10 Questions to Ask Your Doctor Before a Major Surgery
The date’s locked in, your leave time’s been requested, and now, you anxiously await the big day.
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5 Great Retirement and Investing Tools
We’ll spare you the you-should-really-be-saving-for-retirement spiel. We’ve all heard it.
When Saving for Retirement Isn’t a Given
Whether you’re just starting your career or you’ve been in the workforce for decades, you know you ought to be saving for retirement. Social Security alone can’t provide a comfortable (or even feasible) retirement, so it’s…
4 Ways to Score a Great Salary at Your First Job
Finding your first full-time job is a heck of a lot of work and it can be tempting to rush through an acceptance once you’ve been offered a position.
5 Ways to Crowdfund Your Child’s College
You’re starting to prepare financially for your child’s college, and you realize you can’t do it alone. And it’s no wonder. The U.S. Department of Education estimates that by the year 2030, the cost of…
Are You Coachable?
It’s not that you’re ungrateful about the good things in your life, but admit it: you lie in bed at night, beating yourself up about some failure that day.
You’re Talking Yourself Out of Opportunity
What is it about our occasionally-self-sabotaging brains that make us so eager to talk ourselves out of opportunities?
I Had Three Jobs in Three Years
After having three jobs in three years, I learned that a paycheck isn’t the only thing that matters.
5 Steps You Can Take to Improve Your Financial Situation
We’ve likely all struggled with money at one time or another. It can be difficult to know how to begin managing and monitoring your spending.
But there are easy steps you can take to get on the road to…
Should You Stop Taking Money from Your Parents?
If your parents occasionally gift you money, you may consider yourself fortunate. But it's not always a good idea.
The Downsides of Freelancing
Being a freelancer comes with a lot of perks. You get to decide your own schedule (which is almost always flexible), how much or how little you want to work, and what kind of projects you want to take on…
20 Creative Ways to Entertain Your Kids on a Budget This Summer
With summer in full swing, kids and parents alike are looking for things to do to stay entertained. While summer is a great time for outdoor adventures, theme parks, and family vacations, these large outings tend to cost a lot…
The Spending Chronicles: I’m a Freelancer, and My Husband’s in Law Enforcement
We all know we should have an accurate picture of our finances at all times, but looking at them can be daunting. I set out to do just that and took a deep dive into my family’s monthly expenses…
I Travel Full-Time: Here’s How I Afford It
The truth is that although non-stop traveling may seem expensive, it actually costs far less than our old lives
How Many Bank Accounts Should You Really Have?
It’s a question we have all asked ourselves at one time or another: How many bank accounts should I really have?
The 10 Best Spending Trackers
Are you one of those people who doesn’t keep a budget? Who has no idea exactly how much you have or how much you’re spending, and just crosses your fingers that it all works out at the end…
What Financial Freedom Means to Me
Today, we celebrate the 4th of July and our country’s independence. That got us thinking about financial independence: what is it, whether we have it, and if we believe it’s achievable in our lives.
We asked seven women…
12 Questions to Ask at Your Next Job Interview
There are a number of questions you can ask during an interview that, while seeming fairly straightforward on the surface, can help uncover deeper intel about the inner workings of a company.
Should You Second Guess Your 529 College Savings Plan?
We asked financial experts whether 529s really are the best option for savings for kids. Here’s what they said:
5 Tips for Dealing With Impostor Syndrome
When I started at XO Group, I had just left my career in investment banking. I would often tell others how “lucky” I was to snag the CFO role, and I would promise my family, friends, and former colleagues that…