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How to Conduct an Annual Budget Review (and Why You Should)

What better way to start the new year than with an annual budget review? Reviewing your budget is a relatively quick and simple exercise that will pay dividends throughout the year in saved time, effort, and frustration. I use YNAB (You Need a Budget) to map out my spending and saving plans and consider it a valuable and integral part of my money management system. While the process I outline below makes regular mention of the YNAB software, you can apply the same steps to whatever budgeting … [Read more...] about How to Conduct an Annual Budget Review (and Why You Should)

The American Dream: the normative personal finance bias

The core tenets of my work as a personal money coach: approach each client with unconditional positive regard, andreject the notion that everyone secretly yearns for (and should yearn for) a white, upper-middle class lifestyle. My experience of the Personal Finance world and of Personal Finance “professionals” is that they generally assume that second point — that everyone yearns for the same image of financial independence: a mortgage-free home in a solid upper-middle-class neighborhood, … [Read more...] about The American Dream: the normative personal finance bias

More than a coach

Elizabeth is not only my money coach, she’s my money therapist. I realize how much emotional energy I invest in my relationship with money and she has helped me to disentangle my feelings of guilt and shame and move me into a place of empowerment.

Invaluable

Your talk was very useful and your insight and advice are invaluable.

Amazing money coach!

Elizabeth is an amazing personal money coach! She has been so helpful in giving us the tools to help us to forward our family finances. Can’t believe how much money we’ve saved and she’s helped us to leverage our financial resources into building the funds for what’s most important to us.

What passion!

Elizabeth has great passion for what she does.

Flattened learning curve

As busy as I am, I know I never would have made it through the learning curve without Elizabeth. Now I can focus on the bigger picture and create a plan I’m comfortable with.

Bye-bye anxiety

Working with Elizabeth has taken the guesswork and anxiety out of the budgeting process and given my husband and I a concrete vehicle for discussion.

Non-judgmental support

I’m deeply appreciative of Elizabeth’s non-judgmental approach. She supports my values and how that gets expressed in how I spend my money.

Take control

Elizabeth is a knowledgeable, supportive, fun, and very competent money coach. If you want to learn to control your money, instead of letting it control you, Elizabeth has the enthusiasm, understanding, and insight to help you.

Great workshop

Thank you so much for coming & sharing. Your passion for what you do made the information attractive. Thank you for taking the fear out of $$ and empowering us.

Awesome & Eye-opening!

It was really awesome and eye opening to hear Elizabeth’s advice regarding money management! What a woman of great wisdom, advice, and inspiration. Personally, I feel like she made managing money seem more possible than it ever has been before. Money has always been a negatively emotional subject for me, but now I see the light and I can truly say that I now speak of money with positive energy.

Thank you!!!!!

I LOVE your work!!! It’s enabled us to become financially secure AND make sure that we enjoy our take home pay. THANK YOU!!!!!!!

Amazing coach

Knowledgable, Supportive, & Fun

Two Thumbs Up

The presentation Elizabeth provided was well done. She was very knowledgeable on the topic and she showed it. That in itself gained the trust of the people within the audience. Her presentation style was great. She engaged the students in conversations throughout the presentation, which kept everyone alert. I could tell that she really cared about the topic and wanted people to understand how certain things affects your credit score.