I was listening to a pretty interesting podcast the other day where a business owner had set out on a quest to get one hundred rejection letters. She was trying to grow her business and knew that if she welcomed failure rather than feared it, she could exponentially grow. This reminded me of how I started out. While I definitely didn’t aim to get 100 rejection letters I’m pretty sure I ...
Ava’s $23 Fifth Birthday Dinner Party
This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Dollar General for IZEA. All opinions are 100% mine. This past week was a very special week for me. My baby Ava turned five. And I just cannot believe it! She'll be starting Kindergarten in the fall and my oldest will be heading to first grade. I'm not going to lie - I kinda want to cry about it. ...
Why and When to Choose Quality Over Price
This is a guest post from Erin at Everything Finance Blog When you’re out shopping and looking to score a deal, are you guilty of considering price first, and then quality? Say you’re in need of a new vacuum. You know Dyson is a good brand, but its vacuums are pretty pricey - perhaps more than you can afford right now. Instead, you decide to go with a vacuum that’s only $50. It will get ...
April Income Report
Happy May! I’ve been going back and forth as to whether I should do income reports anymore. So I decided to go ahead and post this one and get all of your input. You can see some of my internal dialogue on these below :) ...
My 4 Favorite Ways to Save with Amazon
Making extra money means nothing if you can’t manage to hang on to it. At the same time it can take almost as much effort to save money as it does to make money. Especially, if you don’t have systems in place. So I thought I’d start sharing some of my little secrets for saving money without a whole lot of effort. These will all be easy things you can do that pay off pretty well. Today I'm ...
How I Went From Zero to $4,000 per Month In Less Than 6 Months as a Freelance Writer
Do you like your job? No seriously, do you really like it? (If you do, this post could still be for you too, so stick around for a minute.) I felt so guilty that I wasn’t in love with my former career as a financial advisor. It was basically the first real career I had out of college (not my first job per say, but first declarence of “this is what I’m going to be when I grow up!”). ...