Once you have started that new job, you may find the pathway to your ultimate goals greatly enhanced by the advice of a mentor. Don’t become so immersed in the day-to-day activities of your new job that you lose sight of other important aspects of the job, company, or employer. To find who would make . . . → Read More: Episode 43 – How to Find a Mentor at Work

Higher education comes at a cost and if you are working and have bills to pay, it may be beyond your financial ability to pay the cost for that degree you covet. Don’t lose hope! It may be that your employer will be willing to pay for the cost of your further education. Many companies . . . → Read More: Episode 42 – How to Get Your Employer to Pay for Your Education

Whether or not you decide to seek professional financial help depends to a large extent on your skills, personality and what you want to achieve with your finances. If you are just starting out on your own and don’t have much money, it would be easier for you to organize your own finances. It’s . . . → Read More: Episode 41 – Do You Need Professional Financial Help?

One of the best ways to change bad spending habits is to cut up all your credit cards. Money that you spend using a credit card is money that doesn’t belong to you. You have to pay it back – along with interest, which makes the purchase price of your item that much more expensive. . . . → Read More: Episode 40 – How To Change Bad Spending Habits

Once you have got into debt – and that’s all too easy in these days of credit cards and consumer marketing – and are finding it difficult or impossible to pay, your credit rating will no doubt take a plunge. Sometimes, even though you’ve finally managed to pay off your debts, your credit rating . . . → Read More: Episode 39 – How To Repair Your Credit

The best way to teach young children about money is to let them have some. Since most of us have to work for our money, it is a good idea to give them chores to do by which they can earn money. These should be different from the chores they must do as part of . . . → Read More: Episode 38 – How To Teach Your Children About Money

Every family unit, no matter how big or how small, needs to plan their finances. Why? For starters, no one wants to run into debt they can’t pay, or lose a purchase they have paid a deposit on and then find they can’t keep up with the payments. If the electric is due and you . . . → Read More: Episode 37 – Why Your Family Needs A Budget

You might feel as if most lenders are big, bad bossies that breathe the foreclosure word down your neck every time you even look like missing a payment, but this is not so. Many people feel this way because when they try to do the right thing and contact the lender due to payment . . . → Read More: Episode 36 – Why Lenders Don’t Want to Foreclose

If things have gone from bad to worse and your bank has decided to foreclose, don’t give up hope of keeping your home; there may still be some way to save it. For foreclosure to become a fact of life, you need to have missed more than one payment on your mortgage. Most often . . . → Read More: Episode 35 – What to Do If the Bank Decides to Foreclose

Myths are a bit like gossip, the more they are repeated the worse they become. And in most cases they are not true to start with. All bad things bring their own spate of myths and gossip and foreclosure is no exception. One of the most common myths in foreclosure is the one that . . . → Read More: Episode 34 – Common Foreclosure Myths