How Espinal Exposure Changed My Life

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Throughout three weeks of the course, numerous of professionals have come to speak and interact with us and I believe their presentation changed my life, by providing life lesson, advice, and exposure.
Yanely Espinal presentation about credit and retirement saving birth my self-reflection process, which filled my mind full of thoughts about the future. It made me worried on the subject of how I will deal with my financial situation in the future. Asking myself how I can possibly manage a good credit score and money. Ms. Espinal exposure into the finance world was simply overwhelming, but the exposure got me thinking to plan ahead sooner than later. Heading into the course as a naive sixteen-year teen, I believe I had the future covered. I

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