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Welcome to the Women’s Personal Finance Wednesday Roundup! We started this series back in 2018 on TreadLightlyRetireEarly.com to showcase the fabulous women in the online personal finance community who are talking about money online. Even now, there is a perception that women aren’t good with money, don’t care about money, or don’t understand it on a granular level beyond perhaps knowing how to coupon and score a good shopping deal.
These roundups are our way of doing a small part to change that perception. There is no shortage of women online doing their part to make it clear that they DO understand money, and these posts are meant to amplify that fact.
Why does it matter? Because representation matters. Because reading and hearing stories from those who (may or may not) look like us show us that yes, we too can figure out this money thing, that we too have important stories to tell. And that we too know quite a lot about money and are experts worth listening to.
Since Women’s Personal Finance has grown up to get its own website, it’s time to transition these roundups over here to the dedicated website. Same great content, new home!
Our Women’s Personal Finance Facebook group on Facebook also has a sharing thread on Fridays, and that’s the place to read all the blog posts written by members over the previous week. If you’re looking for more articles written by women, that’s a great place to continue reading (plus we have plenty of great discussions on finances the rest of the week as well!).
If you don’t have the time or inclination to go searching down myriad posts, though, we will be continuing this series every week to showcase some of the best of the new content we read. If you ever read a post you think we absolutely need to consider for this roundup, please let us know! We are always open to reading new blogs and want to celebrate those newer voices as well as the more seasoned ones.
And with that, here is the best (in our opinion) content by women and nonbinary folks this past week. Let us know what you think in the comments! We love discussion.
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Women’s Personal Finance Weekly Roundup #38 (Actually, 175)
1. “I Want to Work and Grow With My Country”: Ukraine’s Entrepreneurs Share Their Stories Too Ambitious
“On February 14th, designer Svitlana Bevza showed her Fall 2022 collection at New York Fashion Week. Ten days later she woke up at 5am to the sound of explosions near her home in the suburbs of Kyiv, Ukraine.
Svitlana is the founder and creative director of BEVZA, a Kyiv-based womenswear brand with celebrities from Sophie Turner to Emily Ratajkowski to Gigi Hadid wearing her designs. But today, BEVZA’s website opens with the following message, “Dear Customers! We are obliged to announce that due to Russian invasion Ukraine is in state of war. All deliveries are postponed. We will get back to work as soon as we can. Love, Bevza team.”
2. When Investing Gets Tough, Blow Your Portfolio a Raspberry We Want Guac
“I knew a market dip was going to happen thanks to folks like Jim who warned me about it. I trusted the historical data I read up on. Most importantly, I worked out how I’d react when that’d take place.
When, not if. This is an inevitability.
If the mere thought of a dip made me sick to my stomach, I’d have known my risk tolerance wasn’t up to snuff. Luckily, that was not my reaction: the only physical reaction I had was pursed lips.
So, thanks to these insights, I plotted my fallback in case I couldn’t just do nothing. When I’d see my investments take a dump, I will blow a raspberry.“
3. If I Got Rich, It Wouldn’t Be For Long Mistress of Home and Finance
“I do not believe billionaires should exist. Personal wealth should not be nigh-infinite, compounding beyond human reason. Instead these people should be frantically trying to shed wealth to society until they are comfortably within the realm of mortals.
I could never be a billionaire. I have too many projects to fund, people to give to, and philanthropies to invest in.
If I grew that rich, it would not last long before I fixed that absurd overabundance.“
How To Donate To Relief Efforts In Ukraine – Forbes Advisor Kelly Anne Smith
Note: there are also some amazing direct aid efforts going on, and personal finance folks who are matching donations with free money coaching sessions (Like Ukrainian born Zina Kumok). Look to them for places to send your money direct if you want to skip the big charities – or do both! 🙂
Thanks For Supporting These Women Writers!
As always, if you’re looking for a categorized list of self identified women writing and speaking about personal finance, here is the comprehensive guide to the Women of the Financial Independence Community.
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