The Clever Girls Know Podcast With Bola Sokunbi

This episode of the podcast is all about the balancing act of building a meaningful life and business and the relationships involved and to have to conversation, my special guest is Monique Melton. Monique is a business coach, relationship expert, published author of the book EntrepreFriendships, a motivational speaker and diversity advocate. She supports creative business owners in building profitable and purposeful businesses while maintaining healthy relationships. She is a natural big-bold dreamer, a woman of faith, a proud Navy wife and loving mother to two little ones. Monique and I have an honest conversation about what it really takes to build a meaningful life and business and managing the relationships that make it happen including valuing your relationships, focusing on your personal development and self care, learning to say now and more. She shared how she went from being a new mom with two small children simply wanting to make $1,000 a month to letting go of her money mindset blocks and becoming a business powerhouse going above and beyond for her clients and doing more in her community and for her family. She talked about why she focuses on business and relationships specifically around personal development and how it ties into building a really meaningful business. She also shares the importance of understanding your capacity around what you can and cannot do to avoid comparing yourself to others and overwhelm. Monique's website is http://moniquemelton.com For the books, tools and resources mentioned in this episode, visit the main show notes page here: https://www.clevergirlfinance.com/podcast-episodes/building-a-meaningful-life-and-business-and-managing-the-relationships-that-make-it-happen If you haven't already, be sure to subscribe to the Clever Girl Finance Podcast on iTunes, SoundCloud or Stitcher. Get access to my free budgeting tools in my resource library on www.CleverGirlFinance.com Check out the Clever Girl Finance YouTube Channel at YouTube.com/CleverGirlFinance Do you follow Clever Girl Finance on Instagram yet? You should! www.instagram.com/clevergirlfinance Ready to get accountable? Join the Clever Girl Finance Accountability Program over at www.clevergirlfinanceacademy.com

On this episode of the podcast I'm excited to share a review of just how my Q1 went including what went well and what didn't and what I'll be focusing on next. I share the latest on my first Clever Girl Finance Book, how the Clever Girl Finance event in New York went, the vacation I recently took and how my business kept running while I was away and more. In addition, I also share a few quick tips to help you run your own Q1 assessment so you can set the stage for an incredible rest of the year. If you haven't already, be sure to subscribe to the Clever Girl Finance Podcast on iTunes, SoundCloud or Stitcher. Get access to my free budgeting tools in my resource library on www.CleverGirlFinance.com Check out the Clever Girl Finance YouTube Channel at YouTube.com/CleverGirlFinance Do you follow Clever Girl Finance on Instagram yet? You should! www.instagram.com/clevergirlfinance Ready to get accountable? Join the Clever Girl Finance Accountability Program over at www.clevergirlfinanceacademy.com

Meet Yuri Gibson. She is a designer and digital product guru who teaches other people how to create side hustles that mean business. Her first taste at hustling was working two jobs while attending college full time for seven years. She then graduated in a tanking economy which lead her down a career path she hated. That caused her to make a decision that would change her life - she moved aboard to teach English in South Korea and that's when her side hustle journey began. After living in Korea for three years, and turning her design business into a digital product empire, Yuri's has a new day hustle - she's now a flight attendant! She now gets paid to travel the world while running a serious business on the side. In this episode, Yuri talks about her personal story including how she got through college and how she wound up in South Korea. She shares the difference between a side gig and a side hustle, why you should start a side hustle, the industries that can earn you the most money, what it takes to start your side hustle for just $80 a month and her all time favorite tools to help make your side hustle a knock out success. Yuri's website is https://www.viayuri.com For the books, tools and resources mentioned in this episode, visit the main show notes page here: https://www.clevergirlfinance.com/podcast-episodes/side-hustle-your-way-to-wealthy-with-yuri-gibson If you haven't already, be sure to subscribe to the Clever Girl Finance Podcast on iTunes, SoundCloud or Stitcher. Get access to my budgeting tools in my resource library on www.CleverGirlFinance.com Check out the Clever Girl Finance YouTube Channel at YouTube.com/CleverGirlFinance Do you follow Clever Girl Finance on Instagram yet? You should! www.instagram.com/clevergirlfinance Ready to get accountable? Join the Clever Girl Finance Accountability Program over at www.clevergirlfinanceacademy.com

