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The Neighborhood Finance Guy website is a great resource for financial literacy education. The website offers a variety of resources, including blog posts, podcasts, and videos, that can help you learn about personal finance, investing, and debt management. This page provides recommendations to help you build wealth and become sustainable over time. From: The blog is a great place to start if you're new to personal finance. The blog posts are written in a clear and easy-to-understand style, and they cover a wide range of topics.
The Financial Griot Podcast is a great way to learn about personal finance while you're on the go. The episodes are short and informative, and they cover a variety of topics.
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The Main Reasons You Will End Up Broke in Retirement
Having a lot of money in retirement savings is no guarantee it will last the rest of your life. One of the worst things about my job is watching retirees make mistakes in their retirement plans. We recently met with a family that came to us after managing their finances during their lives like most families. They brought this retirement plan to us, and it showed that they had roughly $1.3M at the time of creation. Fortunately, they weren’t doing poorly by any means. They were puzzled because they were great budgeters, so the common culprit—overspending—was not the issue this time. What created such a change in their trajectory? In this article,…
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Over 100 Quotes From Black Financial Experts and Wealth Builders
TNFG's Top 101 Motivational and Financial Quotes to Help You Build Generational Wealth and radically change your life for the better. Time to pivot toward a work-purpose balanced life.
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Here are 7 Ways to Increase Your Income and Wealth by 20% Annually
For as much as the personal finance space talks about debt reduction and/or now financial trauma, it definitely avoids talking about the NEED to increase your INCOME. Bringing in income is a massive component of building sustainable wealth and increasing your happiness. There are but so many expenses to cut until you are living like a 15th-century monk. Beyond establishing financial discipline and developing SMART+ER goals, you will need money. Bills aren’t paid on aspirations alone. Forget what social media says, you still need real currency backed by reality. Over the last five years, my wife and I were able to travel more while scaling up our net worth. How?…
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Why It’s Important to Travel and Never Limit Your Destination in Life
The crew is back with another short episode—a random discussion about travel; and family matters with our special guest Tammy Terrell.
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101 Financial Quotes to Help You Build Generational Wealth
TNFG's Top 101 Motivational and Financial Quotes to Help You Build Generational Wealth and radically change your life for the better. Time to pivot toward a work-purpose balanced life.
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Curating Your Space. How Your Social Circle Can Make Rich Or Poor.
In this episode of the Financial Griot podcast, we talk about the importance of curating your physical, mental and virtual space. The world is getting more complicated while tasks are becoming easier, and that's not a good thing. While it might sound ridiculous, you are suppose to have just 5 friends compared to Facebook's 5,000 limit. In truth, Social scientist Robin Dunbar hypothesized that an individual’s group can extend to 150 contacts. However, each contact is layered according to the strength of emotional ties. As such, your mind is constantly trying to keep up with over 1,000 people, story lines and complications. It's no wonder why people are entrenched in…
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Real Entrepreneurs Scale Seven Figure Businesses. Here’s how to level up
In this episode, Lovely Merdelus is recording her first solo episode. It's going to be pure Flame. She is discussing her journey as a social entrepreneur and now as a full fledged business entrepreneur. Her journey was one of acceptance, mental shifting and purpose. In the long run, she knows that her purpose is to teach and help small businesses scale up. Her experience in big tech and growing in a company that was ultimately valued at a billion dollars, showed her that anything is possible. Listen for gems and find your purpose. Alas, since it's a solo episode, Lawrence and Alainta are sitting it out but they will be…
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The Critical Need to Move beyond Black Girl Magic toward Real Wealth
Short of carrying the weight of the world, we demand too much from Black girls. We need to go beyond hashtags and recenter as people.
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Top 3 Best SMART+ER Goals and Wealth Books of 2022
The Best Books for a meaningful journey. Good Health and Enduring Wealth Start in the Mind. To be honest, I hate reading. It’s not that I’m unable to read vs that I find the activity kinetically slow. In 9th grade, I realize that I’m a rare combo learner: auditory, visual and kinetic. I was more in love with the human expression through storytelling and poetry. It wasn’t until Book Insights Podcast reached out to me to be a guest speaker that I was left wanting. Being a charlatan is an unbecoming trait, too often found in modern society. I wanted, better yet, needed to read more. Setting S.M.A.R.T goals (Specific,…
