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#FinCon21
Tracks include Blogging, Podcasting, Video, Social Media, Advisor, Freelance/Entrepreneurship, Solutions, Discussion Panels, Money Conversations, Success Labs, Solutions, and Quick Money Talks. For #FinCon21, sessions will be a mix of live presentations in Austin and pre-recorded. Both Austin and Virtual attendees will have access to all sessions.
The Money Conversations track presents enlightening, educational, and even sometimes challenging discussions about important financial topics and issues that affect people both inside and outside of your typical sphere of influence. The goal is to help creators become more aware of others’ diverse perspectives and life experiences so that they, in turn, can create better personal finance content.
While other breakout session tracks are platform-focused, success labs offer a behind-the-scenes look at successful content creation and promotion across a variety of platforms. These sessions will be primarily story-driven but will also give attendees actionable tips, advices, and ideas for creating success on their own platforms.
ORIENTATION
Jaspreet Singh is a serial entrepreneur, licensed attorney, and the founder of Minority Mindset, a financial media company & YouTube Channel with over 900,000 subscribers.
Although he didn’t receive any formal financial education – he’s on a mission to make financial education fun and accessible.
Jaspreet is the CEO of Minority Mindset – a financial media company. The Minority Mindset YouTube channel has changed the lives of nearly 1,000,000 YouTube subscribers with their videos being viewed 5 million times a month.
Jaspreet is self-taught. His parents are immigrants from the state of Punjab, India. Like many of his second generation Indians, Jaspreet grew up thinking that he needed to become a doctor. But he found a new path. He started his first business – an event planning company – when he was in college.
However, Jaspreet didn’t see a future with that company. After graduating college, Jaspreet pursued law school where he continued his entrepreneurial and financial ventures.
He started by investing in real estate. But he quickly realized that if we wanted to continue investing in real estate, he’d need access to more capital. So, Jaspreet jumped back into entrepreneurship.
After a couple years of research, Jaspreet invented a water-resistant athletic sock.
During the launch of his sock company, he was scammed by a marketing company which cost him thousands of dollars. This scam pushed him to start an educational social media page, which he called Minority Mindset. The Minority Mindset implies thinking differently than the majority of people. It’s not a racial minority.
He started Minority Mindset as a hobby just to teach others how to not make the same mistakes he made.
This social media page eventually grew into a YouTube Channel. Around the time when his YouTube Channel hit 100,000 subscribers – his sock patent was denied. At this point, he was forced to make a decision…
Continue with the sock company, or pursue Minority Mindset?
The sock company was profitable while Minority Mindset was not. He decided to follow his passion and pursued Minority Mindset full time after graduating law school.
Now Minority Mindset has grown into a full media company. His company is completely bootstrapped. As he likes to say, YouTube funds his business. He uses his viral YouTube channel’s revenue to fund and grow Minority Mindset.
His brand has helped countless people get out of debt, start investing, and create a plan towards building wealth.
Vanessa is Lead Investigator at Science of People. She is the bestselling author of Captivate: The Science of Succeeding with People. Her book has been translated into 16 different languages, and more than 36 million people have watched her on YouTube.
She regularly speaks to innovative companies including Google, Facebook, Comcast, MillerCoors, Microsoft, and Penguin Random House. She has been a spokesperson for Dove, American Express, Clean and Clear, and Symantec.
Vanessa shares tangible skills—including her insights on how people work—to improve interpersonal communication and leadership. She has developed a science-based framework for understanding different personalities to improve our EQ and to help us communicate with colleagues, clients, and customers. Her TEDx London Talk on the science of charisma has been seen over 2,000,000 times.
Vanessa works with entrepreneurs, growing businesses, and trillion-dollar companies, and has been featured on CNN, BBC, CBS, Fast Company, Inc., Entrepreneur, USA Today, the Today Show, and many more.
Millions visit her website, ScienceofPeople.com, every month for her methods that turn “soft skills” into actionable, masterable frameworks that can be applied in daily life. Hundreds of thousands of students have taken her communication courses on Udemy, CreativeLive, and LinkedIn as well as her flagship course: People School.
