Credit is an important piece of anyone’s financial future — but how do you build credit safely, and where do you start? Host Caitlin Moore walks through some strategies to consider. Then, in our community partner segment, Caitlin and our co-host, Patrick Reese, talk to father-daughter duo Maddy and Marty Hager about how credit is taught and used differently across generations.

Show Notes

0:33: Caitlin walks through ways to build credit, strategies to consider, and how to use credit safely. She identifies methods for those both over and under age 18.

4:25: Community partner guests Maddy Hager and her father, Marty Hager, talk through Maddy’s experience with and without credit as a young person directed by her father’s expectations. Marty talks about what he learned about credit over the years and what lessons he wanted Maddy to learn. 

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