Banking On Girls
This podcast is for people raising and educating girls and young women, and explores the importance of early financial literacy. What should we be teaching girls so that they can gain skills and confidence in their own financial journey? Marina Batliwalla, a mother of three and a financial professional for over 20 years, uncovers the human experience of raising, educating, and inspiring girls financially, one story at a time.
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In this episode I speak with Josina Kamerling, the Head of Regulatory Outreach for the Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) region for the CFA Institute, about their recently released paper The Finfluencer Appeal: Investing in the Age of Social Media.
Josina tells us that financial regulatory systems around the world are not fit for purpose for dealing with this new way of marketing financial advice on s...
This is a REWIND EPISODE where my guest is Karina Montilla Edmonds an aeronautical engineerr and leader in the field of innovation and technology transfer.
Karina has a distinguished career spanning from the Obama Administration to tech companies such as Google. She currently serves as the Senior Vice President and Global Head of Academies and University Alliances at SAP...
My guest today is Elizabeth Rossiello the CEO and founder of AZA Finance, a fintech company which is accelerating global access to frontier markets through an innovative infrastructure.
In this episode Elizabeth tells us how she became one of the 1.5% of female fintech founders globally.
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My guest today is Melanie Mortimer the President of the SIFMA Foundation. SIFMA is the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, and the SIFMA Foundation is the nation’s leader in youth investor and financial education that ensures all young people, regardless of background, have access to transformative knowledge and tools to prepare for their financial futures.
Melanie has a Master’s in Inte...
My guest today is Martine Ferland, the Chief Executive Officer of Mercer, a $5 billion global leader in redefining the world of work, reshaping retirement and investment outcomes, and unlocking real health and well-being. She also serves as Vice Chair of Marsh McLennan, Mercer’s parent company, the leading global professional services firm in risk, strategy and people.
In this episode Martine tells us how her financial...
In this episode we discuss some of the early learning concepts for children that are thought to lead to adult money behaviors and habits.
We discuss ways in which parents can think about engaging children to develop their concepts and skills in some of these areas.
My guest today is Rebecca Maxcy, the Director and Principal Investigator at the University of Chicago Financial Education Initiative, where she has led the research and development of finEDge, a single-semester financial education course for high school students and Talking Cents, conversation cards developed to engage people in conversations about money.
She is also an author of Everyday Mathematics. Reb...
Today I speak with Farnoosh Torabi, bestselling Financial Author and creator of the So Money Podcast, which...
Today is a REWIND Episode where I speak with Lacey Filipich, the Founder of Money School which helps people become financially independent and raise financially capable kids.
Money School is also the title of her award-winning book which was the winner of the best book 2022 at the Money Awareness and Inclusion Awards.
Lacey graduated as valedictorian from the University of Queensland in Austra...
This episode is a Rewind Episode of my conversation with Entertainment Industry CEO Sarah Harden who leads Reese Witherspoon's company Hello Sunshine.
Sarah has led Hello Sunshine’s rapid growth as a premium content studio and direct-to-consumer media brand. Prior to her time with Hello Sunshine, she was President of Otter Media, and spent 10 years at News Corp/Fox, serving as Group Director at News Corp Asia.
Sarah holds an MBA f...
My guest today is Lady Cherie Blair CBE KC, founder of the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women, a leading international human rights lawyer, a passionate campaigner for women’s equality, and wife of former British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Cherie studied law at the London School of Economics, she’s a King’s Counsel, and a founding member of Omnia Strategy, a pioneering international law firm that provides...
My guest today is Mike Lanning, an attorney and scoutmaster extraordinaire!
Mike is the Scoutmaster at Troop 223 in the Pacific Palisades, a suburb of Los Angeles where he has been Scoutmaster since 1953. Mike is an Eagle Scout himself and has received numerous scouting awards including Distinguished Eagle and Scoutmaster of the Year. This past year Mike was recognized as Citizen of the Year in the Pacific...
My guest today is Judy Herbst, the Executive Director of Savvy Ladies, a non-profit organization that offers a FREE financial help line and financial planning education to women. Savvy Ladies is completely independent from any financial institution or organization and its resources are provided free of charge.
You can find out more about Savvy Ladies here:
In this episode I speak with Will Rainey, the founder of Blue Tree, a blog on financial literacy which he started up to help as many parents as possible teach their kids about money.
In his blog Will covers some really great topics like the story of how basketball player Shaquille O’Neil went from poor to wealthy and the explanation for why diamonds are so expensive.
Will is also the author of...
In this episode of Banking on Girls podcast I speak with Nick Stone, Founder of Bluestone Lane, the fastest growing premium cafe brand in the US. Nick has excelled in three vastly different careers, as a professional football player in Australia, an investment banker, and now as an entrepreneur.
Nick talks about the skills that helped him bridge 3 very different and succesful careers.
Nick tel...
This episode is a REWIND of my conversation with Karen Holland, the Founder of GiftingSense.org.
If you’ve ever had a child come to ask you for something they want to buy and you’ve thought to yourself, if only they understood the value of money better, then today’s episode is going to be extremely informative.
Karen has created a FREE online quiz that is helping parents and schools teach kids...
This episode is a rewind of one the most popular Banking On Girls episodes in which we learn practical tips and advice on raising kids with financial literacy from a Professor of Finance.
In this episode we speak with Professor Julia Plotts, the Academic Director of the Masters of Finance program and Professor of Clinical Finance and Business Economics at the USC Marshall School of Business- where she has been awarded the Golden Ap...
My guest today is Rekha Mody, a philanthropist and women’s activist based in Calcutta India. Rekha is the founder of 3 organizations:
Divya Chaya Trust (1984) -which rehabilitates and supports underprivileged children and destitute women.
Habiart Foundation to promote contemporary art, and spearheaded Sphote “A creative protest against terror” in 2001.
Sri Shakti (1998) - which t...
This week was a billion dollar week for girl power in LA.
Barbie and Taylor Swift ruled LA this week, and with two teenage daughters it was hard for me to escape the fever, with one local radio station even renaming themselves to SWIFT FM.
Greta Gerwig’s Barbie movie is estimated to have brought in $1b after just 3 weeks at the box office. This makes Greta Gerwig the first solo female direct...
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