Creative Abuse: Protecting The Creative Ability of Our Children
Creativity | My Thoughts | Personal Development | Posted on November 22, 2019 at 9:20 am by geneinletford
Recently, I have had several people ask me to write a dynamic curriculum that deals with financial literacy but also addresses creative abuse recovery. This opened my eyes that many adults are in need of recovering from being creatively abused as children. They were told to follow directions and color the sky blue and [...]
Are You Being a Good Ancestor? The Importance of Creative and Financial Inheritance
Creativity | Financial Literacy | My Thoughts | Posted on November 18, 2019 at 9:08 am by geneinletford
Last month my father died. It makes me ponder how my life is steadily turning into a curriculum. It seems that everything I go through turns into a lesson for my students, clients and for myself. So here goes my latest lesson... My father was a smart man. He, like my mother, were [...]
There’s Your Difference: The Cost of Educating Just For Employment And Not For Entrepreneurship
Creativity | Entrepreneurship | My Thoughts | Posted on November 13, 2019 at 12:41 pm by geneinletford
There’s Your Difference “…Genein, you were taught to be an employee and a consumer. I was taught, from kindergarten, to be an entrepreneur and an investor. There’s your difference..." Once I heard this statement, I was stunned in disbelief because he was absolutely right. He went to a school—a very expensive private school—that cultivated creativity, which [...]
How My Student Won $2,915,374 in One Month!
Debt Free Living | Financial Literacy | Mentorship | My Thoughts | Posted on November 4, 2019 at 11:19 am by geneinletford
The Hidden Opportunity Cost of Student Loans, Scholarships and Financial Illiteracy In May my student won over $2,915,374 dollars!! Sounds unbelievable right? Well if you look at it the way she has learned to look at scholarships, students debt, investing and opportunity cost, this statement is very true for her. Here’s what happened. This past [...]
Discovering Your Creative Voice Again
Creativity | Mentorship | My Thoughts | Posted on October 14, 2019 at 11:33 am by geneinletford
My baby, Shawn just turned one. He babbles. He screams. He laughs uncontrollably for no apparent reason (I swear he sees angels playing on the walls!). His life coach (aka his nanny) says that he’s discovering his voice. He is coming to the realization that his vocal cords can produce sounds that emit a certain [...]
Tell Our Kids the Truth! Education is NOT the Key. It’s the Frame!
Creativity | Entrepreneurship | Financial Literacy | Mentorship | My Thoughts | Posted on September 14, 2019 at 12:45 pm by geneinletford
As the plant manager of my school walked the campus, I would know he was coming before I saw him. How? His keys. I would hear them from afar and watched how he would go into rooms and spaces that I have never entered. He would have access to places that I did not. All [...]
Is College Still Worth It? Two Critical Skills To Accompany that Degree
Debt Free Living | Financial Literacy | Mentorship | My Thoughts | Posted on July 14, 2019 at 12:34 pm by geneinletford
I just sent my little ones off to college this past month. As I looked around the table at my graduating seniors of my non-profit, Alumni360, these seven young women (who started with me as kindergartners) were about to embark on a journey like no other; the undergraduate experience. While the other mentors shared their [...]
I Have Only 40 Summers Left
My Thoughts | Personal Development | Posted on June 14, 2019 at 1:04 pm by geneinletford
Births. Weddings. Funerals. These are the events that force us to stop, reflect and evaluate exactly what we are doing with our lives. Sadly, I had a funeral of a dear colleague I attended at the end of June. I saw her on the last day of school two weeks before, happy and healthy. She [...]
Creativity: The Business World is Finally Catching On
Creativity | My Thoughts | Posted on at 11:52 am by geneinletford
I should have been happy to see this but just I sighed. I sighed because in 2017, I did a TEDx Talk on why our students need creative and financial literacy to increase their success as productive human beings. *crickets* I sighed because in 2006, Sir Ken Robinson challenged America with the question, “Are Schools [...]
