This post is brought to you by our sponsor, “Always Eat After 7 PM”. The opinions expressed below are my own. Reading Always Eat After 7 has been such a powerful learning experience. It’s helping me reconnect with myself and food in mindful and helpful ways. I’m learning that I don’t have to be so rigid when it comes to eating and to use my body’s natural rhythm to inform what I eat and when I eat. It’s been a true healing process. As part of this journey, I had the chance to interview the ...
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What To Do If You Are A Victim Of Financial Fraud
Financial fraud is where someone steals your information and pretends to be you. They have access to your credit card, which usually means they go on a spending spree. It can leave you with nothing in your bank account, and a fair bit of debt as well. This is a criminal offense, and you have to act fast to limit the damages. Needless to say, you don’t want to be a victim of fraud. It can put you in a stressful and damaging financial position. So, if this happens to you, here are the steps to ...
How The Coronavirus Forced Me To Rethink My Life Emotionally And Financially
If you would have told me that I’d be having to self-quarantine for the next couple of months because of the coronavirus, which would force me to revisit my approach to saving and spending, I would have told you to lay off the sci-fi binges on Netflix and drink some more water. But this is not a bad episode of Black Mirror. This is real life. Here’s how I’ve had to respond emotionally and financially during such a crazy time: I’ve Had To Remind Myself That This Is ...
6 Ways to Prepare Your Business for Growth
For most small business owners, one of the biggest goals is to see consistent growth or success. Unfortunately, you’ve probably heard statistics before about 20-50% of small businesses failing in their first year. While information like that can be disheartening, that doesn’t mean your business or your passion will become just another statistic. Are there mistakes you should avoid? Absolutely. For starters, if you’re not marketing your business correctly, you won’t reach your target audience ...
Why I Chose This Diet
This post is brought to you by our sponsor, “Always Eat After 7 PM”. The opinions expressed below are my own. I decided that I wanted to read Always Eat After 7 PM: The Revolutionary Rule-Breaking Diet That Lets You Enjoy Huge Dinners, Desserts, and Indulgent Snacks—While Burning Fat Overnight by Joel Marion so I can deepen my relationship with food. I wanted to explore my feelings and thoughts about food, body image, and America’s obsession with the perfect body and food phobia ...
4 Mistakes New Business Owners Will Make With Marketing
Are you looking for ways to improve marketing for your business? If so, then you need to make sure that you avoid some of the common pitfalls. Old Tricks It’s perhaps worth noting that marketing is a technique that is constantly evolving over time. It never remains the same for long. Marketing tactics that you used last week may not be relevant today and tactics that worked last month may now earn you a Google Penalty. That’s just the way things work online. This is why you need to stay ...
How to Successfully Manage Your Personal Finances
Poor money management can land you in a mound of debt that can take years to repay. Staying on top of your personal finances is essential to living a comfortable future where you don’t need to worry about living paycheck to paycheck, paying off massive loans, or living a frugal life because you can’t afford to do what you love. To help you manage your personal finances, we created this how-to guide that can serve as a starting block for getting your money in order. From creating a budget to ...
What are the impacts of coronavirus (COVID-19) on the USA real estate market?
The Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic is the black swan event of our generation. As of the point of writing (Apr 29th, 2020), there are more than 3 million cases globally and 200k deaths. The United States is, unfortunately, the hardest-hit country with 1M cases and 58k deaths. One of the evident effects of the pandemic is the economic fallout. More than 17 million people filed for unemployment benefits in the US in the 4 weeks leading up to Apr 10, 2020. In the week of March 28 alone, 6.9 ...
How to Put Your Financial Knowledge to Good Use
Building up your knowledge of the financial world can take a lot of time and effort. This is why so many people are content to have a basic understanding and never really get to grips with all the things they could do with their finances. The world of money might be open for business but given that it has its own language, to most people it feels closed. So what can you do with your knowledge of the financial world to benefit yourself and others? Turn it Into a Career You can turn your ...
Every Disorganized Girl Boss Needs to Read This
Don’t worry if you’re a disorganized lady trying to make it as a girl boss — there are so many things you can do to overcome the disorganization habit and build the business of your dreams. It isn’t always easy to get over disorganization, laziness, and procrastination — three things that often go hand in hand — but it is necessary if you want to give your business it’s the best shot of not only surviving but actually thriving. Okay, so what can you do to overcome chronic disorganization ...