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James Carney Investors Group Financial Services Inc. Consultant Story


Story featuring James Carney, Division Director with Investors Group Financial Services Inc. in Brampton, Ontario. James talks about how he started his career at Investors Group at the young age of 23, his background as a teacher and the difficult decision he made to change careers at this early a stage in his life. James credits his sports background with his drive to succeed, but emphasizes that he wouldn’t have chosen the financial advisor career at Investors Group without the coaching and mentoring of Executive Consultant John Moakler. He now wants to give that back by coaching and mentoring new Consultants in the Brampton branch.

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Building Rich Money Habits 101: my personal finance story

I have always thought there’s only one formula in making money.  That is work hard and at the end of each month, you get your paycheck.  Growing up in a family of farmers, I have seen what working hard really means.  I’ve experienced waking up early in the morning, go to the farm, plant or harvest rice until the sun sets in.  When you go home after a long day of working, the aching muscles says it all.  It is HARD work.  I’ve learned from my parents that if you want to have some money, you have to work  for it.  Often times, I’d go along with my mom to harvest tobacco leaves from a nearby town, and afterwards, she’d pay me for how much I was able to harvest.  That’s always been my training in terms of making money.  That was my first money habit – work to earn.

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