Travers Johnson and Jamie Lowe discuss the financial barriers facing LGBTQ+ people and how to move towards a stronger sense of financial wellness.
LGBTQ+ people face a range of unique economic challenges. This includes lower salaries, hiring and progression barriers, higher rates of poverty, more expensive family planning and exclusion from benefits and financial protections. Decision making around finances and earning potential are also impacted by the disproportionate risk of mental health problems within the community. All of which is further compounded when looked through a deeper intersectional lens. This session covers financial wellness vs unwellness, healthy practices and examines the notion of ‘the pink pound’.
Watch this session to explore...
Managing your debt
Financial relationships & boundaries, wellness and unwellness
Generational influences & role models
Progression barriers facing the LGBTQ+ community
How financial instability affects our mental health
Speakers:
Travers Johnson is an award-winning content strategist, editor, and digital marketer with 15 years of storytelling experience across multiple mediums. He is the founder and CEO of Queerency, a leading source for LGBTQ+ business news which covers awesome queer-owned brands, inspiring LGBTQ entrepreneurs, and serves the tea on the queer economy with dignity and depth.
Jamie Lowe is a financial planner providing specialist help to the LGBTQ+ community. He is on a personal mission to encourage people to take charge of their money. He is the founder of a social enterprise, Trans Support Hub, which runs clothes swaps and has an app which helps people to choose a private gender clinic in the UK.
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