Regina Byrd is an accountant, motivational speaker, author, business owner and financial educator. Her company, Prosper with Regina, helps high school and college students learn financial literacy empowering them for a life of financial success. Outside of her many businesses she also gives back by speaking to children at local libraries about finances. She understands the hurdles that young people must overcome to have a good financial head start after college. She believes that everyone should stay young, fabulous and prosperous no matter what age they are! On this episode of the podcast, Regina shares her own personal story and talks about how parents can teach their children about money regardless of how old they are, teaching children self control and delayed gratification as well as specific ways to do it and why it's critical to set the stage for your children's financial success. Regina's website is http://www.prosperwithregina.com For the books, tools and resources mentioned in this episode, visit the main show notes page here: https://www.clevergirlfinance.com/podcast-episodes/raising-your-childrento-be-financially-successful-grownups If you haven't already, be sure to subscribe to the Clever Girl Finance Podcast on iTunes, SoundCloud or Stitcher. Get access to my budgeting tools in my resource library on www.CleverGirlFinance.com Check out the Clever Girl Finance YouTube Channel at YouTube.com/CleverGirlFinance Do you follow Clever Girl Finance on Instagram yet? You should! www.instagram.com/clevergirlfinance

Stefanie O'Connell is a nationally recognized millennial money expert and author of the book, 'The Broke and Beautiful Life' and she has appeared on CBS News, Fox & Friends, ABC World News and The Dr. Oz Show. Her work has also been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Glamour, SUCCESS magazine, Oprah Magazine and various other print and digital media outlets. She's all about helping women on how to develop rich habits and feel as confident with their money as they do in the rest of their lives. On this episode of the podcast Stefanie shares how she found herself broke and living paycheck to paycheck in New York city and how an expensive visit to the dentist's office was the awakening for her to turn her financial situation around. She talks about pursuing her passion as an actor and having the experience of a lifetime but being limited by the financial instability of not earning enough and how she turned that limitation into an outlet to achieve financial success by deciding to start really paying attention to her finances and the type of life she really wanted for herself and taking a new approach to get there. She's now transitioned into a full time business owner with StefanieOconnell.com and she share exactly how she went from acting to finance. Some other things we touched on include business budgeting and diversifying your income. I had such a great time recording this episode with Stefanie as you'll hear from how much we were laughing. Money is such a serious topic that sometimes you just have to laugh about it. I hope you guy enjoy this episode as much as I enjoyed recording it! Stefanie's website is http://StefanieOconnell.com For the books, tools and resources mentioned in this episode, visit the main show notes page here: https://www.clevergirlfinance.com/podcast-episodes/from-living-paycheck-to-paycheck-to-building-a-successful-full-time-business If you haven't already, be sure to subscribe to the Clever Girl Finance Podcast on iTunes, SoundCloud or Stitcher. Get access to my free budgeting tools in my resource library on www.CleverGirlFinance.com Check out the Clever Girl Finance YouTube Channel at YouTube.com/CleverGirlFinance Do you follow Clever Girl Finance on Instagram yet? You should! www.instagram.com/clevergirlfinance Ready to get accountable? Join the Clever Girl Finance Accountability Program over at www.clevergirlfinanceacademy.com

Have you heard that the average millionaire has 7 streams of income? Well you heard right! On this episode of the podcast, I'm discussing the different types of income streams and sharing examples for each of them. Ideally, your wealth building strategy should be a based on a combination of four actions taken consistently that I would describe as the four pillars of wealth building and they include: 1. Reducing your expenses (debt, living expenses etc) 2. Budgeting properly 3. Increasing your income 4. Putting your money to work for you the right way Increasing your income allows you to pay off your debts faster, save more and invest more. It can greatly accelerate the time it takes for you to accomplish your financial goals so much more than if you were just solely focused on reducing your expenses. So listen in to learn about the types of income and different avenues through which you can increase your income and accelerate your wealth building journey. Get access to my free budgeting tools in my resource library on www.CleverGirlFinance.com Check out the Clever Girl Finance YouTube Channel at YouTube.com/CleverGirlFinance Do you follow Clever Girl Finance on Instagram yet? You should! www.instagram.com/clevergirlfinance Ready to get accountable? Join the Clever Girl Finance Accountability Program over at www.clevergirlfinanceacademy.com

