women and money — Blog Entries

Lazy, Boring Investors Tend To Get the Most Exciting Results

Investing is not for the overachievers, the overthinkers, or the over-readers. It’s for those who buy the whole boring market then set it and forget it.

InvestingSarah Catherine GutierrezDecember 5, 2020investing, passive investing, boringinvesting, target, target date funds, womenandinvesting, women and money, financial plannin, financial planning

This is why you should start an emergency fund today.

Avoid the golden handcuffs and give yourself the freedom to live the life you want—all by starting an emergency fund today.

SavingSarah Catherine GutierrezJune 30, 2020emergencyfund, financialplanning, women and money, your money or your life, cash flow management, money

Decisions, Decisions, Decisions: Initial thoughts on the Stimulus Bill

The largest financial bill ever passes through the Senate and heads to the House. Ladysplaining a few relevant elements and the decisions that need to be made around them. Bonus item: student loans. What to do with recent federal action.

SavingSarah Catherine GutierrezMarch 26, 2020stimulus, money, women and money, financial planning, coronavirus, COVID-19, finances

My Money or My Life

Amidst the pain and uncertainty around a global pandemic and volatile stock market, life lessons from a quarantine.

SavingSarah Catherine GutierrezMarch 24, 2020women and money, financial planning, finances, your money or your life, values clarification, money, psychology

What To Do In a Market Downturn

The stock market is causing you to be stressed. The quarantine is causing you to be bored. A recipe to doing something you might regret. Let me give you 9 things you can do to actually make things better.

InvestingSarah Catherine GutierrezMarch 14, 2020stock market, downturn, financial planning, coronavirus, women and money, money, psychology of money, investments

How to Break Up With Lifestyle Creep For Good This Time

As seen in Soiree’s The Work Wife

I see it. I like it. I want it. I buy it.

Cash Flow ManagementSarah Catherine GutierrezMarch 5, 2020lifestyle creep, financial planning, finances, women and money, budgeting, cash flow management