December 10, 2025 • 32 mins
In this episode of the Teach Me Something, DJ Prostyle and Penny sit down with Ida Dale, an International MBA student at Berkeley College whose journey spans Norway, Australia, and now New York City. With experience in finance, tech, and cross-cultural community building, Ida shares how her global path has shaped her purpose and ambition.
Ida dives into why she chose Berkeley’s MBA in Finance, what sparked her passion for Web3, and how her roles as a SheFi Scholar and Stand With Crypto intern are helping her advocate for financial literacy in emerging technologies. She also reflects on her leadership roles on campus and beyond — from supporting Berkeley’s COO’s Office to uplifting women as the Social Media Coordinator for the International Association of Women’s NYC Chapter.
Together, we explore the international student experience, the importance of community, and the financial concepts everyone should understand today. Ida closes with advice for future global leaders — and, of course, her one-word answer to what Berkeley College means to her.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, what's up. This is DJ pro Style.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
And this is Penny Tellas and this is Teach Me Something,
brought to you by Berkeley College. Welcome back, he said,
teach Me Something.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
No, no, no, no, Welcome back to season two of Teaching
Me Something podcast that's right, presented by Berkeley College.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
I am pro Style and.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I am Penny, and we are.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
So excited today absolutely.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Because we have a special guest with us. We have
an international.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
We're going international.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
We're going international this episode with Ida, who is a
Berkeley College student. She is in the Master of Business
Administration program. And if that's not impressive enough, she is
also an inspiration and motivation in tech right now, working
with Crypto, working with fintech. So I am so excited
(00:57):
to bring in Ida to this episode. So welcome Smaller,
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
I was so excited to be here.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Yes, let's get right to Crypto, which I invested non
playing playing, So how you feeling.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
I'm feeling good. Yeah, this is very exciting, first time
for me being on a podcast.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
So this is your first podcast. Yes, I'll apologize in advance.
They're not all like this, Oh really, they're not all
this amazing now playing like I flipped that.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
We're very spicy.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
We really are good to know. You're going to get
a lot of brother sister personality here. So Ida, let's
start with the global transcendent journey that you've had. You've
lived in Norway, You've lived in Australia. How has that
global pathway shaped you?
Speaker 4 (01:50):
That global pathway has definitely like shaped me in a
way I would never expected because living abroad for so
many years and being exposed to so many different cultures
has learned me how to adapt to people in a way,
if that makes sense. So I feel like I'm able
to read people more easily, and just when walking into
(02:11):
a room, I kind of like sense the energy easily,
if that makes sense. Yeah, And also like for future work,
like when working in teams these days, the world is
so globalized, so you're always going to work with people
from other cultures. So I think that has benefited me
(02:31):
because I'm able to understand their way of thinking and
not just doing it my way. I can adapt to
their way too. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
How has it helped you when your career? Has it
helped you with my cultural communications, my career, adapting your
business mindset? Like, how has that influenced.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
You, I feel like obviously since we I'm born and
raised in Norway, so that's a totally different culture than
you guys, for instance, and coming here to America, I
have had to learn how to adapt to your ways
of doing.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Stuff, apologize.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
New York. So it's a best It's tough. I've had
to learn how to toughen up and definitely speak up
for myself. And yeah, it's been a learning curve.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Is it is? It a big difference from Norway and
like New York City?
Speaker 4 (03:26):
It is. I'm not gonna lie, it's a huge difference.
What's like the largest because Norwegians we're very reserved and
we don't like to stand out from the crowd. We
just like like to go with the flow and stay
in the back. But Americans are all about like, yeah here,
I am like, yeah, standing out and.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
So we seem crazy.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Yeah okay, sort of, but in a good way. I
like it.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
I like, yeah, in the backgrounds more like I want
to be crazy.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Yeah, DJ pro Style renowns home person Yeah, okay, home brand,
DJ pro Style in the background.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
So, so how did you come across Berkeley College first
of all? And what got you into you know, inspiring
it to pursue an NBA finance at.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
That's actually a very long story, but yeah. Time. So,
after I graduated in Sydney, I decided I didn't want
to work. I needed to learn more stuff and educate myself.
I wanted to do a master's in something, and I
originally applied for a school in Copenhagen in a CBS.
If you guys have heard of that school, I don't know.
(04:29):
It's a very good school, but I was missing a
few points in finance qualify for the program. I applied
for an master's in innovation and entrepreneurship, and I just
expected it to work out. I expected to get in,
even though I didn't I knew I wasn't going to
get in. I just hoped it would magically work out
for me. So when the day came and I got
(04:52):
the rejection letter, I was just like, I was panicking,
even though I knew I was going to get rejected.
I didn't have a or a plant seat or nothing.
I was stuck in my hometown with my family, and
that's not what I wanted. So I started to do
some research and just learning about schools in other cities.
(05:13):
I applied for a bunch of schools in London and
New York obviously, but since Berkeley has a very strong
and good reputation in Scandinavia and I have a lot
of friends that went to Berkeley, so I just decided
that Berkeley was the best fit for me. And it's
in the middle of Manhattan. New York couldn't be any better.
(05:35):
And the NBA just seemed like the perfect fit because
the curriculum is built on real work experience, life experiences, right,
So I just felt like that was the perfect fit
for me at the time, and I just decided to
go for it.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
I love that, So why not take the program online?
Why come to New York?
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Oh No, I would never. I would never stay back home.
I am a very adventurous person and I decided I
needed to put myself out there. And I feel like
New York is the ultimate place to be if you
want to pursue a good career, especially in finance or
any other opportunities, it's the place to be. And I
(06:16):
just felt like I couldn't grow where My hometown is
a very small place in Norway, and it's not Yeah,
it's just not it for me.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
And you have grown.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
I have grown.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Yes, you are a Shefi scholar and an intern at
stand with.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Cryptos then with cryptos.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
So what sparked that interest in Web three? And talk
to us a little bit about what that means for
those listeners that may not have that knowledge.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
About Web three. Okay, I can speak about this all day.
I can start off with, like, what's sparked my interest
in Web three? Because growing up, my brother he's older
than me, and he's just been like nagging about crypto,
blockchain my entire life, and I've just thought like, whatever,
(07:11):
this is a guy thing. I'm not gonna do this.
But it's always been there in the background, if that
makes sense. And after I really never had any interest
in Web three until I moved to New York, to
be honest, because it's just I've tried investing in some
crypto when I was eighteen, but it was just never
really something that stuck with me. But after I moved
(07:33):
to New York, the whole thing started. When I met Randy.
Obviously you know Randy Gomes. Yeah, he's my queen. I'm
really thankful for Randy. But I met her at Berkeley
and she introduced me to Web three. Because she's in
this space herself. She just took me under her wing
and brought me to all of these conferences and events
(07:55):
and taught me everything about Web three and the importance
of it. And yeah, she brought me to the big
event with Coinbase in DC earlier this year, Experiential Learning
with Berkeley.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Our corporate learning partnerships at Berkeley College. She's also a
Berkeley alumna and a tech founder, So yeah, Randy.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Yeah, she's amazing. So she introduced me to web the
Web three space, and it's just been a journey ever since.
