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Other ways to listen: iTunes ♦ Stitcher ♦ TuneIn ♦ SoundCloud ♦ Google Play Yes, it is true: Rich women have issues, too. Molly Ward, CFP, should know. One of the most successful financial advisors in the country and a single mom, Molly is…
This post is from my Australian friend and colleague, Lucy Good from Beanstalk Single Mums. Beanstalk is an online space which empowers single mothers to re-find their potential and re-build their confidence. Lucy works with single moms through her online course…
I wrote the below a few years ago. I stand by it — and then some. In fact, I’ve started to look at two-parent, monogamous, heterosexual families as kind of weird. Statistically, they are a 49 percent minority —…
Plenty of memes going around Facebook giving Father’s Day shout-outs to single moms who “do it all.” Mahogany, Hallmark’s line aimed at African Americans, has a half-dozen designed celebrating moms on this day. I don’t dig it. I get…
My running list of single moms in pop culture. Who is your favorite? Who do you loathe? Share in the comments! Everyone loves a single mom character because she makes an easy heroine. Historically, in movies she’s also made an…
This truth bomb from Jessica Mraz, 50, St. Paul, Minnesota: Life lesson learned yesterday. I was struggling to figure out how to pay for my son’s health insurance and medical bills since the premiums went up and my deductible…
I wrote this a few years ago, and I really love it … please chat with strangers. Listen to old people. Ask personal question. Listen. Share, and listen more. Remember that ours is not the first generation to struggle…
Single moms and single dads! Tax filing deadline is NEXT WEEK! Are you getting all the tax deductions that single parents can claim? Here is everything you need to know about taxes … whether you are divorced, separated, still…
Bring up the fatherless epidemic in the United States, and the arguments are as diametric and unrelenting as bipartisan politics. It is either: Men are irresponsible douchbags who abandon their children to mothers, who are left to raise the children…
I love Rachel Cruze! Look, her dad is Dave Ramsey, the personal finance and no-debt guru who has a rabid following of his books, programs, forums and radio show that have made him a very, very rich and famous man….
Samantha Ettus, is a Los Angeles mom of three and author of The Pie Life: A Guilt-Free Recipe For Success and Satisfaction, in which she advocates for women to be whole, dynamic women — not just moms OR professions —…
A few years ago headlines screamed when Pew reported that 40 percent of families with kids were headed by breadwinner moms. This is a prickly social shift: On one hand, hooray for gender equality! On the other, swarms…
Note: already convinced you should sell? Jump to our how to. I had a really spectacular engagement ring. It wasn’t that it was huge or particularly expensive. It was unique — the 24-carat yellow gold band consisted of a half-dozen…
The awesome Jenny Hoff at CreditCards.com interviewed me for her latest ChargedUp podcast episode. This is a great conversation about my own story of overcoming my fears, hangups and neurosis’s when it comes to single motherhood and money. It is…
A story that makes my heart proud and happy! I love that she owns how hard the situation was, then decided to pursue her dream. Plus I LOVE THIS HOUSE! From single mom Illana Waxman, of Haiku, Hawaii, mom of…
Other ways to listen: iTunes ♦ Stitcher ♦ TuneIn ♦ SoundCloud ♦ Google Play When I shared on Facebook an excerpt of Suzanne Venker’s new book, The Alpha Female’s Guide to Men and Marriage: How Love Works, out this week, many people dismissed it…
When one spouse files for divorce, the other can feel blindsided —until weeks and months later, they look back and see all the red flags they were missing, or ignoring, or repeatedly turned down for sex. For years. In my…
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This post, a couple years old now, came to mind this evening when having a drink with the lovely man I’m involved with. It’s a new affair, we’re both divorced, not young and agreed: This relationship is going to be a…
Other ways to listen: iTunes ♦ Stitcher ♦ TuneIn ♦ SoundCloud ♦ Google Play While the numbers are not confirmed, experts agree that divorce rates among parents with special needs children is far higher than the general population. And since single moms of…
