The Hidden Opportunity Cost of Student Loans, Scholarships and Financial Illiteracy In May my student won over $2,915,374 dollars!! Sounds unbelievable right? Well if you look at it the way she has learned to look at scholarships, students debt, investing and opportunity cost, this statement is very true for her....
My baby, Shawn just turned one. He babbles. He screams. He laughs uncontrollably for no apparent reason (I swear he sees angels playing on the walls!). His life coach (aka his nanny) says that he’s discovering his voice. He is coming to the realization that his vocal cords can...
As the plant manager of my school walked the campus, I would know he was coming before I saw him. How? His keys. I would hear them from afar and watched how he would go into rooms and spaces that I have never entered. He would have access to places that...
I just sent my little ones off to college this past month. As I looked around the table at my graduating seniors of my non-profit, Alumni360, these seven young women (who started with me as kindergartners) were about to embark on a journey like no other; the undergraduate experience. While...
Births. Weddings. Funerals. These are the events that force us to stop, reflect and evaluate exactly what we are doing with our lives. Sadly, I had a funeral of a dear colleague I attended at the end of June. I saw her on the last day of school two weeks...
I should have been happy to see this but just I sighed. I sighed because in 2017, I did a TEDx Talk on why our students need creative and financial literacy to increase their success as productive human beings. *crickets* I sighed because in 2006, Sir Ken Robinson challenged America with the...
You are creative but here’s why you think you’re not. I am so passionate about this issue that I just quit my job to take on this quest. The terms ‘creative and ‘creativity have been hijacked. And I’m here to say we are taking it back. It has been misaligned and there...
When we think of someone who is lazy, an image of a person slouching on the couch at noon, eating cereal comes to mind. That’s an easy call. But lazy comes in many different forms. No matter how it looks, after reading this proverb, I discovered there is a...
GoFundMe Link If you've ever said, "I wish I had this information when I was younger," then you know how importance this project will be. Here's my story... I found myself, as a 30 year old, weeping on the carpet. In one hand I held a $60,000 student loan bill and...
“A thorn of experience is worth a wilderness of wisdom.’ This quote came rushing to me when I realized I have experienced yet another painful lesson in my financial journey that got my attention faster than all the books I read on the topic. If you’re a teacher who is investing,...