It's just something that I find very valuable. Obviously, since
I have the fundamental understanding of finance and just the
fact that Web three is going to be our future.
(08:40):
It's just something. Yeah, I think it's very interesting and
I'm very passionate about. But yeah, you want me to
explain anything about Web three, I forgot that part.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
So like explain so web three, like I says, I'm
still trying to understand, right, So for the person out
there listening right now watching, what exactly is Web three?
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Okay? So I'm going to start off with Web two,
which is what we know everything like our banks, our
social media platforms like I'm going to take this as
an example, like Facebook, for instance, that's a Web two
platform we have there's an intermediary, there's a second party
that owns Facebook, right, which means Facebook owns our data.
(09:21):
Everything you post on Facebook is owned by Facebook. So
if you ever tried to delete something off Facebook, like
your profile or something old profile, it's it doesn't work.
Like I've tried for several years my old profile, it's
never going to go away. But with Web three, everything
is decentralized, so that means there's no intermediary, there's no
third party. We own our own data. Yeah, so if
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you're sending money to your friend, if you're going to
send money to your friend, for example, with the Web
two space you would send it, it would go to
your bank, the bank would like approve the transaction, and
then it will go to your friend end. But with
the Web three, you with cryptocurrencies and blockchain, you're sending
you the money from your wallet that you own to
(10:08):
your friend and there's no third party. It's just build
up on blockchain transactions.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
That's what really made bitcoin popular. Yeah, people were using it.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
That's why I was always considered like almost almost like
the dark Web kind of situation.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Yeah, like people were using that because it was untraceable.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
I know. But we have much more ownership or over
our data these days with the Web three space, and
that's what I think is really important, because we want
to own our data and we want to own our money,
and with cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology, we can be our
own banks. And I think that's very important.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Yeah, especially for generations to come. I think we're Yeah,
they for us, they know everything, they know everything.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
They Web two got.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Us too, got us.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
My kids will be on Web three now.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Yeah, I hope, So, I hope.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
So that's awesome. Yeah, let me take it from here.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Okay, Well you're a student aid and receptionist in the
CEO's office yep, and an international student ambassador.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
What have these roles taught you about leadership, community, and
supporting students from around the world.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Yeah? I can. Yeah. First of all, I feel like
I have so many jobs. I get confused myself, like
so many titles. But obviously, like the community part, those
roles have definitely shaped how I see community and how
we build community because at Berkeley there are so many
students from so many diverse backgrounds and that makes every
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day different and everybody has a unique story. So I
feel like building the community at Berkeley, we have to
see each individual and learn everything about them to make
them feel seen and building a community. For me, it's
all about like being building like the momentum, being kind
and having the connection to each individual, if that makes sense,
(12:11):
So we can, yeah, just see everybody and have that
consistency in Yeah, that is.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
So beautiful that you have obtained a mentor Yeah, and
everything that you're receiving and you want to give back
and ensure that your classmates have that same experience, that's beautiful.
It's it's a holistic approach.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
I'm very very passionate about like teaching other students what
I know, because I wish somebody would have taught me
that before obviously. And financial literacy is very close to
my heart because I didn't grow up learning anything about
finance or anything. I had to learn everything myself, Like
starting I started investing when I was like eighteen. I
(12:57):
just brought my laptop to a cafe. I had some
extra money, and I was like, I need to do
something with this money. So I just watched a bunch
of YouTube videos and had to learn everything myself. But
I yeah, that's something that's, as I said, very close
to my heart. Teaching other people about finances and obviously
(13:18):
now web three that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Do you ever go back home.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Every now and then? I'm going back home now for Christmas?
Speaker 3 (13:25):
When you go there, do you sit down, like with
a group of people who were, like I try don't
know anything about this kind of stuff to say, let
me tell you what I've learned.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
That's what I'm sure they all come to you like
tell us that.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
What's I wish they would, But like I tried to
convince my mom, like last night, I was on a
call with her in the uber back home from the
Michigan blockchain conference that I went to with down with Crypto.
I try to teach her about like you have to
start investing money in this and this, and she's just like, oh,
yeah whatever. Yeah, she listens to me. But I don't
(13:56):
know if it's something about me being young that I
don't have the credit ability. Maybe I don't know, but yeah,
I love speaking about this topic.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
But well, you know, now you can add to your
belt that you were interviewed on a podcast. I can
subject matter expert and we can do a workshop on it.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Oh yeah, that would be amazing.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Because pro and I need to expand our portfolio. I
need to start with we need, we need, we need some,
we need some Web three in our lives.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
So speaking about community and impact. As the social media
coordinator again on other hats of the International Association of
Women's New York City chapters, you help uplift and connect women.
So what you enjoy the most about that work?
Speaker 4 (14:44):
What if I enjoying the most? Yeah, it's definitely the
community community part. Like bringing women together so they can
share their knowledge and become better and grow together and
uplift each other. Is what I love about that job.
Hosting events and and bringing in in experts. Especially for
(15:04):
me too, I love learning about new stuff. So when
I get to learn from a person that's smarter than me,
I'm like so thankful and happy because I love to
grow and I can imagine every other person would feel
the same way. So like creating this community where everybody
can learn from each other, I think that's amazing and
that's what I love about I a.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
W I am obsessed with this entire situation. As an
international student. You decided to not stay home, Yeah, to
travel to New York City come to Berkeley College because
word of mouth marketing, your friends attended. You're like, this
is the fit for me. And you have completely over
(15:45):
maximized this experience.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Yeah, and a movie.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
I mean, you've had like five jobs between this.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
You get Yellow their Dreams success.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
You've given by act to your student community. You've given
back to your soon to be alma mater because you
haven't even graduated yet, and you're working in Web three
with one of the largest infrastructured companies there is, and
you're attending all of these conferences. You're going to Capitol
Hill to advocate the Web three that is huge. Like, like,
(16:20):
I'm mind blown by your entire experience. And this is
this is the point of that your potential is our promise.
It's really your potential and bringing you into rooms. And
I always say it's not about and I don't know
prof to feel the same way, but it's not about
getting into the room. It's what are you going to
do once you're there? I know, And you have maximized that,
which brings us to your curiosity, your finance, and your innovation.
(16:47):
So what's one give us, like an insight to one
financial Web three concept that we could take away today
that any listener could take.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
Oh, I just want to like, I can't like emphasis enough,
like the fact that we with web three, you really
the owner of your own data. Like I explained to
you guys earlier, it's much you have more privacy, you
have more control of your own money. And it's just
more it's just a more security, secure platform for your money.
