Welcome to another week of the Women's Personal Finance Wednesdays roundup. I started this series after months of debate because I wasn't certain I wanted to up the ante and commit to publishing three posts a week. However, now that I've started sharing these posts, I'm so glad I started. There are so many fabulous…
Writing these posts - and inadvertently becoming a specific champion of women's voices in the personal finance space - has changed the way I've looked at things at work and in the rest of my life as well. I grew up in a home where being a women meant nothing different than being a man,…
I keep telling myself that I will get ahead on finishing posts when I have a guest post featured here, but it has yet to happen. To be fair, even a guest post does take more work to published than I would have ever guessed pre-blogging, but it still is less than writing a full…
Well, for a month that started off with plans to be a "no spend" month, October was definitely NOT a no spend month. I guess I'll start off with the good part - we are still at a cumulative 47% rate for the year through October. The less good news is that in order to…
I'm back from Cents Positive but still riding the high of how amazing that weekend was. I had high hopes for the event, and they surpassed even that. I hadn't been to any sort of personal finance/financial independence conference before, but the bar has now been set high. If you're a women who is interested…
As I've mentioned a couple of times in the last few months, this past weekend I was in Denver as I attended the inaugural Cents Positive retreat, and the first time I was away from my son for more than one consecutive night since he was born almost four years ago, plus the first time…
The online personal finance community, and especially the financial independence subset, seems to be filled with people who make some seriously above average incomes. While I will begrudge no one for earning that high salary, it can be more than a bit discouraging when you realize the timelines many of them talk about could never…
I have to say that I am loving putting this series together. I may not have initially started this blog to champion the women in the personal finance / financial independence space, but it's become a very important part of my blogging journey, and this series is a natural extension of that. Representation matters, and…
As I said last week, I had been kicking around the idea for this blog roundup series for quite some time now but hadn't made up my mind to commit to it. I have to say though, with the amazing response to week one, I am so glad I went ahead and started. We've come…
My husband and I will celebrate nine years of marriage later this year, and while I've written previously about what a good financial decision that has been for us personally, partnering up really can have a larger financial impact than we give it credit for. In my day job, I spend a lot of time…