Gail Vaz-Oxlade

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Gail Vaz-Oxlade
Born
Gail Vaz

(1959-06-18) June 18, 1959 (age 65) [1] [2]
Jamaica
Nationality Jamaican, Canadian
Occupation(s)Financial writer, television host

Gail Vaz-Oxlade (born June 18, 1959) is a Jamaican-Canadian financial writer and television personality. 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 The Common Sense Divorce.

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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 emigrated 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:

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Personal debt makes good reality television". Financial Post. Archived from the original on 2012-03-19. Retrieved 2010-06-30.
  2. ↑ Vaz-Oxlade, Gail (2011-06-17). "Tomorrow's My Birthday". Gailvazoxlade.com. Retrieved 2016-06-25.
  3. 1 2 Ellis, Suzanne (2011-11-20). "How to teach your kids about money". CityNews Toronto. Archived from the original on 2011-11-24. Retrieved 2011-11-25.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Hampson, Sarah (2010-01-30). "Gail Vaz-Oxlade: The accidental guru". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved 2010-06-30.
  5. 1 2 McFeat, Tom (2011-11-07). "Banks hooking Canadians on credit, Gail Vaz-Oxlade says". CBC. Retrieved 2011-11-25.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 "P.S. Literary Agency - Business by the Book". Archived from the original on September 27, 2015. Retrieved September 4, 2015.[ non-primary source needed ]
  7. 1 2 "Debt-Free Forever Book with Harper Collins". Gail Vaz-Oxlade. Retrieved 2016-06-25.[ dead link ]
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