On the podcast today I'm going over some key situations that will require you to review your budget in detail. Budgeting is a key financial action when it comes to building wealth. Your budget helps to guide your spending and saving decisions and basically helps you stay on track with your financial goals. As you get comfortable with creating a new budget in advance of every new month (because no two months are alike), it's important to keep in mind that certain situations might require you to review your budget in detail or even completely overhaul it so listen in :) Get access to my free budgeting tools in my resource library on www.CleverGirlFinance.com Check out the Clever Girl Finance YouTube Channel at YouTube.com/CleverGirlFinance Do you follow Clever Girl Finance on Instagram yet? You should! www.instagram.com/clevergirlfinance Ready to get accountable? Join the Clever Girl Finance Accountability Program over at www.clevergirlfinanceacademy.com

Weddings can be very, very, expensive and today, my guest is a listener of the podcast and also an expert wedding planner who is sharing some amazing wedding planning insights. Her name is Tereill Peay of CaterToTheBride.net and she's all about helping you get creative (and cost effective) when it comes to planning the wedding of your dreams. Tereill saved $20,000 while planning her wedding by getting a portion of her wedding sponsored and she's mastered exactly how you can create the wedding of your dreams. in this podcast episode, Tereill shares her own personal wedding planning story that lead her into the business as well as tips on: 1. How to be a guest at your own wedding 2. How to get your wedding sponsored 3. How to raise money for your wedding - 4. How to manage your costs on a fixed budget 5. How your wedding planner can pay for themselves Terreill's website is http://www.catertothebride.net For the books, tools and resources mentioned in this episode, visit the main show notes page here: https://www.clevergirlfinance.com/podcast-episodes/creative-ways-to-have-the-wedding-of-your-dreams If you haven't already, be sure to subscribe to the Clever Girl Finance Podcast on iTunes, SoundCloud or Stitcher. Get access to my free budgeting tools in my resource library on www.CleverGirlFinance.com Check out the Clever Girl Finance YouTube Channel at YouTube.com/CleverGirlFinance Do you follow Clever Girl Finance on Instagram yet? You should! www.instagram.com/clevergirlfinance Ready to get accountable? Join the Clever Girl Finance Accountability Program over at www.clevergirlfinanceacademy.com

On this episode I'm sharing a couple updates on what's happening at Clever Girl Finance including the fact that I'm writing my first book! - What I covered on this episode: I'm get into answering some of the questions that have been sent to me and they include questions on: 1. How to end living pay check to pay check when you earn a good income. 2. Where and how to properly save for vacations. 3. The difference between investing and trading. 4. How to manage being an entrepreneur and an introvert. The website I mentioned to compare bank account reviews and savings rates is BankRate.com Get access to my free budgeting tools in my resource library on www.CleverGirlFinance.com Check out the Clever Girl Finance YouTube Channel at YouTube.com/CleverGirlFinance Do you follow Clever Girl Finance on Instagram yet? You should! www.instagram.com/clevergirlfinance Ready to get accountable? Join the Clever Girl Finance over at www.clevergirlfinance.com

When it comes to personal finance the main focus is typically on the outcome - the financial success but it's also very important to discuss the transitions and emotions that leads you to that financial success and what it feels like to be on that journey including the peaks and valleys. To have this conversation, I've invited an amazing lady and friend of mine Xenia Viray. Xenia is the owner of a women's clothing boutique in Brooklyn called Myths of Creation (mythsofcreation.com), focused on building community and teaching women how to empower themselves. On this episode, Xenia and I have a very honest conversation about her money story and on money in general. She shares her emotions around money, how she's gotten to the point where she feels deserving of financial success and financial wellness. She shares the role money played in her upbringing, the lies she was telling herself about money, why she wasn't putting money on the top of her priority list and her changed thinking around money and her goals for financial success now and in the future. I also got completely vulnerable with Xenia she pulls it out of me) in our conversation about my personal challenges around being deserving and proud of my financial success. - How to keep in touch with Xenia: Follow her on social media @shopmythsofcreation and on her website at mythsofcreation.com - Stop by her store at: Myths of Creation Brooklyn 421 Graham Ave, Brooklyn NYC - The podcast episodes Xenia mentions: Unmistakeable Creative - https://apple.co/2BXwCG3 Get access to my free budgeting tools in my resource library on www.CleverGirlFinance.com Check out the Clever Girl Finance YouTube Channel at YouTube.com/CleverGirlFinance Do you follow Clever Girl Finance on Instagram yet? You should! www.instagram.com/clevergirlfinance Ready to get accountable? Join the Clever Girl Finance Accountability Program over at www.clevergirlfinanceacademy.com