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Guidelines Financial Planners Use

Guidelines Financial Planners Use
April 15, 2013 No Comments »

  April is Financial Literacy Month! In honor, I’d like to share the guidelines I use to answer the questions I frequently field as a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNERTM. People often ask me, “How much should I be saving?” and “What’s ... Read More »

De-clutter Your Financial Files: Document Retention Guidelines

De-clutter Your Financial Files: Document Retention Guidelines
March 18, 2013 No Comments »

Yay, it’s Tax Time! That fun time of year when we sort through the piles of paper in the, “I’ll deal with this later” file. This time-consuming task has many people asking themselves, “How long do I need to keep that?” I recently published ... Read More »

Breaking Down Your FICO Credit Score

Breaking Down Your FICO Credit Score
March 4, 2013 1 Comment »

  When someone is talking about their credit score, what they usually mean is their FICO score, which is the standard credit score used in the majority of lending decisions in the US. Your FICO score is meant to represent ... Read More »

3 Steps to Financial Security

3 Steps to Financial Security
October 29, 2012 2 Comments »

It’s near the top of just about every Career Girl’s list of goals: I want to be financially secure. But what does that really mean? It seems like the needle is always moving on how much or what conditions. I ... Read More »

3 Financial Ground Rules

3 Financial Ground Rules
October 3, 2012 2 Comments »

I’m so excited to begin my tenure as the Career Girl Network financial contributor. It is truly my passion to help people remove money as a barrier to living their best life, and this is the perfect platform for me ... Read More »