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A FINANCIAL GUIDE FOR WOMEN A Profile on Muslimah Financial Planner/Coach & Professional - Naseera Turkey Covered Magazine is proud to feature the results of a persevering 17 year journey. A traditional housewife turned Investment Professional, Naseera Turkey shares with us how to grow our wealth and achieve Financial Independence through her experience along with a few practical and financial-savvy tips. ABOUT NASEERA TURKEY “My mum was my role model. She was a very independent woman and she worked from a For her achievements, Naseera is a very humble yet driven and motivated lady. She was very young age to take care of her family.” says Naseera. Naseera’s mum’s wish was she be born into a ―traditional‖ family where as she describes the Indian idea of ―a woman’s place is happily married at a young age, and so she was at the tender age of nineteen with no career at home having babies and taking care of the family‖ which was ingrained in her upbringing. path except to be a good wife and a great mother. Naseera was fortunate to marry a man Naseera thus had very strong home values, which she admits she has no problem with and who was very modern in his thinking and encouraged her to persue her own goals in life. has always maintained her family as her first This led her to realise her true potential very priority. early in her twenty’s.