Excellent Money Matters

• EPISODE 17
• EXCELLENT MONEY MATTERS
• 🎯� Financial planning means the process of planning your finances with a long-term view in order to achieve your financial goals. 5:10
• 🎯� Nothing guarantees a good future like a correct picture. 6:45
• 🎯 Plan your finances in a way that will afford you the opportunity to enjoy yourself. 8:52
• 🎯� Personal finance when taken literally is just personal finance. 13:13
• 🎯� A budget is like a navigator, that shows you what is coming as income and must 
• necessarily come out. 15:40
• 🎯� Except your financial circumstances change significantly you are not meant you be 
• budgeting, you are meant to be reviewing. 16:40
• 🎯� The act of budgeting is simple, establish your basic income, what your monthly 
• expenses are, and start to track. 18:21
• 🎯� Maximizing your resources is a combination of three things: -19:20
• (I) Get the right knowledge -19:25
• (II) Get the right skills – 19:27
• (III) Have the right mindset – 19:29
• 🎯� There are four things when it comes to investing your money, they are called the 
• SGAR factors. 22:57
• S – Standing for your financial situation. – 23:00
• G- Goals, our goals differ from short term and long term – 23:42
• A – Age is very important -23:48
• R – Risk temperament – 24:44
• 🎯� When investing consider low-risk opportunities- 27:20

Adesola (Sola) Adesakin,  is a Personal/ Business Finance Coach and Chartered Accountant with over 20 years of hands-on experience. She is passionate about helping people at individual and business levels, understand the “make-manage-multiply money” message, maximize their resources, achieve their crucial financial milestones and build true wealth, through the concept of financial planning. 
Through the Smart Stewards Financial Advisory Limited; a holding company that owns The Smart Investment Club, The Smart Stewards Academy, Booksmart Financial Solutions, and other subsidiaries, including the Smart Stewards Advisory LLC, registered in Delaware, USA, Sola has helped many people; young and old as well as businesses in over 25 countries, bounce back from financial stress to rest, from debt to wealth to living amazing lives.
As a financial enthusiast, Sola is an advocate for SDG5 and SDG10, with a firm belief for achieving gender equality and reducing inequality via financial literacy, financial technology, and access to funding, especially for women entrepreneurs and family units.
She is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria ( ICAN), a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants of the United Kingdom (ACCA), a Member of the Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada and she holds  BSC and MBA degrees from the Oxford Brookes University and Edinburgh Business School, United Kingdom respectively
She is an Alumnae of the Academy for Women Entrepreneurs, an initiative of the US Embassy in Nigeria, an alumna of Cherie Blair Foundation’s Road To Growth Program, as well as an alumna of Goldman Sach’s 10000 Women Program. She is a member of the Select Global Women in Tech (SGWIT) Mentorship Network of The United States of America.
 She is an Author of 8 published books and several unpublished articles, in the public domain. Sola was recognized as one of Nigeria’s 100 most inspiring women in 2020 and has won many awards in recognition of her job in the Finance and Business Industry.
She was recently admitted into the Forbes Coaching Council, as she continues to leverage global alliances and partnerships to demystify and amplify the money message around the world.