Let’s just get this out of the way at the beginning: There is no one right way to combine finances with your romantic partner. The “right” way differs from couple to couple…and over time for the same couple!
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Do you love your yoga practice? You can apply it to your finances.
Just getting on the mat is the hardest part.
Do you do yoga? Do you love yoga? I do. My yoga practices goes back 20 years (because, evidently, I’m Old), and I don’t know what I’d do without it. Over those years, I’ve accepted a lot of the lessons that yoga tries to teach you.
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You really really want to do Your Thing. Are you simply waiting for permission? (Video)
Don’t Get Trapped by the “Benevolent Dictatorship” of Tech Employers
Last week I spent time in the Bay Area visiting clients, listening to them talk about their jobs and careers, getting treated to free meals at their workplaces, and generally standing in awe of the wealth on display in their company headquarters.Continue reading
What a yoga practice can teach you about building strong personal finances (Video)
You have limited time and energy to work on finances. Don’t waste it. (Video)
What should women in tech take away from the FIRE movement?
A woman in the audience at Grace Hopper a few weeks ago asked me and my fellow panelists what we thought about FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early). A sea of murmurs and nodding heads showed this was a really popular question.
My Takeaways from #GHC18. And Yes They’re All About Money.
I think I’m still processing the scale and energy of the 2018 Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing. This was my second year attending.
The conference is, obviously, about so much more than how to manage your finances. But it’s the part I care about most, so I viewed most of the conference through that lens. And, as I did last year, I walked away with a better understanding of how women feel about money, what their questions are, and what kind of guidance they want, need, and deserve.
When You Make a Financial Choice, What’s Motivating It? Something Truly You or External Factors?
A friend and fellow financial-planning-firm owner forwarded an email to me recently. It was a promotion from Google Ads, promising $300 in free ads if he first spent $300 of his own money. He wanted to know if I thought he should do it.
You Have RSUs in Your Private Company. How Do They Work? How Should You Use Them?
You’re Optimistic about Yourself. But Not about the World Around You. What Should You Do? (Video)
Did You Just Come in to a Whole Lot of Money, and, uh, What Next?
In tech, it is possible that you can turn into a (multi-)millionaire overnight. And that can be a really confusing change if you’re accustomed to being a well-paid worker bee with an assumption of working kind of indefinitely. Continue reading