Episode 9 : Lessons On Finances with Ericka Ushliyanage

Welcome to the Lessons From The Core Podcast with your host Lisa Khera.

This is episode #9, sponsored by:

I’m thrilled to have you here on this podcast journey with me. I’ve taught Pilates for over 22 years, I’m a wife, a mother, best-selling author and I created this podcast to share these Lessons From The Core with you.

As you listen in each week, I invite you to think about which roads do you keep going down?

Where have you been unwilling to change your habits - maybe now is the time to learn to self-reflect on the lessons and see those red flags faster so you can get on the right road and path. Sometimes we can spend years on one road or pattern and it’s all that we know until we learn the right lesson from the core.

On today’s show, I'm thrilled to have my friend and fellow entrepreneur,

Ericka Ushliyanage, mom of two active and loving boys, entrepreneur, Team Manager, and Mortgage Agent with Mortgage Approvals Ottawa, Life Coach, and Marketing Management Consultant.

She graduated from Carleton University with a degree in Political Science and later completed the Management Development Program for Women with the Sprott School of Business. Her earlier career was focused in non-profit including time with the YMCA-YWCA where she worked with newcomers to Canada and those in our community seeking help finding employment.

She enjoys a new sense of fulfillment now helping her clients to become homeowners, real estate investors, and financially sound. Her focus for clients is to educate them on the process and work with them to develop long-term plans. She has been a team manager at her brokerage for the last three years, coaching agents on the team on how to build a business with a focus on moving them into managerial positions.

Ericka was a regular volunteer with the Sri Lanka Canada Association of Ottawa for many years and most recently was a board member with FemCity Ottawa Chapter.

She has just joined the board of Canadian Women of Colour Leadership Network as the Director of Outreach and Awareness and hosts a monthly spotlight speaker series on their IG platform. Her next projects will focus on ways to advocate for women and children leaving domestic abuse and violence in our community.

Recently she has begun her coaching certification program with the Jay Shetty Certification School as part of opening her life coaching consultancy.

She hopes that others use her as an example that despite adversity and the challenges we face, we must always seek to fulfill our dreams no matter how others may respond.

"Being your best you is the best gift you can give to those around you."

Ericka shared:

How she got into the world of finance.

She shared tips on how to teach children about budgeting and proper money habits.

She also shared the biggest money lessons that she’s learned.

Thanks for being here, listen, follow, review & share this out!

Thank you to my cousin’s band Kojak for letting me use your song

Long Way To Go - for my intro music.

Photo credit: Revelation Marketing

Graphic designer: Lane Fortinez

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