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Financial Education: Right or Privilege?

May 27, 2010

Financial Education: Fact or Fiction In 2001, a young woman started questioning her lack of financial education as she looked around and saw so many WITH money but even more WITHOUT. She didn’t understand how she’d gotten mostly A’s in high school and college, knew how to grow freezers and pantries full of food, take [...]

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Why Our Financial Literacy Movement is Stuck!

May 12, 2010

Note from Elisabeth…I did NOT write this but easily could have. I have stubbed my toe (and brain) since 2002 on this path down financial literacy hell and I use that word because it the fact that we don’t teach it to kids and teens in schools ignites a passion in me hotter and brighter [...]

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The Four Keys to Great Money Conversations with Your Children

March 4, 2010

All across the world, in media ranging from internet articles to news shows, people are asking the question, “What do I say to my kids about the economy?” To answer this question, we need to understand why adults are generally uncomfortable talking about money to their children in the first place. It all started when [...]

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Why Financial Literacy Doesn’t Work (and how to fix this)

February 1, 2010

Financial literacy does work, if you do it right. Problem is…most financial literacy curriculums and programs are boring and irrelevant.

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Earn to Learn: Paying Your Teen to Learn About Money

January 28, 2010

Sometimes you have to pay your kids to learn about money. If you do, consider it one of the best investment decisions you ever make!

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So it’s a brand new year…

January 7, 2010

It’s only January 6th and my decision to be fully conscious and aware of each day is already beginning to have little tiny frayed edges…but I think I’ve caught it in time to mend it soundly. It seems that no matter what we resolve to do differently, life just challenges us. “Right, show me you [...]

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Financial Awareness is the first step to Financial Freedom

December 14, 2009

OK, so there’s are hundreds of financial words out there floating around and many of them can be a little intimidating at first. But here’s the thing…when you want to get really good at something, do you usually let a few letters get in your way? Think about the last time you decided you wanted [...]

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Going Home: Women’s Quest to Reconnect With Their Roots

September 29, 2009

When you do something over and over again, and if you’re paying attention, you often find commonalities and patterns. Coaching women through financial transitions has shown me a few such pattens. One pattern, however, is more pervasive than all of the rest and that’s the one that seems to drive us from deep in our [...]

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Self Discipline for Success by Brian Tracy

July 30, 2009

There is one special quality that you can develop that will guarantee you greater success, accomplishment and happiness in life. Of a thousand principles for success developed over the ages, this one quality or practice will do more to assure that you accomplish wonderful things with your life than anything else. This quality is so [...]

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