Poster Child for Career Change Financial Planning featured in Kiplingers article

This story, How to Erase $70K in Debt by Lisa Gerstner, touches on an important point when you’re planning ahead for a change in your career: Identifying a goal can help ease the pain when it comes to making  the necessary sacrifices. In this case, the couple wanted to start a family but felt they [...]

Find the $ to change careers, Part 2: 7 more tips from career expert @myreinventure & me

Founder of Aspire!, Randi Bussin In Part 1 of the series, career expert Randi Bussin and I teamed up to give you 8 tips for managing your cash flow before and after your career transition.  Part 2 covers managing debt, benefits and taxes during your career change. Randi Bussin, CCMC, CPBS, MBA, is a Career Reinvention [...]

New programs make federal student loan debt more manageable

Having trouble making the payments on your federal student loan? If your income is low relative to your debt (e.g. due to a layoff or difficulty securing full employment), it may be worth your while to look into Income-Based Repayment (IBR), a new way to make student loan payments more manageable. Our college planning expert [...]

More follow-up on Post-Pink Slip Financial Planning talk: Pros & cons of bankruptcy

Continuing with still more follow-up from Thursday’s “Making the Most of Your Money: Post-Pink Slip and Beyond” presentation at the Network for Work meeting… Look familiar?? Today’s gloomy-yet-again weather presents the perfect backdrop for another question I was asked after the talk: “What are the pros and cons of bankruptcy?” While this is not an [...]