Get Ready: Before Life Happens Podcast
Get Ready: Before Life Happens brings together diverse voices, guides, and changemakers from around the world who are helping people and professionals navigate life’s what-ifs with clarity, integrity and confidence.
Hosted by Financial Readiness Advocate Tony Steuer, the show explores the insights, stories, and tools that strengthen financial readiness and reshape how we think about money, life, aging, caregiving, resilience, and purpose.
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Get Ready: Before Life Happens Podcast
Elevating Financial Voices: Building Community & Credibility with The Plutus Awards
On this episode of The Get Ready Money Podcast, I spoke with Harlan Landes, founder of The Plutus Foundation and The Plutus Awards, about building community and the world of financial content creation.
💡 Key Takeaways:
🔹 Media literacy helps us discern trustworthy vs. misleading content
🔹 The Plutus Awards brings awareness of the most impactful and best financial content
🔹 Recognize advantages and disadvantages- that we all come from different places
🔹 You can only grow when you are exposed to stories and life experiences from people who are different than you
🔹 Diverse voices bring perspectives that expand our understanding
🔹 Community offers collaboration, accountability, and diverse perspectives
🔹Take the approach of being the CEO of your own life - make strategic decisions and look into details
📌 Why It Matters:
In a world flooded with financial content, credibility and representation are essential. Community ensures that financial literacy remains durable, inclusive, and forward-looking.
Connect with Harlan Landes:
- Harlan Landes Website (here)
- LinkedIn (here)
- Plutus Foundation Website (here)
- Plutus Awards Website (here)
- Plutus Community (here)
- Plutus Awards - Instagram - @plutusawards
Bio:
Harlan Landes has been creating and managing online communities since 1990 -- prior to the existence of the World Wide Web. He founded Consumerism Commentary in 2003 to hold himself accountable for his finances and build a community focused on important social and personal issues pertaining to money. He founded the Plutus Awards (2008) and the nonprofit Plutus Foundation (2015) to amplify underrepresented voices in the conversation around personal finance and to support creative financial literacy programs throughout the United States.
Harlan also has been involved with music and arts education with a focus on the marching performing arts, volunteering at an executive and board level with several organizations in that field.
The Get Ready Money Podcast and its guests do not provide investment advice. All content is for educational purposes. Guest opinions do not necessarily reflect the opinions of The Get Ready Money Podcast and Tony Steuer.
