I decided to create something for my family to use - something with prompts to help us dig deeper and THINK about the answers. And,  because

Hello friends! I've been away from my blog for a while. Since my last post - I wrote a book; hung out with my family; opened up an Etsy

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Have you ever gotten an unexpected check in the mail? Let’s say it was for $50. It’s exciting to get surprise money You might think, “I’m go

Friends listen to me, I’m telling you something important. I have friends who make $30k a year and friends who make $300k a year and I hear

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Take a sneak peek around and do an assessment. Do people look healthier or skinnier than they did in January? Do they seem happier and enj

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I call this being in survival mode. It's not just trying to make it to the end of the month, but it's choosing between eating dinner

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So this article is how to take a small first step towards investing - micro investing.  In my blog post, Learn how to improve a graduates li

Before FPU I would have said that I kept a budget. Every month I had an idea roughly how much we needed to spend.  I would balance our check

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In the financial class that I facilitate, there's almost always a point when people realize that they’re spending too much money.  I ha

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