It's What You Keep

This week, we answer 4 questions from our listeners about topics we've covered in previous weeks. Tune in to this episode to get some valuable tips on paying down your mortgage, keeping some "spare" cash and getting comfortable to ask for help!

This episode, we build on the budget planning discussed in previous episodes. Once you have a solid budget mapped out, you can use technology to make your bill payments and savings happen without even thinking about it!

We'll just touch on a few of the ways to make this happen and will dive deeper in future episodes.

Thanks for joining us as we offer ways to help you make your path to financial health and wealth an easier one!!

Here, we discuss three of the top ways aggressive marketing works to separate us from our income and how being AWARE can help resist the urges to buy things we really don't need.

Succumbing to marketing ploys can cause you to abandon your savings and budgeting plans!

In our last episode, we talked about payday and title loans—and how quickly they can damage your financial health.

Today, we’re taking the next step. We’re sharing five alternatives to those high-cost loans that can help you get through a tough spot without digging a deeper hole.

Some of these options come with their own challenges—whether that’s timing, patience, or having conversations that might feel uncomfortable or even embarrassing. But we believe your financial health is worth it.

Because the freedom that comes from climbing out of a financial hole lasts a lot longer than any temporary discomfort.

In this continuation of our loans and credit series, we discuss why payday and title loans are so potentially damaging to your credit and overall financial health.

After covering 10 ways to improve your credit rating in our last episode, we focus on what we think are the 3 most effective of those methods.

In this episode, we cover what we believe are the top 10 things you should do to improve and maintain your credit score and rating at credit agencies.

Your credit rating is used by potential creditors, utility providers and even insurance companies to determine whether to extend credit or open accounts for you, and whether they should charge a premium or extra fees to do so.

Establishing and maintaining a good credit score is an important step in building your financial health.

Here we discuss credit ratings, credit reporting agencies and what it means to have "bad credit".

Most lenders rely on an individual's credit rating or "score" to determine whether to extend loans or credit and how favorable... or unfavorable... the terms of that credit extension should be.

Many consumers are surprised to learn what factors impact their scores and how many ways it can make their everyday lives more expensive.

Let's get into it!

We start a series of episodes on credit and loans and how their misuse can severely damage one's financial health.

In this episode, we answer a few questions from our listeners.