(17:16):
Let's see, for instance, with the government shutdown, that was
the scenario obviously, but if the banks were to shut down,
what are you guys going to do with your money?
Speaker 3 (17:24):
And it happened a few years ago, Yeah, some of
the smaller banks were shutting down.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
So how do you Okay, so I always say, like
my budgets the monopoly money, right, you know the board
game Monopoly. Yeah, okay, so right now it's in the cloud, right,
Your money's in crypto, everything's web based in the cloud.
How do you extract that to tangible assets?
Speaker 4 (17:48):
To tangible assets? Yeah, that's a very good question, Like
what do you mean in what ways?
Speaker 2 (17:57):
For example, Like okay, let's say you have you know,
ten thousand in crypto and you're like, well, I need
three thousand right now because I want to go physically
purchase something with money in my hand.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
Yeah, but that's the thing about crypto. It's not like
something physical like with the US dollars. But we have
something called stable coins that's backed up by the US dollar,
so it's more stable in some ways. But if you
want to go and purchase something, you can, you can.
We have all of these like transactions apps.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
That coinbase and all these kinds of things.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Oh yeah, but we have like borderless transaction apps and
systems and stuff which makes you can use cryptocurrencies. You
can purchase stuff with cryptocurrencies at the grocery store and
it's just going to like transaction. Yeah, if that makes
sense to you guys.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Okay, So I have ten dollars yep. Entertain me for
a second.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
I have.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
A ten dollar bill, okay, and I want to invest
this into crypto. Yeah, how do I do that? You
have a physical ten dollar bill? Where do I go
from there?
Speaker 4 (19:10):
I think you would have to put it in your
bank account first, for sure, because crypto is not it's
not something physical you can hold in your hands. Obviously.
That's the whole thing about being it being centralized but
I would definitely try to like play around with it.
I don't know if ten dollars is going to do much.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
But hypothetical, right, yeah, you can try. Hypothetically you invest
the ten bucks from your bank account, it goes into crypto. Yeah,
but you never see those ten dollars. It goes into
the magical world of you have money, but you physically
see it.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
I've been investing so like, so I'm obviously I've been
investing in some crypto.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Right, so you've been welding out kind of. I've always
you're in a web three, Web three, Web.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Two, so I'm going to learn about Web three.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
But no, like, there's even atm machines that are like bitcoin.
Have you seen in the bitcoin machines and all that kind?
You could actually go, yeah, they have them really yeah,
you could actually go take cash and and put your address,
your address into it.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Because many of our listeners may be thinking this, like, Okay,
if I have they.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Have I forgot where I've seen them. I haven't physically
seen one, but they have them. I know bitcoin, I'm
not sure about other coins.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
I learned something new about you everything. Yeah, time we
see but.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
I definitely missed the boat so many investments, like, but yes.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
What kind of currencies have you invested in? Do you know?
Speaker 1 (20:33):
You know, not to get so deep into.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
I mean, I obviously have bitcoin, and you know, I
kind of just off of the wave of what people
are coin, you know, dodge coin when it was going on,
and all those kind of theoreum and all those kinds
of things when they were happening, and still hold some
of that stuff, you know, and obviously got into I
think everyone kind of got into trading during COVID, right,
That's what kind of opened everybody's eyes to trading. I
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think I don't know any I mean I learned how
to trade during COVID, and I still today. I still
do it, whether it's four X or whether I'm on
another platform. Doing options. Trading is something I actually do,
and I actually love it, like it's fun for me.
It's almost like, you know, I didn't do it for
a living, but I've gotten good enough to understand it.
I've learned how to do the charts and follow things.
(21:17):
But that's more of a trading thing an investment thing.
Like the real smart investor puts money into something and
just doesn't look back like you like and you compound
it like you can put you know, like you know,
obviously I have separate accounts, let's say, like Fidelity for instance,
or something like that, where I have money that goes
there every month and they do their thing with it.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Yea. And throughout the.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Years you go back and look, yeah, yeah, you go
back and look and say, oh, but those things, you know,
they're gonna increase small. But at the same there's so
many ways to invest money these days.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
So if you can do.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
It, you know, I always see it now and I'm like,
same thing you say, I wish I knew this when
I was younger. The other day I saw something that
it was a breakdown on you know, if you wanted
to have a million dollars, how much would you have
to start investing? And it started at age sixty and
went down and I think at like in the sixties
you had to invest like every month like thirty something
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hundred or for something like that, for forty some hundred dollars,
and then in the fifties.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
That got smaller. Dah.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
But if you started like when you were born, it
was like twenty something dollars a month or something like that.
So all my kids like That's what I do for
my kids so that when they get to a certain point,
they're all gonna be like thanks that.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
We all have millions of dollars.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
I try to tell all of my friends that too.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Like, hey, so what were you guys doing? Like you
don't think about this when I was when I was born?
Where's my investment?
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Where's my doctorfolio?
Speaker 4 (22:43):
That's so funny.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
The only thing that scares me and answer me.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
So now with Web two or three or anything, right
when you're holding all this stuff in assets in in
these wallets, right, these digital wallets that are untraceable. If
you lose the wallet or you lose access to it,
it's gone.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
That can happen, Yes, nobody can.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
For your past is a scary part.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
So it's not like a bank that you could give
them your I D or you could get online.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
There is no like you lose.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
Yeah, so I would not recommend it if you're not
a response.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
One day I was like, do I have bitcoin sitting?
Speaker 3 (23:13):
And I started trying to research, and I started going
tough emails and I was like driving myself crazy trying
to figure out. I was like, I could have swear
I invested in this and then but if you don't remember,
it's over and you have to have like.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
These keyword right, you should have a password builder like
a vault, last pass or bitwarden. It's a password manager.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Yeah. You load everything in there and then it just
what are those on web two?
Speaker 4 (23:39):
And is it a decentralized ral because if it's on
web to, somebody else knows. Yeah, that's the thing.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Password it's a password manager on mobile to. Yeah, I'm
just saying, yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
I remember in Chief they recommended us like writing the
passwords down on a piece of paper. Yeah, and when
you lose the paper, I don't know. You just don't
lose the paper.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
So I had a friend of I had a friend
and this is a sidec who was really big on investments,
and I remember he told me he had a ton
of money they made and some of big investment and
then they put it on like an actual drive. Yeah,
and they held their money like on it thumb drive
and they put that drive in the bank and like
a safety deposit.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
By it's just.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
A way to access your money, you know. So I'm like,
so what if you lose the drive, They're like, then
you lose the money. It was like a million dollars.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
Yeah, but yeah, I think that's actually happened for a person,
Like he had all of this money on a drive,
bitcoin money and then he lost the drive.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
With the dump site that I think so yeah, with the.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Dump site, that's crazy that it.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Sounds like a Jason Bourne if you search it.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
I don't know the whole story, but he literally paid
like he he bought out a whole garbage dump site
because he threw away the drive, the drive that had.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Like what would be worth it?
