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One Easy Way To Save Money This Holiday Season

Before I buy anything, I'm usually looking for the best deal. I'm self-employed now so my money needs to stretch. This involves pricing an item at a couple different retailers and factoring in shipping if necessary. What I always, always do is search online for a coupon code at a site like Coupon Codes. Since Black Friday and Cyber Monday are around the corner, it would be great to go online … [Continue reading...]

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How I Stay On Budget: My “Did Not Buy” List

Part of being self-employed is that checks tend to come in spurts. I usually get paid over a one-week period each month, with a random check here or there floating in a couple weeks later. So I get the majority of the money I have to work with all in one fell swoop. That's when the temptation comes in. You see money sitting in your bank account and you start to think, "I'm hungry. I bet I could … [Continue reading...]

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“It Takes A Village To Raise A Mogul” – Teaching Financial Literacy And Entrepreneurship To Our Children

By Kara I. Stevens I found it when I was nine. Farrah Gray, the African-American mogul that become a millionaire by the age of fourteen, found it when he was seven; my third-grade students found it last year. What am I talking about? The relationship between good financial hygiene and the pursuit of endless possibility. When I was in fourth grade, I rented out my erasable pens for $0.25 … [Continue reading...]

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10 Hardest Things About The Work-At-Home Mom Life (And How I’m Attempting To Solve Them)

No snazzy intro day, let's just get into the list. (That should tell you where my head is at. LOL) 1) The interruptions. I do not, under any circumstances, want to go back to my old job, but you know what I miss? Being able to do into my office, shut my door, AND THEN GET WORK DONE. I could be in there two, maybe three hours some days without anyone walking in and asking me what I'm doing or … [Continue reading...]

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Questions About Being Your Own Boss? Here’s My Take On It (Part One)

I asked some moms on the YML Facebook page if they had questions about being their own boss. They did, and I answered some of them below. Yoni asks: Why are some so opposed to being self-employed?  Because it's scary. When you're working for someone else, you don't realize how incredible it is that money appears in your bank account on schedule. That (if you're lucky) you have insurance and … [Continue reading...]

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How I Went From Laid Off To Gainfully Self-Employed In Seven Months (Part Three)

Read part one and part two first if you missed them.  Once I left my office on the day I got laid off, I sat in my car for a minute, dazed, confused and hurting. This was my first job out of college and I thought I was pretty good at it. To be laid off with no warning after three years of solid performance reviews? Hit me in the gut. I kept thinking about that over the next couple weeks. … [Continue reading...]

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How I Went From Laid Off To Gainfully Self-Employed In Seven Months (Part Two)

Let me explain a little bit about the title. When I got laid off in November 2010, I was given a severance package (enough for maybe two months of mortgage payments) and I would receive regular paychecks until the end of December. So really, we had about two months until we'd have to start hitting our savings for money. My mantra was that I was not about to deplete our rainy day account, even … [Continue reading...]

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How I Went From Laid-Off To Gainfully Self-Employed In Seven Months (Part One)

My buddy Fran asked me how in the heck did I go from being laid off, to making roughly $40K as a work-at-home mom one year later. And I didn't have an answer for her at that time, because honestly, I didn't know how it happened. 2011 is a bit of a blur for me, as I was on my grind mode 24/7. If I wasn't sleeping, I was working. Nonstop. I was editing books and writing blog posts and managing other … [Continue reading...]

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