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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Oldie-but-Goodie! I feel like people toss around the phrase financial literacy and everyone nods along and says, “Oh yeah, I need that.” But what exactly is THAT? How do you know whether or not you’re financially literate in the first place? Do you take a quiz? And if so, which quiz do you take? Is […]

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Cat Goughnour is the Senior Program Manager at Prosperity Now. She runs the African American Financial Capability Initiative, working to build innovative pilots to increase financial stability and bridge racial wealth gaps in five states in the Northwest. In addition to being a certified Community Health Worker, racial justice facilitator, published researcher and staunch advocate […]

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Listen to Oldie-but-Goodie episode 94 below. We are right in the middle of tax season and many of us find ourselves in the same place we do every year – scrambling on April 14th, trying to get all our numbers to our accountant who can’t make any promises that it will go through in time. […]

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Six months ago, after 69 years in business, Toys R Us filed for bankruptcy. Two days ago, it announced that all 800 of its American stores, and all 100 of its British ones, are closing or being sold. As many as 33,000 workers could lose their jobs. As recently as last year, the company still accounted […]

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Check out this week’s Oldie-but-Goodie episode! For the last several months, we’ve been using Dyalekt as a guinea pig for different investment platforms to see how they feel when you use them in real life. We explore Dyalekt’s trepidation with the stock market in general, how to make it feel less like gambling, and have […]

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Welcome to Prosperity Now, a series interviewing non profit organizations who are part of Building High Impact Non-Profits of Color. This consistent stuff doesn’t make the news, but it’s a thing that makes a community. In this episode we interviewed Brenda Palms Barber, Executive Director of the North Lawndale Employment Network and Founding CEO of Sweet […]

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Many cultures in Africa, South America and Asia have community lending systems: people group together with others they trust, each member contributes some money, and then each person has a turn to use that money to pay for larger things, like pay for school or even a house. eSusu is an app version of this […]

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Lesly SimmonsLesly Simmons”I’m thinking of getting into event planning.” A lot of people say it, but what does it really take? How do you decide what kinds of events to plan: weddings, holiday parties, conferences, the list goes on with some more specialized than others. Whatever you choose, it takes a lot of dedication and […]

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Net Neutrality has recently been repealed on the federal level, and several states and organizations are fighting to keep it in place, but what is it? Sarah Aoun, data activist, operational security trainer, and Ford-Mozilla Open Web Fellow, and Bex Hong Hurwitz, maker of technology for social justice, and co-founder of Research Action Design which […]

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