Gail Vaz-Oxlade
| Gail Vaz-Oxlade | |
|---|---|
| Born | Gail Vaz June 18, 1959 [1][2] Jamaica |
| Nationality | Jamaican, Canadian |
| Occupation | financial writer, television host |
| Website | http://www.gailvazoxlade.com, http://commonsensedivorce.ca, http://www.debtfreeforever.ca |
Gail Vaz-Oxlade (born June 18, 1959 in Jamaica) is a Jamaican-Canadian financial writer and television personality who lives in Brighton, Ontario, Canada. Vaz-Oxlade hosts the Canadian television series Til Debt Do Us Part, Princess and, most recently, Money Moron. Vaz-Oxlade is also a regular columnist for Yahoo! Canada Finance. Previously, she was a regular feature writer for The Globe and Mail, Chatelaine magazine, IE: Money, and MoneySense.ca, among others.[1][3] Gail most recently ventured into the divorce realm by offering financially-based divorce services through Common Sense Divorce.
Career
Vaz-Oxlade began her career after moving to Canada, working as an administrative assistant and later taking a job in marketing.[4] In that role she was asked by a banking client to write a manual for its employees on its Registered Retirement Savings Plan products, which grew into Vaz-Oxlade writing all of the bank's technical materials.[4] Within a number of years, Vaz-Oxlade began freelance writing, ultimately writing 27 columns every month.[1][4]
Citing burn-out, Vaz-Oxlade quit and moved to Brighton, Ontario with her family and over a two-year period did volunteer work and raised her family.[4] After that time, she was asked by a production company to host Til Debt Do Us Part.[4] In her role on that show, Vaz-Oxlade describes herself as a "super nanny for money".[1] After seven seasons of hosting the program, Vaz-Oxlade agreed to continue with the show if the network, Slice, allowed her to do a new show. The network agreed, resulting in the creation of Princess, which focuses on young women rather than couples.[4]
In 2011, Vaz-Oxlade began a campaign advocating for changes in the way lenders assess lending criteria, particularly for credit cards.[5] As part of that effort, Vaz-Oxlade urged Canadian consumers to stop using their credit cards for one week and pay cash only; as well, she urged Canadians to write to their Members of Parliament to urge changes in legislation restricting the use of credit scores in the granting of credit.[5]
Personal life
Born Gail Elizabeth Theresa Vaz[4] to a wealthy family in Jamaica, Vaz-Oxlade immigrated to Canada with her family in 1977. Her surname is the result of hyphenating her maiden name and her first husband's surname.[4] She has been married three times: the first marriage lasted one year; the second lasted nine years; and the third lasted eighteen years.[4] However, Vaz-Oxlade, in a money-saving endeavour, has not divorced her last husband. Rather, they are legally separated.[4] Vaz-Oxlade has two children, Alexandra (Alex) Kaitlin Prue and Malcolm Kenneth Prue.[3]
Books
Vaz-Oxlade has written numerous books, including:
- The RRSP Answer Book (Stoddart annually 1991-1998)[6]
- The Borrower's Answer Book (Stoddart 1993)[7]
- The Retirement Answer Book (Stoddart 1994,1996,1997)[8]
- Shopping for Money: Strategies for Successful Borrowing (Stoddart 1992,1999)[9]
- The Money Tree Myth: A Parents Guide to Helping Kids Unravel the Mysteries of Money (Stoddart 1993,1996)[10]
- A Woman of Independent Means: A Woman's Guide to Full Financial Security (Stoddart 1999)[11]
- Dead Cat Bounce: The Skinny of E-Vesting (Prentice Hall 2001)[12]
- Divorce: A Canadian Woman's Guide (Prentice Hall 2002)[13]
- Education Planning (CCH Canadian 1999)[14]
- Debt-Free Forever:Take Control of Your Money and Your Life (Harper Collins 2009)[15]
- Never Too Late: Take Control of Your Retirement and Your Future (Harper Collins 2010)[16]
- Debt-Free Forever:Take Control of Your Money and Your Life US Edition (Experiment 2010) [17]
- Easy Money (Grass Roots Press 2011)[18]
- Money-Smart Kids (Harper Collins 2011)[19]
- It's Your Money: Becoming a Woman of Independent Means (Harper Collins 2011)[20]
- Money Rules: Rule Your Money, Or Your Money Will Rule You (Harper Collins 2012)[21]
- Saving for School: Understand RESPs, Take Control of Your Savings, Minimize Student Debt (Harper Collins 2013)[22]
- Never Too Late: Take Control of Your Retirement and Your Future Revised Edition (Harper Collins 2013) [23]
Her latest book, "Money Talks: When to Say Yes and How to Say No" is currently available for pre-order and is set to release December 8th from Harper Collins Canada. [24] A revised edition of her 2012 title, Money Rules, will be releasing alongside Money Talks.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ http://gailvazoxlade.com/blog/archives/2882
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- ↑ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1512971.The_RRSP_Answer_Book?from_search=true&search_version=service
- ↑ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1976575.The_Borrower_s_Answer_Book?from_search=true&search_version=service
- ↑ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8038809-the-retirement-answer-book?from_search=true&search_version=service
- ↑ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7498622-shopping-for-money?from_search=true&search_version=service
- ↑ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1512968.The_Money_Tree_Myth
- ↑ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1247581.A_Woman_of_Independent_Means
- ↑ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2182342.Dead_Cat_Bounce?from_search=true&search_version=service
- ↑ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7185114-divorce
- ↑ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1512967.Education_planning?from_search=true&search_version=service
- ↑ http://www.psliterary.com/client_GVOxlade.html
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- ↑ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7330453-debt-free-forever?from_search=true&search_version=service
- ↑ http://www.gailvazoxlade.com/books.html
- ↑ http://www.gailvazoxlade.com/books.html
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- ↑ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18392371-never-too-late-revised-edition?from_search=true&search_version=service
- ↑ http://www.psliterary.com/client_GVOxlade.html