Speaker 3 (24:58):
I don't think so, no searching billions of dollars. Yeah,
because if you invested thousands of dollars years and you know,
twenty third years ago whenever it was launched, it's worth
billions today. Right, So this guy literally paid and sat
and went through garbage of like decades to try.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
To find and I don't think he ever found it. No,
maybe it's still going on.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
Yeah, I think he's still searching. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Yeah, prot a garbage site.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Yeah, the kids looking through the still gloves on. Yeah,
we're out there, we're out there. Kids. Sports are over,
no football today, kids, let's go over here.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Oh my gosh, all right, I just so what is
your advice for the next global leader. So, students who
are stepping into new country systems opportunities, what would you
tell them that you wish someone would have told you.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
Oh, first of all, I would tell them that they
should be very proud of themselves for taking this step
and moving to a new country. And also my biggest
advice would be, do it even if you're scared. Always
do it when you're scared, because that's when you're going
to have this most learning curve on things. And yeah,
I just do things all the time when I'm scared.
(26:14):
I'm even scared doing this, but I know I'm going
to be happy when i'm done.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
I'm doing great. Oh, thank you a great episode. Thank
you you got Pro to talk about his investment crypt
and all his stuff coming out of his chef no
Matter expert over here. I love that.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
Yeah, it's funny because I tell people all the time
if you don't step outside of your comfort zone, you.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
Have to step out of your comfort zone to.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Excel with anything.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Yeah, it doesn't matter what you're doing, if you just
get really comfortable with being kind of like monotone. I
guess it's the word to use for it. Then you're
going to stay at that level. If you want to exceed,
you know, get advanced and do new things, you have
to be willing to step in.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
And we've spoken about that about how this podcast was
outside for sure of our comfort c zones.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
And then yeah, you guys are growing and thriving, award
winning podcast.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
Yes, that's wild, that's wild. Yeah, that's why I chose
finance too, because I honestly never thought I could do finance,
And when I had to choose my major, I thought
they were not really appealing to me because I felt
very comfortable. We have like marketing majors no offense, but
I love marketing, but like supply chain majors and stuff,
(27:25):
but all of them in those spaces I felt very comfortable,
and finance was the only subject that really made me
cry a few times. So I thought, like, this is
the right place for me, place for me to be,
because this is a place where I can grow and
challenge myself to another level. And that's definitely where I
want to be, Like I want to learn and grow
(27:47):
and do something new, and so I, yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
That's awesome, and listen, at the end of the day,
there's finance and everything everything. Yeah, every decision you made.
And this is the thing about disciplines. Yeah, so just
because you're an accounting discipline doesn't mean you're just going
to work at the stock market. Yeah right. You can
(28:14):
work for any type of company. When you're a marketer,
you can work for any type of company. So that's
important for students to know that when you're studying your discipline,
the opportunities are endless. Oh yeah, and especially when you
work in large cities such as this one. Oh yeah,
you can work in any industry.
Speaker 4 (28:31):
I feel like I'm the perfect example of that too,
because obviously I'm doing like traditional finance in school, but
I'm going to work in web three.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
So but those vibrations are helping you.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
Yeah, everything is connected, and they're always going to be
so many opportunities, especially in New York and major cities. Yeah,
it doesn't really matter if you're an accountant major or
finance major or anything. You can honestly do pretty much everything.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
I love that. So we close our episodes okay, the
same way, but with you, we're gonna a little different.
So in truth, teach me something fashion in one word,
what does Berkeley College mean to you?
Speaker 4 (29:15):
Okay? In one word.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
I was gonna say family first, but I feel like
everybody says that. I don't know, but it is family.
But I'm gonna say.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Anybody actually no, huh, nobody has said that.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Oh, we get community, we get empowerment.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
Okay, but Berkeley is definitely family for me. But I'm
going to say transformation. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
I like that. Transformation.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
Yeah, because the person I was when I arrived at
Berkeley and started my life in New York, I'm not
the same person now as I was then. If that
makes sense.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
New York will do that to somebody.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
Yeah, So Berkeley has transformed me.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Whether you want to or not, You're going to be
like a little more aggressive and be like.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
Wow, yeah, I don't This is attitude people have told me,
like are you an American? Now? What's going on? I'm like, yeah, hopefully.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
How long have you been here?
Speaker 4 (30:07):
A year and a half?
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Okay, how many semesteris do you have? Oft?
Speaker 4 (30:11):
I have one more.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
I'm going to graduate a senior. Yeah, I guess you
have senior itis yet.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
What's that?
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (30:18):
So is that?
Speaker 2 (30:19):
So senior itis is? How do I explain this? It's basically,
when you get to the last segment of your program.
You just feel above and you're like, no, I don't
want to do this, or I'm going to leave it
for later, or I can't wait to get out of here, senioritists.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
I'm definitely ready to start working. But I love being
a student, so I could be a forever student. I'm
like considering doing a PhD at this point.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Okay, yeah, do it and then come back and tell
us how it goes.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
Yeah, but at the same time, I need to make
some money and work. And but we'll see, never know
what's going to happen in New York.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
Well, this is definitely a city of opportunities. That's the greatest,
greatest thing about New York.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
I love this episode.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
Oh yay.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
You don't love all our episodes.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
You know, pro we always make it to the ends
and you just hit that. You know, it's.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
Always This has been a great one. And we could
probably do a whole episode of investing and.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
You know we should.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
You should come back and we can. We can do that.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
I would love to come back.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
That would be awesome because I need to learn things.
Teach me something.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
I teach me something, yeah, and you guys can teach
me something. Too.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
No, we're trying to learn more.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Oh okay, I love it well.
Speaker 4 (31:42):
Thank you all much, thank you, thank you so much
for having me.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
No, thank you for being here, and thank you all
are lovely. Listeners for tuning in to another episode of
Teach Me.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Something, presented by Berkeley College with Penny Dollars DJ pro Style.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Bye guys, hey, thanks for listening. Tune in next
Speaker 3 (32:01):
Week for all new episode of Teach Me Something, brought
to you by Berkeley College
Hey, what's up. This is DJ pro Style.
Speaker 2 (00:02):
And this is Penny Tellas and this is Teach Me Something,
brought to you by Berkeley College. Welcome back, he said,
teach Me Something.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
No, no, no, no, Welcome back to season two of Teaching
Me Something podcast that's right, presented by Berkeley College.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
I am pro Style and.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I am Penny, and we are.
Speaker 1 (00:22):
So excited today absolutely.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Because we have a special guest with us. We have
an international.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
We're going international.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
We're going international this episode with Ida, who is a
Berkeley College student. She is in the Master of Business
Administration program. And if that's not impressive enough, she is
also an inspiration and motivation in tech right now, working
with Crypto, working with fintech. So I am so excited
(00:57):
to bring in Ida to this episode. So welcome Smaller,
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
I was so excited to be here.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
Yes, let's get right to Crypto, which I invested non
playing playing, So how you feeling.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
I'm feeling good. Yeah, this is very exciting, first time
for me being on a podcast.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
So this is your first podcast. Yes, I'll apologize in advance.
