Lisa Ann
π€ SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And that's a hard lesson to learn.
And even though state by state, California has just signed on where you're going to have to pass a basic financial literacy course.
to graduate, which I think should be mandatory throughout the entire United States.
We all did.
Because as soon as you got a job, you got credit cards sent to you in the mail.
I got my $300 from Gap and I went right to the Gap and spent it all.
And then for like a year, I was paying what they told me to pay.
And I sat down with my uncle.
I'm 16.
I sat down with my uncle and I said, why isn't this changing?
He's like, let me teach you about credit cards.
That was when I learned.
Had I known that, I wouldn't have been paying.
I would have just paid the whole thing.
And I would have gone back to layaway because my first job, I was 13.
I was a hostess at a restaurant in Pennsylvania.
You get working papers and work legally at 13.
And I would go to the Deb shop.
There were Jordache jeans were the thing back then.
And I would put $10 a week down on those jeans.