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"Being a woman and navigating for the office dress codes was really tricky. We needed to look stylish. We also needed to look appropriate and a lot of the mass market brands didn’t really understand what that meant." - Emelyn Northway
"My boyfriend got relocated to Australia and has asked me to move with him. Will it hurt my career prospects in the states? What would happen to my credit card debt back here at home?"
" I just had always had this feeling that I was meant to do something big in my life, but at that point, I started to wonder if it was ever going to actually happen. I felt like there was something wrong with me."
"From a very early age, I associated money and savings with freedom. Instead of thinking of it as an uncool, boring thing that would prevent me from enjoying my life, I thought of saving as this awesome key to a really rich set of experiences."
"I'm considering a credit card debt consolidation loan... will it affect my credit score or my credit utilization percentage?"
"Many of the women I spoke to said, some of their best business deals happened on the playground...those networks aren’t necessarily business networks, they can happen in all kinds of venues now."
"Companies are trying to come up with new ways to bring people together. What often gets in the way of that is technology...We’re not connecting. We could be on our email, doing our work and look up and it’s 3:00 and we hadn’t spoken to another human being all day."
"I recently took a look at the fees associated with my retirement accounts. I'm wondering if my employer 401K and Roth 401K have incredibly high expense ratios, what are my non-employer options?"
"So much of the advice that we [women] get is about adopting more male characteristics...The problem with that is the power of diversity in driving great business results IS diversity, not asking us to act like men."
