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AGS Lightbox Session: Budgeting for Success.
The very first of our #FinancialFebruary lineups already.
Vanessa Adekoya of @goodlivingfinance will be schooling us on how to budget for success.
Vanessa is an Accountant, Personal Finance Coach, and an NFEC Certified Financial Education Instructor. She is the founder of 29elevn, Inc, and creator of Good Living Finance and started her career at one of the top 4 accounting firms in the world – PwC – before pursuing the creation of Good Living Finance.
Vanessa is also an author, speaker, and writer with a platform of 30,000 people who look to her for financial education.
Vanessa will be talking to us about budgeting the right way and how to utilize a good budget to achieve our financial goals.
Topic: Budgeting for Success.
If you know anyone who will find this session useful, please ask them to download our AGS Tribe app on the iOS or Android store, then upgrade to either the Silver (N5,000 monthly) or Gold (N50,000 yearly) membership to participate in our weekly capacity building sessions, AGS Lightbox.
We look forward to seeing you at 8 pm.
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AGS Quote of the day
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