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Recent Guest Appearances by John Lanza
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CU Broadcast
December 9, 2019 |
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CU 2.0 Podcast
January 8, 2020 |
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Millennial to Millionaire
January 29, 2020 |
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How to Raise a Maverick
February 2020 |
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Famvestor
February 3, 2020 |
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Wealthy Wellthy Podcast
February 21, 2020 |
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The Art of Allowance: A Short, Practical Guide to Raising Money-Smart, Money-Empowered Kids
“This is an unusual book which in addition to the usual nostrums offered by books on money and finance is an honest and vivid diary of one family’s successful efforts to bring financial literacy to their two daughters. In the process of ministering allowances to them the parents explore the meaning of money and learn an awful lot about themselves and their own decision making processes.”
— GEORGE RAND (PhD and MA, Psychology, Clark & interested parent)
Becoming money-empowered is not possible without real world practice. Allowance provides that practice and John’s straightforward and refreshing approach provides parents the broader context for why an allowance matters. This context helps ensure that your allowance program will stay on track.
The Art of Allowance is a simple step-by-step guide with practical tips, funny stories and clear strategies to help you create an allowance that can grow with your child from pre-school through teen years.
Do yourself a favor: get this book today and you can start raising your money-smart, money-empowered child today.
John Lanza, creator of the award-winning DVD and book series featuring The Money Mammals, has released a book written by a parent for parents to help them raise a healthy, grounded, money-smart, money-empowered children in a world that romanticizes spending, celebrates celebrity and forces stuff at all of us at every turn.
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The Art of Allowance: A Short, Practical Guide to Raising Money-Smart, Money-Empowered Kids
In a world that romanticizes spending, celebrates celebrity and forces stuff at all of us at every turn, raising a child who isn’t spoiled and has a healthy attitude about money. The Art of Allowance is a short, simple parent-to-parent guide filled with practical tips, funny stories and clear strategies to help you create an allowance that will grow with your child from pre-school through teen years.
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John Lanza is on a mission to help parents raise money-smart kids and help families live happier, more fulfilled lives. John Lanza is the author of The Art of Allowance: A Short, Practical Guide to Raising Money-Smart, Money-Empowered Kids, host of The Art of Allowance Podcast and creator of The Art of Allowance Project featuring The Money Mammals and now the new program for tweens and teens called Adolescent$. The Art of Allowance Project is a nationwide program for credit unions that helps them connect with families to help parents raise money-smart kids of all ages. An expert on youth financial literacy, John’s work has appeared in the NY Times, LA Times, The Wall Street Journal, CU Broadcast and CU Insight.
John, an avid runner, boardgame enthusiast, is the Chief Mammal of Snigglezoo and he lives in Los Angeles with his wife and Money Mammals co-creator, Eileen and their two daughters who have inspired and informed his work.
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Interview Resources
Creating a Purposeful Allowance that will Stick
Many allowances fizzle because there’s no context behind the learning. The Art of Allowance provides parents with the context and with purpose, the allowance will become a consistent part of family life and a method through which families can become money-smart and money empowered. In this interview, we’ll discuss how to get started and make it stick.
Creative Ideas to Make Your Allowance More Meaningful
There are many ways to help your allowance more powerful, concepts like “nudging” your child to make better money-smart choices and learning to set SMART goals using visualization. In this interview, John will discuss various tactics to help make an allowance more effective and even more fun for parent and child.
Raising Kids that aren’t Slaves to Consumerism
Kids are inundated with messages to spend, spend, spend from almost the time they’re born. Just as we read to our kids before they can understand what we are saying, we need to introduce positive, empowering money messages like charitable giving (we call it “sharing”), saving for goals and spending SMART. In this interview, we’ll discuss what the research says kids can learn and why building good habits early can help parents avoid having to break bad habits later.
Sample Interview Questions
Should you tie allowance to chores?
What’s wrong with the piggy bank?
How do introduce investing and at what point?
How can I make sure I’m not raising a spoiled kid?
When is too late to start teaching my kid money smarts?
When should I start teaching my kid money smarts?
What does it mean to be money empowered?
What if I’m terrible with money?
What are the core money-smart skills that a child needs to learn?
Isn’t it too early to introduce a toddler to money?
Why burden a child with money worries early?
Should I tell my child how much money I make?
How do I stop the onslaught of stuff that my kids want to buy?
If I give my kids control of their own money, won’t they just indulge themselves?
How do I “nudge” my kids to make better money choices?
How do I get my kids to think about giving to charity?
What are SMART goals?
How can visualization help my child reach her goals?
Isn’t my child just going to blow all of his spending money?