Category: Personal Finance
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249 Vicki Laveau-Harvie: How to Deal With a Tyrannical Mother
About Vicki Laveau-Harvie VICKI LAVEAU-HARVIE was born in Canada and lived for many years in France before settling in Australia. In France, she worked as a translator and a business editor, despite being a specialist in eighteenth-century French literature. In Sydney, she lectured in French Studies at Macquarie University. After retiring, she taught ethics in…
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Working With Charities Is More Than Branding
Businesses that work with charities are pretty common nowadays. It’s pretty much a PR faux pas to not be helping a charity of some kind. Customers want to know that you are there for the community and not just going to treat them as consumers anymore. It’s crucial then that you do more than just…
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248 Erin Lowry: How to Navigate Awkward Financial Conversations
About Erin Lowry Erin Lowry is the author of the Broke Millennial Series. Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together and Broke Millennial Takes On Investing: A Beginner’s Guide to Leveling Up Your Money. Her first book was named by MarketWatch as one of the best money books of 2017 and…
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Monthly Blog Update, February 2021
There are glimpses of optimism in the world. A vaccine has been developed and slowly the population is rolling up their sleeves to get vaccinated. There is hope that one day we will go back into living a normal life. As I study the success, trials and tribulations of successful people, I see that many…
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Ignore The Naysayers: The Office Is Coming Back
The media is in a bit of a frenzy at the moment about the prospect of getting rid of the office for good. And you can understand why. For some, it’s become a symbol of 21st-century drudgery. We could all be living lives of leisure and learning, but instead, we’re chained to the nine to…
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247 Robin Gaster: Power and Seduction in the Age of Amazon
About Robin Gaster, Ph. D. Robin Gaster, Ph.D. is a visiting scholar at George Washington University Institute for Public Policy and the President of Incumetrics, Inc., a data and program evaluation consultancy that serves clients seeking to understand the intersection of technology, innovation, economics, and politics. Clients include think tanks like the National Academies, Brookings,…