Today’s guest is Brian Page.
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Today’s Guest
Brian Page
Brian has spent his career improving lives through personal finance education, and founded Modern Husbands to continue doing this through couples. Modern Husbands is a community of devoted husbands married to working spouses, who share ideas to manage money and the home as a couple. Brian spent 15 years as a personal finance and economics educator and was recognized as a National Educator of the Year by the Milken Foundation and Ohio Department of Education and CNN Money Hero. He held a senior-level position with Next Gen Personal Finance. He is also a former Working Group Member of the Barack Obama’s Advisory Council on Financial Capability. Brian is the father to 3 kids and he/his wife are based in Atlanta, Georgia.
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You’ll Learn:
- Money lessons Brian received during his childhood
- What he is passionate about teaching personal finance to kids
- Challenges he faced as a teacher talking about money in the classroom
- Important money skills we should be emphasizing to our kids
- How and when to create environments that parents can teach values through money lessons
- The importance of focusing on social and emotional learning at an early age
- How to create financial incentives and lessons around back to school shopping
- How to teach lessons to help kids appreciate what they are receiving from their parents
- The importance of meeting kids where they are
- How to close the gap between knowledge and behaviour
- Why he founded Modern Husbands and what is his mission with building the Modern Husbands community
- How to effectively have money conversations between spouses, who grew up with different money stories
- Setting up systems that make good habits automatic and bad habits harder
Resources
- The Opposite of Spoiled by Ron Lieber
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Thanks to Brian for joining me this week!
In case you missed it, make sure to catch up on the last episode “Episode 049: More To Give: How RE Investors bring FinLit to Underserved Youth with Aziz and Mariyah Kaderbhai”!
Thank you, Brian Page, for such an insightful episode of your podcast! Episode 050 on closing the financial literacy gap between knowledge and behavior was incredibly enlightening. I appreciate the valuable information and practical advice you shared. It’s crucial to bridge the gap between what we know about finance and how we actually apply that knowledge in our lives. Your discussion really helped clarify some of the challenges and solutions. Thanks again for sharing your expertise!