Queer Money®: How Gay People Do Money

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📱 Get full show notes here: https://debtfreeguys.com/gay-facebook-ads/ Helping LGBTQ Entrepreneurs Flourish with Facebook Ads Facebook has been in the news for the wrong reasons lately. But even with the #DeleteFacebook movement, the platform still has more than two billion active users worldwide. And the same data that was used for evil in the Cambridge Analytica scandal can be used for good to help entrepreneurs find their ideal customers. In fact, for LGBTQ solopreneurs and small business owners, there is no more affordable way to drive targeted traffic to your website—or physical store. Monica Louie is an online business strategist and Facebook ads consultant who works with ambitious online entrepreneurs to help them grow site traffic, build an email list and increase profits! After she and her husband paid off $120K in debt in two years on a single middle-class income, Monica began blogging about their journey. To monetize the blog, she created a webinar and set out to market the training course with Facebook ads. Monica mastered the platform quickly, securing webinar subscribers for a cost-per-conversion of $1.26, then refining the strategy to bring the cost down to $1.01. Soon others were asking for Monica’s help with Facebook ads, and in 2016, she sold her blog and became a full-time Facebook ads coach. Today, Monica offers insight on the recent Facebook controversy, explaining what the platform is doing to prevent further abuses of the use of data. She covers the basics of Facebook ads, discussing how to target a particular community, budget for A/B testing, and design an effective ad. Monica walks us through her five-step process for getting started with Facebook ads and discusses how brick-and-mortar businesses can take advantage of the Store Visit and Offer options to drive foot traffic to their stores. Listen in for more information about Monica’s Flourish with Facebook Ads course and learn how her private Facebook group can help you leverage the algorithm to find your ideal customers and grow your business!

Get the Fabulous Social Life Planner Here: https://debtfreeguys.com/100 Make your great gay life greater Living fabulously for gay men means having a great gay social life, but a fabulously gay life can mean a fantastically small bank account! Have a great gay life and a thick bank account with the Fabulous Social Life Planner.

🏳️‍🌈 Full Show Notes Here: https://debtfreeguys.com/lgbtq-advocacy/ LGBTQ advocacy with Tim Gill As a member of the queer community, should you focus on business or LGBTQ advocacy? Should you first ‘make it’ in your career to have the means to give back later? Or, is it best to put your efforts into LGBTQ activism today? Tim Gill on career and LGBTQ advocacy Tim Gill is a software entrepreneur and philanthropist based in Denver. He created the Gill Foundation in 1994 to advance equality and support nonprofits that serve the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. Since its inception, the foundation has invested more than $335M in programs across the country. Tim is also the founder and former chair of Quark, Inc., a company that revolutionized desktop publishing with innovative page-layout software. Today, he works in the artificial intelligence space, co-founding the smart home technology startup JStar in 2015. Tim shares the story of Quark, discussing the challenges he faced in the early years—packing boxes and answering tech support calls from bed at 2 a.m.! He explains why he never had the sense that being gay held him back as an entrepreneur and how he developed the confidence to out himself in public. Tim speaks of Colorado’s Amendment 2 in 1992 as the impetus for his LGBTQ advocacy, offering insight around the Gill Foundation’s work to support anti-discrimination legislation and his approach to ‘smart philanthropy.’

🏳️‍🌈 Get the full show notes here: https://debtfreeguys.com/better-gay-sex/ Want better gay sex? ‘Talk dirty to me’ may take on a new meaning when you learn that discussing money with your partner leads to a stronger relationship, a better gay sex life (and lesbian, and transgender and straight sex) and greater happiness. How to have better gay sex? We partnered with Honeyfi for a recent survey that revealed that queer couples who track and discuss a shared budget were 81% more likely to report being extremely happy and 54% more likely to report having a great sex life! Want better sex? Talk about your money. How Honeyfi can help you have better gay sex Sam Schultz is the co-founder of Honeyfi, a budget app that helps couples manage their money together. Today, Sam shares the fundamentals of the Honeyfi app, explaining how it facilitates collaboration between partners. We discuss the key takeaways from our comprehensive LGBT and money study. Sam shares his take on the correlation between working together on financial goals and playing together in the bedroom. Download the Honefi app here: http://www.honeyfi.com/

🦄 Get your FREE journal here: www.debtfreeguys.com/97 🦄 Living fabulously every day Are you tired of getting the same results day in and day out, year in and year out? Today, on Queer Money™, we’re sharing the five mental and spiritual exercises that we practice for living fabulously every single day. For help, click here to get your free Living Fabulously Daily Journal. 5 daily habits for living fabulously every day Meditate on living fabulously Every successful person Tim Ferriss knows meditates and journals John’s boss said, “Find out what successful people do, and do that.” Warm lemon water with ginger, cayenne and turmeric Meditate for eight to 20 minutes Meditating will change your life for two reasons It gives you space for calm, reducing stress and lowering cortisol Meditating challenges limiting beliefs Recite affirmations about living fabulously Recite aloud, emphatically and in first-person daily affirmations Affirmations create an audible imprint on our brains Recite personal and specific affirmations for five minutes each day List the daily goals that’ll help you with living fabulously List the most important things to do each day to start living fabulously The One Thing What is the one thing I can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary? Provides clarity, focus and efficiency Write down your daily gratitudes about living fabulously Journal what you’re grateful for every day Return to your gratitudes when your day presents challenges Journal five good things about each day about living fabulously Write down five things about that day that were good or great End your day on a positive note Lay the foundation for a good day tomorrow