They're not all like this, Oh really, they're not all
this amazing now playing like I flipped that.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
I love it.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
We're very spicy.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
We really are good to know. You're going to get
a lot of brother sister personality here. So Ida, let's
start with the global transcendent journey that you've had. You've
lived in Norway, You've lived in Australia. How has that
global pathway shaped you?
Speaker 4 (01:50):
That global pathway has definitely like shaped me in a
way I would never expected because living abroad for so
many years and being exposed to so many different cultures
has learned me how to adapt to people in a way,
if that makes sense. So I feel like I'm able
to read people more easily, and just when walking into
(02:11):
a room, I kind of like sense the energy easily,
if that makes sense. Yeah, And also like for future work,
like when working in teams these days, the world is
so globalized, so you're always going to work with people
from other cultures. So I think that has benefited me
(02:31):
because I'm able to understand their way of thinking and
not just doing it my way. I can adapt to
their way too. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
How has it helped you when your career? Has it
helped you with my cultural communications, my career, adapting your
business mindset? Like, how has that influenced.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
You, I feel like obviously since we I'm born and
raised in Norway, so that's a totally different culture than
you guys, for instance, and coming here to America, I
have had to learn how to adapt to your ways
of doing.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Stuff, apologize.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
New York. So it's a best It's tough. I've had
to learn how to toughen up and definitely speak up
for myself. And yeah, it's been a learning curve.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
Is it is? It a big difference from Norway and
like New York City?
Speaker 4 (03:26):
It is. I'm not gonna lie, it's a huge difference.
What's like the largest because Norwegians we're very reserved and
we don't like to stand out from the crowd. We
just like like to go with the flow and stay
in the back. But Americans are all about like, yeah here,
I am like, yeah, standing out and.
Speaker 2 (03:42):
So we seem crazy.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Yeah okay, sort of, but in a good way. I
like it.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
I like, yeah, in the backgrounds more like I want
to be crazy.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Yeah, DJ pro Style renowns home person Yeah, okay, home brand,
DJ pro Style in the background.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
So, so how did you come across Berkeley College first
of all? And what got you into you know, inspiring
it to pursue an NBA finance at.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
That's actually a very long story, but yeah. Time. So,
after I graduated in Sydney, I decided I didn't want
to work. I needed to learn more stuff and educate myself.
I wanted to do a master's in something, and I
originally applied for a school in Copenhagen in a CBS.
If you guys have heard of that school, I don't know.
(04:29):
It's a very good school, but I was missing a
few points in finance qualify for the program. I applied
for an master's in innovation and entrepreneurship, and I just
expected it to work out. I expected to get in,
even though I didn't I knew I wasn't going to
get in. I just hoped it would magically work out
for me. So when the day came and I got
(04:52):
the rejection letter, I was just like, I was panicking,
even though I knew I was going to get rejected.
I didn't have a or a plant seat or nothing.
I was stuck in my hometown with my family, and
that's not what I wanted. So I started to do
some research and just learning about schools in other cities.
(05:13):
I applied for a bunch of schools in London and
New York obviously, but since Berkeley has a very strong
and good reputation in Scandinavia and I have a lot
of friends that went to Berkeley, so I just decided
that Berkeley was the best fit for me. And it's
in the middle of Manhattan. New York couldn't be any better.
(05:35):
And the NBA just seemed like the perfect fit because
the curriculum is built on real work experience, life experiences, right,
So I just felt like that was the perfect fit
for me at the time, and I just decided to
go for it.
Speaker 2 (05:50):
I love that, So why not take the program online?
Why come to New York?
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Oh No, I would never. I would never stay back home.
I am a very adventurous person and I decided I
needed to put myself out there. And I feel like
New York is the ultimate place to be if you
want to pursue a good career, especially in finance or
any other opportunities, it's the place to be. And I
(06:16):
just felt like I couldn't grow where My hometown is
a very small place in Norway, and it's not Yeah,
it's just not it for me.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
And you have grown.
Speaker 4 (06:27):
I have grown.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Yes, you are a Shefi scholar and an intern at
stand with.
Speaker 4 (06:38):
Cryptos then with cryptos.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
So what sparked that interest in Web three? And talk
to us a little bit about what that means for
those listeners that may not have that knowledge.
Speaker 4 (06:49):
About Web three. Okay, I can speak about this all day.
I can start off with, like, what's sparked my interest
in Web three? Because growing up, my brother he's older
than me, and he's just been like nagging about crypto,
blockchain my entire life, and I've just thought like, whatever,
(07:11):
this is a guy thing. I'm not gonna do this.
But it's always been there in the background, if that
makes sense. And after I really never had any interest
in Web three until I moved to New York, to
be honest, because it's just I've tried investing in some
crypto when I was eighteen, but it was just never
really something that stuck with me. But after I moved
(07:33):
to New York, the whole thing started. When I met Randy.
Obviously you know Randy Gomes. Yeah, he's my queen. I'm
really thankful for Randy. But I met her at Berkeley
and she introduced me to Web three. Because she's in
this space herself. She just took me under her wing
and brought me to all of these conferences and events
(07:55):
and taught me everything about Web three and the importance
of it. And yeah, she brought me to the big
event with Coinbase in DC earlier this year, Experiential Learning
with Berkeley.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Our corporate learning partnerships at Berkeley College. She's also a
Berkeley alumna and a tech founder, So yeah, Randy.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
Yeah, she's amazing. So she introduced me to web the
Web three space, and it's just been a journey ever since.
It's just something that I find very valuable. Obviously, since
I have the fundamental understanding of finance and just the
fact that Web three is going to be our future.
(08:40):
It's just something. Yeah, I think it's very interesting and
I'm very passionate about. But yeah, you want me to
explain anything about Web three, I forgot that part.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
So like explain so web three, like I says, I'm
still trying to understand, right, So for the person out
there listening right now watching, what exactly is Web three?
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Okay? So I'm going to start off with Web two,
which is what we know everything like our banks, our
social media platforms like I'm going to take this as
an example, like Facebook, for instance, that's a Web two
platform we have there's an intermediary, there's a second party
that owns Facebook, right, which means Facebook owns our data.
(09:21):
Everything you post on Facebook is owned by Facebook. So
if you ever tried to delete something off Facebook, like
your profile or something old profile, it's it doesn't work.
