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How to Recover Financially and Emotionally After Losing Your Home in a Wildfire

How to Recover Financially and Emotionally After Losing Your Home in a Wildfire

Los Angeles is the birthplace of ModernMom.com, and it’s been heart-wrenching to see so many suffering in our community. 

When a natural disaster strikes, the financial losses are staggering, but as moms, our first concern is often for our families. How do we explain this to our kiddos? How do we support our partners while holding ourselves together? How do we even find the strength to ask for help when we feel like we need to do it all? How are we going to get through this? It’s all so overwhelming.

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Holiday Budgeting Tips: How Moms Can Prepare Financially for the Season

The holidays can be a magical time filled with family, fun, and festivities, but they can also create financial stress. Between gifts, travel, and gatherings, the holiday season can strain even the most well-planned budget. To help you stay on track, here are 10 practical holiday budgeting tips that will allow you to enjoy the season without the financial hangover. Plus, we’ve included some great tools and affiliate resources to help manage your spending!

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Why You Should Absolutely Avoid the “Bank Glitch” Trend: Protect Your Financial Future

As a mom of three and a financial advisor, I’ve seen firsthand how essential it is to teach kids about budgeting, saving, and financial responsibility. Equally important is educating them on what not to do, and here’s a prime example: a dangerous trend is circulating on social media, encouraging people to exploit a supposed “bank glitch” to withdraw free cash from ATMs. While this may seem harmless in viral videos, it is actually bank fraud and can lead to serious legal trouble for you or your kids.

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The Best Credit Cards for Teens: Smart Financial Start

Which Credit Card Should Your Teen Get? Just when you thought you were finally getting over the college applications, you now have to think about sending your kid to college and hoping they will make smart decisions - and that includes the money part too. Let’s face it, financial literacy is an essential skill for…

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 The 6 Financial Habits Of Mentally Strong People for Year-End Planning 

As the seasons start to change and the holiday season approaches, it’s the perfect time for a financial check-up. Let’s reflect on how much we’ve accomplished this year and set the stage for financial success in the upcoming year with some year-end planning. If you haven’t scheduled a meeting with your advisors yet, now is the time to get your financial planning done. In fact, for our clients, this is one of the busiest and most important planning periods of the year.

Many of us set ambitious financial goals, but how often do we follow through with them? It’s time to take a page from the mentally strong and map out some to-dos to achieve our financial objectives as we head into the end of the year. Remember how important reaching financial independence is?