Odalys Mendez

I earned my degree from Cal State Fullerton with a degree in finance and worked for corporate companies managing their balance sheets and profit and loss for over 20 years. But I was never really attuned to my own perspective until I had financial difficulty in 2020. That's when I realized I really needed to get my situation in order, and once I did that and was introduced to the business platform, I realized I wasn't alone and there were so many families that needed financial education. Now I'm building a national agency that spans from Oregon to Florida, helping families grow their savings, get free from debt, protect their assets, and preserve their wealth. I also opened a kids' business where I teach financial literacy through books, workshops, and other avenues because I realized there's an epidemic - we're not teaching our kids how money really works. My goal is for financial literacy to be taught in schools, at least in the state of California within five years, starting with middle school and elementary because that's really where you start making the concepts stick. Everybody knows how to spend money, but they don't know how to manage it.