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Making Financial Progress is Motivating Setting goals is a crucial part of your journey as you work toward financial freedom. By setting goals tailored around your lifestyle, you can improve your financial habits, keep track of your financial progress, and identify expenses you can cut back down on, while making sure to acknowledge and celebrate […]
6 Reasons it Pays to File Your Taxes Early As the saying goes, “the early bird gets the worm.” Or is it the tax refund? Well, whether you file early or are a tax procrastinator, you still may get a tax refund, but here are six reasons it pays to file early. Get your tax […]
How Much Do Instagram + TikTok Content Creators Make (And How To Get Started) If you’ve built up any sort of a social media following, the thought has probably crossed your mind – what would it take to start earning some money from my accounts? That’s a complicated question to answer. We reached out to […]
Real Money Talk: It’s Time To Let Go Of These Taboos Let’s get right down to it – there’s so much to discuss as it relates to finances. Even though we may not want to admit it, we don’t have all the answers. Before the internet and social media, there was a reliance on phone […]
Welcoming Opportunity at Every Stage of Your Career I’ve been a tax and financial services professional for most of my life. After a wide-ranging career as a CPA, advisor and tax attorney for almost 49 years, I started to wind down my consulting practice and become more selective about accepting new work. Helping clients was […]
Preventing Burnout and Optimizing Your Time and Energy In a world with ever-increasing demands, your time is finite and personal energy needs to be renewed. The fear and uncertainty that we have been faced with is daunting. I have tapped into my inner strength more times than I can count with a lot of deep […]
A Guide To Gifts Of Equity You might be familiar with down payment gifts, when a family member provides home buyers cash that they can put toward the down payment of a home. But what about the equally valuable gift of equity? This is when someone, usually a family member, sells a home to buyers […]
How To Lower Your Monthly Mortgage Payment We all have good intentions when we set out to buy a home and budget for it. We imagine getting paid the amount we’ve come to expect and we anticipate paying bills on time … until life happens and things change. Careers change, things break down over time […]
WTFinance is Cyberbullying Insurance? – MintLife Blog When most people think about cyberbullying – or any form of bullying – they tend to think about children and adolescents. But adult cyberbullying is very real, and it can have very real financial consequences. That’s why cyberbullying insurance exists. Let’s look at this niche insurance sub-category to […]
How Can We Improve Through Financial Education The financial state of many Americans is not where it should be. According to a Mind over Money survey, more than three in four Americans feel the pressure, with 77% reporting they are anxious about their money situation. Most people are so preoccupied with money that they can’t control […]