October 15, 2018

An Evening With Stnce

When it comes to the relationship between confidence and finance, there’s a tendency for women to underestimate their financial knowledge and defer ownership. In fact, according to a recent EQ Bank poll, only 31% of Canadian women feel confident when it comes to their financial knowledge. That’s a low number…

So what does that mean?

For me and others like me, it means we need to be more comfortable with being uncomfortable.

A couple weeks ago, EQ Bank invited me to attend its stnce launch event in Vancouver that was focused on empowering and inspiring women to be more confident when it comes to managing their finances.

In addition to bringing like-minded women together to network, share advice and experiences, stnce.ca offers tools and resources, such as:

Financial advice, like guests posts from influential and successful women
Confidence content, like inspirational articles from like-minded women
Monthly challenges designed to encourage financial ownership

Back to the event!

The night started off with a fireside chat between financial blogger Krystal Yee of Give Me Back My Five Bucks and Kim Kukulowicz, Senior Vice-President, Residential Sales and Partner Relations at EQ Bank. Their chat really shined a light on why being confident about your finances is so important for women at every age.

The fireside chat was followed by an inspiring keynote made by Manjit Minhas, a successful entrepreneur in the beer business and many other industries. She is also a Dragon on CBC’s Dragons’ Den! She gave an eloquent keynote, sharing her success story and the importance of having a mentor.

Though I felt inspired throughout her speech, one thing that really stuck with me was her suggestion to take negotiating courses, which she still does every 6 months even after finding such great success. Manjit strongly believes that you should always be negotiating because if you don’t ask you will not receive.

I was genuinely surprised to hear that Manjit was still taking these courses, but it just goes to show how you should never stop learning.

Having just started a business this year, I really feel the need to learn more. When it comes to my finances, I feel somewhat confident, but then again, there’s so much I’m not 100% sure of.

It’s not because of intimidation for myself, but more about finding the time to research and learn about my options. stnce really helps limit the amount of time spent Googling for answers by packaging it all together in one place.