Tag Archives: handling money

Financial Illiteracy: Time to Stop the Madness

Posted on October 21, 2013 by Sharon O'Day • 41 Comments

Financial illiteracy is intolerable in a nation such as America and women are its greatest victims, but good parenting can break the cycle. Continue Reading

Budget Busters: Four Times You Could Easily Lose Control

Posted on October 14, 2013 by Sharon O'Day • 34 Comments

Budget busters for one person may not be for another. Here are four classics. What would blow a hole in a budget for you? Continue Reading

Ancestral Baggage Around Money: Find It and Deal With It

Posted on October 7, 2013 by Sharon O'Day • 33 Comments

I dug up my ancestral baggage around money and found driving forces I was sure I had already dealt with. Any chance you have any tripping you up, too? Continue Reading

Money Talk: How to Take It from Terrifying to Piece of Cake

Posted on September 23, 2013 by Sharon O'Day • 27 Comments

Money talk is probably way down there on your list of favorite things. But unless you can see money as just numbers, you will never have it under control. Continue Reading

Retirement Nightmare: Yes I Am Trying To Scare You

Posted on September 2, 2013 by Sharon O'Day • 44 Comments

A retirement nightmare looms on the horizon, unless we snap out of denial and change our priorities. Difficult? Not if you don’t want to be old and broke! Continue Reading

Childhood and Money: Getting Beyond the Messages That Trip You Up

Posted on August 26, 2013 by Sharon O'Day • 73 Comments

What do childhood and money have to do with your finances as an adult? Absolutely everything, whether you are rich or poor. Continue Reading

Lending Money: A Loan or a Gift?

Posted on August 19, 2013 by Sharon O'Day • 50 Comments

Lending money to friends or family is usually disastrous. Not because it’s a bad thing to do, but because we don’t like to talk about money. So we don’t. Continue Reading

Financial Whisperer: Everybody Needs One

Posted on August 12, 2013 by Sharon O'Day • 26 Comments

A financial whisperer does not do what Cesar Millan does for dogs. But she does offer permission, tools and encouragement. So maybe it’s not so different? Continue Reading

Mismanaging Money: Oprah and Daddyless Daughters

Posted on July 22, 2013 by Sharon O'Day • 54 Comments

Mismanaging money can result from so many things. And being a daddyless daughter is one of the things that can easily set us up for trouble. Continue Reading

Lying About Money: The Price of Infidelity

Posted on July 15, 2013 by Sharon O'Day • 51 Comments

Lying about money is something one-third of American adults do to their partners. The price of those little (or big fat) lies is far greater than you think. Continue Reading