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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 books, blogs and YouTube (or as Akpan calls it, “YouTube University”), she began educating herself on financial literacy and how to budget. So, I preach about budgeting all the time.”.

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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 books, blogs and YouTube (or as Akpan calls it, “YouTube University”), she began educating herself on financial literacy and how to budget. So, I preach about budgeting all the time.”.

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Time Is Your Most Valuable Resource—Don’t Waste It

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Learning how to budget your attention is an essential skill in the Attention Economy. This article originally appeared in the May 2017 issue of SUCCESS magazine. They are extremely valuable to you, to marketers and to social media platforms. What’s the Attention Economy? It’s the world we live in.

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7 Apps to Teach Kids About Money

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Budgeting and building credit are only the beginning—you also have student loans, mortgage rates and maybe even cryptocurrency and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). A 2017 study found that disparities in financial literacy may account for as much as 40 percent of the wealth gap between those retiring with more and those retiring with less.

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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.) As that following grew, so did Chance’s fame. Chance the Rapper never had a Plan B.

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My Monthly Theme Report: January 2017

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I’m also at the point where I can create a more formal training process that I’ll be testing later in 2017 with current Productivityist Coaching Practitioners. I’ll be launching Productivityist Coaching Premiere in April, so if you’re interested in learning more about it contact me. Update Productivityist Coaching Page.

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10 Obstacles Every Startup Must Overcome to Be Successful

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Failure is so common, in fact, that many entrepreneurs have taken to penning failure post-mortems to determine where things went wrong, in the hopes that others will learn from their mistakes. If you want to avoid being made into sushi, you need to learn to thrive when facing direct or indirect competition.

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