#WhyIStayed In My Abusive Marriage and #WhyILeft
Every morning while driving into work I blast the song “Fighter” by Christina Aguillera. It gives me the kick in the @$$ I need to face my day with a calendar full of people who are depending on me to fight their battles with them. And it reminds me of everything I went through during and after leaving my abusive marriage. They say our favorite More...
Millennials: How You Can Afford to Live Well on Your Own
With the job market slowly recovering and the student loan debt crisis this country is currently facing, it’s no wonder why at least 3 in 10 millennials had to move back in with their parents and even more young More...
Financial Tips to Follow Before You Start a Family
You may never truly feel ready for a baby. Children need a lot of money. That’s just a fact. If you’re thinking about having kids, you may want to follow a few of these tips to help yourself get at least a little More...
3 Financial Tools to Help Reduce Stress
I recently found an old letter that I wrote to myself when I was very broke and extremely stressed. I wrote the letter and saved it so that I could look back and laugh. I knew that I would make it through that stressful More...
Top 10 Cities for African American Families
When it comes time for you to start and raise your family, you want to make sure you do it in the right setting. You take many things into account, including the cost of living, job opportunities, housing prices, More...
These Big Companies Own Your Food Choices
Although you may stand in a grocery aisle with what seems like an endless array of choices of different brands to choose from, a new infographic shows just how little choice you have in who manufactures your food. Let’s More...
Life Insurance: 5 Things You’re Dying to Know
I know, I know a terrible play on words but I just couldn’t resist. As we age the realities of life become more evident. Aches and pains no longer just go away; grey hairs appear in places you don’t More...
How a Sandwhich Shop Can Teach You to Live a Prosperous Life
I was in Lenny’s Sub Shop the other day ordering lunch when I came across their company’s core values. After a quick read, I realized that their core values are things that apply to us as individuals. We More...
Why You Shouldn’t Depend On Your Employer’s Life Insurance
For the first time in my life I’m buying life insurance. I’ve always had life insurance coverage through my various employers, but I never bothered to purchase my own life insurance because I thought that I More...
What is Wealth?
As the author of the personal finance book, How We Prevent Wealth: A Personal Finance Reflection, I’ll give my own definition of wealth, in which you can use to construct your own opinion. This is necessary because More...