips for women who are currently first-generation investors. - Why generational wealth matters AND MUCH MORE HOW TO KEEP UP WITH MABEL: - Her books:  https://www.amazon.com/Stock-Market-Investing-Mini-Lessons-Beginners/dp/1530172381/ - Via her website: www.girlsonthemoney.com - On Instagram: Instagram.com/girlsonthemoney - Facebook Page: Facebook.com/girlsonthemoney - Facebook Group: Facebook.com/groups/girlsonthemoney ❤ Get the best-selling Clever Girl Finance Books: https://clevergirlfinance.com/books ❤ Get access to 30+ free courses, worksheets, savings challenges, and our favorite banking resources: https://clevergirlfinance.com/course-packages/ ❤ Read the Clever Girl Finance Blog: https://clevergirlfinance.com/blog ❤ Follow us on Instagram: http://instagram.com/clevergirlfinance

On today’s podcast episode, Emily Guy Birken shares key tips to help us start stacking our Benjamins and building real wealth! Emily is a former educator, lifelong money nerd, and a Plutus Award-winning freelance writer who specializes in the scientific research behind irrational money behaviors. Her background in education allows her to make complex financial topics relatable and easily understood by the layperson. Her work has appeared in The Huffington Post, Business Insider, Kiplinger's, MSN Money, and The Washington Post online. She is the author of several books, including The 5 Years Before You Retire, End Financial Stress Now, and the brand new book Stacked: Your Super Serious Guide to Modern Money Management, written with Joe Saul-Sehy. Emily lives in Milwaukee with her family. WHAT EMILY DISCUSSED: - The concept of stacking your Benjamins​ and the first Benjamin you need to start stacking​!​ - How she met her ‘Stacked’ co-author Joe Saul-Sehy and why they chose a fun approach to financial management as the context for their book. - How to think differently about money especially when you've made mistakes in the past. - How to leverage a money dashboard to help you achieve your financial goals AND MUCH MORE HOW TO KEEP UP WITH EMILY: - Get the book “Stacked: Your super serious guide to modern money management”: https://www.stackingbenjamins.com/stacked/ - Via her website: https://www.youronegoodthing.com/ - On Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emilyguybirken/ - On Twitter: @emilyguybirken - On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/authorEmilyGuyBirken/ - On Instagram: https://instagram.com/emilyguybirken AND https://instagram.com/youronegoodthing ❤ Get the best-selling Clever Girl Finance Books: https://clevergirlfinance.com/books ❤ Get access to 30+ free courses, worksheets, savings challenges, and our favorite banking resources: https://clevergirlfinance.com/course-packages/ ❤ Read the Clever Girl Finance Blog: https://clevergirlfinance.com/blog ❤ Follow us on Instagram: http://instagram.com/clevergirlfinance

On today’s podcast episode, Jasmine Williams guides us through overcoming the fear of speaking up/public speaking. After an unexpected loss in her freshman year of college, Jasmine Williams hit rock bottom. With no clear roadmap to cope, she struggled to get her mental health back on track. Now as an Adversity + Resilience Speaker, she teaches audiences how failure and adversity can help them grow. Using her firsthand experiences, Jasmine helps audiences support classmates and colleagues through grief, anxiety, and other difficult experiences. Jasmine also works as a public speaking coach to teach women how to deliver a polished message with confidence. In addition to her work as a speaker, Jasmine is a communications consultant for federal agencies. She has her B.A. in Communication and minored in Psychology. WHAT JASMINE DISCUSSED: - How she got started as a speaker and why she chose to specialize in adversity and resilience. - Why public speaking is important for career, personal, and business success, and how to get over the fear of speaking up/public speaking. - The specific steps someone can take to boost their speaking confidence even after a negative experience AND MUCH MORE HOW TO KEEP UP WITH JASMINE: Via her website: www.JasmineCWilliams.com On Instagram: www.Instagram.com/MsJasmineCWilliams On Facebook: www.Facebook.com/MsJasmineCWilliams ❤ Get the best-selling Clever Girl Finance Books: https://clevergirlfinance.com/books ❤ Get access to 30+ free courses, worksheets, savings challenges, and our favorite banking resources: https://clevergirlfinance.com/course-packages/ ❤ Read the Clever Girl Finance Blog: https://clevergirlfinance.com/blog ❤ Follow us on Instagram: http://instagram.com/clevergirlfinance

