Entrepreneurs and personal finance gurus, Marcus Garrett (https://www.themarcusgarrett.com/) and Michelle Jackson (https://michelleismoneyhungry.com/) join Harlan Landes, founder of The Plutus Foundation to explore how personal finance content creators, regardless of racial identity, can support Black History Month, Black businesses, speak respectfully about Black issues to their followers, and more. Please bring your questions and join in the conversation!

Sandy Smith, Jordon Cox, and this year’s host of the Plutus Awards, Joe Saul-Sehy, join Plutus Awards founder Harlan Landes to discuss the legacy of the premier ceremony recognizing excellence in financial media.

Eugenié George joins Plutus Foundation founder, Harlan Landes, to discuss how adverse childhood experiences create obstacles for making sound financial decisions and affect your money story.

Show notes
There are a lot of books, podcasts, and websites giving financial advice without considering culture, environment, or trauma. These issues directly affect our view and experiences with money and should inform the financial help we give.

Eugenié George from The Money and Flow Podcast talks with Harlan Landes about adverse childhood experiences, ACE scores, and how these have an effect on people’s ability to implement sound financial strategies and take basic financial advice.

Webinar highlights
How does a parent’s trauma affect a child
How understanding your trauma can help you move forward
The need to find the correct financial help to nurture your situation
What ACE Scores are and how they affect your money story

About Eugenié George
Eugenié uses her over 10+ plus years’ experience in tech, education, and finances to lead high-achieving individuals to understand their money habits. Eugenié uses non-traditional ways of understanding business and personal goals because many were not taught the true skills of money. A master at mindset, Eugenié teaches and coaches a wide range of individuals and her genius has created a new method of money through research, practice, and creativity, taking the anxiety around math and money away and making them work for you.

Eugenie is the author of Our Money Stories. You can follow her on Twitter and Instagram as @_eugeniegeorge.

Martin Dasko, Candice Latham, and Katie R. join Plutus Foundation social media manager, Sarah Potter, to discuss Instgram’s IGTV and Tik-Tok, and how you may leverage these tools to grow your business and audience.

Show notes
Many people create great content but what is the best platform to get your content seen and grow your audience? With Youtube, Facebook, Instagram, and now TikTok, do you use one of them or tackle them all?

Candice Latham, Martin Dasko, and Katie R. join Sarah Potter for this week’s podcast on how to leverage TikTok and Instagram. They discuss the benefits of TikTok and Instagram and the best ways to use them in content creation.

Webinar highlights
Should you cross-promote content on different platforms?
Are followers or views more important?
Dealing with negative comments and trolls on TikTok
How can these platforms actually make you money?
Best ways to make addictive content for your audience

About Katie R.
Katie R. is the owner of the personal finance brand @debtfreephoenix found on Instagram and TikTok where she specializes in creating budget humor content and making personal finance more accessible to people in High Cost Of Living (HCOL) areas. Katie also runs a small business found at olivineallure.com and @olivineallure on Instagram and Facebook where she and her team are passionate about equipping small businesses and brands with the tools to succeed in the online market today through content creation and social media mentorship.

About Candice Latham
Candice Latham started using her skills from her nine-to-five ad agency job to start her own design business on the side so she could reach her goals faster. She documented her journey of moving her net worth from the negatives into the positives while paying off $47,000 worth of debt. Candice now motivates millennials to be the hero in their finances as well as helping business owners with their marketing, social media, and graphics at The Latham Agency.

You can follow Candice on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter.

About Martin Dasko
Martin Dasko focuses on personal finance for 20-somethings on his blog, Studenomics. He earned his BComm in college and found it to be useless when it comes to real-world experience. From that point on, Dasko has gone on to start multiple blogs, travel the world, and become a coach to many in need. You can find him writing in a coffee shop or trying to lift weights after chugging a few cups of coffee.

You can follow Martin on Twitter and Instagram.

Wendy Mays joins Plutus Foundation executive director, Harlan Landes, to talk about the real estate climate during the COVID-19 for homebuyers as well as investors.

Show notes
Dealing with COVID has been tough enough, but many have to consider the effects of COVID on the economy. Some people are interested in buying or selling a home, and others are looking for investment opportunities because of the low interest rates.

