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Personal Finance For Women

Spreading Out the Misery

Financial Independence, Money Psychology, Spending & Saving

During my junior year of high school, I found myself in an unexpected situation where I had the highest grade point average in several of my classes. It wasn’t thanks to any sudden stroke of genius (my prefrontal cortex still had a way to go), but an accidental shift in my approach to studying.  You […]

A Different Kind of Financial Confidence, and the Downside of Stability

Money Psychology, Productivity & Time

As a personal finance hobbyist forged in the flames of fairly extreme FI/RE rhetoric, my perspective on wealth as a source of confidence was always unemotional, mathematical: By the time I’m worth $X, I can withdraw between 3% and 4% per year and comfortably live on $Y.  It was a straightforward way to derive financial […]

Life’s Big Transitions and What Being “Self-Sufficient” Means

Economy, Money Psychology

This week’s episode of The Money with Katie Show covers the expensive gauntlet of financial and physical labor required to transition loved ones into the “final phase” of their lives: potentially decades of retirement and eventually, end-of-life care.  This transition from providing care to potentially needing it marks a sort of full-circle moment in the […]

The “Quiet Quitting” Doom Loop

Money Psychology, Productivity & Time

How I Started My Personal Finance Journey

Money Psychology, Spending & Saving

Last year, writer and activist Gabe Dunn came on The Money with Katie Show and said something insightful: “I can see some of [these personal finance experts] who, even if they started out as a ‘waitress’ or ‘a child of immigrants’…I know how quickly you can lose perspective. And it’s very quickly.” Their point was […]