Here is the Breaking News: If you make $125,000 or less and have federal student loans, you might be eligible for $10,000 loan forgiveness. It means you will not have to pay back the $10K! This is huge! It can be life-changing for some people.Some people are happy to have Read more…
Finances are not something we talk about even with our friends. It is too personal to bring up during a casual conversation. But just because we don’t talk about it doesn’t mean we are not influenced by our friends’ “financial decisions” regularly. What influences us about our friends’ behavior is Read more…
That’s right, what you make is as important as what you spend or what you don’t spend (save). You probably know someone who has a six-figure salary that is still in debt and can’t seem to have the finances together. Or you know someone with a modest salary and who Read more…
I am very fortunate to have a job during this quarantine period. People are impacted in more than one way. From a high level of unemployment and stress to loss of loved ones, we are going through a period of trial. For some of us, it is time to slow Read more…
I can’t be the only one struggling to make a budget! I’m a finance professional, I work with excel spreadsheets all day, I love numbers, but I still can’t manage to stick to the routine of making a monthly budget. I have no excuse to not love the budget! I Read more…
I grew up in East Africa in one of the poorest countries in the world. This is not to make anyone feel sorry, but to show that I’m familiar with this concept. I consider myself to be middle class: not poor nor rich. Back there, I thought everything was fine. Read more…