Handling The Hard Stuff

Category: Finances

  • Build Toward YOUR Future

    It’s the end of the school year where I am and I find myself looking around at the circumstances my friends and I find ourselves in. Some of us have kids graduating and are processing transitioning into the parents of adult children. Some of us have littles and are juggling trying to be present parents…

  • Women with Money Change the World

    There has been this big phenomenon in the last couple years that seems to be shocking most news organizations, but not shocking most feminists paying attention to financial matters. Women are a huge and underestimated market. Women treat money differently. Women spend it. Of course that’s a stereotype and maybe that’ll get condemnation, but women…

  • Who You Are and Who You Are Not

    Know thyself. As we get older we learn who we are, but more importantly we know who we are not and do not want to be. We spend our lives learning and finding ourselves – new skills, new jobs, educations, partners. We learn who we are as parents and friends and who we are in…

  • Don’t Expect Results for Work You Didn’t Do

    We like instant gratification. Our world is spinning faster and faster and social media is inundating us with instant kitchen transformations and hundred-pound weight loss results, without any of the process. You only see the highlights in everyone else’s life. Their process is no faster or better than yours, you just see the edited version.…

  • Effort Makes Us Happy

    We are constantly fed “hacks” and “get rich quick” schemes and “pro tips” that will make us bajillions of dollars with zero effort and continue this passive income making us millionaires over night. Where will that get us though? Don’t get me wrong – if I had a million dollars overnight with no effort, I’d…

  • Financial Hierarchy

    Money can be a lot of things. It can be scary or confusing, it can be freeing or limiting. It can create stability and confidence. It can generate feelings of guilt or greed or shame or envy. For me, money is a path to freedom of time. Budgets and debts and monthly payments take up…

  • Low Hanging Fruit

    I find it really easy to get bogged down in the nitty gritty details of things. I want to learn the perfect caloric deficit to lose weight effectively. I want to know the exact amount I should be putting in my retirement to retire early. I pay attention to the minutia so much that I…

  • Set It and Forget It Finances

    It’s easy to get overwhelmed by budgets and financial decisions and paying off debt and saving for retirement and all the things you’re supposed to be doing when you’re in the throes of adulting. But when you filter it down just a little there are a few simple things you can set up and take…

  • Kill Your Ego

    We are socially programmed to want new/better/special things. We want to “keep up with the Jones’s”. We want everyone on social media to know how happy and fun and special our lives are. But when you stop and ask yourself, do you really want these things? Why? What need is it fulfilling? I remember when…

  • Build Your Budget

    Being responsible with your money is tough – for a bunch of reasons. Sometimes it’s because we just don’t have enough to go around. Sometimes it’s because the basics are taken care of so you’re not paying attention. Sometimes it’s because it is hard to think about the future and thinking about tomorrow tomorrow is…