Catherine Bell grew up poor and says lack of financial education shaped her childhood. Schools don't teach money, relationships, or communication skills. She recommends reading Think and Grow Rich and learning from successful people to build the financial foundation for the impact you want to make.
Hey, everyone, it's Katherine with Titan Impact Group. And I've been asked, is financial literacy important? This is a subject I'm really, really passionate about. I'm clear that school, the two things it doesn't teach us is it doesn't teach us relationship skills, and it doesn't teach us financial literacy and doesn't even teach us communication. The three things that are, are absolutely fundamental inside of marriages. Working, a lot of relationships, working. And so I'm clear that is financial literacy important. Absolutely. I unfortunately grew up, was born to a teenage mother, and we were dirt poor and had a really rough and horrible childhood. And I believe a lot of that happened because of the lack of financial literacy. Had she had the financial literacy, it would have created different opportunities to be able to create a life that, you know, she actually loved and, you know, really was able to be everything that she wanted to be. But due to the lack of financial literacy, it continued to perpetuate, I'm sure, decades of illiteracy throughout, you know, the generations. And so one of the things being very passionate about that is understanding that the school system is not going to teach us any of that. So it is up to us to go get ourselves self educated. There's more than enough books, courses, mentors, people out there to learn from around financial literacy. One of my favorite things is success leaves clues. And so one of the things I love is studying really successful people in all of the millionaires and billionaires that I know. One of the common threads that I love that every single one of them does is they all study the book Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill. It is a small book, but it is intense. And if you do the work, like really do the work, not just, I know it doesn't matter what you know, it only matters what you do. If you actually do the work work, it absolutely matters. And financial literacy will change your life for the rest of your life, I promise you. So it's not about the money. Money is like oxygen. The more you have, the easier it is to breathe. The more you can breathe, and the more you have, the bigger the difference in the world you can make. And I believe we're all here to make a huge impact in the world. I am here to get all the adoptable children in the U.S. foster care system adopted to loving families. So with that, I am Catherine Bell, and we are the sentinels of the American dream. We leave every person, property, and community better than we found them. Bye for now.
