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Speaker 1: Hello Sunshine.

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Speaker 2: Hey fam Today, on the bright side, your financial planning

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Speaker 2: just got an upgrade. Okay, Sis, we're talking AI and

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Speaker 2: the groundbreaking new ways you can utilize technology for financial planning,

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Speaker 2: get yourself out of debt, plan for that dream vacation,

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Speaker 2: and learn the surprising ways that we can lean on

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Speaker 2: AI for budgeting. It's Wednesday, January twenty ninth. I'm Simone Boyce.

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Speaker 3: I'm Danielle Robe and this is the bright side from

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Speaker 3: Hello Sunshine.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Danielle. It feels like AI is one of those

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Speaker 2: things that we just cannot escape right now. It's ever present,

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Speaker 2: It's in our Google searches, it's popping up in Instagram features.

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Speaker 2: And today we're talking about how we can use AI

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Speaker 2: for financial planning, which I think is pretty cool.

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Speaker 1: Simone, I'm so obsessed.

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Speaker 3: I can't stop thinking about what AI is going to

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Speaker 3: change in our world, and we're already experiencing some of it.

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Speaker 3: As you said, in terms of financial planning, people are

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Speaker 3: really utilizing this as a tool. According to a study

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Speaker 3: by Experience, nearly half of consumers said that they have

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Speaker 3: or are considering using AI for financial management help, and

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Speaker 3: ninety six percent of people who used it said they

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Speaker 3: had a positive experience.

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Speaker 1: I'm into this. Is this something you would ever use?

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Speaker 2: Yeah? Absolutely. I think the future for AI and financial

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Speaker 2: planning is very bright. Like I do see a future

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Speaker 2: in which AI replaces brokers, which obviously that is there

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Speaker 2: is an unfortunate downside to that. We're losing you know,

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Speaker 2: human labor. But I don't know. Is AI going to

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Speaker 2: become smarter than the market one day? I mean, imagine

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Speaker 2: how that's going to upend the power dynamic in this world?

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Speaker 3: And can you trust it? I feel like we're going

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Speaker 3: to get into all that today, but I'm open.

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Speaker 2: I feel the same way about AI as they do

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Speaker 2: about space, like I'm scared of it, but I'm open.

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Speaker 3: I think that's such a great sentiment because when I

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Speaker 3: think back in history about all of the times that

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Speaker 3: have been these like monumental shifts in technology, the first

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Speaker 3: reaction is to fear it. Like everybody felt that way

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Speaker 3: about TV, about radio, about microwaves, And here we are

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Speaker 3: utilizing all that stuff smartphones even right.

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Speaker 1: AI is just the next frontier.

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Speaker 2: Right and we've all seen the research on how early

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Speaker 2: adopters wind up becoming much more successful. You know, the

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Speaker 2: people who remain open and are willing to learn the

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Speaker 2: new technology. There are just numerous benefits, that's for sure.

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Speaker 3: We have to remain open. Well, we're going to get

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Speaker 3: into so much of this today. Joining us to break

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Speaker 3: it all down is Melissa Jean Baptiste. She's the founder

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Speaker 3: of the financial literacy blog Millennial in Debt and the

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Speaker 3: author of the personal Finance book So this is why

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Speaker 3: I'm Broke.

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Speaker 1: I love that title.

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Speaker 3: She teaches millennials and gen z how to increase their income,

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Speaker 3: how to build generational wealth, how to gain financial and

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Speaker 3: what I really appreciate is that she's talking about this

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Speaker 3: from a personal place.

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Speaker 1: She has experience in this.

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Speaker 2: Well, yeah, I mean I was fascinated to learn that

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Speaker 2: a few years ago Melissa paid off one hundred and

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Speaker 2: two thousand dollars in student loan debt and purchased her

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Speaker 2: first home within thirty days of that milestone. She was

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Speaker 2: actually a teacher at the time and started selling her

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Speaker 2: lesson plans on the side as a side hustle, and

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Speaker 2: then that extra income facilitated all of her other financial goals.

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Speaker 2: Like that story is just mind blowing to me.

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Speaker 1: It really is.

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Speaker 3: Well, without further ado, we're excited to welcome the self

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Speaker 3: proclaimed Beyonce of personal finance, Melissa Jean Baptiste. She's here

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Speaker 3: to help us with our bills. Bills, bills, Melissa, welcome

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Speaker 3: to the bright Side.

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Speaker 4: Thank you, Dane. That was a fantastic intro.

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Speaker 5: I love, I love the little nods of Beyonce Disney's child.

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Speaker 1: We had to we couldn't resist.

