By: Kara Stevens
image source= GoHaus I’m so excited to share that I’ve partnered with Go Haus on a four-part Inspired Spaces series. I have a lot of companies reach out to me to do things like this, but I often decline the overture because their vision doesn’t align with the values of this community: authenticity, kindness, happiness, thoughtfulness, and
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By: Kara Stevens
I had such an amazing time at the PUSH Money Matters Event this past Saturday!!! Even though I consider myself well versed in the area of personal finances, I still picked up a few nuggets and insights at this event. Here are just a few of the nuggets that I learned from each of the
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By: Kara Stevens
It seems like everywhere I turn, my friends are either pushing out babies (including myself. I pushed my baby girl out in past July) or thinking about it. I have girlfriends that are pulling their coins together to make hefty down payments on the homes of their dreams or thinking about it. I have folk
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By: Kara Stevens
Have you ever had something that you absolutely loved, but you wondered if you could continue to afford it? Well, I recently felt this way. Lately, I have been obsessed with a vegan chocolate milkshake from a local Detroit restaurant. My obsession was bringing me into the restaurant about one to two times per week,
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By: Kara Stevens
By Aisha Taylor How many of you have ever gone shopping, brought the items home, and then thought, “Why did I buy that?” If so, you may have purchased that item because you were emotionally shopping. The problem with emotional shopping is that often times we purchase things that we don’t need, and we spend
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By: Kara Stevens
auto pay, would spend money that she didn’t have, and then ended up with multiple overdraft fees on her checking account. However, when she took the auto pay off she would forget to pay her bills and ended up paying late fees. It’s definitely a challenge because without the proper vigilance or system a lot of
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By: Kara Stevens
My husband and I have always toyed with the idea of living off of fifty percent of our incomes— not necessarily because one of us wants to quit our job right now, (ummm…that’s really not true…so let me stop LOL) but because we are serious about wealth and understand that our daily decisions impact our
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By: Kara Stevens
Despite a miserable financial reality—bounced checks, late mortgage payments, bank overdrafts, inner turmoil, and lack of sleep—you will still find people telling you that they can’t afford to save. The reality is that they can’t afford not to save. Helping a friend or a loved one move from the “I Can’t Afford to Save” mentality
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By: Kara Stevens
A few years ago, I was walking in the mall and overheard a business owner trying to convince a woman to use her tax return to purchase a weave. She said that her hair was an investment. I didn’t stick around long enough to hear the customer’s response, but in my mind, I was thinking, “Buying
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By: Kara Stevens
One of the interesting things that I see as a personal finance coach supporting black women regain control of their finances is that these women are in debt or have bad credit , not because they are poorly compensated and, as a result, have to resort to charging basic necessities on their credit cards, but
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