Episode 30: Money & Financial Literacy with Maria Alcantara

High Wire Woman with Rosanna Berardi

This week on the High Wire Woman podcast, Rosanna Berardi is talking with guest Maria Alcantara about money and financial literacy. Maria is a money coach, investment advisor, author, and the Founder of Millennial Money Queens. She has spent her professional life educating working women about finance and giving them the tools they need to become financially literate. She joins Rosanna in this episode to share her expertise and tips on forming a financial plan, and how High Wire Women can achieve financial literacy.

You'll hear Rosanna and Maria talk about:

1. How and why Maria started in the financial sector.
2. Psychology and finance are linked: a lot of our money problems come from the way we view money, our beliefs about money, and our family stories.
3. 52% of women feel that money is the biggest source of stress in their lives.
4. Many women aren’t confident enough to negotiate better salaries or fees because they don’t think they’re equipped to handle those conversations.
5. Maria counsels women by giving them the knowledge they need to ask the right questions about money.
6. “We give different options depending on your lifestyle, but it really always starts with having a conversation with where you are and where you want to go with your money, your relationship to money, how you feel about it…. make you empowered about all financial things in your life,” Maria tells Rosanna.
7. The pandemic has taught Maria to value what’s really important in life.
8. We need to be deliberate about how we’re spending our time and our time with family.

Even though it may seem daunting, we High Wire Women need to develop the confidence to ask the right questions around money.

Resources

Rosanna Berardi | LinkedIn

Rosanna Berardi | Berardi Immigration Law

Maria Alcantara | Facebook

Millennial Money Queens