Online Business Models How I Built a $10k/Month Online Business While Working Full-Time My 9-to-5 paid the bills, but I craved more. Building an online business felt impossible with limited time. The key was extreme focus and leveraging evenings/weekends. I identified a niche (dog training resources) and created a high-value digital course. Instead of trying … Read more
Niche Research How I Found a Million-View Idea in Incognito Mode My YouTube search results felt… biased, always showing me stuff I already watched! How could I find truly FRESH ideas everyone else was seeing? It felt like being stuck in my own little bubble! So, I opened an “Incognito” window (like wearing a secret … Read more
YNAB (You Need A Budget) How Giving Every Dollar a Job with YNAB Finally Broke My Paycheck-to-Paycheck Cycle My money felt like slippery fish, always gone before my next allowance! Stress city! YNAB taught me to give every single dollar a specific job – like telling each toy exactly which box it lives in. “You’re … Read more
Alight Solutions Navigating the Alight Solutions Portal: My Guide to Managing All My Benefits in One Place All my work benefits felt scattered, like puzzle pieces thrown everywhere! Health stuff here, retirement there – ugh! Then I found Alight, our company’s benefits portal. Suddenly, it was like having one big, organized binder. Health plan details, … Read more
FreshBooks How FreshBooks Invoicing Made Me Look More Professional (And Get Paid Faster) Wow! My lemonade stand bills suddenly looked like they came from a fancy grown-up office! Before FreshBooks, my invoices were just typed lists. FreshBooks helped me make beautiful, professional-looking invoices with my logo! Plus, clients could click a simple “Pay Now” button … Read more
Tally How Tally Lowered My Credit Card APR and Saved Me Hundreds in Interest Drowning in credit card interest felt like trying to swim wearing heavy boots! Then I found Tally. They gave me a lower-interest line of credit and used it to pay down my high-interest cards faster! It felt like swapping those heavy … Read more
How I Reviewed a Product and Got 1 Million Views Can you believe simply sharing my thoughts on a new toy brought a million curious friends to my video? I got this gadget and felt super excited, but also a bit confused – would it actually be fun? I decided to just honestly show everyone … Read more
Freelancing (General) How I Landed My First $1000 Freelance Client With Zero Experience Staring at job boards, “experience required” felt like a brick wall. I had skills but no paid proof. My breakthrough came from shifting focus. Instead of a generic application, I identified a specific company problem I could solve. I created a proactive, … Read more
Empower Personal Dashboard™ (formerly Personal Capital) How Watching My Net Worth Grow Daily on Empower Kept Me Motivated to Save Saving money felt like pushing a giant rock uphill – so hard to see progress! Then Empower started showing my “Net Worth” number (all my good money minus my owes) like a score in a … Read more
Voya Financial (Participant Site) How Voya’s Retirement Planning Tools Helped Me Visualize My Path to Financial Freedom Dreaming about retirement felt like trying to imagine a place I’d never seen! Voya had these cool tools, like drawing a map to the future. I put in my savings info, and it showed pictures and numbers representing … Read more