Talking about money is hard for a lot of women. Investing, spending, saving, negotiation… all taboo subjects in many circles. A lot of women associate money with their self worth, so it feels vulnerable to talk about it. Asking for a raise or raising their pricing might come across as stuck up.Or bitchy. Women, Read More

Someone who loves their money doesn’t avoid it. Someone who has a good relationship with money honors their money by investing it so it grows. They keep track of it. They count it and organize it. Avoidance never serves you when it comes to money. Avoidance is when you don’t open your bills each, Read More

There is debt that feels good and debt that feels bad. Some debt can feel good… like buying your first house. The pride of ownership and knowing that your monthly payments are going towards owning a home rather than renting feels really good. Good feeling debt is also debt that you are fully aware, Read More

Bag lady syndrome knows no boundaries. I have clients who are multimillionaires who stay awake at night in fear that they will lose all their money and end up living under an overpass as a bag lady. It really doesn’t matter how much money you have.The tell tale sign is that you are afraid, Read More

We all have a money story. That story includes how we have spent money in the past and how we learned hard lessons about money and about how much money we have earned or how much we haven’t earned. And this is important because it gives us clues about what we are thinking about, Read More

We are taught that a man is going to financially support us.“Men bring home the bacon.”“Men are better at handling the money.”“Men are better at math.” Sometimes people tell us these things, but more often it is simply what we observe. If in every family you know the man handles the money, that’s what, Read More

A lot of people think that the law of attraction means that you sit in the lotus position and think of things you want and then you are magically showered with money and treasures and all the things you desire. You just have to want hard enough. I don’t think that’s how the law, Read More

We tell ourselves that money is hard. We tell ourselves that money is scarce and we need to do things we don’t want to in order to have enough money to live. We tell ourselves there is never enough money. And if we get more money that means someone else has less money. Lies., Read More

There are lots of reasons to go shopping on Black Friday. Some people do it as a fun annual activity with family or friends. Some people are trying to get those loss leader deals. Some people want to get their shopping finished so they can enjoy the holiday parties. What I like to keep, Read More

You can fight with money. You can cheat on your money by racking up debt. You can lie to money by pretending you have a different money story. And you can hide from money by not looking at the bills and receipts and balances.   Or you can be honest with money.   You, Read More