After years of anxiety and burnout, finance expert Shang Saavedra says the path to financial freedom may start with your therapist
Shang Saavedra was an immigrant family’s dream: She earned stellar grades and made her way to Harvard. Upon graduation she was making six figures, living frugally and investing at least $20,000 every year. She went to business school, got married, started a family – and was crushed by the pressure of it all.
“My parents were constantly comparing me against a pretty impossible standard for education,” recalled Saavedra, who was born in rural China and moved to Boston when she was 10. “Those voices never stopped in my head: ‘Am I ever going to be considered successful? Am I ever going to do right by the amount of money they put into my education?’”
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