Brunch on a Wednesday: How learning how to drive is like learning how to budget
I'm turning 30 in September and one of my goals before I turned 30 is to learn how to drive. Yes, I somehow escaped from California without a driver's license, then spent the last 7 years in a city where having a car was more of a liability than a necessity. I…
The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Money Management (Maker’s Row guest blog post)
(originally posted on Maker's Row blog) All truly successful business owners understand that their success is based on a simple equation: When revenues are greater than expenses, the difference in the two numbers is profit or earnings. Many companies appear to be turning a profit on paper in complicated reports…
Brunch on a Wednesday: How to Create a Financial Future That’s All Yours
I feel like I've been running into a similar conversation a lot with clients lately. It usually goes something like this: Me: I see you have a goal of buying a house. You: Yeah... Me: That's great, are you planning to stay where you are now for a while? You:…
Should you ever fund your business with a credit card? (guest post on Millo.co)
(This was a guest blog post for Millo, a fantastic resource and community for people who are working on building a creative business. You can catch the full post on millo.co) We were at the closing table, finalizing our first home purchase, when we found out. We were doing a complete gut…
Reflections on Milestones and Starting Over Again | Brunch on a Wednesday
It was a hot and sticky walk to the radio station for our 50th show. I was nervous. I'd actually been ruminating on this show since we decided to tackle this topic. 50 seemed like a good marker for the beginning of a new set of chapters for Brunch &…
4 Ways the Prison Industry Affects Your Everyday Life
2.3 million people are currently incarcerated in the United States, more than any other country in the world and up 500% in the last 30 years. 60% (almost 2 out of 3!!) of people in prison are people of color. But stats are just stats. How does this actually affect your everyday…
Brunch on a Wednesday: Why a bad day doesn’t have to mean a bad month
We've all been there. You've been so good about your budget or your diet or whatever else you've restricted yourself on, and then one weekend it feels like it all goes to hell. You went to a party and ate three cupcakes instead of none, you walked into a sample…
Brunch on a Wednesday: How to overcome fear of failure
I've officially become a podcast junkie. I find myself browsing through Stitcher and iTunes to see what's trending and also find new podcasts when other podcasts talk about them. This is how I found Jerry Colonna's Reboot podcast. I listened to one of his episodes called, "You are Not Alone in the Fear," and…
Brunch on a Wednesday: Almost-Milestones
In a few weeks, Dyalekt and I will be airing our 50th radio show on Bondfire Radio. It's a pretty big milestone in a lot of ways. 50 is just such a nice big-sounding number in general and it marks almost a full year of shows, which is pretty exciting. Then I…
4 Ways You Might Be Sabotaging Your Budget Success
You've probably created a budget at some point in your life (if you haven't, no worries, there's still time!). Maybe you hit a point where you feel like enough is enough and you have to be an adult and finally start paying attention to your finances. Maybe someone told you about…