Survive & Thrive | Setting the Bar for your Financial Life with Selina Flavius

Whether you’re established in practice, just starting pupillage or still working towards your goal of a career at the Bar, financial wellbeing is important for everyone to not just survive but thrive at either the employed or self-employed Bar. This workshop will lay out how to manage your finances to ensure that your current and future financial wellbeing is centre stage at every stage of your career.

The workshop will be delivered by Selina Flavius, the founder of award winning financial coaching company Black Girl Finance. Selina will look at the importance of financial wellbeing in both your personal and professional life and provide key advice and tips on financial literacy; income management, savings and investments and debt management as well as looking at how to plan for your financial future. 

We will host a reception with drinks and nibbles after the session.

Members and students from all four Inns of Court and guests are welcome to attend the event.

Non-Middle Temple members can book by calling the Treasury Office at 020 7427 4800 (line is open weekdays 10:00 – 16:00). Middle Temple members can book through the website. Tickets for this event cost £16. 

We look forward to seeing you there!

British Bank award winner, Selina Flavius is the founder of Black Girl Finance which provides financial coaching and regulated financial advice and planning. She hosts a podcast of the same name and is the author of the personal-finance book Black Girl Finance - Let's talk money and creator of the event Black Girl Finance Festival. She is on a mission to make money conversations more inclusive.  After enjoying a 15-year career in business development, she decided to follow her passion for finance and launch a safe space for Black women and women of colour to talk about money and gain valuable financial literacy skills which is how black girl finance started in 2019. She also contributes to discussions in the UK media about financial wellbeing and inequality and worked as a contributor to the Money and Pension Service's 10-year financial well-being Strategy. She was previously part of ITV Lorraine's saver squad, brought together to help viewers tackle the cost-of-living crisis. Her volunteer work includes being an ambassador for the charity Surviving Economic Abuse, as well as an adviser to the sexual health and wellbeing charity Brook. She is also a volunteer ambassador for the charity Widowed and Young after experiencing the loss of her fiancé in 2022.

Outside of work and volunteering, she is a mum of one son, a huge Beyonce fan, and enjoys yoga.

Members of all four Inns and their guests

Click here to see details of the QS Requirements and how to be credited with the QS for this session

Learning Aims

After this session, students should be able to:

• Recognise the importance of financial wellbeing and how it can impact barristers’ practices
• Describe ways in which barristers can manage finances in their professional and personal life

Links to the Professional Statement, wider workings of the Bar, administration of justice or a public interest matter

The QS will align with these elements of the professional statement:

• 4.2 / 4.4

Click here to view the BSB's Professional Statement

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