In this episode we sit down with Kevin Minke, owner of Bluegrass Financial Solutions, and discuss strategies for handling inflation, saving money and dealing with holiday over-spending. Kevin shares some great advice learned over his long career in the finance and banking world and as a Ramsey trained, Certified Financial coach.

Learn more about Kevin Minke and how a financial coach can help get you to your goals by visiting his website

https://bluegrassfinancialsolutions.com/

Benson talks to Jessamine County Homeless Coalition Executive Director Johnny Templin and Director of Operations April McCubbins about their urgent needs to assist people of Jessamine County who are living on the streets. April shares her story of living homeless on the streets of Lexington, Ky and how her journey led her to eventually become the Director of Operations. There are plenty of opportunities to become involved with their mission through giving or donating your time.

Today we visit with Mission of Hope Executive Director David Heatherly to learn about their scholarship program. We talk about ways to keep Kentucky's at risk children in school and encourage them from a young age to pledge to graduate. For those going on to college Mission of Hope awards scholarships that come with mentors to help encourage them along their journey. We also catch up on all things Mission of Hope related and share the many opportunities for you to be involved with sharing hope with the children of Appalachia.

You won't want to miss hearing about this exiting work Mission of Hope is doing to break generational poverty and bring hope to children in the Appalachian

region of Kentucky and Tennessee.