The 2022 Plutus Impact Summit brought financial authors, podcasters, bloggers, speakers, teachers, and influencers together to build their communities, develop sustainable businesses, and increase the impact of their work.
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BUILD YOUR COMMUNITY · BUILD YOUR BUSINESS
Partnerships, production, reliable systems, and sustainable work.
The two-day online program addressed the business behind independent financial media. Speakers discussed brand partnerships that fit a creator’s values and finances, using video to expand reach, creating systems and processes that can be trusted, and recognizing the effects of mental wellness and financial trauma. Money Mindfulness, networking, community meetups, a fireside conversation, and group activities gave participants time to connect beyond the panels. Capital Group supported the event as Headline Partner.
Host and speakers.
The host, moderators, featured speakers, and panelists listed in the 2022 program.
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Michelle Jackson
Event host
Michelle Jackson runs Michelle is Money Hungry, a personal finance website and podcast. She also founded the Money on the Mountain retreat for financially single women. Her work explores improving personal finances and earning income from existing knowledge.
Harlan Landes is a financial independence educator, entrepreneur, and community builder who has been writing about money for more than 20 years. He founded Consumerism Commentary and the Plutus Foundation and is currently building MOMENTUM, a community and toolkit designed to help people build and live financial independence. His work explores financial resilience, agency, and what changes as work becomes less financially necessary.
Jason Vitug is the founder of phroogal.com and a recipient of a Plutus Foundation grant that has helped continue his mission of bringing online communities into offline engagements.
Miranda Marquit is a freelance financial writer, podcaster, and MBA whose work covers investing, student loans, and family finances. She contributes to the Money Talks News podcast and helps freelancers develop their careers through Freelance Writer Academy.
Eric Rosenberg is a finance, travel, and technology writer based in Ventura, California. A former bank manager and corporate finance professional, he became a full-time independent writer in 2016. His topics include banking, credit cards, investing, and business.
Marsha Barnes founded The Finance Bar to help women and couples manage their finances and work toward financial wellbeing. Through individual support, My Finances Are Beautiful events, and pop-up experiences, she addresses financial preparedness and the anxiety of feeling financially stuck.
Vatrice Chestnut is a veteran small business consultant, branding expert, and efficiency specialist based in Washington, D.C., with more than three decades of experience. Her aim is to help businesses scale with better systems, pursue operational excellence through automation, and ensure high-value service through duplicative processes.
Chestnut founded Affinity Media Consulting to empower entrepreneurs, small business owners, and government agencies through graphic design, publication management, communications, and branding. Under her leadership and management, organizations have benefited from her ability to engage and align others around efficient operations, excel in deadline-oriented project management, and identify cost-saving measures.
Daniella Flores is a software engineer and founder of I Like to Dabble, which she started alongside her full-time job in 2017. Her work has been featured in outlets including Business Insider, CNBC, Refinery29, and USA Today.
Giovanna “Gigi” Gonzalez is a first-generation American and first-generation wealth builder. She is a financial educator, money coach, and TikTok financial creator. In October 2021, she was selected for the first TikTok Latinx Creatives program. In January 2022, she was selected for LinkedIn’s inaugural Creator Accelerator Program. Giovanna has been featured in The New York Times, Business Insider, and Mitu.
Born and raised in Iowa, Joseph Hogue graduated from Iowa State University after serving in the Marine Corps. He worked in corporate finance and real estate before starting a career in investment analysis. He has appeared on Bloomberg and CNBC and led a team of equity analysts for a venture capital research firm. He holds a master’s degree in business and the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.
Joseph left the corporate world in 2014 to build his online businesses, first through creating websites and later through his YouTube channel, Let’s Talk Money. He has since grown the community to over 500,000 and reaches more than 1.8 million people a month through his blogs, YouTube, and a daily market newsletter.
Nicole Iacovoni is a financial therapist and licensed psychotherapist with twenty years of experience who teaches women entrepreneurs how to make tending to their finances feel fun instead of boring and overwhelming. Through her trademarked program, Money Therapy, Nicole helps entrepreneurs make more profit, manage their money with confidence, and transform their relationship with money. Nicole has been featured in CNBC, Business Insider, and Elephant Journal. She also writes The Comfy Couch, where she covers money, business, writing, and mental health.
Lynnette Khalfani-Cox, known as The Money Coach, is a personal finance expert, speaker, and author of 15 money-management books, including Zero Debt and Bounce Back. A former financial journalist, she co-owns financial education company TheMoneyCoach.net with her husband, Earl Cox.
Steven M. Hughes is a financial psychology and behavioral finance expert who appears weekly as an on-air money expert for the CBS affiliate in Columbia, South Carolina. In 2014, he founded Know Money Inc., a nonprofit that teaches college students to think and talk about money differently.
Jessica Moorhouse is an Accredited Financial Counsellor Canada, speaker, blogger, and host of the Mo’ Money Podcast. She founded Millennial Money Meetup, a financial literacy event for young adults in Canada, and contributes to media conversations about personal finance.
Julien Saunders is co-creator of the award-winning blog rich & REGULAR and author of Cashing Out: Win the Wealth Game by Walking Away. He is also a podcaster, producer, and host of the video series Money on the Table. With his wife, Kiersten, his mission is to inspire better conversations about money and empower the next generation of Black wealth builders.
Jannese Torres-Rodriguez is a money educator, speaker, writer, and business coach. After founding the food blog Delish D’Lites following a job loss, she began helping others build online businesses. Her Yo Quiero Dinero podcast covers entrepreneurship, investing, and generational wealth for marginalized communities.