{"id":110156,"date":"2018-12-13T10:56:05","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T10:56:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.albanynewsnow.com\/news\/story\/110156\/a-bold-money-event-for-bold-women.html"},"modified":"2018-12-13T10:56:05","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T10:56:05","slug":"a-bold-money-event-for-bold-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alaskanewsdesk.com\/news\/story\/110156\/a-bold-money-event-for-bold-women.html","title":{"rendered":"A BOLD MONEY EVENT FOR BOLD WOMEN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>Los Angeles, CA &#8211;<\/strong> Imagine a place where women could come together and have honest conversations about money &mdash; a place where they could talk about their struggles and get a better understanding of how to manage their money.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">That place exists through <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"LolaRetreat.com\" target=\"_blank\">Lola Retreat<\/a>. Founded in 2017 by Emma Pattee and Melanie Lockert, Lola Retreat works to empower women to rock their finances. Lola is inspired by the Damn Yankees lyric &ldquo;Whatever Lola wants, Lola gets&rdquo; and the belief that when women get their money situation right, they can get whatever they want out of life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Financial and economic empowerment is an important part of the women&rsquo;s movement. Lola Retreat works to provide women with a foundation of knowledge, so they can budget, invest, pay off debt, and earn more money.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The first event was held in Portland, Oregon in August 2017. Now Lola Retreat is headed back to the West Coast, February 15-17, 2019, at the Ace Hotel in Downton LA.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Lola Retreat LA will feature a lineup of guest speakers who are leaders in the women&rsquo;s empowerment movement and professionals in financial literacy, business, and human behavior. A combination of award-winning authors, international speakers, and financial experts, attendees will leave with expert-level knowledge on all things finance. Guest speakers include:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&bull; Kristin Wong, a New York Times writer on topics such as personal finance, human behavior, and productivity, and author of Get Money<\/p>\n<p class=\"caps\">&bull; Natalie Torres-Haddad, a TEDx speaker on financial literacy and an international awardwinning author<\/p>\n<p>&bull; Amanda Clayman, a financial therapist and founder of the Financial Wellness Program for national arts non-profit The Actors Fund<\/p>\n<p>&bull; Tonya Rapley, founder of the award-winning site, My Fab Finance, author of the Amazon best-seller, The Money Manual: A Practical Guide to Help You Succeed on Your Financial Journey, and the &ldquo;New Face of Wealth Building&rdquo; according to Black Enterprise Magazine<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8220;I&#8217;m excited to bring Lola Retreat to my hometown of Los Angeles. We have some amazing speakers lined up that will help break down the taboos around money,&rdquo; says Melanie Lockert, cofounder of Lola Retreat.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&ldquo;We&#8217;ll be talking about money mindset, building a business, paying off debt, investing, and even why diet culture is making you broke. Our aim is to create a community of empowered, financially strong women, so we can go after whatever we want. When it comes to women&#8217;s equality, we still have a ways to go with financial and economic parity and through Lola Retreat, I hope to move the needle forward.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Lola Retreat is happening February 15-17, 2019 at the Ace Hotel in Downton LA, 929 S. Broadway, Los Angeles, CA 90015. Tickets are available for $450 per person. Use code LOLAWANTS for $50 off. Find more info at <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"LolaRetreat.com\" target=\"_blank\">LolaRetreat.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>About the founder: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Melanie Lockert is a personal finance author, event planner and founder of the award-winning blog Dear Debt. She paid off a total of $81,000 in student loans. You can find her at&nbsp;<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"DearDebt.com\" target=\"_blank\">DearDebt.com<\/a> and <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"@DearDebtBlog\" target=\"_blank\">@DearDebtBlog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span style='font-size:18px !important'>Media Contact<\/span><br \/><strong>Company Name:<\/strong> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/companyname\/lolaretreat.com_41773.html\"> Lola Retreat <\/a><br \/><strong>Contact Person:<\/strong> Melanie Lockert <br \/><strong>Email:<\/strong> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/email_contact_us.php?pr=a-bold-money-event-for-bold-women\">Send Email<\/a><br \/><strong>Country:<\/strong> United States<br \/><strong>Website:<\/strong> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/lolaretreat.com\" target=\"_blank\">lolaretreat.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.abnewswire.com\/press_stat.php?pr=a-bold-money-event-for-bold-women\" alt=\"\" width=\"1px\" height=\"1px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Los Angeles, CA &#8211; Imagine a place where women could come together and have honest conversations about money &mdash; a place where they could talk about their struggles and get<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alaskanewsdesk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alaskanewsdesk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alaskanewsdesk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alaskanewsdesk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alaskanewsdesk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alaskanewsdesk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alaskanewsdesk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alaskanewsdesk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alaskanewsdesk.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}