About Us
Pay It Forward is a unique social venture started in 2017, by 3 women entrepreneurs, Preetha Wali, Anu Seth and Vinita Jain. We conduct customized personal finance awareness and planning sessions across corporates and colleges.VALUE PROPOSITION: Our sessions are customized to suit the audience (finance is not one size fits all), simplified (jargon free and easy to understand) informative (we speak what the audience needs to know and do not focus on only financial products) interactive (audience engagement is important for better learning outcomes) and structured (lack of financial literacy is the main reason most people have haphazard investments). Our sessions not only help people plan their finances better but also give objective solutions to their doubts and queries.During the pandemic we curated webinars for not just Indian but international audiences too (US, UK, Jordan, Dubai. Philippines, Ukraine). The need for objective and structured financial basics seems to be an urgent and unmet global requirement.We also do NOT advise or sell any financial products .We believe the lacunae is in a step before, that of being financially well informed and prudent.--We offer customized, interactive workshops for all age groups across corporates.Team
Anu Seth
Software Professional
A software professional turned accidental investor. During a career break she took charge of her family finances only to realise this crucial aspect is often neglected. She re-skilled on economics and finance and her passion is to break stereotypes on financial decision making and make it centre stage in every home.
Vinita Jain
Chartered Accountant & CFP
Being a CA, she handled her family finances and learnt about investments along the way. With 13 years of experience, Pay it Forward was a natural extension of sharing this innate love for finance. She is now a Certified Financial Planner (CFP).
Preetha Wali
Finance Educator
Has worked with CRY and Times of India and chanced upon learning personal finance. She is now an ardent trainer and proponent, trying to spread the message, initially by teaching the subject for almost 6 years and now conducting workshops across Bangalore.
Workshops: Modules & Audience
1Fin Start
- Introduction to personal finance .
- Important concepts in personal finance .
- Myths and mistakes .
- Avoiding the debt trap .
- Goal based planning .
2Fin Fit
- Asset Classification & Allocation .
- Risk & diversification .
- Tax and retirement planning .
- Importance of Will and Nominee .
3Fin Strong
- Mutual Funds and other investments .
- Understanding how MFs work, Types of funds and How to choose and invest .
- When to exit a fund .
- My financial basket .
Clients
Blogs
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Your Story
September - 11th 2022
Bangalore Insider
Aug 22, 2018
Bangalore Mirror
Feb 4, 2018
The team at Pay it Forward bring with them an in depth knowledge and expertise in all aspects of finance. Their workshops are extremely engaging and insightful and is definitely an eye opener for many . Awesome initiative by the awesome trio - Preetha, Anu and Vinita.
Vinita and team , kudos for starting this initiative . The simplicity with which you'll explain a technical subject is truly amazing . The examples are insightful and would help anyone towards their goal of financial independence . All the best !
"People without financial knowledge, who take advice from financial experts are like lemmings simply following their leader. They race for the cliff and leap into the ocean of financial uncertainty, hoping to swim to the other side.”Robert Kiyosaki. The courses conducted by PIF help us on this path of financial knowlege. Sharp, smart and relevant.
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Thank you team PIF!!I had privilege to attend one of the session from PayitForward team. Anu and Preetha are knowledgable and the best thing about this team is they don't upsell any product or brand to you. It is just pure knowledge on finance. Indeed breaking the stereotypes of women aren't good with numbers/finance.
Sundeep Goyal
Director - Global Mobility at Lion Re
l attended an awareness session on personal finance
- conducted by Preetha for our organization. Session
was well structured and content was too apt for the
audience. Preetha explained nuances around
personal finance so swiftly, in easy-to-understand
language and with some great analogies - that even
someone who doesn't know anything about finance
- would surely get the essence and framework to
create the right path towards financial freedom for
themselves. Thanks you Preetha and your team for
putting this together.Aditya ViswanathanDeveloper at SAP Labs | Technology and
Theatre EnthusiastRecently, I had the opportunity to attend a series of
sessions held by Pay It Forward BLR on the core
fundamentals of Finances and Personal Financing.
These sessions helped me understand what
financing is and how when one plans well, they will
put themselves in a position to secure their future.
This provided a good foundation on various topics
from Inflation, Insurance, Contingency plans to the
Equity Market to name a few, and how one can
adapt their portfolio based on their goals.
I enjoyed the discussions on identifying our wants
and needs and how that might shape our financial
plans.
Rahul Sharma
IS Co'211 Aviation Officer-HPCL| Maintenance
Engineer-Hindalco industries| IIT-BHUThank you so much for your sessions
ma'am. The much-needed session for the
current lifestyle. Thank you for your time
and effort to apprise us of all these basic
but very important concepts.Rajesh CR Pillai
Practice Lead - Cloud Transformation | Modern
Experience [IT-Workforce-Customer|Trusted
AdvisorThanks a lot for the great session.
Very Straight forward and Eye
opening for me. Even I am following
a lot of the principles which you
have mentionedSrinidhi Sivakumar
Member Of Technical Staff at VMware
Thanks Preetha, Loved the session,
I will be delighted to connect with
you. Please accept my connection
requestHarita Chaudhari
Member of Technical Staff at VMware
Hi Preetha, I attended one of your
sessions at VMware, where I saw
your team giving some valuable
inputs. I want some coaching on
personal finance and investment
options that are suitable for me.
How can I get to know more about
this from your firm or who/where
should I contact.Aditya Gokhale
Director R&D at VMware
Hi - I attended your session at
VMware - Thank you for educating
me.
Had someone done this for me
when I was 21 I would not have
made mistakes that I did.Akshita Goyal
Deloitte | Manmohan Singh Fellow
Over the three days that Pay It Forward founders
enlightened us on aspects of Personal Finance, I
am ready to invest and learn more about the
financial market. Ms. Anu Seth and Ms. Preetha
Wali were fabulous in providing us with a
step-by-step guide on early investing and its
benefits without forgetting to mention the cautionary notes. The money mooners that we are, we sure needed this!
It is a blessing that organisations like Pay It
Forward exist to make the ABCs of Personal
Finance clearer for beginners like me.Rashmi Jha
Product Management Consultant for DevOps
Enablement & Strategist at Dell TechnologiesHi Preetha,
I had attended your amazing
Financial Planning sessions at Dell.
Wanted to check if you could share
your deck with me so I can refer
back to the insights and also if you
can spare some time to review my
portfolio high level. Let me know a
good time to connect.
One more thing: I volunteered
to take a session on "Money
Management for Women" primarily
aimed for govt school kids mothers
and hence wanted to refer to some
of the insights you had shared in
your deck.Subham Chirania
ISB'21 | IT Kanpur | CFA L2 | Edtech
Hope that you are keeping healthy.
Thank you for the wonderful 3-day
personal finance course at ISB. I would
love to connect with you on your Linkedin
network and stay connected with you.Alok Mullick
This is Alok. I recently attended your 5-day webinar course that you conducted for VMware employees.
I must admit that it was great and made me realize that financial knowledge is a must for any individual.
I would like to thank you all for sparing your time and conducting the session. Furthermore, I would like to get your valuable advice on a few aspects on financial investing and planning.
Personally, I have been investing on various investment tools and hold some basic knowledge on Mutual Funds for few years now.
I wish to detail out my portfolio holdings and other plans and seek your guidance to know, if I am on the right track or need any course correction.
Please suggest how best I can contact you and avail your expert advice!
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