SHANNON LEE SIMMONS is a certified financial planner, chartered investment manager, life coach, speaker and the founder of the award-winning New School of Finance. She was named one of Flare’s "Canada’s Top 30 Under 30" and won the Notable Award for Best In Finance. She writes a monthly personal finance column for The Globe and Mail, is the personal finance expert on CBC’s On the Money and appears regularly on TVO’s The Agenda and CBC’s Metro Morning. She lives in Toronto with her husband and new baby.