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    Category: Life & Money

    POM058: Determine Your Financial Status to Make Strong Goals

    Listen and subscribe: iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify   In this episode, I discuss important financial status indicators you should review before drafting your financial goals. Get…

    Dr. Maria James January 5, 2021
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    POM057: Pocket of Money Podcast is Back

    Listen and subscribe: iTunes, Stitcher, Spotify   It’s time. The podcast will be back in action. After a hiatus, we’re back with all new content for your financial…

    Dr. Maria James December 18, 2020
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    Overcoming Budgeting and Saving Challenges with the W.I.S.E. Budget Box

    Financial success is two-pronged. You need to know what to do and then you have to do it. One, learn and two, take action. You’ve…

    Dr. Maria James November 28, 2020
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    Important Midyear Budgeting Reminders

    Your budget is the plan of how you would like your finances to go. It’s set up to indicate expected income and expenses. The amount…

    Dr. Maria James August 13, 2020
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    3 Money Moves to Make Right Now for Financial Stability

    There has been a lot of discussion in general and among finance experts about the best money moves to make right now. We are reflecting…

    Dr. Maria James July 24, 2020
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    Money Mindset Strongly Affects Your Financial Success

    Sometimes we don’t even realize that it’s governing our actions and determining our financial success.   Your money mindset is your ideology about money: how…

    Dr. Maria James May 7, 2020
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    Credit Scores: What Are the Factors That Can Hurt It?

    Image Credit: @rupixen via Unsplash We all should aspire for a good credit score. As discussed previously, you want it at 720 and above and…

    Guest Contributor April 7, 2020
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    Savings Goals Formulas

    Saving money is a common goal or financial desire. We all have something or more likely multiple things that we want to save up to…

    Dr. Maria James March 2, 2020
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    Sinking Funds and Why I Kind of Don’t like Them

    Saving money is important. Usually, any method that gets people to save more money I am for it. However, I don’t like these sinking funds.…

    Dr. Maria James February 24, 2020
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    10 Questions for Successful Financial Goal Planning

    The point of setting a goal is to achieve a desired result in the future. It’s something that you want to make happen. Goals can…

    Dr. Maria James January 2, 2020
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