Wendy Mays shares her real estate experience with us about the current housing climate. Is it a good time to buy? Or sell? For first-time homebuyers as well as seasoned investors, here’s how to navigate the real estate market today.

Webinar highlights
Is it safe to buy a home only using a virtual showing of a property?
Considerations for first-time homebuyers
How government involvement will affect the housing market in the near future
Some things you can do to prepare for a home purchase
Is it a good time to refinance your mortgage?

About Wendy Mays
Wendy is a mompreneur, former criminal defense attorney, who now hosts a top-ranking podcast and YouTube Channel that aims to inspire and encourage families of all shapes and demographics to Dump Debt, Build Wealth and Budget Better while living a joy-filled life. In three years, she and her husband have eliminated $650,000.00 from their lives, have begun real estate investing and plan to reach Financial Independence by the time they reach 55. She and her husband reside in San Diego with their 6 children and 2 German Shepherds.

Kathleen Celmins joins Plutus Foundation executive director, Harlan Landes, to discuss how business owners can create and use webinars to grow their businesses.

Show notes
Webinars are a popular marketing tool for online business owners. Unfortunately, many of them struggle with how to create one and how to utilize it in the right way to grow their business.

Thankfully, Harlan is speaking with Kathleen Celmins on today’s podcast, the master of webinars. She has helped many business owners start successful webinar series and she is walking us through how to do the same.

Webinar highlights
How the 30/40/30 framework is used to build a successful webinar
The 2 topics that work really well for a webinar
What is one thing that webinars do that is better than any other lead magnet?
The right kind of ad to get people to attend your webinar
Should you use a fake live webinar or stick to authentic ones?

About Kathleen Celmins
Kathleen Celmins is a marketing-focused web designer and digital marketing expert. She’s been working online since 2011 and is launching a brand new video content marketing agency, AmplifiedNOW, that helps people create engaging videos around the topics they know best. Find out more at AmplifiedNOW.com.

Kathleen offers coaching. You can follow her on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.

Lillian Karabaic and Sandy Smith join Plutus Foundation executive director, Harlan Landes, to talk about qualifying for and receiving unemployment benefits during and due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Show notes
The number of people filing for unemployment benefits continues to rise with COVID’s persistence. Many more are unsure if they should file and what exactly they should apply for under the CARES Act.

Harlan Landes sits with Sandy Smith and Lillian Karabaic to discuss all your burning unemployment questions. They unravel some of the confusion about what to apply for, who is eligible, and the additional benefits due to COVID-19.

Webinar highlights
Who qualifies for unemployment assistance under the CARES Act
How the implementation of unemployment benefits offered by the CARES act differ by state
The availability of help for undocumented workers
A plea to apply for Social Services and overcome the mental hurdles to receiving aid

About Lillian Karabaic
As the host of Oh My Dollar!, a weekly syndicated financial advice radio show and podcast, Lillian Karabaic has built a reputation for talking money without being boring or stiff. The New York Times called her show “endearingly quirky”. She covering the kinds of modern money issues that don’t fit in the white-picket-fence salary world. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, CBS, NPR, Forbes, and Vox Media. Her cat-filled purrsonal finance illustrated book, A Cat’s Guide to Money, is in its second print run. She has 12 Bowie costumes and is an aspiring spandex style icon.

Follow Lillian on Instagram, YouTube, and Twitter.

About Sandy Smith
Sandy has been a personal finance blogger since January 1, 2009, when she resolved to get out of debt or die trying. No, no, that was 50 Cent. At age 29 she was frankly tired of paying living paycheck-to-paycheck and feeling as if she would never get ahead financially. Her blog, Yes I Am Cheap, was born out of sheer frustration with the hope of paying down a $120,000 debt much faster than the average debtor without filing for bankruptcy.

Sandy is also a Senior Certified HR Professional and the founder of the Elevate Influencer conference, an event designed to reach financial influencers whose audience is primarily comprised of individuals of color.

Follow Sandy on Twitter and Instagram, and find her at The Hustle Crew.

Kayla Sloan joins Sarah Potter to talk about being a virtual assistant, as a career or side job, anytime or during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Show notes
The demand for virtual assistants is growing, but not everyone who is interested in this path knows where to start. Many are unsure about what skills are needed, how to find legitimate work, or what to charge for their services.

