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How to plan bucket list trips

How to plan bucket list trips

One of my biggest motivators for paying off my debt was to be able to take trips and go on vacations. I am fortunate to have explored some incredible countries. I’ve sat on patios of white washed home in Santorini, drank wine in Tuscany, ate croissants in quaint Parisian shops, saw monkeys and crocodiles in Costa Rica, drank Pina Coladas… Read More

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The Ultimate Guide to Havasupai and Havasu Falls | Arizona

The Ultimate Guide to Havasupai and Havasu Falls | Arizona

A few year ago I stumbled upon a picture of Havasupai. It was this beautiful blue waterfall with red rock canyon surrounding it. It looked like it was photoshopped. But the more I learned about Havasupai, the more I realized this place was legitimately bucket list worthy! So I hopped online 6 months in advance from when I wanted to… Read More

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How to become a productivity master and crush your to-do list

How to become a productivity master and crush your to-do list

Do you ever feel like you have a never ending to-do list and it doesn’t seem to get any shorter? Or maybe you feel like you’re living in your inbox and always working from OPA (other people’s agenda). If you do, you’re going to love this post. I’m breaking down a productivity system that really changes the game and increases… Read More

Blog, Entrepreneur, Life

2019 Recap: What went well and not well

2019 Recap: What went well and not well

I like to do a recap of how the year went as a way of closing off the year and sprinkling little tips throughout. As a whole, 2019 was not a great year for me. It was a struggle. I like to think about my life into different areas: Health Money Business Life/Relationships Travel Let’s start with the good things…. Read More

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Top 5 Most Downloaded Episodes of The Money Nerds Podcast

Top 5 Most Downloaded Episodes of The Money Nerds Podcast

Okay, confession time… I started The Money Nerds Podcast as a way of highlighting the cool things everyday people were doing to reach financial success. I attend a conference every year, FinCon, and was so inspired to launch a podcast after meeting people at there. I met people who paid off $1 million in 2.5 years, a woman whose biggest… Read More

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20 Money Goals for 2020

20 Money Goals for 2020

*Newly updated money goals for 2020!* Is getting your shit together with money one of your new year’s resolutions? You know you need to start #adulting, but may not know where to start. So I reached out to the top personal finance bloggers to get their suggestions of what money goals should make it on your list. Here’s verdict straight… Read More

Blog, Money

5 questions to ask yourself if you’re feeling unhappy with your life

5 questions to ask yourself if you’re feeling unhappy with your life

Sometimes, we wake up and realize that the path we’ve been going down isn’t the right one for us. I remember, when I graduated college and realized that the degree that I spent 4.5 years getting and now working as an Accountant in, wasn’t for me. I started dreading going to work and feeling this pit in my stomach telling… Read More

Blog, Life

Saying Goodbye To Patrick- Heartfelt advice for anyone losing their pet

Saying Goodbye To Patrick- Heartfelt advice for anyone losing their pet

Editors Note: I wrote this days after saying goodbye to Patrick as a way for me to process, cope, and rationalize what happened. It has not been proofread, and there are probably still typos. It just hurts to read through this again, so I hope you’ll overlook that. When I was 19, I found an ad in a newspaper. Someone… Read More

Blog, Life

Your Financial Privilege is Showing

Your Financial Privilege is Showing

Not gonna lie- I’m irritated. I’ve been seeing lot of personal finance messages that tells us to: Live a little Buy the daily latte it won’t make a difference Don’t give up eating out- it won’t move the needle The message is empowering for some and truly detrimental for others. Where the “treat yo’ self” message goes wrong is that… Read More

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How to save big on pet care: Guest Post

How to save big on pet care: Guest Post

WHITNEY’S NOTE: This is a guest post from my pal Sarah Wilson, Budget Girl. Not only is Sarah a total badass who paid off $33,000 within 3 years, she did this on a $26,000/year salary as a reporter. She’s also a wildly popular YouTuber AND dog lover. As many of you know, I have a 12 year old poodle/bichon named… Read More

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Automate your savings. I know, I know, broken rec Automate your savings.

I know, I know, broken record status.

But it’s crazy how many people don’t actually implement this tip.

Login your bank account or use your favorite savings app and make this happen (automatically of course).

Once you have that set up, come back here and comment that you did it so I can cheer you on!
Paying off debt is an awesome thing to do... And Paying off debt is an awesome thing to do...

And you can go at whatever pace works for your life.

There’s a huge misconception that you have to go “balls to the wall”, work every extra shift you can, AND do it all while never complaining.

That’s one way to do it. It’s not THE way.

In actuality, personality types and self-awareness is a huge factor when setting your level of aggressiveness.

✨For me personally- I function very well on short timelines where I can hustle my heart out and accomplish it quickly (so I don’t have to worry about it again). My debt payoff plan was very aggressive to pay off $30k in 10 months.

✨For some of my coaching clients- that doesn’t resonate with them. They want to make progress towards their debt and still buy some of the nonessentials even if that means keeping debt around for a couple extra years.

✖️Neither strategy is wrong.✖️

Approach debt payoff (and all financial goals) with a loooot of self-awareness. 

Being honest with your personality type and how you function best is a great way to not get burned out in the process.
The book I, by far, recommend most is The Power of The book I, by far, recommend most is The Power of Habit.

It’s one of those books that helped me improve my finances, relationships and coaching business.

No surprise, we all have habit loops that help us or hurt us.

#REALTALK:
When I was working a normal 9-5, I noticed I was spending a LOT more 💸 buying coffee.

When I analyzed my habit loop, I started to see what was actually happening.

✨CUE: get to work, open my email, get overwhelmed. Tell myself I need coffee.

✨ROUTINE: Walk to the coffee shop and spend $3-$5 per day

✨REWARD: Warm cup of coffee. Didn’t have to dive into email... yet. 😆

What I wanted was not coffee. It was avoiding checking my email. So instead, I was able to take a short gratitude walk in the morning instead of buying coffee.

It worked like a champ!

Look through your life. What is one habit loop you’re actively improving?

Use this strategy and watch your life change. 💕
My goal is to invest more money in my brokerage ac My goal is to invest more money in my brokerage account. 

So I created a fun Investing Challenge for myself.

💸I set up a $5,000 goal for investing
💸Made it fun through gamification and automation
💸Will transfer all of my saving each month and put it into my brokerage account
💸Invest it all in index funds

Small steps every week lead to great results.

Excited to see build more wealth! 

Comment below if you want to join me in investing more this year!
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