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July, 2007

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Heroines of Personal Finance and Entrepreneurship #3: Alexandra Levit

Interview contributed by Cody McKibben –
Alexandra Levit is the author They Don’t Teach Corporate in College: A Twenty-Something’s Guide to the Business World, and a regular corporate and university speaker on Gen-Y employees. She is the Founder and President of Inspiration@Work career consultancy and also serves as a Vice President at Edelman public relations agency. [...]

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When your debt feels like your arm

“I’ve been in debt so long that it really doesn’t matter whether I pay it off in October vs. March.”
– A friend of mine who was talking about going on an international trip despite having $6,000+ in credit card debt. When I suggested NOT GOING BECAUSE THAT’S RIDICULOUS and putting the money towards the debt, [...]

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Heroines of Personal Finance and Entrepreneurship #2: Anya Kamenetz

Interview contributed by Cody McKibben.
The second expert panelist for our women & money series is Anya Kamenetz, a respectable twentysomething author, columnist, and blogger from Manhattan. The daughter of a poet and a novelist, she graduated from Yale University in 2002. She has worked with the New York Times, the Washington Post, Salon, Slate, the [...]

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I should be a personal-finance carnie

I was at a July 4th BBQ on Wednesday and my friend mentioned how she’s 100% billable right now. That means that every hour she works is billed to a client.
So, in the spirit of being overly competitive with small amounts of information, I decided to try to guess the difference between her [...]

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Heroines of Personal Finance and Entrepreneurship #1: Pamela Slim

Interview contributed by Cody McKibben.
Pamela Slim is a tremendously friendly career and entrepreneurship expert who left corporate life in 1996. Her Mesa, Arizona-based company Ganas Consulting helps professionals and entrepreneurs find and do their best work. Some of her corporate clients include Hewlett-Packard, Cisco Systems, Charles Schwab, and Sun Microsystems. She also helps corporate [...]

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Eleanor P., 25, talks about money, frustrations with her bank, independence, and indulgences

Eleanor P.’s story is fascinating. It took a major event — being sent to collections for her student loan — to start managing her money. She has some family experiences that have made her want to be financially independent, and she keeps a close budget. At the same time, she doesn’t consciously budget for indulgences [...]

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