It’s so easy to become completely unconscious during the holiday season…we eat too much, spend too much and experience WAY too much stress as the year closes out. We all have this image of the “perfect” scenario, and do what we can to try and fulfill it. Sometimes all of that expectation is too much.…
The most important aspect of money is maximizing your income through your career or self employment. I see all-too-frequently people who are not being clear about the value they bring to their work—which ultimately hurts their entire financial situation. It’s important that you make the connection between how you talk about yourself and how it…
I’ve mentioned before that I have been watching this awesome new sitcom called Mom. It stars Anna Faris and Allison Janney, and they are daughter and mother—-both recovering addicts—-going through all of the challenges that addicts generally face when working through sobriety. I love this show! A few weeks ago, Anna Faris’s character Christy realized…
If you’ve spent any time at all on my blog, you know I am a huge proponent of Mint budget tracking software. No, I don’t get paid to advocate for them (but hello Mint, if you want to pay me, I am totally open to that…). Mint was quite simply the first budget tracking program…
I’ve been watching this awesome new sitcom this fall called Mom. It stars Anna Faris and Allison Janney, and the premise is they are mother and daughter—-both recovering addicts—-going through all of the challenges that addicts generally face when working through sobriety. In case it doesn’t sound like it, let me tell you, they are…
I was just talking to a client who said, “I would give up all of the money I am making this year if I could make things right with my daughter.” She noticed when her business was doing really well, things with her family would start to fall apart, and vice versa. She knew what she…
I admit it…I don’t find investing as sexy as many people do. And I have seen the experts beaten too many times to get attached to any particular method, other than don’t-put-all-your-metaphoric-eggs-in-the-same-asset-class. But I DO have some rules of thumb, some guidelines that I try to follow before recommending that someone take their hard-earned cashola…
Several years ago, I was having coffee with a friend. She asked me how it was going with expanding my online presence. I hadn’t done it yet—not enough time, too busy with local clients, yadda, yadda, yadda. She said, “I know you really want to get online, and you said it’s important to you, but…
The biggest challenge with a side hustle is that you eventually want it to become your main hustle. I talk to a lot of people who want to start their own business, and acknowledge that they will need to keep their day jobs for awhile before transitioning over completely, but in making that concession, tend…
Right now, in the midst of a government shutdown, it feels like we live in odd times. Politics are not my area, but so much of the time it intersects with financial security, and what it means for an individual’s situation. With everything we face nowadays, the word “security” doesn’t seem to mean what it…
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