Breaking Money Silence

Be a Financial Literacy Changemaker Episode 153 Did you know that only 24 states in the United States require a high school personal finance course to be offered to its students? Most school systems that do require it don’t make it mandatory for graduation. The result is many young people are not adequately prepared to manage money responsibly as adults. Today’s guest, Michelle Arpin Begina, CFP®, CIMA®, is an advisor and changemaker who decided to take action in her home state of New Jersey. She contacted her local legislators, joined a task force charged with updating the financial literacy standards and was instrumental in getting behavioral finance added to the curriculum. This podcast is about how she went from being curious about the financial literacy problem in our country to being an