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How to Quickly Calculate Your Wealth
Inflation raging +8%, it's all about wealth protection. While we share our Net Worth monthly, I still get the impression that most don't know.
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Here are the Most Common Financial Mistakes You Should Avoid
No matter if you pivoted from financial mistakes or barely avoided them, this is a great list for those who want to build wealth SMARTER and more effectively.
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Stocks are Down, May as well Buy the Dip!
Hooray we all made it through May and the Pandemic. Just six months left to reach your Financial Goals.
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Here’s How to Boost Your FICO® Score Organically
To start, Banks and Credit card lenders use several different scoring models to calculate creditworthiness, one of which is the FICO. Since its introduction, FICO® Score became widely adopted by 90% of top lenders. While it is similar to Credit Score, FICO®’s initial goal was to improve business decisions by using data intelligently. Payment history and amount of debt are the two biggest factors in determining your FICO® Scores. As such, changes in these areas can have the highest impact. The Most Effective Way to Grow Your FICO® Score If you want to know how to grow your credit score organically, remember to these key ingredients. Your payment history accounts…
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A Recipe for Social Pressure: Materialism, Lifestyle and Inflation
"What I Post, Why I post and How I post about my experience is all intentional" LDG In this episode of the Financial Griot, we discuss the toxic recipe of materialism and the void of purpose that it steals. While the world enters in the late stage of our expansion with a recession looming, it's not even optional to be financial literate any more. Becoming financial literacy and materially free is not a mere act of minimalism for the gram. It's a struggle upstream from the direction of society. Turning toward your purpose changes you.
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Subscribe to the Top 5 Retirement Planning YouTubers Now
With record high inflation and recession looming, retirement planning for most Americans is on the back burner yet again. Surprisingly, seventy-eight percent of Americans surveyed stated that they were either “doing OK financially” or “living comfortably” in the quarter of 2021, according to the Fed’s Survey of Household Economics and Decisionmaking (SHED), an annual poll of how U.S. adults are faring economically. In truth, many are struggling to keep up. Both instances can’t be right? Well Q1 2022 pulled the rug from under our feet. The rise of groceries and gas translates to an extra $5,000 of unanticipated expenses with one place to pull from, retirement savings. Either folks will…
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“I Deserve a Raise” – Working Less and Spending More
By most account, America’s young consumers are stereotyped as a selfish, impulsive, highly indulged bunch. Inflation is coming for us all, but it's about to hammer an "entitled generation." So says BlackRock president Rob Kapito in a recent conference of oil and gas producers in Austin, Texas. In this episode of the Financial Griot podcast, we discuss what these implications could mean. And are we entitled to the results that we dream of or is the American dream dead?
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Who are You Building For? I Want to do More than Survive
"Do you want to Survive or Thrive?" In this episode of the Financial Griot, we are taking you to task as a listener and asking "Who are you building for?". Around this time of the year, New Year's resolution are a thing of the past. You are likely back to paying bills and surviving again. The question is why? Lovely, Lawrence and Alainta share their own shortcomings as an olive branch so that you can set forth and do your own introspection. The goal is to reassess your Why and gain an understanding that "although you are entitled to the work, you aren't entitled to the outcome." This is where…
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Here are the Top 10 Haitian American Financial Influencers to Help You Build Wealth
If you want to know how to live better and build wealth fast, just follow these Top 10 Haitian American Financial Influencers and Podcasts
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Almost $15k Passive Income for Q1 2022 – A Little Money Here and There
The first quarter of 2022 was rough. Winter dragged on and the passive income dragged down. Society is learning that 2022 is not like 2020 or 2021. With price inflation up, some goals might not materialize this year. My primary mission for the 2nd half is to ramp up Financial Literacy consultations and write some E-Books?