Vanessa is renowned for teaching science-backed people skills to audiences around the world, including SXSW, MIT, and CES, to name a few. Her groundbreaking and engaging workshops and courses teach individuals how to succeed in business and life by understanding the hidden dynamics of people.
Julien and Kiersten, the couple behind the award-winning blog and forthcoming book, rich & REGULAR®, are known for their pull-no-punches yet humorous creative storytelling about life and money.
In addition to their platfom rich & REGULAR, the Saunders also produce the video series, Money on the Table and Money Editors at Success Magazine. Based in Atlanta, Georgia, their mission is to inspire the African American community to consider and adopt the FIRE lifestyle as a path to building generational wealth.
The couple has used frugal living, real estate, index fund investing and their online business to set themselves on a path to achieving financial independence by 2021. They’ve paid off $200,000 in five years and their story has been featured in The NY Times, Forbes, CBS This Morning, Marketwatch and more.
When they’re not sharing stories about their experiences with money, they are parents to their son Beau, traveling the world or searching for their next great meal.
Jamila Souffrant is a podcaster, writer, money coach and founder of JourneytoLaunch.com where she shares her journey to reach Financial Independence while helping others do the same.
Jamila is considered a go-to financial thought leader in the personal finance field and is the resident financial expert on a weekly segment on News12, the most watched local TV news-station in NYC and has been featured in other notable media outlets such as the NY Times, ESSENCE, Refinery 29, Money Magazine, CNBC, CBS, Business Insider and more. The Journey To Launch Podcast has over 2+ million total downloads, was named one of “27 Podcasts You Need To Start Listening To” by BuzzFeed” & won Podcast of the Year at the 11th Annual Plutus Awards.
Jamila and her husband saved $169,000 in two years and are debt free besides their mortgage. She is also a mother of three young children and lives in Brooklyn, NY.
HOST • AUSTIN
Afford Anything
Paula Pant is a prominent leader of the Financial Independence Retire Early (FIRE) movement and an enthusiastic investor with a soft spot for spreadsheets.
As the Founder of Afford Anything, a personal finance and financial independence website with over 65,000 newsletter subscribers, and host of the award-winning Afford Anything podcast, Paula has led thousands of freedom-seekers to live life on their terms through her relatable wisdom and expertise.
The Afford Anything podcast has over 16 million downloads, listeners in over 150 countries, and accolades such as The New York Times naming it one of “7 Podcasts Your Wallet Will Love”.
Paula is frequently featured in financial media including The New York Times, Washington Post, Kiplinger, and Forbes. She has appeared on Yahoo Finance, Talks at Google, and Marketplace Money.
HOST • AUSTIN
Marriage Kids and Money
Andy Hill is the award-winning family finance expert behind Marriage Kids and Money – a platform dedicated to helping young families build wealth and thrive.
Andy’s advice and personal finance experience have been featured in major media outlets like CNBC, Forbes, MarketWatch, Kiplinger’s Personal Finance and NBC News. Trusted as a personal finance influencer and corporate financial wellness speaker, Andy’s message of family financial empowerment has resonated with listeners, readers and viewers across the world.
When he’s not “talking money”, Andy enjoys roughhousing with his two kids, singing karaoke with his wife and watching Marvel movies.
HOST • VIRTUAL
Classy Climb
North Carolina native, Ericka Williams is a business woman excelling in the trucking industry with 12 Semi Trucks/9+ properties, a popular six-figure YouTuber, and author based out of Austin, Texas. Ericka specializes in lead generation, entrepreneurship, and passive income.
Ericka is the creator of Classy Climb School that includes courses, mentorship, and consulting for aspiring entrepreneurs, executives, and freelancers. Her brand specializes in helping you create multiple streams of income, growing your business, and ultimately cultivating a work from anywhere lifestyle. Through this program, Ericka’s Classy Climb has helped over 6000+ paid consultations.
