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"I feel like I was very fortunate the way I grew up. I never had people telling me, "You can’t do this, you can’t do that. You're not going to college." I always had a lot of encouragement. Now, I just want to deliver those same messages to my children."
"My boyfriend and I just got engaged and we're wondering how to go about combining our finances? He has some debt and I don't. Should I help him pay it off?"
"I think that the biggest way to grow confidence is to take risks. Once you fail and you know you can recover from failure, you’re more likely to take more chances. So I think really the key to all of this is you have to put yourself out there whether it’s taking baby steps. But you have to take some action."
"Everything that’s in the self-help personal development, wellness movement is all good and well. We just need to be choosing it very consciously. It’s not about duty. It’s got to be about conscious choices... doing things because we really feel empowered."
"My husband's sisters rely on him for financial support (they're ailing and elderly). Now, we're taking on debt in order to care for them. I want him to help but it's threatening our own financial security...help!"
"I gave a talk once that I titled, One Million Mistakes and a Few Things Right...I think that I love experimenting and trying new things. They don’t always have to work. When I look at my own career, mistakes isn’t quite fair but I definitely had a winding path."
"We tend to think of money as being very simple - dollars and cents. It’s math. It should be black and white. It should be very easy. But money is much more than just math, there’s a psychological and emotional component to it."
"What are some other ways that I can make money in the long-term to supplement my income? I have a 9-5 job but I'd like to increase my income."
"I needed to take a step back and regain my sanity... I was letting everybody else hold to Lyss, and I'm not an octopus. I don’t have eight arms, I have two. We as moms would do everything for everybody all the time and sometimes we need to take a step back and take care of ourselves."
