Wealth & Wisdom Circle with Lianne Laroya!

Here comes the rainy season! And rainy season it is, as we dive into a shower of new learnings and wisdom from our Wealth & Wisdom Circle series that features individuals who inspire and influence us one way or another! 

These are the people we look up to -- investors, authors, bloggers, entrepreneurs, artists -- role models in their own, big way... and we call it the Wealth & Wisdom Circle series.
 

Piso and Beyond features them by asking 25 Questions about success, views, sales, marketing, personal finance and life in general. These are the people who share that vision to help us change the way we think about money!

I assure you with another fun-filled reading experience again, this time, with a personal finance blogger and book author, Lianne Laroya!

 About Lianne Laroya

Lianne Martha Laroya is a freelance writer, the woman behind the personal finance blog, The Wise Living  and a licensed financial advisor who provides financial services and offers financial solutions to help achive one's life goals.

She is also the author of the book, “9 Secret Sweldo Tips to be a 20-SOMETHING MILLIONAIRE”, and made various appearances on “ANC On the Money”.

On life in general..

1. What were the top 3 books that made a significant impact in your life and helped you to be the woman you are today?

2. If you were to remake a Hollywood film and you will be given the right to change how that movie ended, what movie would it be and how would you want to end it differently?

3. Smart wants us to “Live More” while Victory Liner tells the public that “We Move People Better…Safer”. What would be yours?

4. What’s the last thing that would make your life fulfilling?

On success and results..

5. How do you define success?

6. What is the most significant event in your life that made you commit to be the person you are today?

7. If you were 70 years old, what would you tell your grand/children about “passing up on opportunities”?

 

8. Arrange the following results you would prefer to get out of working with people: money – fame – relationship – commitment - learning.

On personal finance..

9. What is your take between getting a VUL (Variable Universal Life) and a BTID (Buy Term, Invest the Difference)?

10. What's your biggest investing mistake? What happened?

11. What do you think are the two or three reasons why people are reluctant or hesitant in getting an insurance policy?

12. If you’re a publicly listed company on PSE (Philippine Stock Exchange), which company would you be and why?

13. If you were to own an island and become its eventual leader, what would be the top 3 financial rules of your island?

14. What are the first three things that a person should consider in order to achieve financial freedom? 

15. You advised a friend to “save for you and your children’s future” and she replied “but God is the future”. How do you respond?

On sales and marketing..

16. What's your take with people who think that sales are for cheap, uneducated and dishonest people?

17. Have you ever lied about the product you sell or the company you represent and paid the price later for doing so? If YES, what happened and how did you survive? If NO, how were you able to achieve such feat?

18. What's the worst objection you had as a Financial Advisor? How did you handle it?

19. What do you think are the top 3 myths about insurance agents or getting an insurance policy?

20. If you would be given an opportunity to sell any product or service (e.g. machine, car, condo, island, medicine, movie, soap, etc.) other than what you do or sell now and you'd still get the same or higher level of success, what would that product or service be and why?

21. Imagine the most complete and flexible “policy” that no other insurance company could do better. How would you make me buy it in 1 to 3 sentences?

Oh wait! Just for the heck of it..

22. If you can have one super power, what would it be and why?

 
23. If you’re given the authority to declare a National Holiday, what date would it be and what would you call this day?

24. Who would you rather date, a guy who has #PogiProblems or the other with #PisoProblems? Why or why not?

 
25. Lastly, if there was an episode in Magpakailanman or MMK about your life, who would play you and what would be its title?

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Thank You and Keep Inspiring, Ms. Lian Laroya!

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