Author: Paula
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Career & Money – Part 3: What are your values? How much do you need/want to earn?
In Part 2 of the Career & Money series I talked about how you can do some life planning and determine if you really want a job or a career. This time I am going to take that a step further so you can align your career choices with your values and the type of…
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Financial Challenges Associated with Organ Transplants
Back in February I had the distinct pleasure of speaking to a group of people at The Gift of Life program in Philadelphia. The audience was made up of numerous organ transplant recipients and several organ donor family members. It was a very inspiring evening for me made all the more special because of old…
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Career & Money – Part 2: How to Determine if You Want a Career or a Job
In Part 1 of the Career & Money Series I talked about the question “How Did We Get Here?” when it comes to our work lives. This time I’m going to delve deeper into the career versus job distinction by giving you information and tools that will help you answer the questions “Do I want…
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Helena and The Lifestyle Trap – The L Word Season Four Finale
Last night was the Season Four Finale for The L Word and our friend Helena was up to a crazy money storyline once again. While it was far from the main storyline of the night – I talk about my take on what that main storyline REALLY was at my blog , it still is…
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Career and Money – Part 1: Intention, plan and goals
In the coming weeks I will be doing a multi-part series on the topic of Career and Money. I plan on writing this series fairly organically so I don’t have a nice outline to share up front of what I am going to cover or how many articles will be in the series. So, for…
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WWYD: Amend or Ignore?
We’re getting closer and closer to the 2007 tax deadline. As I was doing my own tax return I got to thinking — what sort of change would I need to make to a prior year’s return that would warrant filing an amended return? In looking at the IRS FAQ It states: If you did…
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Are You Putting Yourself on Sale?
I’ve recently started reading (the audiobook version) Suze Orman’s Women & Money book. You can expect I will expound upon what I learn as well as my vast opinions in the coming weeks. Most recently I wrote the post “Don’t Put Yourself on Sale” over at my Coaching4Lesbians blog. In it I talk about the…
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Sleeping With Money: Don’t Let Romance Cloud Your Financial Vision
Way back in the day when I was young and in love for the first time I didn’t let money get in the way of impressing my girl or simply doing what I wanted. I was fresh out of college, in love and in the process of coming out to myself (and each other since…
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Burning Through Money
This weekend Kim & I took a little road trip to Delaware to Total Wine & More, a mega-store filled with wine, beer, and spirits. Since we live in Pennsylvania, one major sucky (technical term) state when it comes to being able to buy and enjoy niche wine from across the globe, we tend to…
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TaxCut and TurboTax Duke It Out
If you’ve been following along Allison’s Tax Series, you may have decided that doing your own taxes is right for you. For many people that means buying a personal tax software to guide you through the maze. As someone who has used TurboTax in the past and is now using it again this year, I…
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