Share With South-by-Southwest panel submitters campaigning for the popular vote, SXSWi has definitely been a hot topic of conversation (at least among us online nerds) in recent weeks. A reader sent me an email asking if I had any ideas for how she could make her big goal of attending happen, and I thought others [...]
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Share I know you are all probably out barbecuing, soaking up the sun and generally unwinding – or so I hope – but it’s book giveaway time again! I am giving away a copy of Suze Orman’s The Road to Wealth (this one is the size of a door stop – it covers everything money-related [...]
Share This post is a submission for the 20SB Blog Carnival on Friends & Money. The blog carnival is sponsored by Charles Schwab, which happens to be my long-time bank. I’ve been “talking to Chuck” since I first started fumbling through my finances as an independent adult; Schwab has helped me save and invest and [...]
Share OMG. OMFG. I am going to try to stop hyperventilating long enough to breathe and write this blog post. Suze Orman knows we exist!! That’s right, Suze FREAKING Orman, my idol of all idols. And she taped a video for Life After College! When Orman’s media team got in touch and asked me to [...]
Share It is my pleasure to introduce you to Phil Villarreal – one of the funniest (and most supportive) people I’ve met through my blog. Phil recently published his book, Secrets of a Stingy Scoundrel, after seven failed manuscripts over seven years. I admire his persistence and sense of humor. As one reviewer describes him, [...]
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Share The following is a guest post that I was excited to contribute to ING Direct‘s blog, We the Savers last week. Re-posting here for those of you that didn’t get a chance to read it! “The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want now.” -Zig [...]
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