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Travel Blogger Karen Akpan Shares How She Journeyed From Debt to Economic Freedom

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Karen Akpan, known as @themomtrotter across social media, started her blog in 2017 to document and share budget travel hacks for people. With an expensive California mortgage, car payments and student loans, the emergency fund she and her husband, Sylvester, had dutifully built quickly depleted. Then, in 2019, she lost her job.

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3 Simple Steps To Manage Your Budget And Cashflow

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Along with paper piles, budget and Cashflow is another area that can be a huge source of overwhelm and frustration! . However, it needn’t be… let me share with you three simple steps that you can put in place to manage your budget and Cashflow. Your Cashflow projection can also be used as a budget planner.

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Travel Blogger Karen Akpan Shares How She Journeyed From Debt to Economic Freedom

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Karen Akpan, known as @themomtrotter across social media, started her blog in 2017 to document and share budget travel hacks for people. With an expensive California mortgage, car payments and student loans, the emergency fund she and her husband, Sylvester, had dutifully built quickly depleted. Then, in 2019, she lost her job.

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7 Ways to Save Money by Simplifying Your Life

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Expensive cars need recurring repairs and often some with too much financial red tape. Following fashion trends can get expensive quickly. Relieve your decorating budget, your time and your sanity, without sacrificing style. This article was published in February 2017 and has been updated. Stop being a slave to fashion.

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Chance the Rapper on Achieving Goals as an Independent Artist & Paying It Forward

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And as that fame grew, so did his fortune—which he immediately started giving away, first in a hefty donation to Chicago Public Schools in 2017, then to the county’s mental health services. His estimated earnings in 2017 were $33 million.) That’s usually a record label expense. As that following grew, so did Chance’s fame.

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10 Obstacles Every Startup Must Overcome to Be Successful

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Budgeting and Financial Woes. Unexpected expenses and emergencies pop up. Careful budgeting and pre-planning are key to getting over this initial financial hump. Knowing what you can reasonably predict in terms of expenses and income will help you plan and spot problems sooner. Photo by BublikHaus/Shutterstock.

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The Art of Problem-Solving: 4 Creative Strategies to Tackle Your Biggest Obstacles

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You launched this side hustle in 2017 but recently left your salaried job to take this business seriously. . Adding pre-recorded content to our service lineup means passive, recurring revenue, with fewer expenses. Here, SpaceX has an obvious but complex problem: its expensive rockets aren’t making it safely to space.

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