When Your Budget Grinds You Down
[social_warfare] What happens when your budget sucks and you hate it? Is staying within budget leaving you worn out and resentful? Read on to find out what to do instead.
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Wrapping up 2018: Resolutions vs Routines
New Years and new beginnings. But how do we set ourselves up for success in 2019?
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How to Increase your Risk Tolerance Part 1: Ability
[social_warfare] Welcome back to another installment of my series on risk. Today, we are going to discuss steps to increase our risk tolerance by focusing on our financial ABILITY to do so. In case you missed, you can read about some risk basics HERE and how risk affects women differently HERE. As mentioned in our previous
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Stress Leave: Money Woes Shouldn’t Add to it
[social_warfare] Home on a Friday morning in December, I’m wondering how my career came to this. I was on a medical leave from work due to stress. I looked down at the doctor’s note in my hand. “Indefinitely”, she wrote.
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What You Need to Know About Risks
[social_warfare] No cute or clever wordplay on this one. I want to talk about risks in investing. This is salient because risk is often misunderstood and because the markets are displaying increased volatility – where market swings can be 3-4% up or down in a day. I want to arm you with a framework to
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Making a Financially Dumb Move
[social_warfare] Our society’s narrative is of heroes and villains. It rings true for money too. We praise the virtue of financially sound decisions and we vilify of financially dumb moves. In media, we see stories of responsible & resourceful people paying off tens of thousands in debt, saving 50%+ of their income. Or we see
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Money Hacks for Impulsive People
[social_warfare] If you’re like me; you’ve never met an avocado toast you didn’t like or said no to a cup o’Joe, good news! Impulsive spending money on avocado toast or lattes says nothing about your discipline or your willpower. It’s just the way we are wired. But hold on, we still have to budget and
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Unique Money Challenges for Women
[social_warfare] Recently a journalist asked me: What are the unique money challenges women face? I had some trouble choosing just one to highlight. Because none of the challenges stand in isolation. They are all interconnected. I had a substantial list and I had not even started to include the intersectionality of persons of color or
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Recession Preparedness: Steps You Need to Take Today
[social_warfare] At home, I have a box of canned foods, a gallon of water and a manual can-opener for “emergencies”. I live in a condo in the middle of a large city with family nearby. But, hey, you never know, right? Then I thought, why don’t we prepare of personal finance disasters like we do
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Money Lessons from Crazy Rich Asians
[social_warfare] With the movie, Crazy Rich Asians, coming out later this month, I thought I’d share some valuable money lessons I gleaned from reading the bestselling books by Kevin Kwan. Crazy Rich Asians’ plot follows the heroine, Rachel Chu, as she accompanies her boyfriend, Nick Young, back to Singapore for his best friend’s wedding. It’s
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