Student Loan Payment Guide: How To Budget For Resuming Student Loan Payments
If you’re one of the 45 million student loan borrowers, you’re likely feeling anxiety about making room in your budget for these payments, which on average clock in at $503 per month. Here are 7 suggestions on how to ease into student loan payments again.
30 Things I’ve Learned About Money In 30 Years
Celebrating my 30th birthday by sharing the 30 things I’ve learned about money in 30 years.
Alternative Housing Options For Combating Rising Housing Costs
Society expects a traditional, linear path — one riddled with debt and high-interest loans. Work hard in high school, go to college, buy a new car, get married, buy a house, have kids, get that corner office… does this sound familiar to you? While you may have been able to accomplish all of this with little to no debt “back in the day,” (think white, middle-class, 1960s) the same is simply not possible in 2022.
5 Financial Triggers And How To Overcome Them
Triggered. We hear this word everywhere nowadays. Despite Fox News bullying liberal millennial “snowflakes” for being emotionally intelligent, the word “triggered,” is valid. Especially when you have experienced trauma in your life. Financial trauma not withstanding. A trigger is a reminder of a past trauma. This reminder can cause a person to feel overwhelming sadness, anxiety, or panic. It may also cause someone to have flashbacks (goodtherapy.org). Here are 5 financial triggers and how to overcome them.
How To Stay Debt-Free
Here are 5 ways my family stays out of debt after getting out of it and uses our cash-flow intentionally. This is how we continue to live a debt-free life.
10 Ways To Improve Your Finances In The New Year
The ball has dropped and Auld Lang Syne has been sung, which can only mean one thing: It’s the new year!
If you’re looking to set money goals in 2022 or improve your personal finances, I have just the thing for you. Here are 10 ways to improve your finances in the new year.
How To Deal With Kaizen Burnout
On the surface, kaizen seems harmless. At least that’s what I thought before I majored in corporate power and communications and became jaded with capitalist dread. When you take a closer look you notice that the kaizen ‘continuous improvement’ philosophy is corporate brainwashing wrapped up in a pretty bow. At the end of the day, when you kaizen for a company, you’re kaizening (is that a thing?) for a bottom line — and it certainly isn’t your bottom line.
5 Dog Products That Will Change Your Life
While living in Colorado, I’ve been able to snag an extra grand a month just by hanging out with sweet animals via Rover. You can sign up to be a walker or sitter by clicking this sentence.
Dogs are a large part of my life, so it makes sense that I have products I love surrounding my pooches.
Here are 5 dog products that will change your life:
Coronavirus and the ‘Poor’
Personal finance is my passion and my joy. I love helping people-- that’s why I do this. I once knew next to nothing about money besides I should probably have a checking account. Now, I’m focused on building a business and generational wealth. Then the Coronavirus hit.
Forcing Your Kids To Go To College Is Stupid
In a perfect world, you’d grow up with financially stable parents. Your parents saved your entire life for you to go to the college of your dreams. You graduate with a degree, and go into the career of your choice. You then make $59k salary that the statistics promised you. You’d have no student loan debt, you’d get a job in your chosen field a week after graduation, and you’d be livin’ the life.
Reality check.
That lifestyle is right up there with unicorns and cotton-candy clouds for the majority of Americans. Most Millennials and Gen-Zers were raised with this rose-colored idea preached to them by society, but without the actual reality of a loaded 529 saving account and a field-of-study that guarantees a lucrative career.