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Peter Bilagus

Peter Bielagus

America's Young Financial Coach

Remember Peter is the ALL DAY SPEAKER!

Many speakers have a higher fee for their all day programs. Not Peter. With every one of his programs, Peter stays on campus the ENTIRE DAY for the benefit of your students. Peter's mission is to change as many financial lives as possible when he comes to campus. He realizes that it is sometimes difficult to get a bunch of students in one place, so Peter is willing to go to them. Below are some ways that schools have used Peter's unique ALL DAY OFFER to present to students about personal finance:

   1. One college in Ft Lauderdale had Peter conduct financial "office hours" so its students could meet with him one on one. Think about it...when else are students going to get the chance to sit down with a licensed financial advisor who won't charge them a fortune and won't try to sell them anything?

   2. Another college in Georgia had a 30 minute interview with Peter on its campus radio station. Peter was on campus at 7am to promote his 8pm presentation!

   3. One creative college in North Carolina offered students a financial "power lunch" with Peter. Sometimes it's tough to get students to come to a presentation, but use the words "free lunch" and they're there!

   4. On school in Louisiana helped not only its students but also its staff. Peter gave two presentations for students and a third presentation for faculty and staff. Peter is one of the few financial speakers who is actually a licensed financial advisor who can help students and staff alike with their financial issues.

   5. There was also a school in central Florida that had Peter teach four -yes four- classes while he was there. He spoke to over 100 students just through his classroom visits alone! Put the word out to all professors. It wasn't just the business teachers who requested Peter to speak. He actually spoke to an English class as well as a criminology class.

These are just a few of the ways you can use Peter's unique ALL DAY OFFER to help your students and even your staff.

Now check out some of Peter's high energy presentations:

How To Put More Money In Your Pocket Today: A College Personal Finance Boot Camp™ This is Peter's most popular program!

Essential for Orientation, Senior Seminars, Graduate Programs, Career Week

66% of students have a mistake on their credit report that is not their fault. Will your students be in that 66% category?

Over 50% of college students have a below average credit report which will force students to pay up to $7000 in extra interest to buy the average car and up to $250,000 to buy the average house.

For every day a college student waits to start investing, they must work an extra week before retirement.

Peter will show your students:

    * How to fix the errors on their credit report that are not their fault.
    * How to find FREE money to get out of debt.
    * The correct number of credit cards to have (hint: it's not zero and it's not 15!)
    * How to get rid of credit cards without damaging their credit (that's right, if you do it incorrectly your credit will get damaged!)
    * How to clean up their credit.
    * How to start investing the moment the talk is over!
    * The one investment that will put $100 a year in totally free money in their pocket every year for the rest of their life.

Peter was $5000 in debt by the end of his freshman year. But by using the simple strategies in this talk he graduated debt free and now his investments pay him money. He'll show students exactly what he did and how they can do it too!

Cash In On Your Passion: So You Can Land The Job Of Your Dreams™

Ideal For Career Week, Senior Seminars, Graduate Programs, or Job Fairs

Peter will show your students:

    * How to leverage youth, major and passion to increase earning power.
    * The true job hunting secrets that they probably haven't heard of before like:

o Why a resume comes last not first
          o Why college students should avoid the human resources department
 

* Why you should never speak to your boss over the phone
 * What comebacks to use when employers tell them "you have no experience." And what comebacks that will get them the job!
 * How to beat out any competition be they older, smarter, or even more qualified applicants.
 * Ten Tips to get more money even if they say they don't have it!
 * And most important...Get Hired!

Remember, Peter did not know a soul in the publishing business, but still managed to get his dream job. He'll show your students exactly how he got his dream job and how they can too!

Money Management For Greeks: Your Personal Finances And Your Chapter Finances

Because Peter is the ALL DAY speaker Greeks can benefit from TWO essential presentations for fraternities and sororities

Show your Greek members how to get control of BOTH their personal finances and their chapter finances. In these two high energy presentations licensed financial advisor Peter Bielagus will take students on a journey through the money mazes of personal finances as well as chapter finances.

Part 1: Your Personal Finances

Students will learn all about their credit score− that crucial 3 digit number that will affect their ability to borrow money, get insurance and even get a job. Peter will show students how to check their credit score and tell them the five ways to get their scores up. Students will also learn why their budgets aren’t working and what they can do about it. They’ll discover neat tricks to save more while spending less. Peter will even show students how to get some of the free money that is floating around on their campus!

Part 2: Your Chapter Finances

Peter firmly believes that if your personal finances aren’t in order, you’ll never be able to get your chapter finances in order either. In this second presentation, Peter offers practical answers to the problems organizations face every day like:

    * Why isn’t our chapter ever on budget?
    * This member won’t pay their dues, but other members don’t seem to care. What do I do?
    * How do I handle the delicate balance of brotherhood/sisterhood and money?

Peter will show students how to create a simple chapter budget that works. He’ll reveal his system for ensuring dues get paid on time and even provide real world “comebacks” that officers can use when a member is dragging on their payments. Using actual examples from Greek organizations Peter has already worked with, he’ll show every officer how to get their chapter on the financial fast track. Peter is a brother in the Phi Kappa Theta Fraternity and conducts all of their national financial training programs.

 

 

Peter Bielagus grew up in a small New Hampshire town where he started his first company in 5th grade, a landscaping business called; Lawn Care of Amherst. This one mower operation quickly grew to multiple accounts and year round services from lawn cutting, to tree removal to snow plowing.

Wanting a change of scene Peter left New Hampshire to attend college at the University of Miami in Miami, Florida. Like many college students, Peter quickly fell into the party scene and soon found himself $5000 in credit card debt his freshman year. Determined to dig his way out of debt, Peter began learning about personal finance, reading over 300 books on the subject, interviewing experts and attending seminars. By graduation, Peter was debt free and on his way to financial security.

Wanting to educate students, parents, and professionals about money, Peter decided to write a personal finance guide which he titled, Getting Loaded: A Complete Personal Finance Guide For Students and Young Professionals. Despite not knowing a soul in the publishing business, Peter managed to get his book published by one of the largest publishers in the world, Penguin Putnam/NAL.

After graduating, Peter went to work for a national financial company and became the top salesperson in his district in his first year. Peter then opened up his own fee-only financial planning firm, one of the few in the country that caters exclusively to young people.

As a licensed financial advisor, Peter has appeared on radio and television shows nationwide talking about personal finance for Young America. Affectionately known as the  "Go To Guy For Young People and Their Money  ", he is asked to speak frequently to high school and college students about jumpstarting their personal finances. Recently, corporations and parents have called upon him to assist them in getting Young America excited about personal finance.

He's been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, USA Today and the New York Post. Currently Peter is a regular contributor to the nationally syndicated radio show, "Hints From Heloise."  He also writes a personal finance column for Boston.com, the website of the Boston Globe newspaper. In addition to writing and speaking, Peter has created many financial education products, including the interactive CD ROM, Mastering Your Personal Finances: the only interactive educational CD ROM on personal finance.

Peter travels the country and shares his financial tips and quips in numerous money workshops, seminars and keynotes. Mixing humor and emotion with real life examples, Peter empowers audiences of all ages to get started today on managing their money.
 

 

Booking Info:  Gail Hand
(561) 807-7769 East Coast
(503) 284-2342 West Coast
gail@gailhand.com