Music Can Help Learning Financial Literacy

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015 Building Financial Resilience Through Hip Hop Pedagogy nbsp Today I am lucky to have Brian Dyalekt Kushner He moved from St Croix to New York to study acting and law He also liked to rap After witnessing civil rights injustices at the law firm he worked for he dropped both the job and the law classes pursuing the arts instead Performances at the Nuyorican led him to Hip Hop Theater writing plays that have been performed on stages across the world He didn t sleep on the rapping either releasing music and touring internationally His first album one man play Square Peg Syndrome helped him get named to the Public Theater s Emerging Writer s Group He has been a mainstay in World s theater and Hip Hop scenes rocking everywhere from the Bowery Ballroom to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival For complete show notes and transcript please go to Raising Financial FreedomIn This Episode 1 50 Dyalekt s take on financial literacy and how he uses Hip Hop to teach students about finances 9 15 Teaching students about saving and budgeting through rap 13 00 What Dyalekt will teach his children about money 17 10 How Pockets Change will teach sessions in school 19 40 What people don t realize about money 29 00 Dyalekt s favorite part of teaching children nbsp 34 15 Find out more about Pockets ChangeLinks Mentioned nbsp Pockets Change http www pocketschange comFollow Pockets Change on Instagram https www instagram com pocketschange Follow Pockets Change on Twitter https twitter com PocketsChangeLike Pockets Change on Facebook https www facebook com pocketschangeFind Your Money Personality http www pocketschange com personalityDyalekt http dyalekt comCheck out our website https raisingfinancialfreedom com Like us on Facebook https www facebook com RaisingFinancialFreedom nbsp