Event Recording
September 3, 2025
It’s too common for writers and creatives to claim “I’m not good with money.” Ever muttered that sentence to yourself or as an excuse to a friend? Perhaps that’s because you conflate money and math or because you’ve struggled to build a financial plan that works for you. It’s time to lay the tired stereotype to rest. Building a budget will give you control over your cash flow and free up brain space to put towards your creative work.
Erin Lowry, host of the Money Matters series, and Uchechi Kalu, CFP® and poet, will help get you out of the paycheck-to-paycheck cycle and into a strategy designed to fit your life. The discussion will offer practical tips for budgeting, including:
Uchechi Kalu is a Nigerian-American writer and financial planner based in Los Angeles. Her work explores the shifting nature of Blackness, Americanness, and Africanness across borders, shaped by her experiences living on six continents. A 2024 Paris Olympics Poetry Fellow, she recently performed at Théâtre de la Ville in Paris. Uchechi is writing her first book on the Biafran War and her family’s migration to the U.S. She has received support for her work from PEN America, and her work can be found in an upcoming poetry anthology featuring fellow poets from the 2024 Paris Olympics. She holds a BA from Princeton University and enjoys learning languages, indulging in Bollywood movies, and hiking around L.A.
Erin Lowry is the author of the four-part Broke Millennial series, including: Broke Millennial, Broke Millennial Takes On Investing and Broke Millennial Talks Money and her soon-to-be-published Broke Millennial Workbook: Take Control and Get Your Financial Life Together. Erin’s been featured in The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and on CBS Sunday Morning, CNBC and The Rachael Ray Show. She has written for The New York Times, USA Today, and is a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion.
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