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  • 21 Days to Rock Your Finances: Day 14 – Roth IRA vs Traditional 401k vs Roth 401k vs 403B vs SEP IRA

    Once you’ve tackled debt and saved enough towards at least 3-6 months of living expenses in an emergency fund, then you can start thinking about investing in long term goals. This can include retirement, college education, owning a home or anything that warrants a longer [...]

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  • 21 Days to Rock Your Finances: Day 14 – Single Women Money Tips

    These tips really apply to anyone but since we’re focused on women’s money issues we’ll go with “single woman money tips” today. Believe it or not your personal finance goals are very different when single.  If you’re planning on getting married in the future, now [...]

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  • Avon Regional Sales Executive Interview: Maria Sutej

    Maria Sutej A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of interviewing Maria Sutej- Regional Vice President, Sales with Avon Products, Inc. Maria Sutej is a Regional Vice President in Sales at Avon Products, Inc.   Maria leads a team of professionals with cross-functional skills [...]

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  • 21 Days To Rock Your Finances: Day 13: Creating An Emergency Fund

      Creating an emergency fund is critical in being able to maintain financial stability.   We often hear and read that creating an emergency fund is important but what’s hardly discussed is how to go about doing so.  Let’s look at a few ways to create [...]

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  • 21 Days to Rock Your Finances: Day 12 -Contact Your Creditors

    Today’s post in the Rock Your Finances series addresses taking yet another baby step around setting up your debts on paper or on a spreadsheet.  The rationale for this is to to prepare yourself for the call to your creditors after you’ve devised a plan [...]

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  • 21 Days to Rock Your Finances: Day 10- Dispute Credit Report Errors

      Once you’ve obtained a copy of your report and reviewed for errors, highlight each error and get ready to contact each bureau in order to dispute the information.  Some of he errors may include listing a credit account twice, reporting an account as late [...]

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  • 21 Days to Rock Your Finances: Day 9 -Review Your Credit Report

    (photo: essence.com) Today we tackle that holy grail we call credit.  Depending on who you talk to, we have to live with it but must learn to do without it.  Until you get to a point in your financial life where you can live on [...]

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  • 21 Days to Rock Your Finances: Day 8- Trim The Fat From Your Budget

    I know, you’re thinking didn’t I just create a budget in Day 7?  Yes, you did and congratulations because that is the first step to making this process hands on! But today, we’re going to tweak things, just a bit.  You may have just listed [...]

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  • A Day In Life Of An Avon Rising Star: Linda Montavon

    I think Avon is one of the best products, high quality.  I love everything about Avon.  I love that Avon transforms lives.  It brings you connections.  Carol started out as a customer many years ago, and even though she is still a customer, we are [...]

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  • 21 Days To Rock Your Finances: Day 6- Review All Bills And Expenses

    Since we’re on a mission to pay our own bills around here let’s get down to business!  Today’s mission is pretty simple.  Still, it’s painful for some because I really don’t think we realize how much we’re paying out in comparison to what we’re pulling [...]

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  • 21 Days To Rock Your Finances: Day 5- Make Extra Money

    Let’s recap 21 Days To Rock Your Finances: Day 1- Create A 1 Year Financial Plan 21 Days To Rock Your Finances: Day 2- Identify Your Financial Weaknesses 21 Days To Rock Your Finances: Day 3- Track Every Penny Because Every Dollar Has A Job [...]

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  • 21 Days To Rock Your Finances: Week 1 Recap

    Hopefully you’ve taken the weekend to unwind and review this week’s topics in our Rock Your Finances series.  If you’re just catching up here’s what we’ve covered so far: 21 Days To Rock Your Finances: Day 1- Create A 1 Year Financial Plan 21 Days [...]

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  • Make Extra Money Selling Avon: Denise’s Story

      In our next series of Avon interviews, I had the pleasure of interviewing Avon superstar, Denise.  Like Becky, she makes money selling Avon products to friends and family and has tons of fun doing it!  While interviewing Denise it became immediately clear that we [...]

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  • Personal Finance Blogs Written By Women

    While the personal finance blog arena tends to be a “sausage fest”, there are quite a few established and up and coming personal finance blogs written by women. I enjoy highlighting these blogs because I don’t get to read them as much and I think [...]

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  • Avon Interview: Be Your Best with the Best

      Last week, I had the opportunity to interview Becky, an Avon representative who makes extra money selling products to family and friends.  What I loved about this interview, is the no-pressure attitude that Becky takes to selling products.  She does it when she can [...]

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