The Archives
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2024
- Mar 29, 2024 Hereโs How We Help Our Clients Manage Their Creative Businesses
- Mar 1, 2024 What My Clients Taught Me About Pricing and Building a Sustainable Business
- Feb 2, 2024 What Is In Store For 2024? My Predictions and Outlook On Creative Businesses In the New Year
- Jan 18, 2024 Are You Falling Prey to Lifestyle Creep? Here's How to Tell and What to Do About It
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2023
- Sep 5, 2023 What Playing in a Band Taught Me About Making Money
- Aug 30, 2023 The Lazy Person's Guide to Building Wealth (Part 2): Investing for Beginners
- Apr 14, 2023 An Open Letter to Buy Now, Pay Later Companies. Your product is like cigarettes for peopleโs financial lives.
- Jan 31, 2023 The Secret to Managing Money as a Couple: Split the Check
- Jan 10, 2023 Five Financial Rituals to Adopt in the New Year
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2022
- Nov 16, 2022 A Black Friday Survival Guide
- Oct 31, 2022 How to Prepare to Start Paying Your Student Loans Again
- Oct 17, 2022 How to Apply for One-time Federal Student Loan Debt Relief
- Oct 11, 2022 Collecting Dots: Some Recent Reflections About Money and Life
- Sep 27, 2022 How to Deal with a Stock Market Downturn
- Jun 21, 2022 Five Financial Things: Meditations on Money
- Jan 11, 2022 What Is a Buy List and How It Can Help You Build a Conscious Spending Habit
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2021
- Dec 21, 2021 How to Maximize Your Benefits During Open Enrollment
- Dec 13, 2021 The Hell Yeah Holiday Gift Guide: Alternative Gifts and Sustainable Giving Ideas
- Nov 18, 2021 How to Have a Year-End Personal Money Review
- Nov 1, 2021 Most Common Investing Struggles (and How to Avoid Them)
- Oct 7, 2021 Should I Invest My Emergency Fund?
- Sep 27, 2021 The Lazy Person's Guide to Building Wealth (Part 1): Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) and Index Funds
- Sep 7, 2021 How Much Does It Cost Your Business to Earn Each Dollar?
- Aug 24, 2021 The Sequence of Savings
- May 4, 2021 Financial Paradoxes
- Mar 10, 2021 Here's What Tax Season Looks Like with Hell Yeah, Bookkeeping
- Feb 17, 2021 Six Important Financial Lessons I've Learned While Writing A Book
- Feb 3, 2021 How to Break the Cycle of Making Bad Financial Decisions
- Jan 21, 2021 How to Pay Yourself From Your S Corp: What is a Reasonable Salary?
- Jan 4, 2021 How โLegalizingโ Your Business Will Save You Money
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2020
- Oct 28, 2020 Your Trauma, Your Money and How to Make Better Financial Decisions
- Oct 21, 2020 Six Things I've Learned In Six Years of Business
- Oct 14, 2020 Sell Value, Not Time. How to Think About Your Prices
- Oct 7, 2020 What is Cash Flow Forecasting, Why It Matters and How to Do It
- Jul 8, 2020 Why You Need to Have a Strategy for Your Financial Life
- Jun 24, 2020 Here Are the Finance Tools I Use to Manage My Money
- Jun 17, 2020 What Is Lumpy Cash Flow? And How to Smooth It Out
- Jun 10, 2020 Things I'm Reflecting On During This Unique Moment in History
- Jun 3, 2020 How to Use Your Economic Power to Fight Inequality
- May 27, 2020 How to Keep Track of How You Spend Your Economic Injury Disaster Loan
- May 20, 2020 How To Be Prepared for the PPP Loan Forgiveness Application
- May 13, 2020 How to Get a Grip on Your Spending
- May 6, 2020 So You Started an S-Corp, What Now? Everything You Need to Know
- Apr 29, 2020 How to Manage Financial Failures with Negative Visualization
- Apr 22, 2020 Things I'm Learning During A Global Pandemic - Part 2
- Apr 15, 2020 How to Feel Better About Spending Less
- Apr 8, 2020 Things I'm Learning During a Global Pandemic - Part One
- Apr 1, 2020 How to Absorb Inevitable Financial Shocks
- Mar 25, 2020 How Not to Freak Out About Your Finances During a Global Pandemic (or Any Crisis)
- Mar 18, 2020 Here Are the Things Your Bookkeeper Will Do For You
- Mar 11, 2020 Here's How to Outsource Your Bookkeeping: A Practical Guide
- Feb 26, 2020 Everything You Need to Know About Small Business Taxes
- Feb 19, 2020 How to Have a Smooth and Worry-Free Tax Season
- Feb 12, 2020 What Are Business Tax Write-Offs and Why Are They Important? (Tax Deductions Explained)
- Feb 5, 2020 What Is A Tax Extension and Is It Right For You?
