Budgeting

Make a Budget That Brings You Joy

Make a Budget That Brings You Joy

As part of our Women’s History Month series, Cinneah (the founder of Flynanced) and I co-hosted a series of incredible roundtable discussions with some of our favorite women in the personal finance space. In “Building a Budget that Loves Your Back,” Jazzy, Founder of First Hustle Then Brunch, shares how we can align our budgets with the things that bring us happiness and joy!

Is Your Money Mindset Holding You Back?

Is Your Money Mindset Holding You Back?

As part of our Women’s History Month series, Cinneah (the founder of Flynanced) and I co-hosted a series of incredible roundtable discussions with some of our favorite women in the personal finance space. In “Building a Budget that Loves Your Back,” Ayana, a debt-free money coach, shares how we can incorporate our money mindset into our budgeting and why it matters.

5 Things You Should Include in Your Budget

5 Things You Should Include in Your Budget

One of the most important parts of our financial lives is our budget or spending plan. For those of you who are maybe just starting your financial journey, or in your first years of independence after graduating from school, or in the first couple of years of working for yourself and making our money, it can be a struggle.

We asked Mykail James aka “The Boujie Budgeter,” what are five things that every 20- something should include in her budget? Here’s what she had to share.

Set up your system for 2021 taxes

Set up your system for 2021 taxes

When we’re preparing to file our taxes for this year, it’s the perfect time to create a system to make the process easier next year. Why? You might be thinking, “Ashley, why add to my torture? I could finally celebrate being done!?

Taking the time to create systems while everything is fresh in our minds is far easier than trying to remember what was important and what we needed. Taking the time to set up a system for our 2021 taxes will save us lots of stress, time, and (perhaps) money.

Improve Your Relationship with Money

Improve Your Relationship with Money

It might sound funny, but you have a relationship with money just like you have a relationship with anything else. It’s how you interact with and relate to money.

Our relationship with money is created over time and can be influenced by many factors. We are guided by how our parents interacted with money. We’re also shaped by mentors, teachers, friends, our experiences, and society as a whole.

How to (very legally!) Minimize Your Tax Bill

How to (very legally!) Minimize Your Tax Bill

Filing our taxes can be an arduous process that we often try to get through as quickly as possible. But before we hit submit or give our accountants the final okay, we want to make sure we are minimizing our tax bill (or maximizing our tax return).

Why? First and foremost, that means we’ll have more money in our pockets to allocate towards our goals. And second, if we don’t, we’re paying more taxes than we need to.

6 Steps to Create and Achieve Your Financial Goals

6 Steps to Create and Achieve Your Financial Goals

One of the most important parts of your financial plan is your goals. In order to find clarity and reduce our guilt around our spending, we have to have clear goals. That means knowing how much we need for each goal, by when we will achieve it, as well as which goal comes first.

Is it more important to me to pay off ALL of my student loans before saving for my future home? Do I want to aggressively save for retirement (and retire early!) or take an extra vacation each year?

Mitigate Spending Toxins

Mitigate Spending Toxins

When it comes to our financial lives, we often focus on ourselves, but our environment and those around us play a big part in our actions - and often not for the better.

Environmental toxins are the people, places, and things that get the best of your spending. Maybe it’s a friend that you shop with that always encourages you to “treat yourself” or the store you tend to impulse shop online. It's not personal - it just means your spending gets off track when you’re together.