"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."
"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."
"This is the not the whiny ramblings of a broke millennial. This is about how to stop being one. I used the moniker just because I felt it was applicable to the generation."
"One of the big problems now is it’s really hard to focus. There are so many distractions constantly coming at us. There's this belief that we can multitask and multitasking doesn’t really exist."
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