of adults are financially illiterate.
That includes teachers.
of teachers don't feel comfortable teaching financial literacy.
We teach financial literacy to educators first - deeply enough that they can explain it simply.
Then we give them the classroom tools and interactive activities to teach it to their students.
Through stories, analogies, and statistics that actually stick.
One concept per week. Learn it yourself Sunday. Teach it with confidence Thursday.
How The Curriculum Works
Every Sunday we take one high-stakes concept in finance, career, or wealth-building and strip it down to its core logic. No jargon. No filler. Just the idea delivered through stories, analogies, and statistics that make the abstract feel obvious. You walk away understanding something that used to confuse you. Every single week.
Facts fade. Stories stay. On Tuesday we take Sunday's concept and lock it into your long-term memory through narrative, real-world examples, historical patterns, and the kind of never-forget moments your brain is wired to hold onto. This is where learning becomes permanent.
Thursday is where understanding becomes action. You get execution tools for your own financial and career growth — plus StoryLabs, weekly zero-prep classroom activities scripted for K-6, middle school, and high school. You learned it Sunday. You felt it Tuesday. Thursday you apply it to your life and bring it to your students.
We do not dump 15 topics on you and hope something lands. One concept. Three angles. One week. Then the next one.
By Week 8, you will not just understand money differently — you will see every career decision, negotiation, and financial choice through a lens you cannot unlearn. And your students will too.
This is not a newsletter you skim. It is a curriculum you build on — for yourself and your classroom.
The Numbers Behind The Problem
of K-12 educators say the system never gave them the tools to teach financial literacy.
Think about that. The people in charge of preparing you for the real world weren't given the resources to do it. This wasn't a failure of teachers. It was a failure of design. The curriculum prioritized theory over application and an entire generation graduated into financial decisions they were never trained for.
If the teachers weren't equipped, what chance did everyone else have?
of adults worldwide cannot explain basic financial concepts.
Two out of every three people. Not in developing nations globally. That includes people with degrees, people with good jobs, people who look like they have it figured out. Most of them are guessing. The system produced a world where the majority of adults don't understand the logic behind their own money.
You're not behind because you're lazy. You were never taught.
The average lifetime earnings gap between financially literate and financially illiterate adults.
Same jobs. Same degrees. Same starting line. The difference is one group understood how to negotiate, invest, and compound and the other didn't. This isn't about being rich or poor. It's about the decisions you make with what you already earn. Every year you go without this knowledge, the gap gets wider. Not by a little by tens of thousands.
The cost of not knowing isn't zero. It's everything you leave on the table.
Stories are 22 times more memorable than facts alone.
This is why traditional financial advice doesn't work. You read a tip, nod, and forget it by dinner. Your brain filters out dry information it's a survival mechanism. But wrap that same concept in a story and your brain files it permanently. That's not a theory. It's neuroscience. And it's the reason every lesson in StoryBound is built around narrative, not bullet points.
We don't lecture. We tell stories that stay.
The system left a gap. It's costing you real money every year you ignore it and your students are next in line. Most educators weren't given the tools to teach this. Most adults weren't given the chance to learn it. And the financial content that does exist doesn't stick.
StoryBound is the fix. A structured curriculum that teaches you first, then gives you everything you need to bring it to your classroom. One concept at a time. Built on the only method proven to make learning permanent.
You learn it. You live it. You teach it.