Living and Working in Ukraine Blog

I live in Kherson Ukraine with my wife Anna and my stepdaughter Sveta. This blog chronicles my life, love and learning with my family, friends and work in the country I now call home. I work with various Ukrainians, foreigners, Ukrainian businesses and foreign businesses to help them succeed in Ukraine.


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Financial Planning Class Kherson Ukraine

We were asked to give a financial planning class by Oksana Osnach who runs a art school in Kherson Ukraine.  Oksana organizes various events for her students that she feels might interest them.  Since Tom Laughlin has both an MBA and an MA in Human Development she felt he had the background to teach such a class.  Sveta Zorina is an interpreter so the class was present in both English and Russian.  Here is a video of our introduction to the class and a candid photo provided by Oksana with Tom sitting in a similar pose to the painting behind him while contemplating a question from the class.  Oksana has asked us to do a follow-up class on how to discuss finances with other family members.