Women in charge of their financial freedom
Kim Chakanetsa talks two entrepreneurs who teach women to be money-savvy.
Kim Chakanetsa talks to two entrepreneurs who teach women to be money-savvy.
Arese Ugwu is a Nigerian author whose work is centred around personal finance. She wrote two best-selling books, The smart money tribe and The smart money woman. The latter has recently been turned into a Netflix show.
Shikha Mittal is a personal finance educator from India. In 2010 she started Be.artsy, a social enterprise empowering people through courses and awareness campaigns. The two big causes she cares about are fighting sexual harassment in the workplace and making people – and women in particular – financially literate.
Produced by Alice Gioia
(Image: (L) Shikha Mittal, credit Be.artsy. (R) Arese Ugwu, credit Ryan OniFOTO Studios.)
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