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4 Splurge-Worthy Experiences to Save Up For

When you work hard, you want to play hard. We get it. You deserve to enjoy the finer things in life, and you can have them—you just have to be smart and strategic with your spending. Sticking to a budget while saving toward financial goals doesn’t mean you can’t splurge a little.  With the holidays

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5 ways to earn more money (that you probably do anyway)

Last month, I had the pleasure of serving as a professor for not one, but two of Mogul X’s break out sessions on #adulting and having a healthy relationship with money. To be honest, before they reached out to invite me to speak, I had never heard of Mogul, one of the fastest growing start-ups

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Stay Encouraged through the Growing Pains

This week I sent this message to the Frugal Feministas on my emailing list. I kept thinking about it, and thought that it was something that more people needed to hear. Maybe that’s you! As you prepare to begin another week, I wanted to reach out to you with this reminder: Stay Encouraged. Over the

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How Ebates Helped Me Save on Redecorating My Living Room

This year has been defined by the word: Reinvent. I attribute my new attitude toward life and money in part to the major breakthroughs I had while writing heal your relationship with money (you need a copy in your life!!) and lecturing about how to… well,  heal your relationship with money, lol. Inspired Action While

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How I Found New Friends After 30

I was taking stock of my life and realized that I didn’t have the quality of friendships I desired—I couldn’t be the friend that I wanted to be with the women around me and, in turn, I couldn’t receive the type of connection that I want.  I wanted to be a different kind of friend,

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The Superpower of Asking “Why”

The Superpower of Asking “Why”   There’s always a reason for everything you do. There’s always a root and a “why” waiting for you to uncover it.  And sometimes the reasons that you give yourself are just the beginnings of the journey. And those answers lead to other “whys” and different “whys” and new answers.

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How to Manifest the Life that You Really Want

A lot of us are walking around with an air of heaviness and hopelessness because we are not living the lives we really want or deserve. But getting to where you want in life may not be as difficult as it seems when you are ready to do what it takes to get there. If you

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Did Spending Half a Grand on Clothes Help Me Overcome My Fear of Spending Money?

Ever since releasing Heal Your Relationship with Money, I’ve experienced a number of newer and more nuanced connections with money that I wanted to share with you in the hope you’ll be able to make more sense of your ever-changing relationship with your coins. Understanding Fear and How to Overcome It We all have fears. 

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9 Free Ways to Encourage Self-love & Confidence in Our Children

“All children should be taught to unconditionally accept, approve, admire, appreciate, forgive, trust, and ultimately, love their own person.” ~Asa Don Brown TIME recently ran a story about the increase in suicides among Black children.  A study revealed that the suicide rate among black children increased from 2.54 per one million to 1.36 per million.

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Why It Is Important for You to Treat Yourself Regularly

We all know how important it is to be physically and financially responsible. It’s the reason why you come to this site, to get tips and insight on how to be at your healthiest financially. A large part of being financially responsible is being able to identify when you are spending money on your “needs”

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