The Ultimate 5-step Guide How to Get Interviews and Job Offers (Step 1: Part III) (This is a special series of my newsletter – the third in a series of posts sharing insights, tips, and actions that you can implement when you are searching for a job either to leave your current one, or due…
The Ultimate 5-step Guide How to Get Interviews and Job Offers (Step 1: Part II) This is a special series of my newsletter – the second in a series of posts sharing insights, tips, and actions that you can implement when you are searching for a job either to leave your current one, or due…
Insights from over 37 professionals as well as my personal experiences of quickly recovering from the two layoffs in my career. This is a special series of the Thursday Trailblazer newsletter – the first in a series of posts sharing insights, tips, and actions that you can implement when you are searching for a job…
Buying my first property felt like climbing a mountain! 🏔️ Where do I start? What do I need to know? Who do I need to speak with? The entire process took some time to really get going… …and find those that could really help along the way. Sure my parents purchased a home, but a…
This was my morning: 14 phone calls. 6 companies. 4 ½ hours. 1 long day. Playing phone tag with payroll processors, wealth management institutions, and banks. Why? Because I overlooked keeping track of where my health savings accounts (HSA) and 401(k) accounts were being managed. Over the past week, I’ve been trying to consolidate my…
Doesn’t take much online to come across a video on social media telling you how to hack your retirement accounts… …finding loopholes to use the money today. Especially to buy their fancy course or “investment.” That is the WRONG frame of thought when looking at retirement. My personal motto: Set it and forget it. The…
Anytime you start a new job… …you are overwhelmed with read this and read that. 😵💫 One of the larger decisions to make includes which health plan to select. If you’re experience is anything like mine, there are a ton of random terms like: PPO. HMO. Low deductible health plan. High-deductible health plan. The list…
If you’re setting a monthly budget first… …you’re probably overpaying. You read that correctly. Walking in to a dealership with a $750 per month budget seems like all you would need to do. But that is EXACTLY what the dealership wants you to think. The dealership will take that number… …and make almost ANY car…
13 months. That’s how long it took me to pay $18,000+ in student loans. They were actually 8 different loans each with their own interest rate. Paying this off was my #1 priority when I graduated, before racking up any car loans, mortgages, or credit card balances. How did I prioritize my payments for each…
Keep your spending strategy simple. This includes the credit cards that you use. If you go to YouTube… …you’ll find suggestions to use this card for this and that card for that. But no one really wants to pull out a spreadsheet when they are just trying to buy their groceries. For those that want…