Our Favorite Free $ Resources
I started the Fiscal Femme for a number of reasons. The first was that I needed this as a resource myself. Despite studying finance and then working in finance, I knew absolutely nothing about my own money. I was at a critical point in my career where I needed to figure it out.
When I dove into the financial resources that were available, I found that so many of them were daunting and boring. I felt like they were keeping me out of the “in the know” money club. That’s the opposite of what you’ll find here.
Our mission is to provide you with the tools you need to become wealthy. Why does it matter? We all (the entire world) benefit when more incredible people, especially women, become wealthy.
Over the past nine years (the Fiscal Femme had it’s 9th birthday on March 2nd!), I’ve been creating resources to help you succeed in your financial life and reach your goals. And we provide many of them for free.
Here’s a roundup of my favorite free resources. Whether you are new to the Fiscal Femme or you just missed a few of these golden nuggets, I’ve compiled them for you here in one place.
The Weekly Money Musings
I’m a huge proponent of taking action, and that doesn’t always require big and daunting changes. I actually think it’s better to take bite-sized action steps. Why? When we break something down into a small enough step, it doesn’t feel daunting. It might even be fun! And then once we take the step and experience the win, we’re inspired to take more action. Our progress in our money journey is not linear - it is usually exponential. Small steps lead to big wins.
Every Wednesday, I send out a ‘Money Musing’ email. It includes a money journey reflection from me (yes, I still make plenty of mistakes!), a funny meme (because why not?!), and - most importantly - a “Money Move of the Week.” I cannot tell you how beneficial it is to commit to taking one action in your financial life each week, especially when I’m choosing the action for you! Sign up and join us in the weekly action!
Get Accountability: The Fiscal Femme Slack Community
If you’ve been with us for a while, you know how important accountability is. In our money lives, accountability is usually pretty scarce. Money is not something we talk about - even with our closest friends and family - so the people who love us most and care about us don’t know what our financial goals are. They can’t support us and often unknowingly sabotage us.
Just like having a gym buddy makes it much more fun to go to the gym and more likely we’ll show up, having a group of motivated money buddies can completely transform our financial well-being.
Did you know that we are 65% more likely to do something if we tell someone else we are going to do it? That goes up to 95% if they are going to check in with us.
That’s why we launched the Fiscal Femme Private Slack Community last month. It’s a place for all of the amazing Fiscal Femme community to come together and support one another in their big money goals. It’s a place where we can ask questions or share resources, wisdom, and our experiences.
If you are looking for an incredible group of money buddies to hold you accountable for taking those bite-sized actions, join the Fiscal Femme Slack Community.
Get Inspiration: Money Mantras
With the slack app, we can take the Fiscal Femme community everywhere with us, but for most of us, nothing is more in our face than our cell phones. We carry them everywhere and check them constantly.
Recently, we realized what a wonderful opportunity this is. Why not use our phones for good? For inspiration and reprogramming our negative money beliefs. Enter Money Mantras.
Money Mantras are things we tell ourselves over and over again about money (or about our relationship with money). We often think of mantras as being positive, but we usually have some pretty negative self money talk.
Changing and reprogramming these negative thoughts into powerful Money Mantras becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. How? The positive powerful Money Mantras lead us to take action. This leads us closer to the results we are looking for and that further reinforces the positive belief about ourselves and money.
For inspiration and constant reminders throughout the day of the things you are trying to accomplish in your money life, download your favorite Money Mantras and set them as the lock screen on your phone.
Our Guides
If you are looking for more of a deep dive or tool to help with any given personal finance topic, we have some incredible free guides. They cover everything from learning how to invest to negotiating your salary. Need a budget? We have a spreadsheet for you. Want to save more money? We have a guide to help you save $1,000 in a month.
If there’s a topic that’s particularly aligned with your goals or you are inspired to learn more about it, dive right in. Check out the guides and tools we have available!
