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[REPLAY]: Women of Color Can Be Wealthy Too

Season 5, Ep. 245
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All December long, we are replaying our top 4 most popular episodes of 2023! This week's replay episode is episode 192 with Ellie Diop, Dr. Jatali Bellanton, Davonne Reaves & Anne-Lyse Wealth.

Ellie Diop is an entrepreneur, speaker, youth mentor, business coach and podcast host of Get Ellievated. She started her business out of necessity after being laid off from her job. By providing resources to start an online business and earn money online, she has empowered thousands of women and has grown her Instagram following from less than 500 people to over 100,000 in 7 months.

Founder of the youth financial literacy organization, Kids Who Bank. and Brilliant Minds Unite, Dr. Jatali Bellanton thinks that we should and that they provide opportunities to build wealth. After working in the investment banking world for over a decade, Jatali created a financial literacy curriculum that has been taught in close to 300 schools. In recent years, she dived into alternative newer investments and has not looked back since.

Hospitality trailblazer Davonne Reaves is the Founder of The Vonne Group, an award winning hotel consultant, asset manager, owner of 3 hotels, and the Founder of Vesterr, the first crowdfunding platform for hotel investments. After starting as a front desk agent in the hospitality industry 15+ years ago, Davonne held various positions in the hospitality industry, including in asset management at CHM Warnick, where she managed portfolios totaling over $1 billion in hotel assets.

Anne-Lyse Wealth is founder of Dream of Legacy , a platform helping building wealth with purpose. She's a personal finance coach, financial author, Certified Public Accountant and host of a weekly podcast, The Dreamers Podcast.

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