Hello and welcome to my podcast, The Wellness Project with Des. On today’s podcast episode, I speak with Aliyah Kissick about how financial stress impacts our mental health.
I’m Desiree, a Mental Health Therapist and Holistic Wellness Coach, passionate about helping you to improve your mental health and live a healthy and fulfilled life. One way I do this is by interviewing experts in the field of mental health and wellness as well as those that share their first-hand accounts with their mental health journeys. In this episode, we will hear from Aaliyah about the importance of financial literacy and how it ties into our mental health.
Aaliyah Kissick is passionate about making financial education accessible for everyone. In our conversation, Aaliyah discusses the impact financial stress has on our mental health. Through her upbringing and schooling, she came to the realization that mental health is highly correlated to poverty and the two created a negative feedback loop.
Aaliyah was adopted at a young age from foster care. She started modeling and acting when she was 11 years old and started her first business, a resale clothing store when she was just 17 years old. Years later, she went to college for business. While in her program, Aaliyah learned that she was passionate about the financial aspect and helping others to better their financial situations. This passion led her to kickstarting a financial literacy platform. Her goal is to make financial education accessible to everyone.
In this episode, Aaliyah addresses the adult education gap due to not learning about finances in school, the impact financial stress has on our mental health, and she teaches us about important concepts like behavioral economics, poverty traps, and “stagflation”. She also goes over the 4 pillars of financial literacy everyone should know about.
This conversation is chock full of valuable information. If you are someone that is dealing with financial stress and you want to improve your finances but don’t know where to start, this is the episode for you! Aaliyah covers so much that you will gain so much knowledge and value from this conversation.