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'The Emancipation Proclamation ended slavery but not the maltreatment of blacks. ⠀ ⠀ To this day, testers have found that résumés with black-sounding names are less likely to earn interviews than ones with white-sounding names. ⠀ ⠀ Black Americans are steered into costlier home and auto loans. ⠀ ⠀ They get worse health care than whites and suffer worse outcomes, especially from Covid-19. ⠀ ⠀ They have chronically higher unemployment rates—although ironically the gap has narrowed during the pandemic because more black than white employees have kept working under risky conditions, because their jobs are deemed essential.⠀ ⠀ More than 60 years after the U.S. Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education desegregation decision, black students continue to attend inferior public schools on average and are less likely to attend college. Black college graduates have less wealth on average than white high school dropouts, calling into question the idea that they can pull themselves up by the bootstraps through more schooling[ ...]⠀ ⠀ The greatest frustration is that nothing ever seems to change.’ via @bloombergbusiness
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As much as I strive to be a trustworthy advice-giver, I think my most important work is as an experience-sharer. But the experience I can speak to is inherently limited. ⠀ ⠀ These are just a few of the black voices in personal finance I'd recommend following...⠀ ⠀ ⠀ @thefinancebar⠀ @buildingbread⠀ @makerealcents⠀ @richandregular⠀ @paybalances⠀ @thebudgetnista⠀ @annagiftyo⠀ @journeytolaunch⠀ @kassandradasent⠀ @myfabfinance⠀ @buildingbread⠀ @clevergirlfinance⠀ @elevatemoney⠀ ⠀ ⠀ Help me add to this list in the comments (and please follow and amplify these voices 🙏🏼)⠀ ⠀ ⠀
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If paying off your student loans isn't a milestone worth celebrating, I don't know what is 💁🏻♀️ ⠀ Swipe left to check out the PAID IN FULL @statementcards that do just that and let me what a 'Paid in Full' party would look like to you 🎉🎉🎉 ⠀ And if you've already had your 'Paid in Full' moment, let me know how you celebrated! ⠀ Card 📸 & design: @laurenverhage ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ #debtfree #debtfreejourney #financialfreedom #financialindependence #studentloans #studentloandebt #paidinfull #financialplanning #moneygoals #millennialmoney #personalfinance #personalfinanceforwomen #workingwoman #financialfeminism #financialfeminist #femaleempowerment #womensupportingwomen #graduation #grad #grad2020 #statementcards #statementcelebrations #statementambition
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Is it weird that the thing I miss most in lockdown is work?⠀ ⠀ It’s true that I spend the vast majority of my working hours alone in front of a computer - even in the ‘before times’.⠀ ⠀ But a lot of that was time spent prepping for the in-person moments I loved most...⠀ ⠀ Working on a new talk or presentation to deliver to in-person audiences while traveling across the country. ⠀ ⠀ Meeting up with colleagues to celebrate their latest book and product launches.⠀ ⠀ Prepping my talking points to go on TV.⠀ ⠀ Or in the case of this pic, going into the studio to record a new podcast episode with some of my favs.⠀ ⠀ I’ve been grappling with this deep connection to my work the last few weeks. How much I miss it. And how much of my identity is tied up in it. ⠀ ⠀ But this weekend, while definitively NOT working, I had a realization...⠀ ⠀ What if what I do IS a big part of my identity? ⠀ What if who I am IS (in large part) defined by my accomplishments?⠀ And what if that's ok?⠀ ⠀ After all, work is where I spend the majority of my waking hours. It's where I've made some of my best friends. And my professional accomplishments are a direct expression of the things I value enough to put most of my time and energy into.⠀ ⠀ I understand that our identities shouldn't be tied up in a singular thing, and not everyone has the privilege of doing work that is a direct expression of their values, but for those of us lucky enough to have that luxury, maybe it's ok to embrace what you do as a major part of who you are?⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ #workingwoman #career #ambition #success #ambitiouswomen #womeninbusiness #femaleentrepreneur #womenentrepreneurs #entrepreneurlife
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I can say and believe success is not extrinsic all I want, but the fact is, I feel more of it when I end a day with more money in my pocket 💁🏻♀️ ⠀ I KNOW money is a wildly inaccurate measure of both personal value and the value we provide (look no further than the pittance we pay teachers and so many of our frontline essential workers) - but because money is one of the only tangible metrics we have, I still default to using it as a metric to validate myself.⠀ ⠀ In short, we all know money does not equal success, but when you're so used to tying your ambition to these milestones - ex. debt-free, six-figure income, XYZ net worth - how do you focus your ambition elsewhere? I’m HERE for your suggestions.... ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ #personalfinance #personalfinanceforwomen #womeninbusiness #moneytips #moneygoals #millennialmoney #financialindependence #ambition #success #ambitiouswomen ⠀ ⠀ ⠀
