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My Secret to Losing 5 pounds in 7 days in a Cheap and Healthy Way

I was s-t-r-u-g-g-l-l-i-n-g to lose those five pounds despite buying expensive personal training sessions and using them. So, I asked a different personal trainer for some advice. “Why I am not losing the weight despite all of my sweating and time at the gym?” I asked. This personal trainer told me that the secret to

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The Ideal Number of Bank Accounts A Married Couple Should Have

I attended a beautiful wedding ceremony a few weeks ago. He was Italian. She was Jamaican. This was his second marriage. This was her first. He had two children that he brought to the marriage. She, on the other hand, was looking forward to starting a family with him. The pastor candidly spoke about the

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3 Tips to Handle Discouragement and Disappointment in a Healthy Way

P.S. If you feel you need to talk to me about your abundance and budget, don’t forget I offer complimentary financial clarity sessions. All you have to do is click here to schedule one.  Love, Kara by Kim Renée Nelson We’ve all had discouraging situations arise that throw us off our game. There’s the friend that

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5 Tips to Effectively Negotiate and Get What You Want

In her book, Women Don’t Ask, Linda Babcock conducted a survey of graduating business school students and found that there was a 7.6% difference in salary between men and women. One of the interesting findings was that 57% of men negotiated their salary while only 7% of women attempted to negotiate. Think about it. If

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Achieve Success By Using These Simple Tools Properly

Before building a home, blueprints are sketched, supplies are purchased and the house is built. I know that’s pretty simplistic but it will work for our purposes so bear with me :). Decide on Your Goals The blueprints are the plan. You must first decide on your goals. What does your life look like 3

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Meet DreamGirl Tiphanie Yanique: Author of Land of Love and Drowning

I took the day off when I found out that Tiphanie Yanique and A. Naomi Jackson, two up and coming Caribbean writers would be sitting on a panel at Columbia University in honor of the “Year of Baldwin.” Yanique is a US Virgin Islander and Jackson is a Brooklyn-born writer of Antiguan and Bajan ancestry.

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The Ideal Number of Bank Accounts A Married Couple Should Have

I attended a beautiful wedding ceremony a few weeks ago. He was Italian. She was Jamaica. This was his second marriage. This was her first. He had two children that he brought to the marriage. She, on the other hand, was looking forward to starting a family with him. The pastor candidly spoke about the

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I Refused to Marry Him…Until He Paid Off the Debt

Today, I will be on HuffPostLive talking about money and marriage. YUM!!!  I wrote the following article for LearnVest earlier this year. I am sharing it with you. 🙂 I get it from my mama. I grew up in a home with a lot of contradictory messages around money. My mother was the first of

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My Big (Expensive) Shopping Mistake

One of my favorite topics to teach about is the concept of spending money to save money. This was a topic that I thought that I thoroughly understood because my father always emphasized the importance of the concept. However, about a month ago, I seemed to forget the lesson I know so well. I had

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How Much Do I Need to Retire?

It’s possible that you are not yet thinking about retirement and that’s ok. As a young adult, you may be more pre-occupied with building your career and generating income to pay for your next meal. But retirement planning is best done well in advance. Particularly because the sooner you start, the less it hurts your

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