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I'm Jackie Kenoyer!
I am a financial educator.
But I started as a trader, banker, and math teacher. Here's a snippet of my story.
Money was tight growing up.
My mom was a single mom caring for two kids and her parents.
I started working in 7th grade and worked through all of high school and most of college. As a young child, I saw how stressful it was not having a lot of money.
I wanted to do whatever I could to make sure I would never have to worry about having enough.
I went to UCLA and got my degree in mechanical engineering.
After graduating college, I moved to New York and worked on Wall Street for an investment trading desk.
A couple years later, I took a job managing a $500+ million investment portfolio at a bank in San Diego. Within two years, I was promoted to a senior executive role at the bank and worked closely with the CEO.
Working as a Wall Street trader and a bank executive gave me experience and knowledge of finance at the highest level.
But years of working long, stressful hours in finance helped me realize there was more to life than making a lot of money.
Because of a long-held desire to teach and help others, I quit the bank in 2012 and began teaching math at an inner-city high school in downtown Los Angeles.
Teaching students who lived in poverty was a life-changing experience. Even though it was the hardest job I’ve ever had, it felt good knowing all the long hours I worked was helping others achieve their goals.
I taught math until my second son was born at the end of 2016. Since then, I’ve had the privilege of staying home and raising my three kids.
I'm a teacher at heart, and I love empowering others to do what they don't think is possible.
Over the years, many of my friends have asked me for help with their money. It became clear I could have a positive impact by teaching the knowledge and skills I learned in finance.
So, I started formally coaching people with their money at the beginning of 2022. Later that year, I also started voluntarily teaching a financial education class at a local nonprofit here in Pasadena.
Teaching financial education has become my life's mission.
Being financially literate is a must but unfortunately our education system does not equip people to know how to handle their money.
I started Atomic Wealth Community to address this problem by empowering others to build wealth by mastering the fundamentals of personal finance.