PRESS RELEASE - “Who wants be a millionaire?” The hands went up even before the question reached the back of the room. “Now, who wants to be a billionaire?” Even more hands stretched as First Citizens Trader and Liquidity Management Officer Cindy JnBaptiste began to deliver her presentation on “The Millionaire Mindset.”
The occasion was the First Citizens Investment Services third Annual Young Professionals Seminar (YPS)held on April 29that Coco Palm which saw participation from over 120 professionals between the ages of 18 and 35 who came to get financial management advice.
Held under the theme “The Money Mindset: Change the Way You Think About Money” the seminar was an energetic and interactive session also featuring presentations from First Citizens Business Development Officers Shaka St Ange and Christine Charlemagne as well as Client Relations Officer Denise Lewis.
The event received sponsorship from The Cell, Azuk Events, Fineline Graphics, Advanced Intellectual Methods (A.I.M.) and 123 Digital and Strongbow Apple Cider.
A special feature of the event was participants tweeting and instagraming their comments and questions about the seminar in real time thanks to Fineline Graphics.
Featured Speaker Leslie Collymore, himself a young professional and the managing director of Advanced Intellectual Methods, started the session with a candid discussion on how he started his own business and maintained a full time job while building the A.I.M. brand.
TodayCollymore’s company, a management consulting think tank with a focus on digital marketing strategy and business intelligence/analytics, is focused fulltime on developing and expanding the company’s social media footprint and expanding his client base and brand.
“Social Media Marketing has to be focused,” he noted of the boom in online marketing. “You have to think about the content, who you are trying to target and then use the correct form of social media and methodology in order to get the desired outcome.”
Other topics covered during the two-hour session were Investment 101, Understanding Credit and Mastering Your Money Management with practical examples to manage money using various types of budgets and investment options.
The seminar culminated with Ms. Jn Baptistetaking participants through an explanation of the ordinary mindset vs. the millionaire mindset.
“We all have preset programming when it comes to money that is based on what we heard about money, saw about money and our specific experiences with money,” she began. “That’s our money blueprint and in order to change that blueprint we must first acknowledge it, recondition and reprogram ourselves.”
The advice to increasing your chances of becoming successful with money included “focusing on your Net Worth and increasing it, knowing your value and promoting yourself and focusing on opportunities.”
One of the tips that seemed to resonate was acting in spite of fear. “Wealth is created through growth, which is scary, uncomfortable, inconvenient and worrisome at times,” Ms Jn Baptiste explained. “In order to achieve success we must act in spite of fear, act in spite of discomfort, act in spite of inconvenience and act in spite of worry.”
A healthy discussion followed the presentations with members of the panel fielding questions from the audience. The event closed with a networking mixer hosted by Strongbow Apple Cider where attendees got a chance to mingle with the panel.
The purpose of First Citizens YPS is to bring together young adults in Saint Lucia and empower them with financial information and advice whilst also inspiring them through the success stories of others. The hope is that First Citizens can impact their financial future and by extension the country’s economic reality.
For more information about YPS and other First Citizens seminars email: seminars@firstcitizensslu.com.