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How to Create a Budget in 5 Baby Steps

While it would be nice for you to know down to the penny where all of your money is going, you may find the idea of sitting down to calculate all of these expenses daunting and choose to avoid the experience all together. This is especially true if you are new to reining in your

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Top Interview, Resume, and Coverletter Tips from DreamGirl Aisha Taylor Co-Founder of TAYLORmade Professional Career Consulting

I had the pleasure of connecting with Aisha at the New York Urban League’s Young Professionals 1st Annual Women’s Business Expo in August of this year. Her confidence and expertise in the areas of interviewing, career transitions, and self-employment were impressive. As such, I wanted to introduce you to her. TAYLORmade Consulting is the quintessential

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Saving Money During Visits from Friends and Family

by Tonya Rapley This guest post is from Tonya 1/2 of My Fab Fico (Victoria is the other half) and one-fifth of my Frugal Fab Five, the personal finance group that I am a member of that is committed to helping women get their money right. This post  is really helpful if you love having

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Three Self-Awareness Exercises to Sculpt Your Intuitive Muscles: Developing Your Intuition Part 3

Intuitive insight is always presenting itself to us—in dreams, the things people say, the still truths that lie within or via, “coincidences” that seem to point us in a particular direction.  The key to tuning in to them is sweet and simple—self-awareness! “Knowing others is wisdom. Knowing ourselves is enlightenment.”- Tao Tzo Self-awareness is the

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I See “Debt” People: 4 Things Broke People Say and Do

Brothers and Sisters From Another Mother? The highly indebted by way of poor financial choices, consumer charging, and unrealistic standards of living come in an array of sizes, hues, shapes, languages, and ethnicities. Despite these superficial distinctions, there remains a unifying mentality and set of behaviors that unite this demographic. Their movements, habits of being,

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Meet DreamGirl Dominique Morisseau: Creative Artist & Playwright of Detroit ’67 and Sunset Baby

I had the pleasure of interviewing Dominique Morisseau, the creative artist (poet, playwright, actress, young adult fiction writer) responsible for Detroit ’67 and Sunset Baby, two plays which brilliantly showcase the stories and narratives of the people with which Dominique is most familiar—African-Americans. As Dominique so aptly phrased it, she writes and is inspired by

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“Make Your Dreams So Big that They Seem Laughable” and Other Advice for Juicy Living

This past Monday, I hosted my first event with Simply to Empower as the Mistress of Ceremony! It was super duper fun! I had the chance to meet entrepreneurs, work on my public speaking skills, and be inspired by the buzz of ambition in the room. The best part of the night was that I

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Fabulous Alert: Spa Week is Back!

  Kirstin Fuller, The Travelin Diva,  is a fellow writer and blogger over at BlackandMarriedwithKids.com. Her site Passenger 156 is super useful for all of the fab frugalistas that want to travel on a dime. Today’s guest post is about pampering on a budget. (Two of my favorite things.)By The Travelin Diva (Kirstin N. Fuller)

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5 Frugal Ways to Enhance Your Social Media Marketing Strategy

Estimates suggest that there are over 400 million active blogs online in the English language alone, and more than 42 million Facebook fan pages . So many of us are taking to social media as a form of communication to share online diaries, our expert opinions or for personal or professional brand promotion. With so many players on the field, it is becoming

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Recognizing Intuitive Insight: Developing Your Intuition Part 2

Recently we discussed intuition and the importance of seeing it as a muscle one needs to develop. In this post we will continue this discussion focusing very specifically on different forms of intuitive insight with the aims of sensitizing ourselves—such that we become ever more cognizant of the intuitive insights we have on a regular

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