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RSUs, Options, and ESPPs: A Plain-English Guide for Executive Women
You got the offer letter, saw the equity grant, and moved on to negotiating the number that actually mattered to you at the time: base salary. Most executive women do. Equity gets treated as a bonus you’ll figure out later, until later arrives and it’s a meaningful share of your net worth with tax rules you never sat down to learn. You don’t need to become a tax professional to manage this well. You need to understand what you actually have, when it becomes real income, and what decisions are yours to make versus decisions already made for you by…
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RSUs, Options, and ESPPs: A Plain-English Guide for Executive Women
You got the offer letter, saw the equity grant, and moved on to negotiating the number that actually mattered to you at the time: base salary. Most executive women do. Equity gets treated as a…
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The Mid-Year Money Check-In I Use With Clients
Half the year is gone. Here is the mid-year money check-in I walk every client through, and how to run it yourself before the year gets away from you.
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The Three Buckets Every High Earner Needs to Build a Retirement Paycheck
There is a question I hear often from women who have been saving for decades, doing everything right, maxing out their 401(k), watching the balance climb, and then suddenly, somewhere in their late 40s or…
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RSUs, Options, and ESPPs: A Plain-English Guide for Executive Women
You got the offer letter, saw the equity grant, and moved on to negotiating the number that actually mattered to you at the time: base salary. Most executive women do. Equity gets treated as a…
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The Mid-Year Money Check-In I Use With Clients
Half the year is gone. Here is the mid-year money check-in I walk every client through, and how to run it yourself before the year gets away from you.
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The Three Buckets Every High Earner Needs to Build a Retirement Paycheck
There is a question I hear often from women who have been saving for decades, doing everything right, maxing out their 401(k), watching the balance climb, and then suddenly, somewhere in their late 40s or…
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Do I Need a Financial Planner? Here’s How to Know.
You’re earning good money, managing a full career, and probably handling more than your fair share at home too. You’re saving, contributing to your 401(k), and have a general sense that you should have a…
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What to Focus on First When Your Financial Life Feels Messy
Your financial life feels scattered — but it is almost never as broken as it feels. Here is where to actually start when everything needs attention at once.
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Your Paycheck Isn’t the Point: Reframing Career Decisions Through a Wealth Lens
There’s a version of this story that plays out constantly. A woman gets a job offer. It’s $30,000 more than she’s making now. She says yes (because of course she does, that’s a lot of…
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Financial Independence Inside Partnership: What It Actually Looks Like in Practice
Let’s start by dismantling a myth. When most people hear “financial independence inside a relationship,” they picture two people keeping everything separate, operating like financial roommates who happen to share a last name. Or they…
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Money Conversations That Strengthen Your Relationships
Money is the number one source of conflict in relationships. You’ve probably heard that before. But what rarely gets said is that money is also one of the most powerful tools for building trust, intimacy,…
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How to Set Financial Goals That Actually Work
Every January, millions of people set financial resolutions. Pay off debt. Save more. Invest better. Build an emergency fund. And by February, most of those goals are abandoned. Research tells us that nearly 80% of…
