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Almost $15k Passive Income for Q1 2022 – A Little Money Here and There
The first quarter of 2022 was rough. Winter dragged on and the passive income dragged down. Society is learning that 2022 is not like 2020 or 2021. With price inflation up, some goals might not materialize this year. My primary mission for the 2nd half is to ramp up Financial Literacy consultations and write some E-Books?
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Breaking Down How We Made $50k in Passive Income
Reviewing The Neighborhood Finance Guy's (TNFG) not so passive income that generated over $50,000 in 2021. It was not passive at all.
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Black Spending Tops $1.6 Trillion while Black Wealth Issues Persist
Spending for Blacks in the US has gone up to $1.6 Trillion but wages and standards of living are dropping. What gives? The Financial Griot podcast crew will discuss how to manage money in a time of uncertainty and how to make a way out of no way in lieu of external circumstances such as systematic oppression and a painful history. or decades and decades, Black consumers have been regularly overlooked by companies that don’t see them as a priority demographic. Black consumers continue to be underserved in areas such as food, housing, healthcare, broadband, and banking. During the last five decades, the Black community has had limited access to…
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Having Tough Conversations about Social Influence and Suicide
Tough conversations are needed but often afforded. Life is challenging, many times unfairly but still very hard. We have to talk more.
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Revealing Our Investment Strategy while Inflation Hits a 30-year High
How to construct an investment portfolio that thrives during an inflation. Sharing all the tips and market tricks to edge out wins.
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How to Start Your Personal Finance Journey and Earn Up To $2,500 for Free!
Getting started with your personal finance has never been easier. There is a fintech app for everything. You can also earn up to $2,500.
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Learning to Show Up for Others Like We Wanted Others to Show Up for Us
In Haitian creole, we call home, "Lakay." It has a certain ring to it especially in concert with Lekol (school) and Legliz (church). For Haitian Americans, it's the closest way for us to express that we are home. This home is safe place. Culture is the total wealth of memories that we carry and share with the world. It is in that culture that we (in the same token, you) are compelled to speak. It's interesting to hear from Alainta Alcin's experience of being hardly ever home, yet still finding herself. In this solo episode of the Financial Griot, Alainta gives an emotionally palpable perspective of allowing change to manifest…
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Ewww, I Can’t Date Anyone with a Dirty Home!
Would you date a person with a dirty home? Wait, are you the person with the dirty home? In this episode of the Financial Griot, Alainta Alcin and Lawrence Delva-Gonzalez discuss their college relationship journeys and dishes out on how they ran into dirty people in their lifetime. It begs the question is cleanliness, a secret sign of how messy your finances are? We will dive deep on the virtues of being disciplined in how you carry yourself and how you present your image in the world. As always, we sincerely thank you for your support. We've only been out since Fall 2021 and already reached 1,000 downloads. We get…
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KORE’M – Making the Transition From Spending Money to Building Wealth
The Financial Griot finally got their first guests from KORE'M Podcast. (Part 2 of 2) It's feels like the Haitian Breakfast club. Let's not mess it up, right Lawrence? Since it's November 18, the celebration of La Bataille de Vertières (english - Battle of Vertières), it was apropos for us to bring on our first guest, Kore'm Podcast with Luther Estyl and Mac Jean. This dynamic duo has been making wave empowering the next generation of Haitian at home and in the diaspora. This episode was a unique opportunity to get back to our roots and really have a discussion on Haiti, Financial literacy and what's in store for the…
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Really? Are Modern Black Men Trash?
Just in case you needed something to talk about for Thanksgiving. #GenderWars is the topic du jour, every Jour technically. Seriously, we really need to address this issue moving forward. The Financial Griot crew tackles where the Black wealth is going with one easy fix. As always this is merely a discussion of the issue and not an exhaustive description. We are saving that with a few special guests in future episodes. Our goal is to confront our issues with a mirror in order to force the reflection to take action. Lovely Merdelus does her best to keep Alainta and Lawrence from fighting yet again, with some poignant introspective ideas.…