- Jan 29, 2020 How to Focus on Changing Your Behavior and Not Your Goals
- Jan 15, 2020 How to Feel Better About Your Finances: The Operating Principles
- Jan 8, 2020 How to Have a Better Relationship with Money
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2019
- Nov 13, 2019 Year-End Tax Planning Generates The Most Savings
- Nov 6, 2019 How To Keep Receipts For People Who Hate Keeping Receipts
- Oct 30, 2019 Here Are Four Reasons Why Bookkeeping Matters
- Oct 22, 2019 Here Are The Seven Most Common DIY Bookkeeping Mistakes
- Oct 16, 2019 How to Manage Joint-ish Finances
- Oct 9, 2019 Do You Need A Financial Professional? Here Are The Eight to Know
- Sep 25, 2019 What Is an Investment Portfolio and Why It's Important
- Sep 18, 2019 Your Cash Is Losing It's Value. This Is What You Can Do About It
- Sep 11, 2019 Four Investing Myths You Need To Stop Believing
- Jun 11, 2019 How To Be Awesome At Investing: Lessons From A Decade In Finance
- May 28, 2019 How to Approach Managing Your Money Like Learning a New Skill
- May 21, 2019 How to Not to Suck at Budgeting: The Definitive Guide
- May 14, 2019 I Failed At Budgeting for Years. Here's What I Learned.
- May 7, 2019 What to Do When You're Freaking Out About Your Finances
- Mar 27, 2019 The Top Five Tax Return Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
- Mar 20, 2019 LLC vs S-Corp: Whatโs Better For Your Business?
- Mar 13, 2019 Top Nine Tax Code Myths and How to Stop Falling for Them
- Mar 6, 2019 Five Things You Thought Your Accountant Was Doing
- Feb 27, 2019 Twelve Small Truths About Running a Business
- Feb 20, 2019 How To Make Money: Get Over Your Hate of Selling
- Feb 12, 2019 How to Make Money: Focus On Who You Serve
- Feb 6, 2019 How to Make Money: Use Skills to Solve Problems for Specific People
- Feb 4, 2019 Big News: The Money Diaries Podcast!
- Jan 30, 2019 One Simple Habit That Will Change Your Financial Life
- Jan 29, 2019 Three Steps to Stop Freaking Out About Your Finances
- Jan 23, 2019 How to Build Habits (Why Relying Willpower Doesnโt Work)
- Jan 16, 2019 How to Shift Your Mindset Around Money
- Jan 9, 2019 Understanding Your Mindset Around Money
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2018
- Dec 4, 2018 Stop Not Understanding Life Insurance: The Definitive Guide
- Nov 28, 2018 Do You Need a Will?
- Nov 21, 2018 Small Business Year-End Tax Strategies
- Nov 7, 2018 How to Stay on Top of Your Business Finances: The Weekly Checklist
- Oct 30, 2018 Focus On Earning Money
- Oct 24, 2018 Practical Principles: Ten Meditations on Finance
- Oct 17, 2018 How an Income Account Can Help You Make More Money
- Oct 10, 2018 Pacoโs Law: Expenses expand to reach the limits of what's available to spend
- Sep 26, 2018 How to Save for Taxes
- Sep 19, 2018 How to Care About Your Finances: Schedule Finance Time
- Aug 29, 2018 How to Be "Financially Responsible"
- Aug 1, 2018 Five Frequent Finance Fails (and How to Avoid Them)
- May 23, 2018 How to Tell If You Need to Hire a Bookkeeper
- Apr 17, 2018 How To Map Out Your Monthly Income Goals
- Mar 28, 2018 How to Catch Up On Your Bookkeeping
- Feb 21, 2018 What Do You Need to File Your Taxes? Your Tax Prep Checklist
- Feb 13, 2018 How To Do Your Taxes (The Freelancer Edition)
- Jan 30, 2018 How Much Money Do You Need to Make?
- Jan 24, 2018 Why You Arenโt Achieving Your Financial Goals
- Jan 3, 2018 A Totally Not-Boring Guide to Getting Your Financial Shit Together
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2017
- Nov 7, 2017 What Is Year-End Tax Planning? (And Why You Need It)
- Nov 1, 2017 Finance + Feels: Get to Know Yourself
- Oct 24, 2017 What Is Venture Capital Funding? Is It Right for Your Business?
- Oct 3, 2017 Accounting 101: A Primer for Small Business Owners
- Sep 26, 2017 How to Increase Your Revenue
- Sep 19, 2017 How to Tell If Your Business Is Doing Well
- Sep 12, 2017 The Freelancers Guide to Predictable + Consistent Income
- Aug 29, 2017 What Is a (Business) Line of Credit?