LGBTQ student loan debt There’s a student loan debt crisis in our country. In fact, the $1.4 TRILLION in outstanding student loans has officials worried about significant economic consequences. Sadly, the LGBTQ student loan debt crisis is more severe. Miranda Marquit and her colleagues at Student Loan Hero were curious about the LGBTQ student loan debt crisis, so they conducted an exhaustive study and shared it with us on Queer Money™. Miranda Marquit, Student Loan Hero and the LGBTQ student loan debt crisis Miranda is a long-time freelance journalist in the financial space and senior writer for Student Loan Hero. Her work can be found on several finance websites, including US News, Yahoo!Finance and Huffington Post. Miranda blogs at Planting Money Seeds, and is the author of Confessions of a Professional Blogger. Today, Miranda shares several must-know points from the Student Loan Hero LGBTQ study about the LGBTQ student loan debt crisis, including why the queer community has more student loan debt — and regret than the general population. She offers her take on the recent political setbacks for the LGBTQ population and how data collected in the recent study might be used to make structural changes to the FAFSA requirements.

🏳️‍🌈 ✈️ We’ve known that gay travel is in in the gay man’s DNA, but you might be surprised by Grindr’s recent study that revealed 40% of its LGBTQ users travel four times a year and 24% plan a vacation every month. 🏳️‍🌈 ✈️ A whole lotta gay travel pixx While those stats may be great for Instagram pictures, how does our spending ($100 billion dollars in total) affect our financial security? And how can we use our tourism dollars to promote inclusiveness around the globe? Meet Zach Stafford of Grindr Zach Stafford is the editor-in-chief of Grindr’s online magazine, INTO. He leads a newsroom of more than 200 contributing writers with the intention of talking about the world ‘through a queer lens.’ Prior to joining Grindr, Zach served as a reporter and columnist for The Guardian and Out Magazine. Zach shares the WHY behind the Grindr travel study and several key takeaways. He offers his take on why the LGBTQ community is drawn to travel and how queer tourism can help drive inclusiveness all over the world. Zach discusses the power of the pink dollar and safe gay travel in countries that lack legal protections.

🦄 Show Notes Page: https://debtfreeguys.com/business-insurance/ 🦄 Business insurance for small business owners Even a blogger in their PJs has risk – it’s less risk than a landscaper, but an unhappy client or threat of copyright infringement are risks nonetheless. That’s why every entrepreneur needs business insurance. The new good news about business insurance Pogo Insurance is making it easy to secure business insurance coverage—and it’s a lot less messy than you think. Hannah and Jade Sullivan are the co-founders of Pogo, a commercial business insurance platform for small businesses that compares quotes from top business insurance companies to find customers the best price for the most appropriate coverage. With its simple online form, most entrepreneurs and freelancers can get insured in about an hour. Hannah and Jade met in the business program at the prestigious VCU Brandcenter Master’s program, and they’re driven to simplify the insurance process for the growing demographic of self-employed workers in the gig economy. Hannah and Jade explain why they chose the insurance industry and the challenge of innovating in a long-established space. They discuss what they have learned as entrepreneurs, how they have dealt with ‘emotional whiplash’ and the benefits of working together as a married couple.

Show notes page: https://debtfreeguys.com/earn-extra-money/ Conventional wisdom says that a steady paycheck is the safest to financial security. But, what if you have a low-paying W2 or you lose your W2? How can you earn extra money? Why LGBTQ people need to earn extra money It’s especially important for LGBTQ people to have a side hustle, a way to earn extra money as a safety net should something happen with your regular job, or denied housing or services because you're LGBTQ. Or, better yet, for the financial freedom to be able to walk away from that regular job should you choose. Nick Loper is the Chief Side Hustler at Side Hustle Nation, a growing community of entrepreneurs united by the common goal of financial freedom. Nick started his first side hustle to earn extra money in 2004, running an affiliate website that offered comparison shopping for shoes. He quit his corporate job with Ford Motor Company in 2008, and he has been exploring non-job income opportunities as a serial entrepreneur ever since, running eight to ten side hustles at Chief Side Hustler on how to earn extra money Today, Nick shares his definition of a side hustle, explaining the many benefits of pursuing additional income streams as well as his top strategies for coming up with ideas for your own side hustle. He offers his take on how to gain confidence as a freelancer, which side hustles are the most lucrative, and the best available tools and resources to get started.