Like I've tried for several years my old profile, it's
never going to go away. But with Web three, everything
is decentralized, so that means there's no intermediary, there's no
third party. We own our own data. Yeah, so if
(09:47):
you're sending money to your friend, if you're going to
send money to your friend, for example, with the Web
two space you would send it, it would go to
your bank, the bank would like approve the transaction, and
then it will go to your friend end. But with
the Web three, you with cryptocurrencies and blockchain, you're sending
you the money from your wallet that you own to
(10:08):
your friend and there's no third party. It's just build
up on blockchain transactions.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
That's what really made bitcoin popular. Yeah, people were using it.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
That's why I was always considered like almost almost like
the dark Web kind of situation.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Yeah, like people were using that because it was untraceable.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
I know. But we have much more ownership or over
our data these days with the Web three space, and
that's what I think is really important, because we want
to own our data and we want to own our money,
and with cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology, we can be our
own banks. And I think that's very important.
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Yeah, especially for generations to come. I think we're Yeah,
they for us, they know everything, they know everything.
Speaker 1 (10:55):
They Web two got.
Speaker 4 (10:56):
Us too, got us.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
My kids will be on Web three now.
Speaker 4 (11:02):
Yeah, I hope, So, I hope.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
So that's awesome. Yeah, let me take it from here.
Speaker 3 (11:08):
Okay, Well you're a student aid and receptionist in the
CEO's office yep, and an international student ambassador.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
What have these roles taught you about leadership, community, and
supporting students from around the world.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Yeah? I can. Yeah. First of all, I feel like
I have so many jobs. I get confused myself, like
so many titles. But obviously, like the community part, those
roles have definitely shaped how I see community and how
we build community because at Berkeley there are so many
students from so many diverse backgrounds and that makes every
(11:44):
day different and everybody has a unique story. So I
feel like building the community at Berkeley, we have to
see each individual and learn everything about them to make
them feel seen and building a community. For me, it's
all about like being building like the momentum, being kind
and having the connection to each individual, if that makes sense,
(12:11):
So we can, yeah, just see everybody and have that
consistency in Yeah, that is.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
So beautiful that you have obtained a mentor Yeah, and
everything that you're receiving and you want to give back
and ensure that your classmates have that same experience, that's beautiful.
It's it's a holistic approach.
Speaker 4 (12:34):
I'm very very passionate about like teaching other students what
I know, because I wish somebody would have taught me
that before obviously. And financial literacy is very close to
my heart because I didn't grow up learning anything about
finance or anything. I had to learn everything myself, Like
starting I started investing when I was like eighteen. I
(12:57):
just brought my laptop to a cafe. I had some
extra money, and I was like, I need to do
something with this money. So I just watched a bunch
of YouTube videos and had to learn everything myself. But
I yeah, that's something that's, as I said, very close
to my heart. Teaching other people about finances and obviously
(13:18):
now web three that's awesome.
Speaker 1 (13:20):
Do you ever go back home.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Every now and then? I'm going back home now for Christmas?
Speaker 3 (13:25):
When you go there, do you sit down, like with
a group of people who were, like I try don't
know anything about this kind of stuff to say, let
me tell you what I've learned.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
That's what I'm sure they all come to you like
tell us that.
Speaker 4 (13:35):
What's I wish they would, But like I tried to
convince my mom, like last night, I was on a
call with her in the uber back home from the
Michigan blockchain conference that I went to with down with Crypto.
I try to teach her about like you have to
start investing money in this and this, and she's just like, oh,
yeah whatever. Yeah, she listens to me. But I don't
(13:56):
know if it's something about me being young that I
don't have the credit ability. Maybe I don't know, but yeah,
I love speaking about this topic.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
But well, you know, now you can add to your
belt that you were interviewed on a podcast. I can
subject matter expert and we can do a workshop on it.
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Oh yeah, that would be amazing.
Speaker 2 (14:17):
Because pro and I need to expand our portfolio. I
need to start with we need, we need, we need some,
we need some Web three in our lives.
Speaker 1 (14:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
So speaking about community and impact. As the social media
coordinator again on other hats of the International Association of
Women's New York City chapters, you help uplift and connect women.
So what you enjoy the most about that work?
Speaker 4 (14:44):
What if I enjoying the most? Yeah, it's definitely the
community community part. Like bringing women together so they can
share their knowledge and become better and grow together and
uplift each other. Is what I love about that job.
Hosting events and and bringing in in experts. Especially for
(15:04):
me too, I love learning about new stuff. So when
I get to learn from a person that's smarter than me,
I'm like so thankful and happy because I love to
grow and I can imagine every other person would feel
the same way. So like creating this community where everybody
can learn from each other, I think that's amazing and
that's what I love about I a.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
W I am obsessed with this entire situation. As an
international student. You decided to not stay home, Yeah, to
travel to New York City come to Berkeley College because
word of mouth marketing, your friends attended. You're like, this
is the fit for me. And you have completely over
(15:45):
maximized this experience.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Yeah, and a movie.
Speaker 2 (15:50):
I mean, you've had like five jobs between this.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
You get Yellow their Dreams success.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
You've given by act to your student community. You've given
back to your soon to be alma mater because you
haven't even graduated yet, and you're working in Web three
with one of the largest infrastructured companies there is, and
you're attending all of these conferences. You're going to Capitol
Hill to advocate the Web three that is huge. Like, like,
(16:20):
I'm mind blown by your entire experience. And this is
this is the point of that your potential is our promise.
It's really your potential and bringing you into rooms. And
I always say it's not about and I don't know
prof to feel the same way, but it's not about
getting into the room. It's what are you going to
do once you're there? I know, And you have maximized that,
which brings us to your curiosity, your finance, and your innovation.
(16:47):
So what's one give us, like an insight to one
financial Web three concept that we could take away today
that any listener could take.
Speaker 4 (16:54):
Oh, I just want to like, I can't like emphasis enough,
like the fact that we with web three, you really
the owner of your own data. Like I explained to
you guys earlier, it's much you have more privacy, you
have more control of your own money. And it's just
more it's just a more security, secure platform for your money.
(17:16):
Let's see, for instance, with the government shutdown, that was
the scenario obviously, but if the banks were to shut down,
what are you guys going to do with your money?
Speaker 3 (17:24):
And it happened a few years ago, Yeah, some of
the smaller banks were shutting down.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
So how do you Okay, so I always say, like
my budgets the monopoly money, right, you know the board
game Monopoly. Yeah, okay, so right now it's in the cloud, right,
Your money's in crypto, everything's web based in the cloud.
How do you extract that to tangible assets?
Speaker 4 (17:48):
To tangible assets? Yeah, that's a very good question, Like
what do you mean in what ways?
Speaker 2 (17:57):
For example, Like okay, let's say you have you know,
ten thousand in crypto and you're like, well, I need
three thousand right now because I want to go physically
purchase something with money in my hand.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
Yeah, but that's the thing about crypto. It's not like
something physical like with the US dollars. But we have
something called stable coins that's backed up by the US dollar,
so it's more stable in some ways. But if you
want to go and purchase something, you can, you can.
