Debt Free Like Me is series of workshops with grade-appropriate lessons for kids and fun and interactive workshops for parents where they will be exposed to essential financial principles.
These workshops will help low-income families and families from underrepresented populations form a firm financial foundation with which youth and their parents will be better equipped to avoid crippling financial mistakes. Unbanked youth and parents will also have an opportunity to open up a bank account.
These are a selection of the classes to be offered:
• Building a Better Budget
• Dumping Debt
• Understanding Your Credit Score…and How to Improve It!
• Following the 10-10-80 Rule (Give 10%, Save 10%, and Spend 80%)
• How to Go To College Debt Free
Olivia West is the co-founder & President of West Advisory Group. In less than ten years after graduating with her degree in Industrial Engineering from UB, Olivia & her husband Norman managed to pay off all of their student loan debt, credit card debt, car loans, and personal loans! Olivia is the co-author of the book “Debt Free at 33.” In this book Olivia and her husband help others discover how they managed to pay off over $170K worth of debt.
Mrs. West also serves as the “mom on duty” for Champions of Change, an organization that was started by her sons, Jeremiah & Joshua West when they were only 6 & 8 years old. Under Olivia’s leadership Champions of Change has taken over 75 foster children on an all expense paid trip to Disney, sent 67,000 lbs. of water to Michigan to aid in the Flint Water Crisis, delivered over tens of thousands of lbs. of food to needy families & served thousands of homeless people.
