Do You Need a Prenup? So you’ve found the love of your life and now you’re planning the wedding of your dreams. Everything is blissful with your future spouse and you can’t imagine life without this person, but in the back of your mind, you’re still wondering “Do I need a prenup?” A lot of [...]
Know Your Worth! Women often tie their self worth into their money lives. So as women, we need to get confident knowing our worth and asking for our worth in the workplace. This money meditation will help you gain confidence in your own worth and become confident asking for it. Call to Action: Write down [...]
Today’s Ask the Expert features Val Brennan, Co-founder of www.ThreeDayRule.com Tell me about your business and how you help women? Well-educated, financially savvy women are a growing demo that is not being served by current dating sites. www.ThreeDayRule.com takes a unique approach. We are a first-of-a-kind curated (invitation-only) dating site designed to save busy professionals time [...]
“Freedom is what you do with what’s been done to you.”~Jean Paul Sartr
We all have stories of how much our lives change over the months and years and man, there has definitely been a lot of change in my personal life over the past few months. As such, I have allowed myself time to interpret and understand what life has handed me and how I will chose to respond to it all. With this extra space in my life, I have spent a lot of time contemplating the universal questions we all seek answers to in life.
With so much going on in our busy lives, it can be difficult to take care of financial “housekeeping” chores, even though we realize their importance. An urgent task I encourage you to address promptly is to make sure your beneficiary designations are current for all your investments, insurance and financial-related accounts.
Too many amazing women suffer needlessly after divorce. Resources, time and support are all scarce for divorced moms, so it’s easy to forget that you can still have a beautiful life. However, with some smart strategies, the right support and encouragement, you really can create a life you love, in spite of your divorce.
As difficult as your divorce may be, the truth is you have the power to turn your life around for the better. And you can start right now. Today. You don’t need to wait for the slow passage of time to heal from your divorce. You can take action now – action that will set into motion a fulfilling, happy new life for yourself.
Step Up Women’s Network is a nonprofit membership organization igniting women & girls to fulfill their potential. Through impactful after-school and Saturday enrichment programming, we help teen girls in under resourced neighborhoods become confident, college-bound and career-ready. We also propel our professional female membership through connections, collaborations and continuous development. We bring our teen girls and professional members together by inspiring women to invest in the future success of our girls through mentorship and financial support. Essentially, we ignite women and girls to fulfill their potential.
Summer is right around the corner and what better way to prepare for the season than to become a Financially Wise Woman! Make sure you sign up to attend these June events early as they will fill up quickly!
Still scrambling to get your tax appointment in for the year? Well, the good news is that this year you have a few extra days to file. Taxpayers will have until Tuesday, April 17, 2012 to file their 2011 Federal income tax returns and California State Income Tax returns* and pay any tax due.
Regardless of the economic situation we all need to file our tax returns and report our earnings to the Governmental agencies annually. The rules are the same regardless of your gender. It is important to be involved and understand the tax return that is being signed by both spouses because both parties are equally responsible for truthfulness, completeness and accuracy of the tax returns. There are number of tax saving techniques that can be utilized if planned timely and correctly. It is important to have a professional, reliable, trustworthy, and caring CPA who will help you to be on the right track. Of course, together with a great team of Financial Planner, Attorney, Investment Advisor and CPA you can be in much better position.
We do not expect everyone to become experts and understand all the complex financial transactions, but just to be involved and ask questions if something is not clear on the tax returns, financial reports and documents.
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