Financial Literacy is a necessary curriculum but you can’t save what you don’t have. Enter the prerequisite: Creating Personal Wealth in five not so easy steps.
The Thriving Writer
Author: melhopkinsdotcom
Jet setting, globetrotting yet landlocked, seafaring, book peddling, recovering broadcast journalist wordsmith who dreams vividly and commits it to white space.
Wisdom in the Comment Section
Physical circumstances may change – but it takes a free mind to make it permanent.
Breaking Up is Hard to Do
Newspaper publishers think they are selling a product, but they’re actually engaging in a relationship. The dynamics of the newspaper business model is readers allow a stranger to come into our home; gossip about our neighbors, talk about government issues that affect our lives while revealing some of most of the intimate details of the community when we’re most vulnerable. This engagement requires an exchange of the most valuable relationship commodity: trust.
Retail Therapy | Deprogramming 101
Shopping can be a great stress reliever. But there’s an even better way to get a bigger hit of dopamine.
Open Salaries: the Good, the Bad and the Awkward
Open Salaries: humbling for some while empowering for others. Where you fall on the spectrum may directly affect your paycheck.
Default Status
What would you do in life if money weren’t a factor? Some may soon find out their answer.
Interference
Some times, that small voice transmits an outdated message, preventing you from transforming into your best self.
It’s Tax Time, CYA (Check Your Assets)
In the U.S., today is the deadline for filing an income tax return. If you’re a freelance writer, you’ll want to make sure you can expense this one item that most overlook.
Puzzle Pieces
If nothing is what it seems in this universe – could it be we’re conditioned to play winner take all games against each other when the true prize comes from solving the mystery of the puzzle?
Take Care of Home
A cautionary tale for those who mind everyone’s business but their own.
Byline: EBONY Magazine
Changing poison into medicine.| I profile two women filmmakers for EBONY’s September Fashion Issue who show how persistence and creatively hurdling obstacles to achieve their goals pay off for the community.
