Financial wellness is integral to well-being.
It’s an important part of your life, and it’s about more than personal behaviors.
Like many Americans, I wasnt set up for financial success or generating wealth.
He never went to college, but served in the Vietnam War before going back to factory jobs.
She got her associates degree in nursing while taking care of two small children.
These things are surely blessings.
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I knew I could come home every day to a house that was mine.
I knew I would go to sleep with a full stomach.
And as I grew up, I had even more stabilityor so it seemed.
Working jobs since I was 15, I had no idea how to manage my money.
I spent it covering my moving expenses and put what was leftaround $100into my savings account.
Yet, I didnt envy them.
Even then, I realized I wasnt impoverished or poor.
Being poor is a very different mindset.
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Dont buy that $5 latte!
Use that money instead to buy a house!
In America, poor people are hated, vilified, neglected, and overlooked.
In fact, households of color are2.2 times more likely to be asset poorcompared to their white counterparts.
Generational wealth, or the ability to pass down assets to future generations?
Understanding the context of how you and others live in different socioeconomic situations is the baseline for well-being.
How do you save when you have so little to live on?
How do you build generational wealth in a world seemingly stacked against you?
How do you overcome the scarcity mindset to make it live abundantly?
How do you help increase the minimum wage so everyone can live comfortably?
Well be asking those questions.
And we hope you find yourselves wondering the answers, too.
Because financial wellness isnt just a fun catchphrase.
Its a reckoning with how we understand holistically how to achieve well-being.
And everyone deserves access to that.
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