Using the performing arts to educate K-6 students about personal finance with:

“FUNance-Where Fun and Finance Collide!”

Students learn about:

Needs and Wants

Budgeting/Spending Plans

How - and Why - to Save Money

Where Money Comes From

Where Money Goes

Financial Goals

What Debt Is - and How to Avoid It

All concepts are presented

with the performing arts:

A zany character (this is not a boring lecture!)

Juggling

Old-fashioned plate spinning

Magic

Audience interaction

Story telling

BIO

Brad Zupp created the “FUNance” assembly show as a mixture of his two passions: performing and educating people about person finance.

   Brad started his professional performing career at age 12, entertaining people at fairs, festivals, and corporate events through age 17, when he attended the prestigious Ringling Brother and Barnum & Bailey Clown College in Venice, Florida.

   After two years performing with Ringling Brother’s circus, he continued his performing career, internationally, with seven trips to Japan to perform in theme parks, living in Japan a total of three years.

    Brad has also performed on cruise ships in the Caribbean and Baltic, and at schools around the United States.

   For several years Brad also pursued a successful career as a financial advisor with A.G. Edwards, helping families with personal finance issues, investments and estate planning. He held a Series 7 licences in addition to earning an Accredited Asset Management Specialist designation from the College for Financial Planning.