Longtime listeners know the welcoming voice of LaTisha Styles from the start of the podcast. This week, she joined us for a real live interview! LaTisha Styles quit her "career" job and started a great new career online, and she shares how she did it in episode 27. Resources Mentioned: LaTisha Styles Young Finances 5 Surefire Steps to Grow Your Facebook Page Full Transcript Eric Rosenberg: Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages, welcome back to the Personal Profitability Podcast. I'm so excited to have a guest with us today, a voice that you’ve heard a handful of times if you have been listening since the beginning. She did, actually was the first person who recorded a little into bumper. So when you hear those people say, 'Hi! I'm this person from this website and you're listening to the Personal Profitability Podcast.' This is the first one we ever used and I'm so excited to now have her with us as a guest. Ladies and gentlemen please welcome, LaTisha Styles. Say hello to everyone, LaTisha. LaTisha Styles: Hi! Thank you so much for having me. I’m so excited to be here. Eric: I'm so excited to have you. Before we dive in into the meat of the interview, personal finance I always say should be personal. It shouldn't be all stiff and boring. So I am sitting here with my beer of the day. It's actually a brand new one, I've never tried before. It's from New Belgium Brewing in my home state of Colorado where I grew up, probably a thousand miles or so from where I live, but New Belgium was always one of my favorites. They have a brand new one, this is new to me called Citradelic. It's a Tangerine IPA. That's what I'm drinking today. What are you having on your end? LaTisha: You’re probably gonna think I’m super boring but I have a nice tall glass of ice cold water. Eric: A nice glass of water. It's healthy. Lower calories, it's better for the gym. If you ever go to Golden Colorado and do the Coors Brewery Tour, they tell you on the tour about how they have Coors Light on tap in the gym. They say regular Coors is too heavy for working out. But Coors light, totally cool for the gym. So I'm rocking New Belgium, LaTisha's rocking her water, we'll dive in and get it on as they say. Helping Young Adults with their Finances Eric: Let's start. I wanna bring out how we first connected online. The first place I remember coming across something you did was from the Yakezie, way back in the day. Your site had a different name back then. Can you tell us about the Genesis of your site, how you got the idea for it, the original name; we’ll start with that. LaTisha: Sure. I started a little bit after college. I had graduated with a finance degree. It was my second time going through college; second undergraduate degree. I was having a hard time finding a job. This was around 2010, which was the perfect time to graduate with a finance degree. I realized that I had all these to share that I had learned and I decided I’m just gonna create a website that helps young adults. So the original name was Financial Success for Young Adults. Eric: A little bit of a mouthful. LaTisha: Super long. And so I decided to use the acronym and then attach the word ‘online’ because the website was online, obviously. My original website was FSYA Online, which I also affectionately called ‘Fsya’ for short. It eventually evolved into Young Adult Finances and then when I saw that youngfinances.com was available I grabbed that URL along with all of the social media handles. And that is where my personal finance site resides today. Eric: That's funny. I have a kind of similar story though, mine might even be worse, cause I didn't have my own dot com when I started. My original name for what is now Personal Profitability was narrowbridgeadventures.blogspot.com. That was around 2007. It's a while back, we've both come a long way.
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