Personal Finance & Financial Independence
3(ish) Articles, Curated Daily
The personal finance community often focuses on either reducing expenses or finding side hustles as the best avenues to increase saving rates. While these are both valid pursuits, they ignore what could be the easiest option of them all, making more money at your current job.
In order to do so, you’ll need to demonstrate the value you provide to your organization. In order to do that, you’re going to need to do something many of us are uncomfortable with: self promotion. It’s a difficult thing for many of us and doing so improperly can be very poorly received. Thankfully, the Smart Money Mamas can tell you how to self promote, without making it too shameless.
How can you advance your career if you don’t like to self-promote? Here’s how to raise your voice in support of your own skills and brag better.
Emergency funds are a popular (and necessary) personal finance topic. But in the event of a true emergency, you need more than money, you need a plan. In fact, you probably need multiple plans. If you’ve learned anything from the last several months, it should be that life is unpredictable.
I’ve now been self-employed for a little over a year and things are going pretty well. But of course, I’m not so naive to think that nothing can go wrong. Like any risk-averse lawyer, when I made the leap to self-employment, I did so knowing that I had a lot of backup plans in case.
Remember Tiger King? It may seem like to premiered years ago, but I promise it’s really only been a couple of months. There are many lessons to be learned from the documentary (for instance, don’t hire a hitman to try to kill someone), but there are a few key financial lessons as well.
But what does debating whether Carole Baskin killed her husband or not have to do with personal finance you may ask. You’ll be forgiven for thinking very little at all, but in this post I’m going to argue that there are some key lessons we can all learn about our own finances from the documentary.