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Me too @taylorlorenz, me too🙋🏻♀️ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀
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This is what working for myself looks like when I actually leave the house (which is ~5% of the time, even in 'normal times'). Swipe left to see what working for myself looks like the other ~95% of the time.⠀ ⠀ As I wrote in my piece for @thefinancialdiet this week...⠀ 'Like the Instagram version of anything, there’s a lot of mythology that goes into [the] idea of entrepreneurship. ⠀ ⠀ As a small business owner, most of my “working from anywhere” happens at a small desk in the corner of my apartment, in a space that also functions as my bedroom. I keep inventory tucked into every free corner of the one bedroom I share with my husband, digging products out from storage containers under the bed, the back of the closet, the top shelf of the pantry and the inside of the ottoman whenever I get an order.'⠀ ⠀ Check out the rest at thefinancialdiet.com. And remember, however self-conscious you feel about your work from home situation right now, for some of us 🙋🏻♀️ this is our full-time work situation ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ #workfromhome #workingwoman #femaleentrepreneur #ladyboss #girlboss #womeninbusiness #entrepreneurlife #girlgang #hustle #sidehustle #workfromanywhere #wfhlife #wfh ⠀ ⠀ ⠀
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What if in this moment of crisis, we give ourselves permission to make 'survival' the benchmark of success, rather layering on the pressure to 'thrive' while facing down a health emergency, financial crisis and the loss of nearly everything else resembling normalcy?⠀ ⠀ As someone struggling to reconcile my identity as an ambitious person with the reality of the income and opportunity losses of the current moment, this reframing from @davidhsteinberg VERY much resonated with me 🙋🏻♀️ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀
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No apologies 👏🏼 Words from @jaclynrjohnson at @statement_event 2020
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To this day, testers have found that résumés with black-sounding names are less likely to earn interviews than ones with white-sounding names. ⠀
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Black Americans are steered into costlier home and auto loans. ⠀
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They have chronically higher unemployment rates—although ironically the gap has narrowed during the pandemic because more black than white employees have kept working under risky conditions, because their jobs are deemed essential.⠀
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More than 60 years after the U.S. Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education desegregation decision, black students continue to attend inferior public schools on average and are less likely to attend college. Black college graduates have less wealth on average than white high school dropouts, calling into question the idea that they can pull themselves up by the bootstraps through more schooling[ ...]⠀
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The greatest frustration is that nothing ever seems to change.’ via @bloombergbusiness](https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/v/t51.2885-15/sh0.08/e35/s640x640/101720247_745469662865112_1229988914790041176_n.jpg?_nc_ht=scontent.cdninstagram.com&_nc_ohc=CpDokd5oFQAAX-JbDgM&oh=6ac3a284adb37fd1bb967d7c6bc421d1&oe=5F07EDD1)
![This is what working for myself looks like when I actually leave the house (which is ~5% of the time, even in 'normal times'). Swipe left to see what working for myself looks like the other ~95% of the time.⠀
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As I wrote in my piece for @thefinancialdiet this week...⠀
'Like the Instagram version of anything, there’s a lot of mythology that goes into [the] idea of entrepreneurship. ⠀
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As a small business owner, most of my “working from anywhere” happens at a small desk in the corner of my apartment, in a space that also functions as my bedroom. I keep inventory tucked into every free corner of the one bedroom I share with my husband, digging products out from storage containers under the bed, the back of the closet, the top shelf of the pantry and the inside of the ottoman whenever I get an order.'⠀
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Check out the rest at thefinancialdiet.com. And remember, however self-conscious you feel about your work from home situation right now, for some of us 🙋🏻♀️ this is our full-time work situation ⠀
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