Neena tells her story about how she was born to thrive, not survive, when she nearly lost her life at 6 years of age due to chickenpox encephalitis and how her life has been both amazing in a loving home but riddled with obstacles she never imagined.

• By the age of eight, Neena came up with her first business training manual to pitch to a local non-profit. She worked on it and tried to get it implemented before she graduated high school, but no one would listen to her BIG IDEAS.

• By her teens, Neena did the busy work, learned the inventory process, and went behind the scenes of many organizations and figured out how to make their systems more efficient. When she went to Howard University, she launched her very own MATH TUTORING business, after many unpaid invoices and brief IOU too many, she finally started tutoring athletes in Math and French formally with Howard Athletics, and that’s when teaching math in a fun and unique began and applying her knowledge of financial literacy became something powerful.
  

• By her freshman year, she learned that hustling ain’t all it’s cracked up to be if you don’t understand the business behind it. After growing with a life-long YMCA relationship as a baby in the nursery, to after-school, to volunteering, to counselor in training, to nursery worker, to nine years as summer camp counselor.

• By her twenties, she kept on creating programming and acting as the proxy leader for many organizations throughout her career, but people would not let her lead. So, she did what any financial genius would do next, “created her own business,” but that happened after she did what others wouldn’t. Learn the game.

• Neena not only loves kids, but she worked at non-profit long enough to learn everything she needed to start her own non-profit because her bosses had her create counselor schedules, camper schedules, do inventory, and yes even paint some picnic benches without a single complaint from her. Neena uses what she learned to empower kids to learn more about the amazing power of math and problem solving to understand money, business, leadership and making millions.

Neena R. Speer is an attorney, author, speaker, and truth dealer. She is a native of metro Birmingham, Neena Speer graduated from the University of Alabama School of Law in 2017, and received her undergraduate degrees from Howard University in 2014. In addition to owning an award-winning trademark law firm, Neena Speer is principal of a book, speaking and consulting company, executive director of a non-profit, and the author of two Amazon best-selling books, “Dear Future Lawyer: An Intimate Guide for the Minority Female Law Student” (July 2018) and “Dear Future CEO ®ANI: A Thriving Business Owner’s Secret Playbook” (April 2021).