Personal Finance Blog Post

4 Simple Steps to Financial Wellness Is financial wellness attainable? Is it attainable for you? Yes, to both. Not only that, but it may be closer than you realize. While I have no idea what you’ve got going on in your financial life, I’ve been in a place where I [...]

How to Take Control of Your Finances Humans crave certainty. We want control.    And we understand that the majority of things that happen to us are beyond our control. But we can control how we prepare and position ourselves, as well as how we respond when things happen.    [...]

3 Ways to Start Doing Good with Your Dollars “Tend to the part of the garden you can touch.” - Jack Kornfield   It’s hard for empathetic and kind people to look at big problems in the world. They can be overwhelming because they seem unfixable. And to a degree, [...]

How to Feel Safe About Money   So much of the messaging and information we receive today makes us feel unsafe.    Our current system rewards clicks and attention. Therefore, we’re served up a never-ending stream of sensational, and often terrifying, headlines and stories.    It’s almost enough to close [...]

Financial Stewardship: How to Be Good with Money Being a good steward means you’re an effective manager. Therefore, good financial stewardship means you’re effectively managing your money.    Have you ever heard the phrase, “How you do one thing is how you do everything?” For the longest time, that made [...]

How to Get On the Same Page with Money It’s hard to get our acts together. It’s not easy to figure out our finances.  We’ve gotta learn how to budget, save money, start investing, buy insurance; the list goes on and on. Personal finance is a lot.    So, if [...]

How to Have the Money Talk with Your Partner Have you had the money talk with your partner?   Money can be an emotionally charged, stress inducing, anxiety filled thing.    And it can be an extremely empowering and potent force for good.    Which is it for you? What [...]

Can Money Give You Peace of Mind? Peace of mind means “a feeling of being safe or protected.” Can money give you that?    Perhaps we could start with what money can’t give us. Money can’t give us happiness, health, or good relationships. There are plenty of unhappy lottery winners, [...]

How to Become Debt Free Debt is crushing us. It crushed me for a long time.    When you’re in debt, it can feel like there’s no way out. That’s how I felt. The stress and anxiety followed me around and impacted every aspect of my life. It was really [...]