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A career in personal finance education wasn’t part of Taylor Price’s life plan.

After being diagnosed with scoliosis in 2010 and later undergoing spinal fusion surgery, she dreamed of becoming a neurosurgeon. But once she got to med school, she reconsidered.

“I dropped out and asked my mom, ‘What should I do with my life?’” Price says. Her mom, who had a finance degree, encouraged her to give personal finance a try.

“It rocked me,” Price says.

The coursework made 19-year-old Price, a straight-A student, realize just how much she had

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