This week on Financial Freestyle with Ross Mac, Ross sits down with Rashad Bilal and Troy Millings, the co-hosts and creators of the "Earn Your Leisure" podcast and founders of Invest Fest, a fresh take on financial conferences. Millings and Bilal, childhood best friends from the Bronx, began their careers on different paths—Millings as a teacher and Bilal as a financial adviser. By combining their expertise, they found their purpose: education. “Really [we were] just trying to educate kids at first, you know, started in the classroom and eventually turned into a show,” says Millings. “We quickly realized that there’s an opportunity to actually educate people.. And so the entrepreneurial story became the forefront of the show, where we got to talk to people from different avenues, different careers, and they were giving their expertise. And as we’re learning, the audience is learning.” The "Earn Your Leisure" podcast became the community’s go-to source for financial literacy. “We felt like people were left out of the conversation for so long, and we wanted to make sure that it was given to some people in a digestible manner,” says Millings. "Earn Your Leisure’s" next big move was reimagining the traditional financial conference. “We wanted to do something that had never really been done. So that’s where the festival idea comes in to, you know, add the culture aspect… [to] make it fun… as opposed to small breakout rooms like most business conferences have,” says Bilal. “We just felt like we needed a signature event that people could gravitate to every year. That was kind of the idea behind Invest Fest.” Looking to the future, their mission is clear. “I see us as the global force when it comes to educating people who’ve been underrepresented, undervalued, and forgotten throughout the diaspora,” says Millings.
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