Interviews, TV and Film
Good Morning America
Parents
Real Moms, Real Money
Daily Mail TV
Tips on Managing Relationships and Money
60 Second Docs Wealth
Sponsored by Black Rock (May 2019)
Love and Marriage Huntsville
Julien and Kiersten meet with Marsau and Tisha to improve communication about spending.
Playing with FIRE
A documentary about the FIRE Movement and lifestyle released in 2019.
The Atlantic
Featured in a mini-documentary in partnership with the Atlantic and Nuveen (Nov 2018)
Grow | CNBC Acorns
Black financial experts on what's missing from the racial wealth gap conversation (Feb 2021)
NBCLX
What the GameStop Wild Stock Ride teaches us about Financial Literacy (Mar 2021)
Press & Media Mentions 2023
Cashing Out, Best Overall book for Investing, 2023
ATL Hawks, MLK Game
- Yahoo Finance: 9 Top Money Experts you May Not Be Following but Should
- GoBankingRates.com: 100 Most Influential Money Experts
- AfroTech: 10 Power Players Using Their Platforms on Social Media To Encourage The Black Community To Level Up Their Finance (May 2023)
- Business Insider: The Best Investing Books of 2023
- Forbes: Top 5 Personal Finance Books To Read in 2023
- Business Insider: The Best Personal Finance Podcasts of 2023
- The Skimm: Skimm Money: FIRE, Layoffs and Mansplaining
- Essence.com 7 Books to Help You Secure The Bag (Jan 2023)
- Business Insider:Â The 19 Best Personal Finance Books of 2023 (Jan 2023)
- NBA.com: Hawks Announce Plans for MLK Day Game Presented By Chase (Jan 2023)
Press 2022
- Good Morning America: Couple Pens Book To Share How They Paid off $200K of Debt and Quit Their Jobs
- Mckinsey Author Talks: The 15 Year Career Is Here
- The Cut: How We Paid off $200,000 in Debt in Five Years
- Money: 4 Investing Rules Even "Regular' Poeple can Use To Get Rich
- Business Insider: 3 Simple Tips To Improve my Financial Plan From The Book Cashing Out
- Marketwatch: From working life to FIRE life in 3 steps
- Black Enterprise: Highlighting 3 Black Moms Who Are Business Bosses
- Money: The Faces of Personal Finance Are Changing, and These Trailblazers Are Forging a More Inclusive Path ( Feb 2022)
- Real Simple: 3 Common Fights About Money and How to Resolve Them (Feb 2022)
- Yahoo Money: Romance and finance: How to create and maintain a healthy budget with your partner (Feb 2022)
- Parents.com: 6 Strategies Parents Use to Manage the Cost of Childcare (Dec 2022)
- The Cut: How to Put Yourself on a Money Diet (Dec 2022)
- XONecole.com: This Couple Once Broke Up About Money and Now They've Made it Their Mission to Teach Others About Building Wealth (Dec 2022)
Press 2021
- NY Times: Sharing Hard-Won Money Lessons to Build Generational Wealth ( Dec 2021)
- Bloomberg- How to do Everything better. The How to Issue (May 2021)
- The Balance- Perspectives: rich & REGULAR on Index Funds and the Meaning of FIRE (April 2021)
- Bloomberg- Personal Finance Has Failed to Reckon with Inequality (Mar 2021)
- CNBC Grow by Acorns- This Is The Most Obvious Thing Missing From The Racial Wealth Gap Conversation (Feb 2021)
Press 2020
- Grow By Acorns (CNBC)- How I plan for my financial future while supporting my Mom (Oct 2020)
- Vox– Inside FIRE, the implausible milennial movement to save, invest, and quit the American workforce (Mar 2020)
- NY Times- Track where your money goes: First step, actually open up those bank and credit card statements (May 2020)
- Grow By Acorns (CNBC)– We paid off $200,000 in 5 Years, became debt-free, and started a business: Here’s our best advice (June 2020)
- CNBC Make It- Couple who paid off $200,000 in debt and are on track to ‘retire early’ focus on earning instead of saving — here’s why (June 2020)
- CNBC Make It- Millennials who tripled their salaries in ten years share their best advice for getting a raise (June 2020)
- People Magazine- How to negotiate your salary and get what you deserve (July 2020)
- Essence Magazine- Money Matters: How to Improve your Net Worth (July 2020)
Workshops, Panels & Fireside Chats
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Press 2019-2017
- NBC News/NBC Black: Self taught financial advisors keep it real about money management (Dec. 2017)
- Free | Money by Vice: 10 Blogs and Podcasts that will make you smarter about money (Oct. 2018)
- Glamour Magazine: Retire by 45…With $1.5 Million in the Bank (December 2018) Print version
- Black Enterprise: People Share Why They Don’t Use Financial Advisors; Some Alternative Ways to Get Financial Help (Jan. 2019)
- Essence Magazine:Â Their Day, Their Way! 8 confident couples who decided to nix tradition and make their own rules at the altar (Mar 2019)
- Marketwatch: How the early-retirement movement gave this couple a solution to the racial wealth gap (Mar. 2019)
- NY Times: For these Women, a Fire that Burns too Male and too White (June 2019)
- CBS This Morning: F.I.R.E: Inside Millennial’s new savings plan for early retirement (June 2019)
- CNBC Make It:Â How to figure out how much money you need to retire early (June 2019)
- Forbes: 9 FIRE Blogs you Should Read (July 2019)
- Voyage ATL:Â (August 2019)
- Forbes: Here’s how people that retire in their 40s pay off huge debt loads in just a few years (Aug 2019)
- Forbes: Here’s how one couple addressed their money hang-ups and paid off $200,000 of debt in 5 years (Sept 2019)
- Money Magazine:Â This is what Millennials can actually expect from retirement, according to experts
Articles/Freelancing
- Free | Money by Vice: How one-way Friendships leave you broke. (Nov. 2018)
- Sisters Letter from AARP :Stop Financial Fears from Blocking your path to retirement (Dec. 2019)
Podcast Interviews
2020
- Yo Quiero Dinero: Episode 31
- The FI Show, Episode 85
- Dreams in Drive, Episode 239
- The UnCent$ored show, Episode 65
- The Courtney Sanders Show, Episode 106
- Money with Friends w/Bobbi Rebell and Joe Saul-Sehy, Thought Leaders, Season 3
Archive
- Journey to Launch-
- Popcorn Finance, Sponsored by Airbnb-Â February 2019
- The Fairer Cents, Episode 27, March 2019
- What’s up Next, Episode 24, March 2019
- The Young Money Podcast, Episode 35, March 2019
- Choose FI, Episode 123, April 2019
- How to Money, Episode 86, May 2019
- Ungentrified, Episode 35, June 2019
- Motherhood Unstressed, Episode 100, July 2019
- Bigger Pockets Money, Episode 80, July 2019
- Monetize Everything Podcast, July 2019
- Paychecks & Balances, Episode 139, September 2019
- Marriage, Kids and Money, September, 2019
- Black, Married and Debt Free, September 2019
- Color Full Lives, Sponsored by State Farm-Â July 2018
- FIRE Drill Podcast-September 2018
- His and Her Money-Â November 2018
- His and Her FI Post- November 2018