Delta author and professional children's storyteller Laura Thomas, a.k.a. Agent Story, is challenging billionaire Kevin O'Leary's statement that "nothing matters more than money."

Around the time Canada was hosting the G20, Thomas e-mailed a question to the CBC News Network show The Lang and O'Leary Exchange asking O'Leary what three things he would teach a Canadian five-year-old kid about money.

"A week earlier on the program," said Thomas, "O'Leary mentioned that we should be teaching fiscal responsibility to five-year-olds. I had just started promoting my new Agent Story financial literacy show, so I jumped at the chance to e-mail my question."

The producer loved Thomas' question and not only wanted to use it for the inbox segment of the show, but wanted her to be on air to ask it.

O'Leary's answer, which aired during the last three minutes of the July 6 show, consisted of statements such as "nothing matters more than money" and "try to make as much money as you can before you die."

Thomas was disappointed, but not entirely surprised as O'Leary is known for his money-first attitude on the popular entrepreneurial shows Dragon's Den and Shark Tank.

Though she has not had an opportunity to respond directly, Thomas has taken her more practical ideas about money to YouTube and started her own video series called Money and Me with Agent Story.

"I was planning to do these short videos anyway, but after hearing O'Leary's ridiculous answer I decided to add an interview segment to the end of each video that makes fun of the idea that nothing matters more than money."

Thomas' first Money and Me video teaches kids what a job is. At the end of the video she asks a toilet what matters more than money. The toilet, which is the voice of her six-year-old daughter Ella-Rose, answers: "water."

"I can see where O'Leary is coming from," Thomas said. "But he is so extreme. As Agent Story I can help build kids' financial literacy and at the same time show them that while money is important there are many things that matter more than money."

To find links to CBC's Lang and O'Leary show and the Agent Story YouTube channel, or for more information about the Agent Story financial literacy show, visit www.agentstory.net.