Schoffler knows that parting with hard-earned income is scary, but she’s grateful she made the decision to live more conservatively and invest when she was younger. “Passive streams of income have allowed my family to spend one month a year traveling the world for the past six years,” she says. “Having monthly and quarterly income that I’m not actively working for equals freedom.” Read More
The stress and pressure from our everyday lives is detrimental to our mental and physical wellbeing. But we can change that—and the way we live—by understanding the correlation between our cycles and our brains, and how it affects our productivity each month. Read More
How to Ask for (and Get) the Raise You Deserve: know your worth, show your value, time it just right, get creative with your requests, and practice makes perfect. Read More
When starting a business, getting clear on what you really want to do is a process. This means it takes time, effort, and patience with yourself. Once you have clarity, the next step is to develop a strategy and action plan to bring your idea or dream into reality.
I’ve found it most helpful to use the six Ds to test the viability of your idea. Here’s how you can really see if your business idea has legs. Read More
Technology and innovation across industries are creating solutions that meet the customer where they are. Businesses first identify the consumers' interests and priorities, then they reveal the pain points, and focus on providing simple solutions with the lowest cost to the consumer. If it’s a race, we have consumer-facing industries leading the pack (cough, Amazon, et al, cough) and the financial industry beginning to move it’s behemoth legs — in fact, it’s just barely realizing it should probably start running. 2020 and female-forward, customer-centered financial technology, here we come. Read More
You’ve weighed the pros and cons and have chosen to kick payroll to the curb --congrats! But now that you’re starting your own small business, there’s some questions you need to navigate to get it up and running. Like, Why should I form an LLC? Read More
If you regularly find yourself out of money before your boss hands over your next paycheck, take heart—you’re not the only one. A comprehensive study from CareerBuilder showed that a whopping 78 percent of us live paycheck to paycheck. Read More