Sarah Potter speaks with Kayla Sloan about the virtual assistant field and her advice to people seeking to make it a side hustle or full-time career. Gleaning from her $10k VA course and her free workshop, Kayla answers questions for those seeking to hire or become a virtual assistant.

Webinar highlights
How she was able to make $10k per month as a virtual assistant
What are the job growth opportunities for VAs
How can you go about raising your rates as a VA
The importance of setting boundaries with clients

About Kayla Sloan
Kayla Sloan is a business coach for virtual assistants and a business systems and outsourcing expert. Kayla has been working with successful entrepreneurs since 2014. Kayla’s one-on-one consulting program, Six Figure Systems, helps online business owners scale with systems and building a virtual team. She’s also the founder of $10K VA, her flagship program where she teaches virtual assistants how to earn up to $10,000 per month working online.

You can follow Kayla at @kaylarsloan on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and Pinterest.

Athena Lent joins Miranda Marquit to discuss the difficulties at-risk communities are enduring due to COVID-19 and the resources to help these communities.

Show notes
Over 30 million Americans have filed for unemployment. How many of them are high-risk individuals who have now lost their health insurance? How many more are suffering because they are underpaid, unbanked, or unable to stop working in potentially harmful conditions?

Miranda Marquit speaks with Athena Lent of Money Smart Latina about the difficulties at-risk communities are enduring due to the pandemic. They discuss the challenges these communities face in finding resources, employing those resources, and staying safe in the midst of Coronavirus.

Webinar highlights
What makes some communities more at-risk and what are some of the risks that they face?
How can someone find resources available to them if they do not have internet access?
What are some of the financial priorities for at-risk individuals?
The difficulty when officials weigh the health of individuals against the health of the economy

Links mentioned in the webinar
https://www.dol.gov/coronavirus
https://bench.co/blog/operations/cares-act/
https://wallethacks.com/maslows-hierarchy-of-financial-needs/

About Athena Lent
A twice nationally recognized youth development expert and certified trauma specialist, Athena Lent is the founder behind Money Smart Latina, a place where Latinas and finance meet. She has recently been featured in the New York Times, Business Insider, and CNBC.

Once homeless in high school, Athena has gone on to complete several college degrees as an example that your demographics do not determine your destiny. As a program manager in Arizona, she helps connect over 1,000 youth per year to post-secondary opportunities while removing barriers to their success.

When not working, Athena can be found reading a Stephen King book with her main man, a polydactyl cat named Harrison George.

You can follow Athena on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook.

Alanna Anthony and Stephen Hughes join Plutus Foundation founder, Harlan Landes, to discuss the systemic issues that restrict minorities from building wealth and achievement.

Show notes
Why are people protesting and crying for change when slavery ended centuries ago? For some, because their experiences have not intersected with those that many people of color face, the idea of systemic racism does not exist.

Harlan Landes has a candid conversation with Steven Hughes and Alanna Anthony about some of the historical events that helped extend a culture of inequality that currently lies beneath the surface of this nation.

Webinar highlights:
Why the Emancipation Proclamation did not mean freedom for everyone
The effect of keeping people of color out of positions of power and influence
What is redlining and its effect on ones ability to building wealth
Some things you can do to help the efforts of people of color

About Alanna Anthony
Alanna Anthony is a Certified Financial Educator and Money Coach at Financialdemics, a YouTube channel, and blog where she teaches women about the foundation of personal finance. She is also the Co-Host of Single Moms On The Money Podcast. She has paid off over $65,000 in debt so far and helps her clients become confident about money so they can use it as a tool to reach their goals.

About Steven M. Hughes
Steven M. Hughes is a money expert, speaker, and social entrepreneur. The Columbia, SC native has empowered thousands of people to take action to make positive life changes through his speaking engagements, workshops, and curriculum design. After making every money mistake imaginable as a college student, Steven took massive action over the course of the next four years to improve his financial situation.

He’s now a financial psychology and behavioral finance nerd and weekly on-air money expert for the CBS affiliate in Columbia. In 2014, Steven founded Know Money Inc, a nonprofit that teaches college students how to think and talk about money differently, so they can live carefree, responsibly. When he’s not speaking to groups about money or creating financial wellness programs for companies, he’s helping other financial professionals tell their story to their target market.

You can follow Steve on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook.