Category: Personal Financial Stories

One Woman’s Road to Financial Empowerment

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For Evelyn, the road to financial empowerment has been a bit of a bumpy ride, especially as she is acutely aware that her confidence level when dealing with finances was quite low when she started on this journey. “On a scale of one to ten,” says Evelyn, “I was maybe a three.” Standing proudly beside ...

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Becoming Financially Empowered in My 20s

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As a young adult in my early 20s, financial planning and retirement do not frequently cross my mind. Money overall doesn’t cross my mind much, until it’s time to pay a bill! However, during the past few months, while working at Sophia Wealth Academy, I’ve been exposed to an abundance of financial knowledge and tools ...

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Are You Willing?

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Talking about money is tough. Many of us were raised to think of it as a taboo subject. Once, after suffering some playground insults about my hand-me-down clothes and sneakers with holes in the toes, I asked my father how much money we had. He was instantly insulted and told me it was none of ...

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