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Shaping conversations about Financial Freedom

I attended a rather interesting launch by Old Mutual Kenya last evening. What they are trying to do is something I believe can evolve into a movement and not the constant usual annoying one sided conversations done by insurance sales people. You see, today, I hardly pick up the calls of several insurance people because a majority of insurance sales people are trained to be long winded and annoying. But, whichever way we look at it, insurance is an almost sure route towards financial freedom. What Old Mututal kenya is trying to do is to change the conversations around why it is important for us as parents and young adults to begin to secure our financial freedom. I was asked to speak for a quick minute, and here are the thoughts I shared. "Conversations about Finance, Economy and money in Kenya and many places across the world are generally carried out by Men. Yet across a huge number of Kenyan households it is the women who control the purse strings, working day and