Personal Development and Career Success for Today's Latina
La Compra is no joke! Did you know you should spend no more than 15% of your take-home pay on food and household cleaning supplies? Keeping your monthly grocery expense down can be a challenge, especially if you find yourself aimlessly wandering through el mercado with out a plan. Here are 10 easy to implement [...]
Have you ever stopped to think how much it costs you to be you for a month? I mean “YOU” just don’t happen…there’s a lot of work that goes into maintaining you. Your budget is pretty much a summary of what it costs you to live your life. As a savvy budget-ista, getting a [...]
Believe it or not Black Friday 2012 is just around the corner. Commercials are in high gear and have catchy empowering songs like AC/DC’s Back In Black (a personal favorite of yours truly). Go ahead, give it a listen. Who wouldn’t want to shop with a fantastic theme song playing in the background? Stores know [...]
Abuelitas make for some of the toughest, feistiest, spiciest Latinas around. And you better believe that they know how to save some money. Here are some money saving tips from the old school the help you make the most of you budget! Old School Money Saving Tips Pontes un suéter. Did you know that for [...]
Your home might be your castle, but is your castle bleeding your wallet dry? Deciding how much house or apartment you can afford isn’t as easy as looking at your monthly mortgage or rent payment. Square footage and the age of the dwelling can severely impact other associated house expenses like utilities, insurances, and maintenance, [...]
One of the big takeaways I learned from our Latinas & Wealth survey, is that you want to learn more about how to grow your wealth via savings and investment tools. And now that we’ve taken a hard look at how much money you really make by analyzing your paycheck, it’s time for us to [...]
Have you ever stopped to think about how much money you really make? We all have this round, pretty number in our heads that represents our salary. It’s typically rounded to the nearest hundred or thousand, it’s pretty to write down, and makes us feel all warm and snug when we think about it. Unfortunately, [...]
How you treat money, how you spend, how you save (or don’t), why you buy, how you treat what you buy…it’s all in your head, Mujeres. Suze Orman said it best, 80% of how you deal with money has nothing to do with what you do so much as it has to do with what [...]
Like many of you, my parents didn’t go to college. It was a bit of a mystery to all of us. Mom and Dad were excited for me and wanted me to do well in my studies, but outside of that, we really didn’t know what to expect. Who was I going to room with? [...]
From our pilot online survey, Latinas and Wealth, we learned that 51% of survey respondents did not have an emergency savings account despite the fact that 86% respondents are committed to or considering the prospect of aspiring to be wealthy. Now it’s pretty clear que tenemos una problema, right? How can we aspire to become [...]
