Gail Vaz-Oxlade Explained

Gail Vaz-Oxlade
Birthname:Gail Vaz
Birth Date:18 June 1959[1] [2]
Birth Place:Jamaica
Nationality:Jamaican, Canadian
Occupation: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 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 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:

External links

Notes and References

  1. News: Personal debt makes good reality television . Financial Post . 2010-06-30 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120319162227/http://www.financialpost.com/scripts/story.html?id=13566fe7-de44-459c-8467-704d13098a63&k=4993 . 2012-03-19 . dead .
  2. Web site: Gail . Vaz-Oxlade . Tomorrow's My Birthday . Gailvazoxlade.com . 2011-06-17 . 2016-06-25.
  3. News: How to teach your kids about money . Suzanne . Ellis . CityNews Toronto . 2011-11-20 . 2011-11-25 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20111124010439/http://www.citytv.com/toronto/citynews/life/money/article/169626--how-to-teach-your-kids-about-money . 2011-11-24 .
  4. News: Gail Vaz-Oxlade: The accidental guru . Sarah . Hampson . The Globe and Mail . 2010-01-30 . 2010-06-30 .
  5. News: Banks hooking Canadians on credit, Gail Vaz-Oxlade says . Tom . McFeat . CBC . 2011-11-07 . 2011-11-25 .
  6. Web site: Gail . Vaz-Oxlade . The RRSP Answer Book by Gail Vaz-Oxlade — Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists . Goodreads.com . 2016-06-25.
  7. Web site: Gail . Vaz-Oxlade . The Borrower's Answer Book by Gail Vaz-Oxlade — Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists . Goodreads.com . 2016-06-25.
  8. Web site: Gail . Vaz-Oxlade . The Retirement Answer Book by Gail Vaz-Oxlade — Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists . Goodreads.com . 2016-06-25.
  9. Web site: Vaz . Gail . Shopping For Money: Strategies For Successful Borrowing by Gail Vaz-Oxlade — Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists . Goodreads.com . 2016-06-25.
  10. Web site: Gail . Vaz-Oxlade . The Money Tree Myth: A Parents' Guide to Helping Kids Unravel the Mysteries of Money by Gail Vaz-Oxlade — Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists . Goodreads.com . 2016-06-25.
  11. Web site: Gail . Vaz-Oxlade . A Woman of Independent Means: A Woman's Guide to Full Financial Security by Gail Vaz-Oxlade — Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists . Goodreads.com . 2016-06-25.
  12. Web site: Vaz . Gail . Dead Cat Bounce: The Skinny On E Vesting by Gail Vaz-Oxlade — Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists . Goodreads.com . 2016-06-25.
  13. Web site: Gail . Vaz-Oxlade . Divorce: A Canadian Woman's Guide by Gail Vaz-Oxlade — Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists . Goodreads.com . 2016-06-25.
  14. Web site: Gail . Vaz-Oxlade . Education planning by Gail Vaz-Oxlade — Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists . Goodreads.com . 2016-06-25.
  15. Web site: P.S. Literary Agency - Business by the Book . September 4, 2015 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150927023118/http://psliterary.com/client_GVOxlade.html . September 27, 2015 .
  16. Web site: Gail . Vaz-Oxlade . Debt-Free Forever: Take Control of Your Money and Your Life by Gail Vaz-Oxlade — Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists . Goodreads.com . 2016-06-25.
  17. Web site: Debt-Free Forever Book with Harper Collins . Gail Vaz-Oxlade . 2016-06-25.
  18. Web site: Gail . Vaz-Oxlade . Never Too Late (Revised): Take Control of Your Retirement and Your Future by Gail Vaz-Oxlade — Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs, Lists . Goodreads.com . 2016-06-25.

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