Your Sherpa, LLC Mission:
Team up with parents, homeschool families, teachers, employers, and more to produce financially-savvy and career-ready young adults, who start saving money.
Because:
SAVING MONEY WHEN YOU’RE YOUNG
CAN SET YOU UP FOR LIFE.
To take control of your life. To care for your family. To give back to your community.
WHY We Started:
The PROBLEMS
The reality is that most young people are not saving enough money.
In fact, most Americans live paycheck to paycheck.
Even worse, most young adults are in no position to even start saving:
Saddled with college debt, underemployed, and/or not financially literate.
Debt:
You can't start building a pile of savings if you are deep in a hole of debt.
Underemployment (not earning up to your capacity):
You can't save if you can't get and hold onto a god job.
Financial illiteracy:
You can't save if you lack the mindset and personal process to do so.
Work the real problem:
Yet, lots of financial literacy content jumps right to 'how to invest', despite the obvious - you can't invest if you haven't first saved!
HOW We Are Unique:
Our SOLUTIONS
Unique Scope:
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We focus on saving money. Saving money is the bottleneck for most people.
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We also focus on starting young:
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Start young so you are ready for your many future financial needs.
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Start young to give money the most time to grow.
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Start young to be ahead of and to avoid obstacles to saving.
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Start young to form good money habits early.
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Set your sights on age 30, not retirement. If you stay in position to save by age 30, and have ingrained the mindset and skills to save by age 30, you may be set for life as early success breeds continued success!
Unique Approach:
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We offer a ROADMAP - a simple, memorable, actionable framework teaching the mindset and tools to succeed at saving money young.
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See our STORE page for a sneak peek at our complete framework.
Unique Tone:
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We offer a refreshingly frank conversation about the challenges young people face to save money.
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We address the broken systems that perpetuate these problems.
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We emphasize that, in the end, it is your responsibility to meet these challenges.
WHAT We Do:
What We OFFER
Video Lessons:
We offer 25, short (2-3 minute), story-based, video lessons.
We support our video lessons with an active blog, a free eBook, and speaking and outreach.
Who We SERVE
Families - Parents and teens; homeschoolers
Young professionals
Educators
Service providers whose clients are parents or young professionals
Our Story
A sherpa provides expert guidance on Himalayan climbs. A sherpa prepares, teaches, and supports the climber before and along the journey. We want to be your financial sherpa. While many financial firms use names that evoke an image of the peak, summit, or pinnacle (i.e., symbolizing the end point, retirement), we recognize that many people, particularly students and young adults, are at the very beginning. Your Sherpa, LLC is with you at basecamp, ready to teach, inspire, and guide you to financial success and better life outcomes.
"Many young adults are choosing schools they can't afford and careers that do not generate the earnings power needed to pay off college debt. Many others can't apply their degrees or stay employed in today's changing world, despite many job openings. My goal is to produce financially-savvy and career-ready young adults. This requires inspiring content that teaches actionable lessons and broad life skills about earning and saving money. "
Jeff Tyburski, Author & Founder Your Sherpa, LLC
Jeff Tyburski worked as an engineer, analyst, and portfolio manager for nearly 35 years. He created and led an internal school to teach new analysts and was president of a non-profit helping aspiring entrepreneurs in Africa. The analyst in him identified the problems he set out to solve. The engineer created the framework. The mentor and parent in him deliver the message.
