Category: Business

Arteng Pinay Financial Workshop (Personal Finance for Artists and Musicians 2)

We’re back to teaching our fellow artists, writers, and musicians on how to take care of their earnings from gigs and bookings and how to make them grow to achieve their future financial goals.

This time around, our lady volunteers from Angat Pilipinas Coalition for Financial Literacy who are artists themselves in their own rights, will be sharing with us their knowledge and experience in managing their finances and investing them in various financial instruments.

The FREE workshop will take place on March 2, 2014, Sunday, at 2PM at the UCC Cafe Burgos Circle near Cantinetta/Johnny Rockets, Forbes Town Center, Taguig City. Continue reading Arteng Pinay Financial Workshop (Personal Finance for Artists and Musicians 2)

The Entrepreneur and Hero: Tado

“Madaming musikero at artista ang nagugutom dahil walang pang-kain.” Ito ang isang nakakapuwing at nakakawindang na reply ni Tado sa akin nung minsang naka-chat ko sya tungkol sa financial literacy ng mga musikero at creative artists.

He was supposed to be part of our second session of Personal Finance Management for Artists and Musicians in partnership with Skarlet Brown’s Heart of Music (HOM) Foundation slated in the next couple of months. He would have joined and gave a pep talk about starting a business based on core gifts and God-given talents had the January schedule pushed through. But my family and I all got sick because of the abrupt weather shifts last month and I had to cancel all my scheduled activities and meetings.

Arvin “Tado” Jimenez and I are both part of Rock Ed Philippines, a volunteer group working to provide venues and events for alternative education. It is this organization that actually inspired me to start a financial literacy movement for the youth, the OFW’s, artists, and musicians called Angat Pilipinas Coalition for Financial Literacy. Continue reading The Entrepreneur and Hero: Tado

Signs That You Are Sending Bad Financial Messages To Your Kids

My wife and I have started homeschooling our 4-year old daughter this school year (Update: She’s already finishing her 4th Grade this summer 2020, amidst the COVID19 pandemic).

I personally know some friends who have been homeschooling their kids and it’s just amazing to see how strong their family bondings are because of this method of teaching and learning.

One more reason why we want to homeschool our daughter is because we believe that personal finance is one of the least taught subjects in the Philippines (and elsewhere). Money is a very important subject for a child to learn and bring the knowledge along until he/she becomes an adult. And since my wife and I are both staunch advocates of financial literacy, we thought why not teach our child about money ourselves.

Through the homeschooling system, parents like us won’t have to spend so much time giving lectures to our children. We just have to show them how we value money in our everyday lives. Continue reading Signs That You Are Sending Bad Financial Messages To Your Kids