$hape Your Finances: Practice What We Preach w/CEO Derrick Wesley

The Lionel SHIPman $HAPE YOUR FINANCES Show is a financial and life empowerment show focusing on our lives around money and finances. The show aims to educate and motivate people to improve their financial outlooks and empower them to take charge of their lives and to live life to the fullest. 

Guest: Derrick Wesley

Derrick Wesley is the owner and founder of iMar Learning Solutions. The mission of iMar Learning Solutions is to help others to INVEST in the POWER of themselves. iMar Learning Solutions launched in 2016 in Dallas, Texas and Derrick has been making a name for himself in the education, fintech, and technology fields.

Derrick Wesley and iMar Learning Solutions gained national recognition by becoming the inaugural winner of TD Ameritrade’s Innovation Quest. Derrick Wesley pitched his idea called PLAN-IT, a financial literacy application that can be used by users as young as 5 to retirement age, to over 2,000 attendees. Derrick launched Seedlyng Financial Literacy to provide even more resources for schools and nonprofits.

Derrick Wesley was born and raised in New Iberia, Louisiana and is the son of Ronald and Angela Wesley. Derrick graduated from New Iberia Senior High and the University of New Orleans with a Bachelor of Arts degree.

iMar Learning Solutions has also partnered with former Dallas Maverick, Michael Finley, to host his youth workshop through Mr. Finley’s nonprofit organization. iMar’s youth academy focuses on helping today’s youth become tomorrow’s leaders by teaching them skills like collaboration, creative problem solving, analytical thinking, and of course leadership development. 

Website: iMarLearningSolutions.com; Seedlyng.com