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Does your diet impact your money?
(I think yes, and not the way you think) I’ll get straight to the point. None of us know, honestly, exactly how our nutrition impacts our bodies. Not to any detailed extent. We know some things, but there is so much disagreement out there that “know” is still a pretty strong term. Many women have…
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Can you rewrite your money story?
I believe in rewriting ANY story we want. I believe that we each have the authority and even the responsibility to pay attention to our thoughts and to change our direction to the good. Knowing your money story matters. You have to understand where you’re starting out, and then you need to understand that your…
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The privilege of failing
Leaving a tap class in tears wasn’t exactly on my bingo card, but it happened. I’ve danced since I could walk, and tap class is my happy place. But now, at 44, it’s simply… not the same. My brain doesn’t hold on to choreography quite the same way it did at 18. My feet don’t…
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The journey of never enough
How did I get into this race? When I started my job at KPMG, a prestigious, well paying job for a 23 year old, I remember thinking about getting to an income of $100,000 a year. When that happened, I thought, I could probably just go ahead and go part time. 80%, 4 days a…
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On Tithing
I was in a meeting several years ago with a young financial planner, and I had added “Discuss Tithe” to the client agenda. I’ll never forget the fact that my planner did not know how to pronounce the word. I was taken aback, given that this is a concept that I’ve been familiar with for…
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Women + Women
Recently, my lifelong friend sent me a TikTok video of a dance we learned in Jr. High, to a song called ‘Boom, I got your Boyfriend.’ It’s was stuck in my head for a week, a great reminder of why TikTok is not part of my life. On about day 4, I had a ‘holy…
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Girls Meet Money
There is a story in the collective consciousness of Southern Baptists, maybe all evangelicals, that tells us that women are meant to be in the home. Women are not made to be out and about, lest they socialize with other women and gossip. Certainly their intended work is not accounting (beyond the household budget), it…
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From fear to…here.
Just make more money than you know what to do with, and then everything will work itself out. This is the mantra that I didn’t know I had. I think it dates all the way back to age 11, when I decided that being an accountant was the perfect career. The AICPA had put together…
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Meet Ranie
I’m a CPA, and a CFP. Per my resume, I am a money expert. Per my balance sheet, I’m a money novice. I’m sharing my story, Girl Meets Money, precisely because I’m a 44 year old NON-multimillionaire. Even though my career has been in accounting and finance. Even though I’m a high earner by most…
Girl Meets Money 