Chris IghodaroGuestJean Hamilton-FfordHost
Joanne SprottHost
Jillian StarmanHostAnd that's, uh, is very interesting too, because, uh, the older I get, the more I realize exactly that I have no clue what's tomorrow's gonna be like, right? Um, I know we talk a lot about youngsters, because they're quite a bit of the population these days, and, uh, there isn't really a lot of training in schools.
No- none of you ladies were trained in school on money and finance, were you? No.
So, see, I don't think there's any- anything like that in schools, and a lot of people wonder, "Well, if it's not in schools, where do you learn it?" Where do you learn it?

Well, I think sometimes the generational knowledge, if you have parents there, again, that understand it, or grandparents that understand it, but then you've got the downside of your grandparents and your parents really didn't understand, number one, what finances were, what wealth building was, and didn't have conversations around money.

And when you did have those conversations, they were extremely emotionally connected.

And so then it becomes very contentious versus a let's work on this together.

I, I think that's something, um, that's very important to, to understand, is that, you know, if we don't get it from school and we don't get it from our families, you know, where do we learn that from?

I mean, I can't remember my father or my mother sitting down with me with a checkbook at, uh, in, in my generation we had physical checkbooks.

Uh, there was a sense of, because my father was an officer in the military, we, we were in the upper middle class, so there was a sense of f- fairly high comfort level, let me put it that way, in our, in our lives.

But I do remember when I was first in the military myself, in the Air Force, w- um, I, they had a problem, more with the m- with, with the younger enlisted, uh, people who were, you know, 18, 19.
And that's, uh, is very interesting too, because, uh, the older I get, the more I realize exactly that I have no clue what's tomorrow's gonna be like, right? Um, I know we talk a lot about youngsters, because they're quite a bit of the population these days, and, uh, there isn't really a lot of training in schools.
No- none of you ladies were trained in school on money and finance, were you? No.
So, see, I don't think there's any- anything like that in schools, and a lot of people wonder, "Well, if it's not in schools, where do you learn it?" Where do you learn it?

Well, I think sometimes the generational knowledge, if you have parents there, again, that understand it, or grandparents that understand it, but then you've got the downside of your grandparents and your parents really didn't understand, number one, what finances were, what wealth building was, and didn't have conversations around money.

And when you did have those conversations, they were extremely emotionally connected.

And so then it becomes very contentious versus a let's work on this together.

I, I think that's something, um, that's very important to, to understand, is that, you know, if we don't get it from school and we don't get it from our families, you know, where do we learn that from?

I mean, I can't remember my father or my mother sitting down with me with a checkbook at, uh, in, in my generation we had physical checkbooks.

Uh, there was a sense of, because my father was an officer in the military, we, we were in the upper middle class, so there was a sense of f- fairly high comfort level, let me put it that way, in our, in our lives.

But I do remember when I was first in the military myself, in the Air Force, w- um, I, they had a problem, more with the m- with, with the younger enlisted, uh, people who were, you know, 18, 19.
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