13 Recipes for Financial Success: A Collaborative Cookbook

13 Recipes for Financial Success: A Collaborative Cookbook

Money Recipes
Just like your favorite version of apple pie (Dutch, French, Old Fashioned, double crusts, crumble top, caramel, or something else?), financial success has its own unique flavor depending on who you ask. To kick off this holiday season, we have put together a Financial Success Cookbook: Recipes for Financial Success. You can download it for free by clicking here, or you can read through all of the recipes below. 12 amazing authors contributed their own recipes (and we included one as well), so be sure to check out all of the recipes and links to the author’s sites below. Recipes for Financial Success If you are looking for a recipe to improve your finances, you’ll find at least one (if not more) here worth trying. Find the one that matches…
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Recipe for Starting a Business

Recipe for Starting a Business

Money Recipes
As part of our money recipes series, today we are tackling how to start a business to earn more money. But what is the best recipe for starting a business? Read on to learn how you can launch your own business and maximize its chances of success. Recipe for Starting a Business Today’s recipe requires some improvising. It’s truly not one size fits all.  While the ingredients will always remain the same (unlike our recipe for earning more money), you can still fine-tune this protocol to fit your unique needs. Ingredients An idea Hustle Perseverance Coffee Ingredient amounts will vary and need to be determined as you go. Cooking Steps Take one part hustle, sprinkle in a good idea. Shake vigorously. Wait.  Continuously add hustle while sprinkling in perseverance when…
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Recipe for Earning More Money

Recipe for Earning More Money

Money Recipes
As part of our money recipes series, this time we aren’t focused on what to do with your paycheck. Instead, we are tackling earning more money. What is the best recipe for earning more money? Some of my favorite traditional food recipes are the recipes that have a base recipe with multiple options for different flavors or mix-ins.  Think of your favorite cookie recipe base, but then consider the different choices of what to add to make them chocolate chip, or nut, or oatmeal, or monster goods, etc. Or muffins. Maybe pizza. Or even quiche. All of these start with a base recipe that allows you to add different ingredients depending on what you have in your kitchen or the outcome you are looking for. Recipe for Earning More Money…
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A Recipe For Your Paycheck

A Recipe For Your Paycheck

Money Recipes
Something about the fall season makes me want to cook. Specifically, I want to turn on the oven and bake cookies, breads, quiche, crisp, cobbler… you name it. So in the spirit of fall, we are going to run “recipes” for the next few weeks on Women’s Money. Recipe For Your Paycheck The goal of this recipe is to create and shape your after-tax dough so that you know exactly what to do with your paycheck. In order to create this dough, you need to make your before-tax dough first. As a result, it is a multiple-step process that can take several days. Your Pre-Tax Dough This includes:  Taxes (Including FICA/Medicare/State/Federal)Health/Vision InsuranceLife/Disability InsuranceHealth Savings AccountFlexible Spending AccountRetirement Savings Start with your total paycheck. Determine how to complete your company’s tax…
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