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Want less stress in your relationship? Long-term successful Financial Partnership Therapy
Want less stress in your relationship? Long-term successful Financial Partnership Therapy. Hi, it’s your Money Mavens, and you probably already heard the news… Money fights and money problems are the leading cause of stress for couples in the U.S. and it’s no...
5 Things Women Should Know About Investing
Simply put, women lack confidence when it comes to investing. Study after study consistently reveals that women take charge of buying decisions, budgeting and daily spending plans, but say they lack clarity about how to build wealth. For 15 years, I’ve been working...
One Sure Way to Achieve Money Zen
You’ve heard the kōan, “What is the sound of one hand clapping?” Kōans are the stories, questions and statements used in Zen Buddhism to get people thinking or meditating. On the other side of taking the kōan meditation, people often receive a powerful insight. The...
3 Steps to Improve Financial Intimacy – Couples and Money
A few years ago, before my husband and I were married, we were planning our first vacation together. So there we are, planning to be on the beach in Costa Rica, our first vacation together, and I was nervous about the spending and how to bring it up. So I hemmed and...
How to Have Enough Money: 3 Steps Toward Financial Freedom
I talk with a lot of people about money. I know the inner workings of lots of people’s money lives, and while the popular consensus is that everyone wants to be rich, what I actually find is that most people just want to have enough money to live comfortably. So this...
How to Change Your Money Mindset and Make More Money Now
I talk a lot about money mindsets. Mostly because I think many of us are pre-programmed for financial failure. When it comes to making more money, I can teach you all the moneymaking tactics in the world, but if your money programming is faulty, none of them will ever...
Why Women Are More Savvy Than They Think They Are With Money
According to a recent study by MassMutual Financial Group, only 26% of women are confident making their own financial decisions. It’s interesting to note, then, that when it comes to investing, evidence tells us that women are better investors than they think they...
9 Lessons from My TEDx Talk, The Surprising Power of Language to Make You Rich
Have you ever felt like you were bursting at the seams to share an amazing idea with the world? Two years ago, I felt that way when I was selected as a TEDx speaker for the inaugural Santa Clara University TEDx event. If you’ve read many of my money articles or...
4 Steps for Business Owners to Stop Worrying About Money
The most common lament I hear from business owners is how they want to stop worrying about money. I know you’ve spent thousands of dollars and hours learning how to earn money, but now you need to learn how to treat it once you’ve earned it so you can make it do what...
3 Keys to Build a Business that Pays You Well
In order to build a business that pays you well, it's often necessary to deconstruct what got you to where you are. Everybody has a level of wealth that they perceive is their ceiling, the maximum of what they feel they can create. This is, at its essence, a limiting...