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Financial Checklist for Young Professionals

So, you’ve graduated from college and landed your first professional job. Could life be any more promising than it is at this exact moment? No more cramming for finals. No more scraping money together...

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Should You Go to Graduate School to Boost Your Career?

When you’re out in a social situation, how often are you asked, “What do you do?” It’s so common that every time I meet someone, I expect the question to come second only to asking my name. What we do...

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Stuck in Your Job? Tips to Improve Your Finances So You Can Move On

Are you dreaming of a new career? Do you spend each day counting down the hours until you can go home and your nights imagining what else you could be doing with your life? Nearly everyone goes through...

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Internships: Career Boosters or Financial Suicide?

Do your grandparents ever tell you stories about how they walked ten miles a day to go to school – uphill both ways? How about how they got their first job and the only respectable thing to do was stay...

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How to Decide if You’re Ready to Move for A New Career

In today’s society, it’s getting more common to move for career opportunities. The fact is, if you want to work in a field that doesn’t have a presence in your hometown or desired community, then...

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Why a Money Makeover?

Do you ever watch makeover shows like “What Not to Wear” and think, “I’d like a makeover. Sure, my clothes are fine and I even get compliments on my style and makeup, but still. A new look and some...

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Money Makeover Series: Introducing Our Four Participants

After a fun late-in-the-workday brainstorming session, Nicole and I started to think about how we are all battling something in our financial lives – and how we usually feel completely alone in this...

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Money Makeover Series: In Need of a Money Plan

Sometimes in life, our biggest problems aren’t figuring out what to do to reach a goal, but rather having a goal in the first place – or having a goal that is too vague. For example, let’s say you want...

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Money Makeover Series: Ready to Launch

When it comes to financial planning, goal setting is imperative. But what happens if your goals actually get in the way of each other? Or what if you aren’t able to realistically meet them all at the...

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Money Makeover Series: Future Financial Leader

When I first spoke with Pamela, she told me that she wishes she had learned about finances at an earlier age. Now she wants to learn more to become a financial leader to women everywhere. That’s a...

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Money Makeover Series: New to the Workforce

Recent college graduates often spend so much time looking for work after graduation that they forget what to do with their money when they finally land that first professional job. The first thought is...

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Money Makeover Series: From ‘Ready to Launch’ to ‘Budget Take-Off’

The Money Makeover Series has been going strong for over a month, and it’s time to check in with our participants. First up: our Ready to Launch participant, Mimosa. Mimosa’s goals from the beginning...

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Money Makeover Series: Kicking Debt to the Curb

It’s time for another Money Makeover Series check in! Today we’re going to take a look at the progress of Pamela, our Future Financial Leader. She’s made some incredible strides in her first month so...

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Money Makeover Series: Money Plan = Life Plan

Are you ready for another money makeover check in? Well, get ready for a story that’s sure to inspire! This week we’re checking in with Kayla, our Money Makeover Participant who was in need of a money...

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Money Makeover Series: New Beginnings

We’ve got just one more check in before the final reveal of everyone’s Money Makeover results, and this one’s a doozy! The last time you read about Krystle, our New to the Workforce participant, she...

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Money Makeover Series: Wrapping up Ready to Launch

Three months have come and gone in a flash, and it’s time to see how our Money Makeover participants fared. First up: Ready to Launch! Read on to find out the astonishing changes Mimosa has gone...

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Money Makeover Series: Wrapping Up Future Financial Leader

It’s time for another Money Makeover Series wrap up! Today we’re finding out how our Future Financial Leader fared for the past three months. True to her plan of becoming a financial leader, she’s got...

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Money Makeover Series: From Anxious to Empowered

Several months ago I had my first money talk with Kayla and the overriding theme was anxiety. Kayla went from struggling freelance writer to a pretty great full-time gig, but she could never shake the...

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Money Makeover Series: Looking Forward to the Possibilities

Last time we checked in with Krystle, she was dealing with the loss of her job and therefore a whole new budget. However, she blew me away with her positivity and determination to turn the situation...

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Concluding the Money Makeover Series: Lessons Learned

The Money Makeover Series has come to an end – but in the lives of these four girls things are only just beginning! No philosophy or life plan can be completely remodeled in three months, but Kayla,...

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