Episode Details

Baylee Zuniga:
We wanted to create an environment where it's okay to talk about money and it's not the stigma around money.

Elizabeth Anderson:
Our hope is we're trying to reach out to the community and find times that we can go teach other people not just at our school about investing and empowering women and giving them confidence to invest and manage their money.

Kaylee Arsenault:
Targeted towards girls but it's everybody. We want to educate everybody in money.

Anthony Godfrey:
Hello and welcome to the Supercast. I'm your host, Superintendent Anthony Godfrey. On this episode of the Supercast, meet the young women behind the first ever “Girls Investing Club” at Herriman High and hear how their investment in the club is growing in ways they never imagined.

We're here at Herriman High talking about the “Girls Investing Club”. Introduce yourselves.

Elizabeth Anderson:
Hi, I'm Elizabeth Anderson and I'm a senior.

Kaylee Arsenault:
I'm Kaylee Arsenault. I'm also a senior.

Baylee Zuniga:
I'm Baylee Zuniga and I'm a junior.

Anthony Godfrey:
So you are the legacy you’rer the pipeline for future leadership for Girls Investing Club.

Students:
Yes.

Anthony Godfrey:
Tell me, how did this get started? What was the impetus for starting a Girls Investing Club?

Elizabeth Anderson:
Well, actually we're all members of DECA, an international business organization. As part of DECA, we've been able to become a part of the business program at our school and learn a lot about business and finance. While competing at actually the International DECA Competition last year, we really kind of started coming up with an idea and like a desire for an idea for this year's project, I guess, for DECA. Me and Kaylee both went to ICDC last year and we really wanted to win. And neither of us finaled. It was a little bit of a letdown and we're kind of like, you know, we have got to come up with the most banger project on the planet to crush DECA next year. As we were looking into the needs in our community that we can maybe fill with this project, we found that there's a serious lack of financial education and investing abilities for women. Women just like aren't as confident as men when it comes to investing. We really wanted to make a difference in that. We wanted to change it. We found that like 70 percent of finance professionals are men. Like that doesn't make sense, especially because we also, as we were researching for this project, we learned that women actually tend to perform better than men in finance. They just say something about the way their minds work, makes them perform better in finance in general. And in investing, they tend to get 1.3% better returns than men annually in investing. So we want to just even the playing field, make sure that women had just as much confidence as men in finance.

Anthony Godfrey:
ICDC? What competition is that?

Elizabeth Anderson:
That is the International Career Development Conference is what it stands for. And so we were there. It's like the international competition that we were competing at.

Anthony Godfrey:
And are you bringing this project back for competition this year?

Elizabeth Anderson:
Yes. That's our hope is that we take the “Girls Investing Club”, we write a paper about it,