This past December I had the honor to speak at YWCA’s Young Women and Money Conference in Oakland, California.  If there’s one thing I love talking more about than women and motivation, it’s money, so you can guess this event was like opening Christmas gifts early!

Confidence in your financial situation is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself.  In this workshop I lead about 50 participants in helping them become clearer on their goals, and then going over my personal money system to save for those goals.

For all of you who weren’t able to be there, here are two resources I sent to all the ladies following the event that all of you may enjoy!

The first is a Goal Setting Sheet.  Use this to get clear on what your want 2015 to look like:

The second is a Money Planning Sheet.  Use this to get clear on where you’re money is going and find out your “play money” amount:

A huge thank you to the Berkeley / Oakland YWCA for inviting me to speak.  I had such a great time working with all the women and hope to be able to return next year!

“Start now,” that’s what I need to remind myself of today…

I’ve been going around and around about when and how to announce the re-branding Bitches Work, but nothing feels right.

I keep thinking…  How am I supposed to tell people?  Should I be doing more of a build up?  Has it been too long?  Will people still be following me…?  Around and around down that rabbit hole spiral we all know.

Too often we get stuck in a rut.  We procrastinate.  We doubt.

For me I’ve been looking for a right time.  A right way.

The longer I wait though, the more it has me thinking, is there a right way and a right time?  How do you even go about determining when something is right?

Too often it seems like we are waiting for “right,” but what we are really waiting for is a sign.

A sign that everything will be okay, that we are prepared, that we won’t fail, that people will still stand by us.

The thing is, this so called “sign” isn’t something I think we should stop our lives for, waiting anxiously as if it were like the mailman coming.

Sometimes we need to create our own sign.

We need to reassure ourselves that everything will be okay.

We need to reassure ourselves that we are prepared.

We need to reassure ourselves that we won’t fail, because the only failure is giving up.

We need to reassure ourselves that it’s okay to start.

And that’s what I’m doing today.  So with that, bah-dah-dah-dummmm, the new site is up and live!

Check it out at BitchesWork.com!