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.
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Delays on retirement plans can be a killer for saving. Avoid lifestyle creep and automate your own savings during that waiting period to join the plan. Here’s why.
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As seen in Soiree’s Workwife Newsletter.
I get it. You’re still on your parents’ health insurance and cell phone plans. Maybe you’re even living at home while you get a jump on student loans. No judgment here. But don’t let that keep you in a teenage mindset.
Yes, it’s time to adult, or in the words of Lizzo, to “boss up and change your life.” And here are five essential steps to do just that.
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I want you to take the Save10 challenge. Do it for you. Do it for future you. Do it for women that need to see that it is possible so that they will do it, too,
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The science has spoken—should we call off gifts and call up college savings accounts? This is a goodin’ to send to the grandparents, aunts, uncles—anyone who loves to give the kids a good spoilin.’ (maybe send the 529 contribution form along with the link)
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Budgeting does not have to be hard. It is easy. It flows. Let your bank account do all the work, and stay along for the ride.
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Women business owners (or those wanting to become one) can really pursue their dreams with a pile of cash, and while we are at it, let’s demystify the process of saving for retirement when we turn a profit.
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A good cash management system is a recipe for a lifetime of feeling the safety and security that money can offer and the freedom to make the most important life decisions that are right for you.
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Join me in a journey to save your first $1,000. This is the first $1,000 that you put aside for future you. The first $1,000 that you will trust yourself to never touch.
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Yesterday I was running late for a meeting, but I was almost out of gas. I quickly pulled into a station, threw in my debit card and pin and set the pump on auto pump. For nearly 5 agonizing minutes I waited in my seat for the pump to finish.
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Credit card points, student loan refis, auto loan interest rates, mortgage refis are all the rage. The conversation takes place everywhere, from our mailbox at our home to our email inbox to cocktail parties to ladies’ dinner clubs.
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In study after study, we know women make better investors than men. The singular reason is they tend to have a lower risk tolerance and a lot more uncertainty in what they are doing. They put their money in diversified investments and then never change them.
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The world of finance is big and scary and intimidating, and studies show that women feel especially alienated by it. Test out this sentence that I overheard in a presentation recently: “A great way that we can add alpha is to overweight small and mid cap stocks in an asset allocation for investors with a high risk tolerance and long time horizon.” Meanwhile, most people are like, “what’s a stock?”
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The most common Kroger cereal aisle conversation is someone proudly leaning in to tell me she is maxing out her retirement plan. I respond, “Wow, you are putting in $19,000 per year?!?”
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My life until age 27 was a giant coincidence. From the time I started working at 12 to the age of 27 it just so happened that all the money I had made from babysitting to a professional career was exactly what I needed to pay everyone else.
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Yesterday, I had a long conversation with a friend and passionate leader of financial literacy. We were discussing the savings movement that we are trying to create. I gave my pitch for battling the ubiquity of credit cards and other forms of debt by making a savings campaign somehow equally as ubiquitous.
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When I got my first job as an aspiring investment analyst, a person who devotes their whole day to researching and then predicting if a group of 15 or so stocks is going to go up or down, you could say I was at the tip of the spear
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