{"href":"http://player.captivate.fm/services/oembed?url=http%3A%2F%2Fplayer.captivate.fm%2Fepisode%2F429f76a0-3d56-4415-8624-3594461e950a","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Captivate.FM","provider_url":"https://www.captivate.fm","width":600,"height":200,"type":"rich","html":"","title":"The Foreign Language of Finance: Overcoming Cultural, Racial, and Gender Biases to Find Financial Success with the Financially Savvy Latina","description":"Welcome back to Don\u2019t Retire\u2026 Graduate! Today\u2019s guest is Natalie Torres-Haddad MPA, AWA, a two-time TEDx speaker, award-winning author, and the host of Financially Savvy in 20 Minutes.\n\nNatalie\u2019s story of being raised by immigrants during the LA Riots, experiencing the cultural differences between the rich and poor, and learning about money the same way she learned a second language should serve as inspiration for anyone struggling to reach financial independence.\u00a0\n\nWe are so glad to have her here to share her story, discuss what it\u2019s like to be successful in an industry in which you\u2019re underrepresented, and that sometimes you just need to give yourself a little grace.\u00a0\n\nIn this episode we\u2019ll talk about:\n\u2022\tNatalie\u2019s upbringing and personal finance became a language she had to learn\n\u2022\tBeing patient with yourself and figuring out what you can learn in 20 minutes each day\u00a0\n\u2022\tGenerational and familial differences and how we all struggle differently\u00a0\n\u2022\tThe field of finance and how breaking through it as a woman and/or a person of color is still a challenge\u00a0\n\u2022\tFiguring out what works for you and giving yourself grace\n\u2022\tLearning from your mistakes more than when things go well\n\nVisit dontretiregraduate.com for a full transcript of this episode.\n\nAbout Nathalie Torres-Haddad:\nShe is an international award winning author, educator and bilingual podcast host of Financially Savvy in 20 Minutes. Her expertise has been featured in Forbes, Huffington Post, LA Times, and many news outlets like Telemundo and Fox.\u00a0\nA two time TEDx speaker known for her talk \u201cThe foreign language of financial literacy\u201d.\u00a0\nSome of her videos have received over a million views and is a sought out keynote speaker all over the country as a financial literacy and mental health advocate. A first generation college graduate from CSULB, in Finance and International Business with a Masters from CSUN, she focuses on helping those with debt and working toward financial independence. Her first children's book in 2020 Made the #1 best seller on Amazon: \"A dress to remember\" based on the nonprofit LA's Prom Closet she had for several years. Born in El Salvador, and raised in Inglewood she quickly understood that the lack of financial literacy limits her community of basic human rights and equality in resources. She started investing in real estate at age 24 and began her career advocating for financial literacy.\u00a0\u00a0\nhttp://financiallysavvyin20minutes.com/\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/a7c8186a-44a8-483a-89d2-b7c4fed54da5/don-t-retire-graduate-quote-tile-1.png"}