Huge success! Money After Graduation hosted Canadian personal finance guru Gail Vaz Oxlade at the University of Alberta (my alma mater!) last night. I nearly threw up from nervousness, but thankfully held it together. At this point, I still can’t tell if her biggest compliment was naming my website a “valuable resource” or calling me a skinny b@#$%.
ERMAHGERD! GAIL!
I want to thank Mikhaila from Fistful o’ Dollars for being my right-hand-man in the planning and execution of this great show. She was an extraordinarily good speller and dutifully wrote each and every guest’s name on a post-it then stuck it to each book for Gail to sign. It was an assembly-line of Personal Finance magic.
I managed to sneak Jim Yih from Retire Happy in at the last minute, but only because he’s a friend. I felt so cool rubbing shoulders with Canada’s Personal Finance bests!
I want to thank my lovely volunteer team (aka. best friends + one of my sisters) for all their help.
Also a big thanks to all my friends, family, and coworkers that attended. I appreciate your love and support! To the Edmonton and UofA community, thanks for being fans of Gail! She had a great time in Edmonton so hopefully she stops by to see us again!
Congratulations to your team on a successful event! I really enjoyed last night’s talk and book signing. Gail is such a smart, fiesty, authentic woman.
Is she ever! It was so cool to see her “uncensored” off tv!
That’s awesome! Looks like you had an amazing time and you got to meet Gail!~ It’s all about sharing knowledge. Thanks for sharing these photos with us. Mr.CBB
It was amazing!! What a blast!
wow – this is amazing!!
It was! I’m still star-struck!
Sounds like an amazing event! Great job on putting it all together, and you look amazing!
Thanks <333 It was so cool =) I’m still high on happiness.
Yay!! Great stuff.
It was a great event. And it went off flawlessly. Thanks for hosting!
Thanks Mickey!! So glad it was a hit!
My envy levels are still through the roof. I wish I could have been there!
I got a signed book for you Cassie!!
You’re the best!
“Skinny bitch” is better than being called a princess! Good Job!
bahahaha true enough! She okay-ed my Princess behaviour, thankfully, because I have tons of retirement savings + no credit card debt. PHEW!
First – your enthusiasm totally shows in these pictures and I had to laugh.
Second – I am totally jealous you got to host Gail V.! I used to love watching one of her TV shows here in the states, but I’ve gotten rid of cable and haven’t been able to see it in years. I think it was called “Maxed out” or something like that. I tried to watch some of her latest shows on the internet but I wasn’t able because I wasn’t a Canadian. Damn you Canada! The U.S. of A won’t forget this!
what gave it away? haha
Gail was awesome, you need to make a trip here to see her!
Thanks for hosting!! :D it was awesome and thanks for signing my book as well <3 <3
You are the coolest. Totally made my day. Thank you!!!
I put the picture on twitter if you want to steal and put it on instagram lol cause i can’t remember if you took a picture yourself
I still cannot believe we MET her! For once I was the attention whore in the lunchroom at work, bragging all about how awesome she was and how we MET her do you remember that time WE MET GAIL VAZ-OXLADE?!
She was absolutely hilarious when uncensored. Thanks for the mention and great pictures of us!
That is seriously cool, I love her shows, her attitude, and her books. Awesome job pulling this all together!
Looks like great time!
You did a fabulous job and I was so pleased at how excited and engaged the audience was. Well done skinny b*!ch! Keep it up, we need more young voices reaching out. Biggest hugs Gail