Celisia Stanton

Yeah, this is great. It was interesting to sort of dive into this case and hear how we kind of can intersect with our kind of different perspectives in the genre. And I really appreciate it.

I really appreciate the opportunity to be here and chat with you about the shows and also about my experience and give people a little bit of a look about what it actually looks like to experience a financial fraud. I was a wedding and portrait photographer. And that's work I'd been doing pretty much since I had graduated from college.

I really appreciate the opportunity to be here and chat with you about the shows and also about my experience and give people a little bit of a look about what it actually looks like to experience a financial fraud. I was a wedding and portrait photographer. And that's work I'd been doing pretty much since I had graduated from college.

I really appreciate the opportunity to be here and chat with you about the shows and also about my experience and give people a little bit of a look about what it actually looks like to experience a financial fraud. I was a wedding and portrait photographer. And that's work I'd been doing pretty much since I had graduated from college.

And I always had wanted to have my own business, didn't know exactly what it was gonna be. Photography kind of fell into my lap. And so I took off with that and that was going smoothly. I think I started that in like 2016. And then in 2020, as you can imagine, there wasn't a lot of events going on with the pandemic. And so I had a lot slow down in a lot of my work

And I always had wanted to have my own business, didn't know exactly what it was gonna be. Photography kind of fell into my lap. And so I took off with that and that was going smoothly. I think I started that in like 2016. And then in 2020, as you can imagine, there wasn't a lot of events going on with the pandemic. And so I had a lot slow down in a lot of my work

And I always had wanted to have my own business, didn't know exactly what it was gonna be. Photography kind of fell into my lap. And so I took off with that and that was going smoothly. I think I started that in like 2016. And then in 2020, as you can imagine, there wasn't a lot of events going on with the pandemic. And so I had a lot slow down in a lot of my work

I was like, okay, let me use this opportunity to work on other areas of my business and development that I wanted to be doing. And one of those things was I was really hoping to kind of work on building out my financial future.

I was like, okay, let me use this opportunity to work on other areas of my business and development that I wanted to be doing. And one of those things was I was really hoping to kind of work on building out my financial future.

I was like, okay, let me use this opportunity to work on other areas of my business and development that I wanted to be doing. And one of those things was I was really hoping to kind of work on building out my financial future.

I felt like being a self-employed person, I didn't have a really clear idea of how I was going to retire one day or what exactly I should be doing most strategically to set myself up for success, set my business up for success. I had other goals. I wanted to buy a house and hopefully get married and save for some of these bigger purchases in life.

I felt like being a self-employed person, I didn't have a really clear idea of how I was going to retire one day or what exactly I should be doing most strategically to set myself up for success, set my business up for success. I had other goals. I wanted to buy a house and hopefully get married and save for some of these bigger purchases in life.

I felt like being a self-employed person, I didn't have a really clear idea of how I was going to retire one day or what exactly I should be doing most strategically to set myself up for success, set my business up for success. I had other goals. I wanted to buy a house and hopefully get married and save for some of these bigger purchases in life.

And I just figured that keeping it in my savings account wasn't the only way I could go about doing that. I knew I could be more strategic. I just needed somebody who could help me know what that strategy would be. And every time I felt like I was trying to look things up online, it just wasn't giving me the clarity that I wanted, especially on the investing side.

And I just figured that keeping it in my savings account wasn't the only way I could go about doing that. I knew I could be more strategic. I just needed somebody who could help me know what that strategy would be. And every time I felt like I was trying to look things up online, it just wasn't giving me the clarity that I wanted, especially on the investing side.

And I just figured that keeping it in my savings account wasn't the only way I could go about doing that. I knew I could be more strategic. I just needed somebody who could help me know what that strategy would be. And every time I felt like I was trying to look things up online, it just wasn't giving me the clarity that I wanted, especially on the investing side.

And so I started working with this financial advisor in the summer of 2020. My mom had been working at this financial company and he came in and spoke to the Black Employee Resource Group, did a whole presentation. I think my mom had said that he had these like infant twins there or toddler twins there. So, you know, he's coming across as this really charismatic guy, family man.

And so I started working with this financial advisor in the summer of 2020. My mom had been working at this financial company and he came in and spoke to the Black Employee Resource Group, did a whole presentation. I think my mom had said that he had these like infant twins there or toddler twins there. So, you know, he's coming across as this really charismatic guy, family man.

And so I started working with this financial advisor in the summer of 2020. My mom had been working at this financial company and he came in and spoke to the Black Employee Resource Group, did a whole presentation. I think my mom had said that he had these like infant twins there or toddler twins there. So, you know, he's coming across as this really charismatic guy, family man.

She just had told me about, hey, there's this guy. He seems cool. He's local. It would maybe be in alignment for you. So that's when I had reached out to him. And this was somebody who was pretty well known in the Minneapolis Twin Cities community, especially within the Black community, because this was a Black financial advisor, which was something that was exciting to me as a Black woman myself.