Harvesting Savings: 6 Financial Moves To Make This Fall Season
Head into spooky season by making sure you “leaf” your financial stress behind. As the end of the year approaches, it’s important to plan for the most expensive time in most Americans' lives....
Romance + taxes = marriage penalty? Is there a financial penalty when getting married?
Here comes the bride…and more taxes and negative financial impacts?! Maybe. As unromantic as this may sound, marriage at its base level is the single most serious business contract you will ever...
How To Be A Loser… (AKA Why Trying To Time The Market Is A Loser’s Game)
Have you heard stories from a friend about how they made some big bucks by buying a stock at the right time? Or how someone saved their ass by getting out of the stock market before a big drop? Have...
The Differences Between Hourly and Flat Fee Financial Planning
One of the many reasons I launched Empowering Finance was to challenge all of the industry norms that I was told were the only way to “make it/be successful” in the wild world of finance. One of...
How to chat to your kids about money and finances (and set them up for financial success!)
If you think back to your childhood, can you remember the lessons, feelings, and beliefs you learned about money and finances? What is your first memory of money? Is it positive or negative? Did...
How to Set Your Relationship up for Financial Success
Let’s talk about finances, baby, let’s talk about you and me, let’s talk about all the magical things that money means (if you are an 80’s kid, you know the actual tune this should be sung to). Yay!...