Monty Loree: Hey folks, this is Monty Loree here from Canadian Money Advisor. I've got Nick Farina who's the author and publisher of Money in English blog, MoneyInEnglish.com. Nick's kind of a young fellow. He's been involved with personal finance for about five years, and he's 22 years old. So he likes to talk about money issues that are related to younger people, people who are just getting out of high school, people who are in the university. We just had a little talk before and he just mentioned just really good things that we really need to talk about. Hey Nick, how are you doing?
Nick Farina: Hi, good Monty. How are you? Glad to be on the show
Monty Loree: This is good. I'm really excited about this. So you said you've been blogging for five years now? So you've been blogging for a short time...
Nick Farina: Yes, that's correct. I've only had the website up for about five months now, but I've been involved with personal finance for quite a while, about five years. Very quickly, five years ago when I was in my last year of high school, my parents were really busy. They had a lot going on. Their financial situation wasn't bad, but it was complicated. They had a lot of bills to pay and a lot of bills going on and it was complicated. They were starting to lose track. So I thought maybe I can help with this and at the same time it would help me learn about financial world that I need to use later in life. Then I got hooked on it. I thought it was really interesting, just trying to maximize what kind of credit cards to use, what bank accounts to use so they've got an efficient system. I realized that there were a lot of tricks out there. There's a lot of things you shouldn't do, but at the same time there's a lot of things that would be great if you did do them. So that was the beginning of my interest in personal finance. I've been writing about how people overcome them.
Monty Loree: Wow, that sounds good. Sounds like you're a natural at it, if you've taken to that.
Nick Farina: Yes, I hope so.
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