We have all of these like transactions apps.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
That coinbase and all these kinds of things.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
Oh yeah, but we have like borderless transaction apps and
systems and stuff which makes you can use cryptocurrencies. You
can purchase stuff with cryptocurrencies at the grocery store and
it's just going to like transaction. Yeah, if that makes
sense to you guys.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Okay, So I have ten dollars yep. Entertain me for
a second.
Speaker 1 (18:57):
I have.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
A ten dollar bill, okay, and I want to invest
this into crypto. Yeah, how do I do that? You
have a physical ten dollar bill? Where do I go
from there?
Speaker 4 (19:10):
I think you would have to put it in your
bank account first, for sure, because crypto is not it's
not something physical you can hold in your hands. Obviously.
That's the whole thing about being it being centralized but
I would definitely try to like play around with it.
I don't know if ten dollars is going to do much.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
But hypothetical, right, yeah, you can try. Hypothetically you invest
the ten bucks from your bank account, it goes into crypto. Yeah,
but you never see those ten dollars. It goes into
the magical world of you have money, but you physically
see it.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
I've been investing so like, so I'm obviously I've been
investing in some crypto.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Right, so you've been welding out kind of. I've always
you're in a web three, Web three, Web.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
Two, so I'm going to learn about Web three.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
But no, like, there's even atm machines that are like bitcoin.
Have you seen in the bitcoin machines and all that kind?
You could actually go, yeah, they have them really yeah,
you could actually go take cash and and put your address,
your address into it.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
Because many of our listeners may be thinking this, like, Okay,
if I have they.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Have I forgot where I've seen them. I haven't physically
seen one, but they have them. I know bitcoin, I'm
not sure about other coins.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
I learned something new about you everything. Yeah, time we
see but.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
I definitely missed the boat so many investments, like, but yes.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
What kind of currencies have you invested in? Do you know?
Speaker 1 (20:33):
You know, not to get so deep into.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
I mean, I obviously have bitcoin, and you know, I
kind of just off of the wave of what people
are coin, you know, dodge coin when it was going on,
and all those kind of theoreum and all those kinds
of things when they were happening, and still hold some
of that stuff, you know, and obviously got into I
think everyone kind of got into trading during COVID, right,
That's what kind of opened everybody's eyes to trading. I
(20:56):
think I don't know any I mean I learned how
to trade during COVID, and I still today. I still
do it, whether it's four X or whether I'm on
another platform. Doing options. Trading is something I actually do,
and I actually love it, like it's fun for me.
It's almost like, you know, I didn't do it for
a living, but I've gotten good enough to understand it.
I've learned how to do the charts and follow things.
(21:17):
But that's more of a trading thing an investment thing.
Like the real smart investor puts money into something and
just doesn't look back like you like and you compound
it like you can put you know, like you know,
obviously I have separate accounts, let's say, like Fidelity for instance,
or something like that, where I have money that goes
there every month and they do their thing with it.
Speaker 1 (21:38):
Yea. And throughout the.
Speaker 3 (21:40):
Years you go back and look, yeah, yeah, you go
back and look and say, oh, but those things, you know,
they're gonna increase small. But at the same there's so
many ways to invest money these days.
Speaker 1 (21:49):
So if you can do.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
It, you know, I always see it now and I'm like,
same thing you say, I wish I knew this when
I was younger. The other day I saw something that
it was a breakdown on you know, if you wanted
to have a million dollars, how much would you have
to start investing? And it started at age sixty and
went down and I think at like in the sixties
you had to invest like every month like thirty something
(22:11):
hundred or for something like that, for forty some hundred dollars,
and then in the fifties.
Speaker 1 (22:16):
That got smaller. Dah.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
But if you started like when you were born, it
was like twenty something dollars a month or something like that.
So all my kids like That's what I do for
my kids so that when they get to a certain point,
they're all gonna be like thanks that.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
We all have millions of dollars.
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (22:30):
I try to tell all of my friends that too.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
Like, hey, so what were you guys doing? Like you
don't think about this when I was when I was born?
Where's my investment?
Speaker 2 (22:40):
Where's my doctorfolio?
Speaker 4 (22:43):
That's so funny.
Speaker 1 (22:44):
The only thing that scares me and answer me.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
So now with Web two or three or anything, right
when you're holding all this stuff in assets in in
these wallets, right, these digital wallets that are untraceable. If
you lose the wallet or you lose access to it,
it's gone.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
That can happen, Yes, nobody can.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
For your past is a scary part.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
So it's not like a bank that you could give
them your I D or you could get online.
Speaker 1 (23:05):
There is no like you lose.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
Yeah, so I would not recommend it if you're not
a response.
Speaker 1 (23:10):
One day I was like, do I have bitcoin sitting?
Speaker 3 (23:13):
And I started trying to research, and I started going
tough emails and I was like driving myself crazy trying
to figure out. I was like, I could have swear
I invested in this and then but if you don't remember,
it's over and you have to have like.
Speaker 2 (23:24):
These keyword right, you should have a password builder like
a vault, last pass or bitwarden. It's a password manager.
Speaker 1 (23:34):
Yeah. You load everything in there and then it just
what are those on web two?
Speaker 4 (23:39):
And is it a decentralized ral because if it's on
web to, somebody else knows. Yeah, that's the thing.
Speaker 2 (23:49):
Password it's a password manager on mobile to. Yeah, I'm
just saying, yeah.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
I remember in Chief they recommended us like writing the
passwords down on a piece of paper. Yeah, and when
you lose the paper, I don't know. You just don't
lose the paper.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
So I had a friend of I had a friend
and this is a sidec who was really big on investments,
and I remember he told me he had a ton
of money they made and some of big investment and
then they put it on like an actual drive. Yeah,
and they held their money like on it thumb drive
and they put that drive in the bank and like
a safety deposit.
Speaker 4 (24:22):
By it's just.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
A way to access your money, you know. So I'm like,
so what if you lose the drive, They're like, then
you lose the money. It was like a million dollars.
Speaker 4 (24:31):
Yeah, but yeah, I think that's actually happened for a person,
Like he had all of this money on a drive,
bitcoin money and then he lost the drive.
Speaker 1 (24:40):
With the dump site that I think so yeah, with the.
Speaker 4 (24:42):
Dump site, that's crazy that it.
Speaker 2 (24:44):
Sounds like a Jason Bourne if you search it.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
I don't know the whole story, but he literally paid
like he he bought out a whole garbage dump site
because he threw away the drive, the drive that had.
Speaker 1 (24:56):
Like what would be worth it?
Speaker 3 (24:58):
I don't think so, no searching billions of dollars. Yeah,
because if you invested thousands of dollars years and you know,
twenty third years ago whenever it was launched, it's worth
billions today. Right, So this guy literally paid and sat
and went through garbage of like decades to try.
