Retire Ready Too Renee Collins

In this week's podcast, our amazing guest contributor, Nia Adams reveals her incredible journey of taking control of her financial struggles and turning them into financial successes.She opens up about the stressful times she faced as a young single mother before transforming her finances in powerful ways. From paying off $50K worth of debt to becoming a real estate investor and Certified Financial Education Instructor, she now educates and empower other women to take control of their finance...

Are you dreaming of buying your own home, but feel like it’s impossible because of your credit challenges? Have you filed for bankruptcy or are still paying off student loans? Maybe you are a business owner with zero taxable income. If you feel there are challenges stopping you from buying a home, don’t give up!There are plenty of options and resources available if you know where to look. This week’s episode of the Retire Ready Too podcast, our guest contributor Arlene Pryce, Branch...

If you have every struggled with your finances and feel that you have tried every type of budget, watched how to create the best budget on YouTube videos, checked out finance podcasts, but nothing is working. It may be time to talk to a financial therapist. Yes, they exist! Financial therapy is a great way to gain insight into your financial struggles and learn strategies to handle them. Talking to a financial therapist can help give you the tools and techniques needed to stay on track ...

Hey Parents! It is time to have the talk with your children around money. Even if you did not have this talk with your parents or you were raised to believe money is a taboo subject that we do not discuss. If you do not talk to you children about money, how will they learn? Someone will teach them.It may be lessons learned from Hard Knocks University. No-one wants that for their children. You may not know where to start, you may have made mistakes with your money. It's O...

Becoming a business owner is not for the faint at heart. If it were everyone would take the leap.It can be a fairly scary adventure, especially if you go into it without a plan. In this week's podcast, my guest contributor Alexandra Davis, a fellow CPA, CFP® and I discuss our experiences as business owners; and the challenges we see other business owners face; and steps you can take to avoid common mistakes. Whether you work for yourself or for somebody else, there are a lot of things y...

Have you ever gone to the store to purchase one item and you left with a cart full of crap you really don’t need. Sounds familiar? Do you ever wonder why you made the choices you did? What were you thinking about at that moment? Or perhaps you were not thinking and someone else was doing the thinking for you. Sounds a bit eerie? But oftentimes it is true. Let me explain. I have to take you on a historic ride to get to my point so bare with me. In the 1920s Americans made purchases b...