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"I lent money to a friend and had everything in writing to have my bases covered. He always had money to go out and do fun things but never paid me. I took him to small claims court and won but now he's declaring bankruptcy... what can I do?"
"After I finished my master’s degree, I remember very vividly being at the home I grew up in sitting on the floor of my old bedroom, staring at a $90,000 student loan bill before interest. I remember thinking, I’m never going to pay this thing off. I’m going to die with this debt."
"Men are constantly told, “Don’t get married until you’re financially secure, you’re set in your career and you feel like you’ve reached your personal goals.” Women aren’t and I want to start a conversation around the fact that we should wait until we’ve reached our professional goals."
"I'm taking a year-long trip as part of a personal journey. How should she explain the one year gap in my resume when I returns and begin looking for employment again?"
"There are ways to be a good entrepreneur and bad entrepreneur. I believe that it’s someone innate to this idea of risk-taking. I had a great career...I thought I was going to do that for a long time but in the end, I wanted to build something from scratch and I wanted to have ownership over it."
"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."