Speaker 1 (25:15):
To find and I don't think he ever found it. No,
maybe it's still going on.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
Yeah, I think he's still searching. I don't know.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (25:21):
Yeah, prot a garbage site.
Speaker 1 (25:24):
Yeah, the kids looking through the still gloves on. Yeah,
we're out there, we're out there. Kids. Sports are over,
no football today, kids, let's go over here.
Speaker 2 (25:38):
Oh my gosh, all right, I just so what is
your advice for the next global leader. So, students who
are stepping into new country systems opportunities, what would you
tell them that you wish someone would have told you.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
Oh, first of all, I would tell them that they
should be very proud of themselves for taking this step
and moving to a new country. And also my biggest
advice would be, do it even if you're scared. Always
do it when you're scared, because that's when you're going
to have this most learning curve on things. And yeah,
I just do things all the time when I'm scared.
(26:14):
I'm even scared doing this, but I know I'm going
to be happy when i'm done.
Speaker 2 (26:18):
I'm doing great. Oh, thank you a great episode. Thank
you you got Pro to talk about his investment crypt
and all his stuff coming out of his chef no
Matter expert over here. I love that.
Speaker 3 (26:31):
Yeah, it's funny because I tell people all the time
if you don't step outside of your comfort zone, you.
Speaker 4 (26:38):
Have to step out of your comfort zone to.
Speaker 1 (26:40):
Excel with anything.
Speaker 3 (26:41):
Yeah, it doesn't matter what you're doing, if you just
get really comfortable with being kind of like monotone. I
guess it's the word to use for it. Then you're
going to stay at that level. If you want to exceed,
you know, get advanced and do new things, you have
to be willing to step in.
Speaker 2 (26:54):
And we've spoken about that about how this podcast was
outside for sure of our comfort c zones.
Speaker 1 (27:00):
And then yeah, you guys are growing and thriving, award
winning podcast.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
Yes, that's wild, that's wild. Yeah, that's why I chose
finance too, because I honestly never thought I could do finance,
And when I had to choose my major, I thought
they were not really appealing to me because I felt
very comfortable. We have like marketing majors no offense, but
I love marketing, but like supply chain majors and stuff,
(27:25):
but all of them in those spaces I felt very comfortable,
and finance was the only subject that really made me
cry a few times. So I thought, like, this is
the right place for me, place for me to be,
because this is a place where I can grow and
challenge myself to another level. And that's definitely where I
want to be, Like I want to learn and grow
(27:47):
and do something new, and so I, yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
That's awesome, and listen, at the end of the day,
there's finance and everything everything. Yeah, every decision you made.
And this is the thing about disciplines. Yeah, so just
because you're an accounting discipline doesn't mean you're just going
to work at the stock market. Yeah right. You can
(28:14):
work for any type of company. When you're a marketer,
you can work for any type of company. So that's
important for students to know that when you're studying your discipline,
the opportunities are endless. Oh yeah, and especially when you
work in large cities such as this one. Oh yeah,
you can work in any industry.
Speaker 4 (28:31):
I feel like I'm the perfect example of that too,
because obviously I'm doing like traditional finance in school, but
I'm going to work in web three.
Speaker 2 (28:39):
So but those vibrations are helping you.
Speaker 4 (28:41):
Yeah, everything is connected, and they're always going to be
so many opportunities, especially in New York and major cities. Yeah,
it doesn't really matter if you're an accountant major or
finance major or anything. You can honestly do pretty much everything.
Speaker 2 (28:57):
I love that. So we close our episodes okay, the
same way, but with you, we're gonna a little different.
So in truth, teach me something fashion in one word,
what does Berkeley College mean to you?
Speaker 4 (29:15):
Okay? In one word.
Speaker 2 (29:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (29:16):
I was gonna say family first, but I feel like
everybody says that. I don't know, but it is family.
But I'm gonna say.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
Anybody actually no, huh, nobody has said that.
Speaker 2 (29:24):
Oh, we get community, we get empowerment.
Speaker 4 (29:29):
Okay, but Berkeley is definitely family for me. But I'm
going to say transformation. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
I like that. Transformation.
Speaker 4 (29:37):
Yeah, because the person I was when I arrived at
Berkeley and started my life in New York, I'm not
the same person now as I was then. If that
makes sense.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
New York will do that to somebody.
Speaker 4 (29:48):
Yeah, So Berkeley has transformed me.
Speaker 1 (29:50):
Whether you want to or not, You're going to be
like a little more aggressive and be like.
Speaker 4 (29:57):
Wow, yeah, I don't This is attitude people have told me,
like are you an American? Now? What's going on? I'm like, yeah, hopefully.
Speaker 1 (30:06):
How long have you been here?
Speaker 4 (30:07):
A year and a half?
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Okay, how many semesteris do you have? Oft?
Speaker 4 (30:11):
I have one more.
Speaker 2 (30:12):
I'm going to graduate a senior. Yeah, I guess you
have senior itis yet.
Speaker 4 (30:17):
What's that?
Speaker 2 (30:18):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (30:18):
So is that?
Speaker 2 (30:19):
So senior itis is? How do I explain this? It's basically,
when you get to the last segment of your program.
You just feel above and you're like, no, I don't
want to do this, or I'm going to leave it
for later, or I can't wait to get out of here, senioritists.
Speaker 4 (30:35):
I'm definitely ready to start working. But I love being
a student, so I could be a forever student. I'm
like considering doing a PhD at this point.
Speaker 2 (30:47):
Okay, yeah, do it and then come back and tell
us how it goes.
Speaker 4 (30:51):
Yeah, but at the same time, I need to make
some money and work. And but we'll see, never know
what's going to happen in New York.
Speaker 3 (31:01):
Well, this is definitely a city of opportunities. That's the greatest,
greatest thing about New York.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
I love this episode.
Speaker 3 (31:08):
Oh yay.
Speaker 1 (31:09):
You don't love all our episodes.
Speaker 2 (31:12):
You know, pro we always make it to the ends
and you just hit that. You know, it's.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
Always This has been a great one. And we could
probably do a whole episode of investing and.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
You know we should.
Speaker 2 (31:26):
You should come back and we can. We can do that.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
I would love to come back.
Speaker 2 (31:29):
That would be awesome because I need to learn things.
Teach me something.
Speaker 4 (31:33):
I teach me something, yeah, and you guys can teach
me something. Too.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
No, we're trying to learn more.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Oh okay, I love it well.
Speaker 4 (31:42):
Thank you all much, thank you, thank you so much
for having me.
Speaker 2 (31:45):
No, thank you for being here, and thank you all
are lovely. Listeners for tuning in to another episode of
Teach Me.
Speaker 3 (31:52):
Something, presented by Berkeley College with Penny Dollars DJ pro Style.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Bye guys, hey, thanks for listening. Tune in next
Speaker 3 (32:01):
Week for all new episode of Teach Me Something, brought
to you by Berkeley College
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