- Aug 22, 2017 How Your Invoicing Impacts Your Cash Flow
- Aug 15, 2017 How to Build Wealth
- Aug 1, 2017 Understanding Credit Card Balance Transfers
- Jul 25, 2017 How to Price Your Services
- Jul 18, 2017 Understanding Student Loan Consolidation
- Jul 11, 2017 Where Are You At? The Mid-Year Financial Gut Check.
- Jun 28, 2017 Should You Buy or Lease a Car?
- Jun 20, 2017 When Is Renting Better Than Owning a Home?
- Jun 14, 2017 How to Earn Money
- Jun 7, 2017 How to Get Out (and Stay Out) of Tax Debt
- May 30, 2017 How to Save: Start Small and Think Big
- May 16, 2017 Payroll 101: What Is Payroll?
- May 9, 2017 The Minimalist Guide to Finances: Automate Everything
- May 3, 2017 The Minimalist Guide to Finances: Tidying Up Your Finances
- Apr 26, 2017 The Minimalist Guide To Finances: The Anti-Budget
- Apr 18, 2017 Do I Have to Pay Taxes on Side Gig Income?
- Apr 12, 2017 Check Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself: Understanding Your Credit Score
- Apr 5, 2017 Everything You Need to Know about IRAs: The Definitive Guide
- Mar 29, 2017 The Bookkeeping Trinity: Know Your Options
- Mar 20, 2017 How to Choose An Accountant
- Mar 15, 2017 Tax Strategies for Entrepreneurs
- Feb 13, 2017 Should You Formalize Your Business? The Pros and Cons
- Feb 6, 2017 What Business Expenses Are Tax Deductible?
- Jan 27, 2017 How to Determine Who Receives a 1099-MISC or a 1099-NEC
- Jan 24, 2017 Let's Talk About Your Credit Card Debt
- Jan 17, 2017 How to Keep Your Business and Personal Finances Separate
- Jan 10, 2017 Clarity in the New Year.
- Jan 3, 2017 How to Maximize Your Bonus or Raise
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2016
- Dec 27, 2016 The Rush to the Finish. Year-End Tips + Tricks
- Dec 20, 2016 How to Finance Your Company: Know Your Options
- Dec 5, 2016 The Importance of Knowing Yourself
- Nov 22, 2016 Why You Need Year-End Tax Planning with Your Accountant
- Nov 16, 2016 Accountant vs. Bookkeeper. Know The Difference.
- Nov 8, 2016 Why You Need An Emergency Fund.
- Oct 31, 2016 Do Your Best. Always. At Everything.
- Oct 24, 2016 The Virtue of Retirement Savings: How Much Should You Save?
- Oct 17, 2016 Enrolled Agent vs. CPA. Know The Difference.
- Oct 4, 2016 Money Is Simply a Tool
- Sep 28, 2016 WTF Are Investments? Part 7: Account Types, Portfolios and Diversification
- Sep 13, 2016 WTF Are Investments? Part 6: Know The (Investment) Types: Stocks, Bonds, Mutual Funds + Alternatives
- Sep 1, 2016 How To Save Money.
- Aug 23, 2016 WTF Are Investments? Part 5: Different Philosophies
- Aug 16, 2016 WTF Are Investments? Part 4: #GOALS
- Aug 8, 2016 WTF Are Investments? Part 3: Math Is Magic
- Aug 2, 2016 WTF Are Investments? Part 2: What Is Investing?
- Aug 1, 2016 WTF Are Investments? Part 1: About The Series
- Jul 22, 2016 Flowchart: How To Form A Business
- Jul 15, 2016 When Should You Set Up an LLC (or S-Corp)?
- Jul 13, 2016 The Importance of Knowing Your Numbers. Part 3.
- Jul 11, 2016 Business Is A Creative Process
- Jul 6, 2016 Please Save Money.
- Jul 5, 2016 The Importance of Knowing Your Numbers. Part 2.
- Jun 29, 2016 The Importance of Knowing Your Numbers. Part 1.
- Jun 21, 2016 Stop Sucking at Bookkeeping: How To Create A System
- Jun 17, 2016 The Anatomy of a Profit and Loss Statement: A Simple Guide
- Jun 8, 2016 How To Pay Yourself. A Simple Guide.
- Jun 1, 2016 Two Bookkeeping Resources for Freelancers Who Hate Bookkeeping
- May 31, 2016 Three Reasons Why Your Business Need Bookkeeping
- Apr 30, 2016 The Anatomy of a Balance Sheet: A Simple Guide
- Mar 31, 2016 Do You Need a Bookkeeper?
- Feb 3, 2016 What the Hell Is Bookkeeping Anyway?
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