FREE QUIZ: Learn how your emotions impact your financial future. by Monique Halley If you’ve been in love, at some point you’ve had to make a decision and you didn’t know if you should go with the heart or the head. It can be confusing I’ve been there myself. There’s good reason to follow both.
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You have worked too hard— getting your (numerous) degrees, navigating Cubicle America, and building your brand to be broke. “Being broke”, though, seems to a recurring theme among black women, who, for all intensive purposes, with the exception of their financial lives, embody intelligence, progressive thinking, resourcefulness, and discipline. But in order to live a
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Many people look at new year’s resolutions as a good thing. They make vows to get healthy, save more money, spend less money, give up vices or bad habits and more. Do these all sound great to you? Most people would say yes. However, all of the above are bad resolutions. Why do you ask?
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Ines is my homie and I am super proud to introduce her to you! We met close to four years ago at Howard University at a Zora Neale Hurston/Richard Wright Writers Retreat. Four years later, her debut novel Pleasure Hound Part 1 launched yesterday and it is ALREADY in Amazon’s Top 100 for categories like
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As online shopping increases in popularity, so does the potential for theft. Unfortunately, there are people who follow delivery trucks around with the hope of finding a package with good merchandise left on a porch to steal. A few years ago, I had a friend who ordered a new cell phone, and the box was
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FREE Women’s Empowerment Tool: The Break Up with Broke Toolkit For years, one of my favorite lazy Saturday rituals was to go to my local thrift store and shop. On one particular Saturday I went in the afternoon and the radio was playing. “Fellas, call in and tell me two things that you love about
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Glinda Bridgforth is a best-selling author and financial expert. She conducted a seminar sponsored by Toyota Financial Services where she gave financial fuel tips, quick tips about managing money and reducing debt. I picked some key tips to share with you and include my own tidbits for each. Tip 1: Don’t take payroll advances from
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I don’t know about you, but 2014 has totally flown by. I remember NYE of 2013, and now the year is almost done. I honestly don’t know where the tine has gone! As we start to think about what we have accomplished or didn’t accomplish in 2014, it’s easy to beat ourselves up for the
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Every college student needs a budget. Especially if you are a broke college student. Sometimes there is barely enough money for pizza and beer, but somehow you manage to squeeze it all in. But there’s a better way. And it requires little to no effort from you. It’s almost as easy as our beginner investing
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I thought it would be fitting to focus on family relationships and gratitude since we are at the beginning of the holiday season. This is the time of year we get together with our family. The kids are coming home from college, out of state family members are visiting or someone will be bringing home
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