5.2 If I had a Million Dollars - would I be rich?
How did we get to where Canadians need to be Millionaires in order to be okay? Or so it seems, and not without reason!
Frontline stories of the nightmare of financial insecurity that woke me up and drove me to my career in finance, through a humbling pre-CFP a-little-information-can-be-too-little-help error in my own personal financial planning, and my revelation about how many people actually contributed to my Grandparents making it through the Dirty 30s without losing the homestead. Put into context with the Dominion Lands Act, and the Post WWII to 1973 Federal development of our Economic systems. Calls to action around planning with professionals now, and calling for us to finish the Federal Finance system-building we cut off in 1973.
How did we get to where Canadians need to be Millionaires in order to be okay? Or so it seems, and not without reason! Tales from the front lines put into context, with tips to manage that symptom of madness in our money systems now - plus ideas about change we could welcome to make being okay easier to get right (instead of too easy to get wrong)?
A memoir of an episode shares how I got so mad at our monetary system I moved my storytelling, fact-loving and creative soul into the world of Finance - and how this podcast continues that quest!
Referencing:
Muriel Smith: My Memoir - Local to Global. From a mining engineer's daughter, to a Manitoba Deputy Premier, to a Local, National, and International Social Justice Activist (Minuteman Press, Winnipeg MB 2026)
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The episode image is of the Native: Red Baneberry
