Maria Melchor discusses her journey in finance and social media (Part 3)

Wanting to fight for human rights, immigrant rights, to being a social media content creator that talks about finance. How did that transition start for you? So during the beginning of the pandemic in 2020, I started seeing that there were some Latinas posting about money on Instagram. And I think one of the first people I found was Cindy from Zero Based Budget, Cindy Zumiga. And I was like, oh, wow. Like, it's okay to talk about money. That is one of my big interests. And so while I saw that some of my friends were starting, like, Instagram pages about baking or knitting or roller skating, like, whatever their interest was, I thought about what I like to do with my free time, which was like, think about money, learn about money. Scroll through Cindy's Instagram. So it's like, okay, so my Instagram during the pandemic is going to be about money. That's how first gen living was born. I was like, what do I want to be sharing about when it comes to money? And I thought at the time, well, I feel like what's most relevant to how I see money, what my priorities are, what my challenges are, is being first gen, being like the first one to be building my financial life in the United States, and also the first one to have these opportunities, like a college degree, be working at the time in a professional job. And so, yeah, I started it. I was like, hey, friends and family, if you too want to talk about money, or if you want to hear me talk about money, like, follow this Instagram. I'll be talking about all of that on here. So that's how it started. But I was actually watching this video recently. I ended up going on cnbc. Millennial Money. I don't know if you know that show. Did you ever watch it? I haven't. On YouTube. Sounds amazing. Yeah, it. It was pretty popular, I think, with. With people like me at the time. Cnbc had this YouTube series where millennials shared their money numbers, their money stories. And one day I applied, like, I submitted my application on some Google form, not thinking much would come of it. And I think it was the next day they reached out and they said, hey, we want to interview you, do an episode on you. And around February of 2021,