Maintaining a 9 to 5 along with a side hustle takes a lot of discipline and dedication. When your side hustle starts generating consistent income, questions about quitting your job arise: Is it enough money? What about insurance and retirement? How much money will I need to save? What if I have to go back to my 9 to 5?
Alaina, who left her 9 to 5 after 3 years as a financial coach, will share the 8 ways that helped her know when it was time to take the leap and how she has successfully maintained her entrepreneurship for the past 5 years.
Alaina Fingal, of The Organized Money, is a pastor, certified financial coach, author, and content creator. She helps busy people who struggle with budgeting and time management use a paper planner to get organized.
Alaina shares her easy approach to finances through her YouTube channel and has amassed over 175,000 subscribers and 20 million views on the platform.
She serves on the Financial Expert Review Board for CNET Money and her work has been featured in Yahoo Finance, The New York Weekly, Wired, The Huffington Post, CNBC Make It and others.
Alaina lives in New Orleans, Louisiana with her husband Torrey and their two daughters Tori Michelle and Alyssa Jade.
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• YouTube
• TikTok
Meet Bernadette Joy, the dynamic force behind Crush Your Money Goals®.
As the eighth child in a family of nine and a first-gen Filipina-American, Bernadette intimately understands the struggle of those who missed the money memo.
Boasting two bachelor’s degrees, a master’s, and a decade of Fortune 100 and startup experience, Bernadette’s real street cred comes from paying off a staggering $300,000 of debt in three years and investing her first $1 million in her 30s!
Currently, she serves as the CEO of Crush Your Money Goals®, a personal finance training company that delivers education with a side of pizzazz.
Featured in Forbes, CNBC, and CNET, Bernadette has graced over 30 podcasts, radio, and television shows.
With her highly anticipated book set to drop in 2024, Bernadette now dedicates 20 hours a week to relishing her financial freedom through K-Pop, yoga, karaoke, and spoiling her nieces and nephews as their traveling rich auntie.
Today, she shares simple strategies nationwide, guiding thousands through her 5-step secret recipe for financial peace.
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• Website
• YouTube
• Podcast
George Kamel is the #1 national bestselling author of Breaking Free From Broke, a personal finance expert, host of the George Kamel YouTube channel, and co-host of The Ramsey Show and Smart Money Happy Hour. Following Ramsey’s proven money plan, George went from negative net worth to millionaire in under 10 years.
His goal is to help people spend less, save more, and avoid money traps so they can live a life with more margin, options and freedom.
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• YouTube
Giovanna “Gigi” Gonzalez is a TikTok influencer, financial educator, and author of the bestselling book Cultura and Cash.
During The Great Resignation, she quit her 10 year corporate career to pursue her true passion: teaching financial literacy to young adults.
Gigi teaches personal finance and career navigation for First Gen at various organizations and on her TikTok account @thefirstgenmentor.
She is a 2xs FinCon speaker, and was named “Latinx to Watch” by Hispanic Executive Magazine and Top 25 Creator by Fast Company.
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Can you take your side hustle full-time? YES. but taking the right approach is crucial. Come hear the How To Money origin story and the tactics that launched two best buds to podcast stardom. Ok, that might be a stretch. But they’re doing what they love full-time and want to help you do the same!
Joel and Matt are best friends who love talking about money while drinking delicious craft beer. So they created a podcast incorporating both!
How To Money is all about offering the practical money-saving advice that Americans desperately need.
45+ million downloads later they are still energized by the mission of reaching people to help them gain the confidence and tools they need to handle their money wisely.
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• Website
Jaspreet Singh is the founder and CEO of Briefs Media in addition to being the host of the Minority Mindset show on YouTube.
He is known for his love of guac (yes, guacamole), and because he makes complex financial topics simple to follow.
You can follow Jaspreet Singh on YouTube, or visit Briefs Media to join Market Briefs – his free daily financial newsletter.
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Jen Smith is the co-host of Frugal Friends Podcast and co-author of the upcoming book Buy What You Love Without Going Broke (HarperCollins, Winter 2025).
After paying off $78,000 of debt in two years she’s passionate about helping people live for today while still saving for tomorrow.
Jen’s written for and been featured in top personal finance publications including Forbes, Money Magazine, Business Insider, Investopedia, and more.
When she’s not writing or podcasting, Jen’s training for a half marathon at Disney World. She lives in St. Petersburg, Florida, with her husband and two sons.
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Rachel Rodgers is the CEO/Founder of Hello Seven, an award-winning company that teaches women, BIPOC, and LGBTQIA+ people how to build a seven figure business and create generational wealth.
She’s the author of We Should All Be Millionaires: A Woman’s Guide to Earning More, Building Wealth, and Gaining Economic Power, a Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Amazon Bestseller, named one of Audible’s top Audiobooks of the Year, with more than 200,000 copies sold.
Her latest book is Million Dollar Action: Your step-by-step guide to making wealth happen.
You’ve seen Rachel spilling the tea on business, money, and mindset on Good Morning America, The Drew Barrymore Show, the Tamron Hall Show and in The New York Times, Forbes, Entrepreneur, Inc, Cheddar, PopSugar, Essence and Women’s Health.
Her mission is to help you end the cycle of over-working, under-earning, and financial stress—once and for all.
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“How To Produce High-Quality Video Content Consistently”
Great content is the lifeblood of content creators, driving audience, views, and revenue. However, consistently producing high-quality content, especially resource-intensive content like video, is hard.
When Tae started on YouTube, he knew nothing about video content and production. As a former soldier and finance director, he didn’t even know how to turn on a camera. Through trial and error, he’s learned invaluable lessons on streamlining the process, and he wants to share them with you.
Tae Kim is the founder of Financial Tortoise, a YouTube channel focused on building wealth slowly.
After paying off $105,000 in student loans in 3.5 years with his wife, he found his passion for educating others about money.
Tae creates weekly content about personal finance, investing, and building wealth slowly to empower others with better financial literacy.
In his previous life, Tae was a Finance Director and a Captain in the US Army. He is a graduate of UCLA Anderson School of Management and UC Irvine.
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• YouTube
• Website
Vincent Chan is a finance content creator helping people build wealthier and healthier lives.
He began his career sipping on the corporate Kool-Aid and climbing the corporate ladder on Wall Street.
However, Vincent soon realized that he wanted to do more than just help the rich get richer. Instead, he wanted to help everyday people build their wealth through financial education in a healthier way.
In 2020, while still juggling his full-time job, Vincent nervously published his very first YouTube video.
Today, he reaches millions through his social media platforms and his weekly newsletter, reThinkable.
CONNECT WITH VINCENT:
• YouTube
• Website
Yanely Espinal is a Brooklyn-born ball of energy! She’s an educator with a gift for storytelling and a passion for explaining financial concepts in a straightforward way.
While working as an elementary school teacher, she changed her financial life by becoming debt-free and began created content in 2015 as “MissBeHelpful.”
In 2023, she published her best-selling book Mind Your Money: Insightful Stories and Strategies to Help You Reach Your #MoneyGoals, which has sold over 20,000 copies so far.
Yanely is now the Director of Educational Outreach for Next Gen Personal Finance, a nonprofit working to ensure that every high school student gets a full semester of personal finance education.
She hosts Financially Inclined from Marketplace, a video podcast for teens about money lessons for living life your own way, and she is the youngest member of CNBC’s Financial Wellness Advisory Council.
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• Book
• YouTube