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Speaker 2: We have to start by asking you about your journey

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Speaker 2: because you heard it out like so many Americans in

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Speaker 2: debt from student loans. But we mentioned that you actually

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Speaker 2: paid off over one hundred thousand dollars in student loans

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Speaker 2: and bought a house all on a teacher's salary, which

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Speaker 2: is just mind blowing. How did you make that happen?

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Speaker 3: Don't tell me coupons, Melissa, No, I can't handle that.

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Speaker 2: And don't tell me you skipped on seven dollars lattes. No.

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Speaker 5: I did skip out on a lot of things, but

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Speaker 5: it wasn't that that helped me reach the end goal,

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Speaker 5: which I think is a lot of the miscommunication and

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Speaker 5: the finance. We're all like, yeah, just don't buy coffee

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Speaker 5: and you could buy a million dollar house.

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Speaker 4: That's that's not true.

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Speaker 5: So it took a lot of discipline and also a

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Speaker 4: And what even led.

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Speaker 5: is I tried to buy a house.

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Speaker 4: I live in New York.

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Speaker 5: I tried to buy a house at twenty five years old.

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Speaker 5: I had no savings account. I didn't know anything about

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Speaker 5: anything regarding money. And the real estate agent was just like,

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Speaker 5: nothing we could do for you here, Like, you're just

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Speaker 5: not going to get approved for a mortgage that's big

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Speaker 5: they were just like, oh, you owe eighty thousand, and

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Speaker 5: that was strange because.

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Speaker 4: I had only board fifty.

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Speaker 5: And that's when they really started explaining, you're on an

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Speaker 5: interest only payment plan. You you know, even paying these payments,

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Speaker 5: but it hasn't been going to the principle. And I'm

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Speaker 5: just like, I don't I don't know any of these

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Speaker 5: terms mean. I just you sent me a bill. I

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Speaker 5: paid the bill, Like what are we talking about? And

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Speaker 5: so that moment, that conversation is really what made me

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Speaker 5: which was in the negatives. And in that moment, I

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Speaker 5: down this principle, pay down this amount that my monthly

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Speaker 5: selling my lesson plans in unit plans and making an

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Speaker 2: I'm really curious about, like how you sold the lesson plans.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, So initially I started off, like I said, doing

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Speaker 5: and I'm like, listen, I'm already spending forty fifty hours

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Speaker 5: some research. And there's this platform called Teachers Pay Teachers,

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Speaker 5: where it's literally built for educators to sell really great

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Speaker 5: things that they've created and you can purchase from other

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Speaker 4: So that's how I ended up there.

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Speaker 3: Melissa, what were some of the mistakes that you were

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Speaker 3: making before you were getting your finances on track?

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Speaker 5: So I really was a mind that if I pay

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Speaker 5: that I know how to operate money.

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Speaker 4: So I wasn't.

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Speaker 5: Saving, I wasn't budgeting, I wasn't planning, and I would

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Speaker 4: I'm getting another paycheck.

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Speaker 5: In two weeks, without ever really thinking like, hey, maybe

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Speaker 5: you can invest this money, or maybe you could put

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Speaker 5: it towards saving. You want to travel, but you don't

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Speaker 5: want to take on more debt. Maybe create a sinking

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Speaker 5: fund for you to travel in the next six months

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Speaker 5: or the next year. I was literally getting a paycheck

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Speaker 5: I paid my bills. And it wasn't until besides that

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Speaker 4: And I was just like, oh, girl, you.

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Speaker 5: Maybe you need a plan if you're going to be

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Speaker 5: I're embarrassing yourself like this.

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Speaker 4: So I was just a big spender, very big consumer.

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Speaker 1: It's not embarrassing.

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Speaker 3: It's really like if you don't grow up learning this stuff,

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Speaker 3: it's really hard to find digestible information later on.

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Speaker 1: It that's confusing.

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Speaker 3: I had not a similar experience to you, but a

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Speaker 3: different experience where I realized, like I got to get

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Speaker 1: We all have that moment, Yes, I think.

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Speaker 2: So I know that you also use chat GPT to

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Speaker 4: So you can do one of two ways.

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Speaker 5: One you could do the quiz route, where you can

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Speaker 5: say chat GBT create a side hustle quiz that will

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Speaker 5: help me figure out what my skill sets are or

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Speaker 5: me side hustles that are really great for people in education,

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Speaker 4: Or I can say, give me side hustles that I

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Speaker 5: Remote remotely for experience with education, and it'll give me

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Speaker 4: You could do Uber eats and all of that is like, well,

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Speaker 4: maybe I don't want to.

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Speaker 5: I could do inside. But I don't know they even exist,

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Speaker 5: Like a lot of people don't even know that they

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Speaker 5: that into AI and really getting specific into what you do, well, that.

