Fueled with ambition, curiosity, and the desire to change industries from within, women have been trailblazing for generations.
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8 Ways Women Are Growing the Global Economy
Today, Oct. 11, is International Day of the Girl, and we want to focus on all the ways women are growing the economy.
We talk a lot about wage disparity, workplace boys’ clubs, and the confidence gap that hinders female investors. All important issues. But here are equally important facts: Women are starting companies at an unprecedented rate, increasingly becoming family breadwinners and accumulating massive wealth.
Here are eight reasons to celebrate today.
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Having ‘Enough’ With Vicki Robin, Author Of 'Your Money Or Your Life'
What does it really mean to have "enough"? Every day, we’re confronted by messages from advertisements and society telling us that we need a new car, new clothes, a new phone — new everything. Without even realizing it, it’s easy to fall into a thought process that goes a little something like this: If I consume more, I’ll be happier. But that’s just not true.
This week’s HerMoney Podcast* guest, Vicki Robin, co-author of the seminal book "Your Money Or Your Life," challenged a whole generation of people to think critically about what they were really working toward financially, and how they could live authentically in a consumer-driven world.
Vicki and her late partner and co-author Joe Dominguez are largely credited with sowing the seeds of the FIRE movement as it is known today. Vicki speaks some hard and necessary truths about the concept of "enough" and how we can fully embrace what’s "enough" for us.
5 Female Entrepreneurs On Their Greatest Financial Lessons
Fueled with ambition, curiosity and the desire to change industries from within, women have been trailblazing for generations.
Today, female-owned small businesses make up 36 percent of all companies. In 2018, there were 12.3 million women-owned businesses in the U.S., compared to just 402,000 in 1972. But even though it may be easier than ever to get started as a female entrepreneur, starting a company from the ground up can still feel a lot like the Wild Wild West, particularly when it comes to managing the business finances.
Millions of women have successfully developed their own impressive companies in industries including media, skincare, clothing, food, construction and beyond, but they’ll be the first to tell you that some of their most important financial lessons had to be learned the hard way. But it’s those very lessons that allow smart brands — and smart professionals — to grow.
We asked some of them to share their experiences with HerMoney, so we can learn along with them.
Are Women’s Subscription Boxes Worth It, Or Are They Just A Nicely Packaged Drain On Our Bank Accounts?
Subscription boxes are still relatively new — Birchbox shipped its first ever box of mini makeup goods in 2010 — but today there are thousands of companies competing in the space — and you can get everything from razors to organic wine delivered to your doorstep once every four weeks. Some of the biggest players in the space include FabFitFun, Ipsy, StitchFix and Fabletics, and they all offer a way to get your fill of makeup, beauty, clothing and accessories without ever leaving the couch.
Which begs the question — do these boxes make it too easy to spend our hard-earned money, potentially representing a hazard to our budgets? |
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*This is a sponsored podcast, and it’s a part of a paid campaign with Fidelity Investments, which means we were compensated for this piece of educational content. Thanks!
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