Two out of forty-two. One out of twenty-five. Three out of forty. These numbers are from a game I sometimes play at work. It’s a very simple game. All I do is count how many people are in a meeting, how many are in leadership positions, or on work transportation. Then, I count how many […]
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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
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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
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“You can have it all! You can have a fabulous, exciting job that you love and are passionate about, a flawlessly clean house, and three well-behaved children who you spend all of your time raising. You can have a storybook relationship where you constantly love and support each other, with a life of travel and
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If you’ve spent any time on Facebook, Twitter, or a news site over the last six months, you’ve likely seen the headlines. They read, “Significant Decline of Women in the Workforce due to the Pandemic” or “Women Forced to Choose Between Kids and Job Choose Kids” or something to that effect. It’s been widely publicized
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Love and money is a cocktail that can have a bitter after taste if not properly prepared. As with any good drink, it is about a balance of the ingredients, and finding balance is exactly what I want to talk about today. A good balance means finding ways to advocate for your money in a partnership.
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It wasn’t until I was sitting in the title company’s office and signing the closing papers for my house that I came to realize I had a lot of internalized beliefs about what buying a home meant. Specifically, what buying a home as, ‘Tami Mitchell, A SINGLE WOMAN,” meant. I was astonished by the thoughts
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I’ll be the first person to tell you, my financial life is a hot mess right now. My recent divorce ruined my finances but it saved my life. Now I’m a grad student studying civil engineering, which will eventually turn into a lucrative career, but at the moment I’m up into my eyeballs in school
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I’m a quitter. I used financial independence to opt out. In October 2020, I quit my marketing career to retire at 30. I’m a black woman and after starting my first marketing job at an ad agency in 2011, it became instantly clear that the sexist and racist world of Mad Men is actually not
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