Financial Shame: What It Is, Signs, and How to Overcome It

You’d be surprised how often financial shame is at play. It’s that stinging sense of failure over where you are with your money or the choices you’ve made in the past. Guilt is about what you did; shame is more insidious; it makes you think there’s something wrong with you.  Be it a mountain of

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Financial Infidelity in Relationships: Signs, Causes, and How to Fix It

When a partner withholds money matters or goes behind the other’s back to make financial choices, that is financial infidelity. Whether it is in the form of secret bank accounts, unreported debt, lying about one’s income, or making purchases in silence, this kind of deception can be corrosive.  Couples may put a lot of stock

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Emotional Spending Triggers: How to Recognize and Break the Cycle

You can be making financial decisions on the back of an emotion and not even realize it. You don’t buy a thing because you have to; you do it to get over some stress, put a damper on boredom, or in the wake of a good day. A one-off is no big deal, but if

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Credit, Debt & Financial Recovery: Rebuilding With Strategy and Confidence

Debt is generally explained by charts, interest rates, and payment plans. The details of this are important, but they tell only part of the story. And row behind every balance is a real moment in somebody’s life. A medical bill. A business that didn’t turn out. A period of low income. Debt often starts through

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Building a Healthy Relationship With Money

It’s not just spending less or earning more to build a healthy relationship with money. It’s about knowing about the emotions, beliefs, and habits that influence how you interact with your finances. For many people, money is a source of stress because no one ever taught them how to work with money in a calm

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Morning Abundance Meditation: A Guided Practice to Shift Your Money Mindset 

Over the last six months, I’ve been experiencing a deep expansion in my inner world due to a number of personal losses, challenges, wins, and unexpected moments of “deep learning” and “deep knowing.” In addition to continuing with my journaling and my affirmation cards, I’ve been heavy on bringing guided meditation into my daily morning

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Abundance Can Be Your New Normal 

There are moments in life when we feel like everything is slipping through our fingers—like we’re always running, always fighting for the next thing, always trying to stay afloat. If you’ve ever felt like the world is moving too fast, and you’re barely keeping up, you’re not alone. Many of us have been there, caught

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What Is FU Money and Why Every Black Woman 40+ Needs It for Financial Freedom

Yeah, you heard that RIGHT!!!!An FU Fund FU Money is the kind of fund that gives you the freedom to make choices that align with your worth—feels like a radical act of self-love and liberation, especially for Black women 40+. Before I had an FU Fund, I felt I had to swallow my pride and

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7 Great Ways To Make Your Business More Flexible

Flexible companies can more easily adapt to changing markets, while being much better at capitalizing on trends. Long-term, they can make much more money and see more success simply because they’re flexible. That could be more than enough to make you want to make your business more flexible. As natural as that is, it can

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