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Travel Blogger Karen Akpan Shares How She Journeyed From Debt to Economic Freedom

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Karen Akpan, known as @themomtrotter across social media, started her blog in 2017 to document and share budget travel hacks for people. This creep ultimately caused her family to lose the ability to stay on top of their finances. The consistent income made it hard to see how their monthly payments were beginning to add up.

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How to Protect Yourself from Online Scams

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The FBI’s 2020 Internet Crime Report states that there were 300,000 more internet crimes (phishing, non-payment/non-delivery scams or extortion) complaints in 2020 than in 2019. Keep your devices up to date. Be wary of social media. We’ve all accidentally given out more information than we intended to on social media.

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Travel Blogger Karen Akpan Shares How She Journeyed From Debt to Economic Freedom

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Karen Akpan, known as @themomtrotter across social media, started her blog in 2017 to document and share budget travel hacks for people. This creep ultimately caused her family to lose the ability to stay on top of their finances. The consistent income made it hard to see how their monthly payments were beginning to add up.

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13 Key Traits of Strong Professional Relationships

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One challenge of relationship building in the social media era is that our digital connections can feel superficial. Plus, when you’re the first to offer up something of value, you’re much more likely to have your request for help fulfilled. Andrew Schrage, Money Crashers Personal Finance. Unique Perspective.

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How To Hire And Manage Freelancers, According To Experts

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Clear communication up front, and continuing conversation through regular check-ins and transparent project management helps streamline workflows and prevent confusion. In 2020, more than a third of Americans freelanced — up 22% from 2019, CNBC reports. And the key to good management — freelance or otherwise — is communication.

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How to Anticipate Problems with If-Then Planning

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Knowing and acknowledging our own limitations, when done reasonably and objectively, can be an important tool to success rather than an exercise in beating ourselves up. The key, as above, is anticipating problems with realism and compassion and coming up with specific solutions that you can easily execute, almost without thinking.

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During a Recession, Entrepreneurs Are in the Driver’s Seat

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A 2019 report from the U.S. Small Business Administration Office of Advocacy found that “the median net worth of self-employed families at $380,000 in 2019 was over four times that of families of workers ($90,000).”. They aren’t dependent upon a boss or the economy to determine their annual income— they determine it.

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