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"What motivates me? I love to write. I’ve been writing all my life and there’s nothing as satisfying as looking back at a piece that you’ve just written and saying, “Damn, it’s good!” And then hearing people tell you."
"I recently pulled my credit score from Experian and was pleased to know my score was in the top 10% of the country. But then I received a letter in the mail a couple of weeks later saying according to TransUnion my score was a bit lower. What gives? How do you accurately know your score?"
"You budget in your life so that you can make your money last. It’s really the same thing on the road. But we don’t think of that because we don’t live in a travel culture, we live in a vacation culture. You go elsewhere around the world and the whole idea of taking a year off or a gap year is pervasive."
"I realized that there is a peril out there for women and multicultural women. We have to be more unafraid. We have to speak up. I have to speak up even more because it isn’t quite right. There are things that are still fixed that keep us from getting in and I have to speak out about it."
"I want to make sure I get equal credit for the excellent work that my male counterpart at work and I are doing together. I'm having a hard time balancing promoting myself and my role, while nurturing and supporting his excitement and empowerment. What should I do?"
"When I became a mom six years ago, it felt like everything changed, including my finances. All of a sudden, I was so much more concerned with making sure we had financial security. I felt this intense pressure to make sure I was making the right choices."
"Everybody is dealing with conflict. Everybody is dealing with negotiation. What keeps me alive is both being able to develop new ideas that can help people and then working with a whole variety of different people to try and spread those ideas."
"I've recently taken on an independent contractor job as a side hustle to earn some extra cash. What percentage of this should be set aside for taxes? I don't want to be under-prepared and slammed with a huge tax bill for 2017."
"We always say, “Don’t run from the gap.” Look, women do amazing things when they’re out of the workforce. They’re not just sitting at home. They’re doing volunteer work, they’re on a board, they’re on community activities. That all has translatable value to workplaces."
