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A Millennial’s Guide to Finances: 5 Things to Start Before You Turn 30

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However, important skills like when and how to manage your finances don’t come naturally to many. List out your purchases in an Excel spreadsheet at the end of each month and place each transaction into a bucket. Get detailed and introspective to evaluate which purchases are legitimate needs vs. nonessentials.

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Start Talking to Your Kids About Investing—Here’s Where to Start

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Additionally, “54% of teenagers… reported feeling unprepared to finance the life they hope to have in adulthood.”. Teach them where to find reputable information and how to think critically about what they read—an invaluable skill for all areas of life, not just financial literacy. Include children in financial conversations.

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Lessons From Past Recessions

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Recessions are a natural part of the economic cycle and help to reset the economy when it grows too quickly, making it harder for regular people to purchase everyday items. Instead of watching what the market does daily, spend some time tending to your finances so you know where you stand. Consider your skills and upskill.

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How My Experience as a Black Entrepreneur Shaped My Views on Building Financial Freedom

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Instead, in an effort to avoid conflict altogether, they are far more likely to quit, which could have a negative impact on their earning potential, retirement account contributions, health care coverage and other financial employee benefits. And the racial wealth gap has stubbornly persisted and is slated to widen in the coming years.

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Tori Dunlap, Founder of Her First 100K is on a Mission to Close the Gender Pay Gap

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Although everyone’s personal finance journey is exactly that, there are certain steps we all can take as we pursue financial feminism and literacy. Get familiar with your finances. Knowledge is power, and knowledge of our own finances is especially powerful. Break free of debt. Leverage credit to your advantage.

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New Small Business Startup Idea: Virtual Import/Export Assistant.

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You use your language and local knowledge skills and open up a new market for this small business. Virtual Import Assistant: You could source – using your language and local knowledge skills – products in other countries for retailers in your country of residence. This is a great idea and I’ll certainly suggest it.

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21 Tips for Job Hunting - A Comprehensive Strategy

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

It could be that you are good at organizing, or have a lot of ideas, or have good visual design skills, or are very nice, or funny, or know a lot about Photoshop. My boss was not hired to look for good scripts; my boss was making films the CEO already purchased, which is a rare role. There are 3-5 things that you make you, you.