Financially Lit! by Jannese Torres

Join us for the release of Financially Lit!, featuring award-winning Latina Money Expert, Educator, Speaker, Writer and Business Coach Jannese Torres. Joining her in conversation is Cindy Zuniga-Sanchez, author of Overcoming Debt, Achieving Financial Freedom.

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In many immigrant households, money isn’t often a topic of discussion, so financial education can be minimal—especially when a family is just trying to survive the day-to-day. Despite being the largest minority group in the United States, the Latino community still faces cultural and systemic barriers that prevent them from building wealth. As a first-generation Latina, Jannese Torres, award-winning money expert, educator, and podcaster, knows these unique challenges well. She set out to pursue the traditional American Dream, becoming the first woman in her family to graduate from college, climb the corporate ladder, and secure the six-figure paycheck, only to find herself miserable and unfulfilled. She soon realized that everything she’d been taught about money and success wasn’t as it seemed. After discovering the true meaning of wealth, Torres resolved to pave her own path, leaving the life she was told she should want for one of entrepreneurship, autonomy, and financial freedom.
In Financially Lit! Torres offers you culturally relevant and relatable personal finance advice that will allow you to finally feel seen, heard, and understood. Whether it’s the guilt you feel from being the first person to “make it” while members of your family are still struggling, or the way financial trauma manifests itself in negative and limiting beliefs around money, Torres is here to guide you through it all.
With the warmth and no-nonsense wisdom of someone who’s been there before, Torres will teach you how to:

• set boundaries with your dinero
• protect yourself from financial abuse
• navigate the complicated relationship between amor and money
• invest like a white dude—or better!

With Financially Lit! at your side, you’ll harness the powerful ways money can be used to create the life of your dreams, and be empowered to step into financial freedom.

is an award-winning Latina Money Expert, Educator, Speaker, Writer and Business Coach. She became an accidental entrepreneur after a job loss led her to create a successful Latin food blog, Delish D’Lites. She’s a wildly-successful serial entrepreneur who has built several 6-figure online businesses and achieved financial independence at age 35. Now, she teaches women of color how to identify their gifts and turn them into businesses that allow them to pursue financial freedom and independence.

is the founder of Zero-Based Budget Coaching LLC and the author of Overcoming Debt, Achieving Financial Freedom: 8 Pillars to Build Wealth.  After graduating law school in 2015 with $215,000 of debt, Cindy took control of her money by immersing herself in the world of personal finance. In 2018, she launched @zerobasedbudget on Instagram to document her debt payoff journey and simplify personal finance concepts. After recognizing, through her platform, people’s unique needs and goals, Cindy founded her business where she offers personal finance coaching services and speaks to audiences small and large about budgeting, saving, investing, and more. Cindy practices law full time as a commercial litigator at Venable LLP. She is a graduate of Stony Brook University and obtained her Juris Doctor degree from the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. She was born, raised in, and currently resides in the Bronx, New York.

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