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Speaker 4: Is going to give you options that you might not

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Speaker 2: We've got to take a quick break, but we'll be

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Speaker 2: right back to our conversation with Melissa Jean Baptiste, So

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Speaker 2: stay with us and we're back. So I'm skeptical, Melissa,

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Speaker 2: I gotta be honest because because I have not been

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Speaker 2: But I know that we're there already and these resources

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Speaker 2: the near future. So what are some of the ways

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Speaker 2: that you would suggest use AI to get a better

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Speaker 5: Yes, I completely understand I was there, But I think

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Speaker 5: at no matter whichever you know space you are with AI,

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Speaker 5: like I don't know yet. There are tools in so

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Speaker 5: many different ways for you to kind of figure out

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Speaker 5: trying to achieve. So, for example, if we're using CHADGBT,

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Speaker 2: So, in terms of saving, Melissa, what's an example of

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Speaker 2: an AI prompt that will help us save more this year? Oh?

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Speaker 5: I love that I create saving prompts for myself all

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Speaker 5: the time. Like one of the most recent ones I did,

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Speaker 5: which is so funny. I was just like, how can

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Speaker 5: I prepare, Like how can I save for the next

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Speaker 5: Beyonce a like surprise drop or the next tour? And

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Speaker 5: what it did, which was so cool, was it looked

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Speaker 5: at the average prices of like the Renaissance tour and

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Speaker 5: told me, you know, if you have twelve weeks and

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Speaker 5: you want to save two thousand dollars, this is how

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Speaker 5: much you need to save weekly, daily or monthly. If

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Speaker 5: you want to save for a specific thing that you know,

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Speaker 5: like a date or a timeline, and you have a

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Speaker 5: specific number, you can want to chat, GBT or any

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Speaker 5: AI tool that you like to use, and ask it

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Speaker 5: to create a savings plan for you with the total

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Speaker 5: amount you need to save and the amount of time

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Speaker 5: that you need to save it by. And if you

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Speaker 5: want it to get really specific, you can start inserting

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Speaker 5: your budget numbers. Right, so you can say, I bring

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Speaker 5: home five thousand dollars a month, these are my expenses,

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Speaker 5: and I want to save three thousand dollars in the

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Speaker 5: next seven months. What is a savings plan that I

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Speaker 5: could follow and it will spit that out for you,

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Speaker 5: and now I can automate that savings using whatever bank

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Speaker 5: that I use.

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Speaker 2: Amazing. That's a great tip. And you can also use

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Speaker 2: it to help you plan a vacation that's budget friendly, right, Like,

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Speaker 2: give me an example of a prompt that you would

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Speaker 2: use for that task.

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Speaker 5: Two years ago, my girlfriends and I were going to Miami.

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Speaker 5: We were saying in this specific area, saying at this

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Speaker 5: specific hotel, and we input it all of that where

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Speaker 5: we were staying, and we said, give us five to

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Speaker 5: seven activities that we can do within the fifty.

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Speaker 4: To one hundred dollars range.

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Speaker 5: And you get to Yeah, even if it's not for

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Speaker 5: vacation if you want to go on a date with

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Speaker 5: your partner, but you tell them like the location and

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Speaker 5: the price limit, and it'll give you spit out ideas

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Speaker 5: of things you can do.

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Speaker 4: That are in that near area or wherever you might

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Speaker 4: be going to.

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Speaker 2: Amazing.

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Speaker 4: I love that.

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Speaker 5: That's because sometimes I'm like, I don't know what I

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Speaker 5: want to do, just telp me where should I go?

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Speaker 2: Also great for group trips that can get so unwieldy

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Speaker 2: in terms of splitting costs, so correct.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, you can do it for restaurants too, which is

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Speaker 5: another one because if we're like, you're gonna split for dinner,

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Speaker 5: I need to know if we're going to like the

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Speaker 5: Yelp restaurants with the.

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Speaker 4: Four four dollars signs or a two dollars sign, Like,

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Speaker 4: let's get a list going for me.

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Speaker 5: I just see where we could potentially go to.

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Speaker 3: Totally Melissa, thanks so much for joining us on the

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Speaker 3: bright side, Thank you for having me.

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Speaker 2: Melissa Jean Baptiste is the founder of the financial literacy

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Speaker 2: blog Millennial in Debt and the author of the personal

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Speaker 2: finance book So This is Why I'm Broke.

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Speaker 3: That's it for today's show. Tomorrow, we have another edition

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Speaker 3: of shelf Life in store. Kate Fagan joins us to

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Speaker 3: talk about her debut fiction novel and the January pick

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Speaker 3: for Reese's Book Club, The Three Lives of Kate.

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