Marie Forleo is a business and life coach with a mission to help you realize your greatest potential and use your unique talents to change the world. Marie has helped a number of women push back from the brink through her online business school for modern entrepreneurs, known as B-school. Her energy is contagious, her passion is palpable, and she shared some of her time, insight and advice with us about how you can push back from the brink, along with the steps you can take right now to help you get back on your feet after the wind has been knocked out of you.  → Read More

I recall the first phone conversation I had with a potential client. A husband, dad, and CEO of a successful company, he asked me to provide financial advice for his family. During our talk, I shared what we would cover during our face-to-face appointment that would take place the following week. “I look forward to meeting your wife,” I said.
“Oh, she doesn’t have to be there because I take care of all the finances,” he said. Clearly, this is an extreme case of a woman putting her financial well-being in someone else’s hands.  → Read More

Women today outnumber men on college campuses, in advanced degree programs, at the voting booth, and, increasingly, as breadwinners for their families. The majority of small business owners are women. They drive consumer spending, and by some measures outpace men as homeowners and even as car buyers. Women rule, right? Except that they are more likely than men to be poor, stressed out, overburdened, and underpaid.  → Read More

Women’s social, political, and financial opportunities have improved dramatically over the past 50 years. In 1967, only 27 percent of mothers were breadwinners or co-breadwinners, but recent data show that in 2010, women were co- or primary breadwinners in two-thirds of American families.  → Read More

These are strange times for women and their money. More than perhaps any other time in American history, women are handling all aspects of money, from earning to investing.  → Read More