Before you can even get your money stuff together, you need to understand your relationship with money first, and to do that, you’ll need to know what your money personality is and how your personality affects every aspect of your finances. We’ve spent the last two years honing and refining the money personalities we discussed […]

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Welcome to the Dead Day Job Army, a monthly Brunch & Budget series where entrepreneurs and freelancers of Color share their stories and talk about the real. It’s not easy to start your own business and it’s even harder when it feels like you have to explain to your family what you do every time […]

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Having a job can be great, but it doesn’t mean you can’t do all the other stuff you want. Being a freelancer / entrepreneur is now easier than ever, which means people have figured out how to sell you on the concept. Freelancer is not better than employee—they are just different. Because of this “movement,” […]

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It’s the last thing you want to think about happening, but also can happen at any time. This week, we talk about what do when you lose your job, from severance, unemployment insurance, and health insurance, to how to deal with the emotional rollercoaster, to how to handle the dreaded interview question, “so why did […]

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This week’s Oldie-but-Goodie: This show was inspired by a Cracked podcast Dyalekt and I were listening to during our many hours of driving on Famous Sayings (that aren’t true). So many of those sayings were either about taking risks or being really careful, being spontaneous or planning everything. And when we were real with ourselves, […]

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“Buying a home is an investment.” “Renting is just throwing your money away.” “The property value could double in the next decades.” All of these are go-to phrases for realtors. The property value could also drop to half. Buying a house, or an apartment, is not a guaranteed good move. In some cases, it’s a […]

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This week’s Oldie-but-Goodie: You’ve managed to make your dream come true. You’ve done something that few people can say they’ve done – you’ve figured out how to to make money from your passion. How can any day feel like a work day when you wake up getting to do what you love? And yet, you […]

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This week’s Oldie-but-Goodie: Heather Jarvis strikes back! (check the other episode where she focuses on private loans here) Heather Jarvis is back to discuss a topic that never goes out of style: student loans. Most people have them. It seems that college tuition is only rising, which leads us to wonder where all that money goes? […]

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All Wheels Up is a nonprofit dedicated to making air travel accessible to those with wheelchairs. Currently, they need to be lifted out of their wheelchairs–literally lose their legs–and hope that the airline will not damage or even lose their wheelchair. Anyone who has flown knows what a hassle it is to arrive without luggage, […]

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This week’s oldie-but-goodie: We all know student loan debt is out of control. The average college student graduated in 2014 with $33,000 in student loans. Student loan debt crossed the $1 trillion in 2012 and just keeps getting bigger. Something has to give. Today, we explore Massive Open Online Courses, or MOOC’s, online learning platforms […]

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