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How to Beat Money Trauma. A Guide For those that Worship Money to those who Avoid Money
Stop Counting Other People’s Money. Beating The Need for Stuff and the Urge to Flaunt Last Friday, I was duped into a coffee meet-up with a financial advisor. Instead of a cold call; like some sort of supervillain, he revealed that this was a cold meetup. The betrayal was indeed real. The experience ended up burning a significant portion of my day off. I was left with two takeaways. One, always ensures that there is a firm purpose if someone wants to link up with you. If there isn’t a Return on Investment (ROI), it’s a waste of your time. Once you reach 30+, “me time” becomes a precious commodity. Secondly, always have a firm…
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Black Men and the Rebirth of the Financial Role Model
Only 17% of Black men have a bachelor’s degree. We have to change that drastically. African American males, ages 16 to 64 have a lower participation rate in the labor force (67% compared to ‘all males’ 80%). It has gotten so bad that over 20% of work-eligible black men did not work for all of 2016. The usual reaction to this is, “Not me”. I’m not here for the emotional vanity so please check your unfettered femininity at home. It might not be you. This is the reality for a lot of people that you don’t run into or communicate with, on your normal work-to-home commute. The people we actively avoid on our…
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The Average Household in 2019 Spent $63,036. How Much Did We Spend?
The Average American Household earned $82,852 pre-tax and spent over $63,000 in 2019. Unfortunately, they only saved $7,165. How did we do?
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Figuring Out Credit Scores, Credit Karma and Credit Cards
After getting a grand total of $16 donation bucks from 3 of 125 people that liked my picture on Instagram, I was motivated to write this “How to Credit Score Improvement Plan” thingy. Seriously, thank those three benevolent souls because I would have given this specific write-up, a side-eye. But I’m gonna link the FinCon homie Marko, since he is good at explaining this stuff, and MissBeHelful (cuz ya should know her too). Here’s the outline I came up with on the DC metro for about 8 minutes: Know your real money issues. The credit score is merely a report card. Where did all that interest go? There are rules to this. Budgeting is still a…
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5 Easy Steps to Boost Your Linkedin And Get Noticed
Alainta Alcin stated that I should do a “How to Improve Your Linkedin” article. For one, she is not the boss of me so “NOPE”. I didn’t want to at first. Once I began clicking around on my profile, it became clear that I had tons of gaps. My first job at McDonald’s was on there for no reason at all. Just taking up space. There were grammatical errors and job description Copy + Paste moments. Who was I fooling? It looked like a sophomoric mess. How to Improve Your Linkedin Make the changes, hopefully it makes more “cents” for you in the end. See you are not alone in this endeavor.…
