Financial Freedom… Don’t Spend More Than You Make! with Styron Powers

<p>Styron Powers’ favorite earned title is Dad. He is the proud father of a beautiful, intelligent black woman!  </p><p>Styron Powers, a former Vice President, Environmental, Health, Safety, and Sustainability Global executive (BP, ExxonMobil, Lockheed Martin, etc),has led teams in ~30 countries. He took his parent's mentoring on the power of education to heart and graduated from Harvard University Advanced Management; Rutgers University – MBA; and North Carolina State University BS in Chemical Engineering and Biological Science. </p><p>In 2017, Styron retired from industry and today dedicates his time and investment expertise to assisting his blog readers in achieving financial freedom. He manages his family's multi-million-dollar rental property business and stock investment portfolio with his wife and daughter and authors the financial literacy blog WealthBuildingPowers.com.</p><p>While happy to share his finance and investment lessons, he is NOT a licensed financial advisor or planner. Please do not construe suggestions in his blog or today's talk as recommendations for your situation. For individual financial advice, please seek your licensed CPA or financial advisors or, even better, improve your financial literacy. </p><p><strong>Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn:</strong></p><ul><li>How Styron educated himself on financial matters</li><li>Why he started his blog</li><li>The importance of delayed gratification and how it helps save money</li><li>What a Roth IRA is</li><li>How planning for the future is a necessary consideration</li><li>How COVID exposed America’s collective lack of savings</li><li>Who Styron sees coming to him for financial help</li><li>Alternate post secondary institutions to consider that don’t incur Ivy League expenses</li><li>That it’s not too late to learn to manage your money</li></ul><p><strong>In this episode….</strong></p><p>Styron Powers worked in health and safety for some very large corporations. His job, as he put it, was to protect life: the health, wellness, and physical