by Jillian Beirne | Sep 3, 2018 | Blog, Career & Income
By: Jill Beirne Davi After a recent hospital stay, I opened one of dozens of health care-related bills and found one for $21.47 for the TV and phone in my hospital room. I never used the phone. I never used the TV. Yet here was this bill — one that my health...
by Jillian Beirne | Aug 20, 2018 | Blog, Career & Income
By: Jill Beirne Davi ‘Niceness’ can be a helpful tool in a negotiation. Nice people can find it challenging to negotiate a business deal successfully. For ‘nice’ people who tend to let others take advantage of them, it is essential to prepare...
by Jillian Beirne | Jul 30, 2018 | Blog, Career & Income
By: Jill Beirne Davi Since paying off $30,000 six years ago, I still use credit sparingly, and I didn’t take out any loans to fund the start-up of my business. Instead, I created a separate savings account called “Investments” to use as working...
by Jillian Beirne | Jun 11, 2018 | Blog, Career & Income
By: Jill Beirne DaviWhen I launched a side business about five years ago coaching people about their finances, I enjoyed it so much that I barely charged — if I charged at all — for my services. Many of the people I was helping were in the hole...
by Marguerita M. Cheng | Apr 12, 2018 | Blog, Budgeting, Investing
By: Marguerita M. ChengAs a financial planner, I look back at the generations of women who throughout American history have drawn on their intelligence, imagination, and sense of wonder to make extraordinary contributions, and I am awed.I’m also not surprised at how...