Entrepreneur and Financial Literacy Expert Brittany Bettini: Helping Small Business Owners Achieve Financial Independence
Written by Rosa Linda Fallon
The subject of financial literacy is oftentimes not routinely taught in the sphere of public education, let alone taught at all. Most of the time, it is something people have to figure out on their own, or even learn the hard way. Western North Carolina native and CEO of Bettini Financial Brittany Bettini has made it her life’s mission to help people and small businesses learn how to repair their credit and manage their finances for long-term financial success. Growing up in an entrepreneurial family, Brittany was familiar with business ownership, eventually taking over the family business, Clean Streak INC, based in Mills River, NC.
Brittany learned from firsthand experience that it was an absolute necessity for her to learn how to manage money so she could get to where she needed to be in her life. Unfortunately, Brittany was a victim of domestic violence in a previous relationship, catapulting her into a series of financial difficulties. Once she got herself and her children away from her abuser, Brittany was ruined financially and couldn’t even find a place to live without a cosigner. She says she became obsessed with credit repair and personal finances and did as much research as she could into the subject.
After spending several years running her family business and repairing her credit and finances, Brittany found herself stuck at home during the pandemic, remarried and pregnant with her son, and needing to find something new to do. She began talking to people online and realized many people were struggling and didn’t know how to protect themselves financially. “I realized many other people were going through what I had gone through – people were struggling financially,” Brittany says. “And here I was: I had figured it out and found financial independence.” She made a post on social media offering to help women who were also victims of domestic violence and who were in need of financial help. She offered to help fix their credit for them for free, and received a tremendous amount of responses in her inbox. Brittany realized there was a major unmet need.
“Many people were reaching out to me, saying they needed help, but were embarrassed to go to a credit repair company,” Brittany recalls. She says the reason many people continue to have bad credit is because they do not reach out and ask for help, and they continue to make the same mistakes over and over. Additionally, most credit repair companies prey on people who are struggling by taking their money and only making the problem worse. Motivated to help others, Brittany started her own credit repair company, Bettini Financial. Bettini Financial is committed to helping people better their lives through comprehensive financial and credit literacy, empowering them to take back control of their finances.
Photo Credit: Davey Morgan Photography
Most recently, Bettini Financial has shifted to focus more on helping small business owners grow. The company helps them repair their personal credit and also to learn how to build business credit. Most of the process is now completely automated. Bettini Financial also has a program to help small businesses secure funding and grow their business faster and more efficiently. “In this day and age, you can’t start and run a business without funding, so why wouldn’t you finance your dream using someone else’s money to grow it ten times as fast?,” Brittany says.
Brittany considers herself a “serial entrepreneur,” as she describes it. Not only does she run Clean Streak, INC and Bettini Financial, she also recently launched two other businesses: I Need a VA and Bettini Enterprises. I Need a VA helps connect business owners with personal and virtual assistants, while Bettini Enterprises focuses on coaching people and small businesses. Brittany also does speaking engagements, masterminds, and workshops to help people learn and understand what they are capable of doing.
Brittany is very open and honest about the adversity she has faced and how she has overcome it to get where she is today. She is dedicated to helping fellow survivors of domestic violence in her community, and is happy to be a resource for victims to move forward in life with a solid financial foundation. Brittany finds incredible fulfillment in realizing the positive and life-changing impact her work is having on others, and hopes to continue to touch the lives of more individuals, small businesses, and survivors along the way.
The subject of financial literacy is oftentimes not routinely taught in the sphere of public education, let alone taught at all. Most of the time, it is something people have to figure out on their own, or even learn the hard way. Western North Carolina native and CEO of Bettini Financial Brittany Bettini has made it her life’s mission to help people and small businesses learn how to repair their credit and manage their finances for long-term financial success. Growing up in an entrepreneurial family, Brittany was familiar with business ownership, eventually taking over the family business, Clean Streak INC, based in Mills River, NC.
Brittany learned from firsthand experience that it was an absolute necessity for her to learn how to manage money so she could get to where she needed to be in her life. Unfortunately, Brittany was a victim of domestic violence in a previous relationship, catapulting her into a series of financial difficulties. Once she got herself and her children away from her abuser, Brittany was ruined financially and couldn’t even find a place to live without a cosigner. She says she became obsessed with credit repair and personal finances and did as much research as she could into the subject.
After spending several years running her family business and repairing her credit and finances, Brittany found herself stuck at home during the pandemic, remarried and pregnant with her son, and needing to find something new to do. She began talking to people online and realized many people were struggling and didn’t know how to protect themselves financially. “I realized many other people were going through what I had gone through – people were struggling financially,” Brittany says. “And here I was: I had figured it out and found financial independence.” She made a post on social media offering to help women who were also victims of domestic violence and who were in need of financial help. She offered to help fix their credit for them for free, and received a tremendous amount of responses in her inbox. Brittany realized there was a major unmet need.
“Many people were reaching out to me, saying they needed help, but were embarrassed to go to a credit repair company,” Brittany recalls. She says the reason many people continue to have bad credit is because they do not reach out and ask for help, and they continue to make the same mistakes over and over. Additionally, most credit repair companies prey on people who are struggling by taking their money and only making the problem worse. Motivated to help others, Brittany started her own credit repair company, Bettini Financial. Bettini Financial is committed to helping people better their lives through comprehensive financial and credit literacy, empowering them to take back control of their finances.
Photo Credit: Davey Morgan Photography
Most recently, Bettini Financial has shifted to focus more on helping small business owners grow. The company helps them repair their personal credit and also to learn how to build business credit. Most of the process is now completely automated. Bettini Financial also has a program to help small businesses secure funding and grow their business faster and more efficiently. “In this day and age, you can’t start and run a business without funding, so why wouldn’t you finance your dream using someone else’s money to grow it ten times as fast?,” Brittany says.
Brittany considers herself a “serial entrepreneur,” as she describes it. Not only does she run Clean Streak, INC and Bettini Financial, she also recently launched two other businesses: I Need a VA and Bettini Enterprises. I Need a VA helps connect business owners with personal and virtual assistants, while Bettini Enterprises focuses on coaching people and small businesses. Brittany also does speaking engagements, masterminds, and workshops to help people learn and understand what they are capable of doing.
Brittany is very open and honest about the adversity she has faced and how she has overcome it to get where she is today. She is dedicated to helping fellow survivors of domestic violence in her community, and is happy to be a resource for victims to move forward in life with a solid financial foundation. Brittany finds incredible fulfillment in realizing the positive and life-changing impact her work is having on others, and hopes to continue to touch the lives of more individuals, small businesses, and survivors along the way.
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