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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.

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3 Steps to Finally Tackle Your Tedious Tasks

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Most people dread tasks like stuffing envelopes or filling out expense reports, and would prefer more fulfilling and stimulating work. Something as simple as a text or social media post can cause us to put off the work at hand. This article was published in October 2017 and has been updated. Stick to it.

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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.

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The 2023 Motherhood Penalty: The Sorry State Of Affairs For Working Women Continues

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There are organizations in both countries that are raising awareness of the issue, and, on social media platforms such as X (formerly known as Twitter), there is a Gender Pay Gap Bot that serves to discredit companies that advocate on behalf of gender equality despite their own gender pay gap. The PwC Women in Work Index reveals that the U.K.

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My Year In Preview: 2017 Edition

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Want a less expensive version you can print at home? Below are the brief thoughts around my Monthly Themes from September 2016-August 2017. I took the time to solidify the reasoning behind My Three Words for the year and mapped out my Monthly Themes through August 2017.”. Read the MMT series email for January 2017.

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10 Marketing Rules these 10 Entrepreneurs Swear By

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The truth is, in today’s crowded world (online and off), it’s simply too expensive to make this happen. Get social. Have your finger on the pulse of what your audience is doing; mine are all on social media. I stay engaged with my followers and customers by posting daily social media content.

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The Art of the Side Hustle

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Today she has combined all of those passions into career advice as she helps other Swirlers navigate business success in the worlds of digital marketing and social media with her company My Friend Betty Says. Itemize out your monthly expenses and then try to erase those with income streams outside of your day job.

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