On today’s podcast episode, Adeyinka Adegbenle shares how she got back on track and adjusted her mindset after losing 65% of her household income. Ade(Yinka) is a former financial service professional turned Excellence Strategist, Educator, and Author.  At the height of the 2009 recession, she lost her revered job in the financial services sector. She was also heavily pregnant and had also just recently purchased a house. She and her husband were young and weren’t financially disciplined. That experience led them on the path of financial excellence and discipline. Today she used the lessons from that experience to help many others including her clients. WHAT YINKA DISCUSSED: - How she navigated a job loss, a new baby, and becoming a homeowner during a very challenging time in her life. - How much debt she owed and what her "enough is enough" moment was - What kept her up at night and how she got back on track AND MUCH MORE HOW TO KEEP UP WITH YINKA: - On Instagram: https://instagram/thinkgrowexcel - Via her website: https://www.waysofexcellence.com ❤ Get the best-selling Clever Girl Finance Books: https://clevergirlfinance.com/books ❤ Get access to 30+ free courses, worksheets, savings challenges, and our favorite banking resources: https://clevergirlfinance.com/course-packages/ ❤ Read the Clever Girl Finance Blog: https://clevergirlfinance.com/blog ❤ Follow us on Instagram: http://instagram.com/clevergirlfinance

On today’s podcast episode, Mani and Jay share just how being accountability partners has helped them achieve their financial goals. Mani and Jay are two young black women who have been friends for over 10 years and they are dedicated to helping one another achieve financial success. Their podcast "Fine & Filthy Rich" was created out of their desire to become more literate financially as well as build a safe space for women to gain financial freedom. They hail from the beautiful city of Denver, Colorado however both have relocated to new cities. Distance has not limited their friendship as they still find time to get together as often as possible to turn up and enjoy life! WHAT MANI & JAY DISCUSSED: - The important qualities to seek in an accountability partner - How open they are about their goals with each other and the significance of transparency in their accountability relationship - Key pieces of advice for someone looking for an accountability partner - How to navigate an accountability partnership that is not working out AND MUCH MORE HOW TO KEEP UP WITH MANI & JAY: - On their podcast: Fine And Filthy Rich on Apple Podcasts and Spotify https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/fine-filthy-rich/ - On Instagram: https://instagram/fineandfilthyrich - On TikTok @fineandfilthyrich ❤ Get the best-selling Clever Girl Finance Books: https://clevergirlfinance.com/books ❤ Get access to 30+ free courses, worksheets, savings challenges, and our favorite banking resources: https://clevergirlfinance.com/course-packages/ ❤ Read the Clever Girl Finance Blog: https://clevergirlfinance.com/blog ❤ Follow us on Instagram: http://instagram.com/clevergirlfinance

On today’s podcast episode, Isimemen(Isi) Aladejobi shares exactly how you can channel into your greatness to achieve success in your career and life! Isimemen is a wife, mom, business & career growth strategist and founder of Powerful Women Make Power Moves (PWMPMoves) and Fulfilled, a community of Black women determined to win in their careers and their lives. Through her signature program, Fulfilled, she has helped hundreds of Black women identify and secure their dream jobs using authentic networking and strengths-based career exploration. As a business growth strategist and digital marketer, Isi has created revenue-generating growth plans for CEOs, entrepreneurs, and small business owners. Clients have seen 300% growth in revenue and generated six figures from her marketing campaigns. Isi holds a bachelor’s degree in Accounting and a minor in Technical Entrepreneurship from The University of Maryland at College Park and a master’s degree in Education from George Mason University. She resides in Washington, DC with her husband and three children. WHAT ISIMEMEN DISCUSSED: - How she channeled the power of networking to get multiple job offers throughout her career - Strategies to go from being unemployed to becoming a high-income earner - A case study on how she helped a client get a $60,000 raise - What to do if you ask for a raise and get told no AND MUCH MORE HOW TO KEEP UP WITH ISIMEMEN: Via her website: isimemen.com On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/isimemenaladejobi/ On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/Isimemen/ On TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@isimemena ❤ Get the best-selling Clever Girl Finance Books: https://clevergirlfinance.com/books ❤ Get access to 30+ free courses, worksheets, savings challenges, and our favorite banking resources: https://clevergirlfinance.com/course-packages/ ❤ Read the Clever Girl Finance Blog: https://clevergirlfinance.com/blog ❤ Follow us on Instagram: http://instagram.com/clevergirlfinance