This week on the podcast we are talking about financial wellness for military families with GoVA. GoVA is working to help military families have strong financial tools and resources to help them with the unique challenges military families and veterans face. Check out their platform The Edge. The Edge is free for veterans, military members and their spouses. There you can set up a profile and use the AI tools to help you in your financial journey. You can sign up for your free account here: https://mygova.com/
Financial wellness for military families from GoVA
Thank you to GoVA for sponsoring this week’s podcast episode!
GoVA knows that the military community is an under served community. They also know that there are resources out there but often they don’t have enough options to understand the unique challenges military families face. That is why they are utilizing AI along with humans who can help through their resource The Edge. They are able to adapt to changes in policy and unique life circumstances making the resource they provide different from other tools out there. The Edge is a free service for military families. Through a scholarship all veterans, military members and their families can sign up to use this tool for free. You can sign up for your free account at their website.
Utilize The Edge
Besides offering AI tools to help you in your financial journey GoVA also offers vetted people who can help answer unique financial challenges your family may be facing. There are so many unique military financial challenges. These can be challenges related to buying a home, getting a new credit card, transitioning to civilian life and more These people know about military life. They can help you in your journey and help point you to tools you might not know about. They also have made it fun. By adding rewards and gamification to The Edge. It is a way to help make it fun and keep you coming back to not only learn about finances but to have fun too.
It’s personal
Besides Lizann’s connection to the military community as a former military spouse. The whole team cares about the military community. GoVA’s founder Phil Jawny is not a veteran, but has two decades of experience as mortgage lender and a broker and saw military families facing challenges when working to get a home through a VA loan. He founded GoVA to address some of the issues he was seeing around VA home loans. But as he dove into what military families needed for VA loans he came to realize there was a broad need for financial tools within the military community. Not just focused around VA loans. He started hiring veterans to grow the company and has also hired military spouses.
Lizann shared about her personal experience of being married to someone who was enlisted. She left a job paying more to follow his career and has worked at different ways to help support not only her husband’s career but financially contribute. But also struggled with unemployment and living overseas at a place where she couldn’t work. It made for some financially challenging situations and required them to learn all they could about finances not only for the present but planning for their families future.
Finances don’t have to be scary
So many people do not have the financial tools they need. And since they don’t teach financially readiness in school most people only learn from their parents example which can be good or bad. Learning about finances is so important but there are not enough resources focus on education and making smart choices. And GoVA knows this and that is why education and learning about financial tools is so important to them.
When utilizing the Edge they want you to know you are not alone. Even if you feel like you are struggling there are others who have gone through the same situation and there are tools to help you get on the path to financial wellness.
Things to come in 2024
There is so much to come in 2024. But at the end of the month Lizann is running Budget Bootcamp Jan 29th through Feb 2nd. GoVA’s Budget Boot Camp will allow you to discover free tools to help you create a budget, find that managing money can be fun instead of scary, and get daily tips that empower you to take the next step on your financial journey. The classes will be recorded. So if you can’t attend live you will be able to watch up when it works for you. There will be resources and prizes. If you are looking for help in your financial journey Budget Bootcamp is a great place to start. Sign up here.
Go VA wants to you to be empowered and informed. Making good financial choices that help you and your family.
