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
QuickBooks (Self-Employed & Small Business) How QuickBooks Self-Employed Saved Me $5,000 in Taxes My First Freelance Year Wow! Imagine finding a secret map that shows you all the spots where you accidentally dropped allowance money, letting you pick it back up! That’s what QuickBooks Self-Employed did for my grown-up freelance work! It helped me track … Read more
Digit How Digit Automatically Saved $1,000 For Me Without Me Even Noticing Imagine finding hidden treasure in your couch cushions, but way more! Digit felt like that magic! It cleverly analyzes my checking account and automatically moves tiny, safe amounts I supposedly won’t miss into savings. Suddenly, I checked my Digit balance – wow, $1,000 … Read more
Audience Retention How I Cut Eye Fatigue and Kept Viewers to the End My video retention graph looked like a sad ski slope – everyone slid away halfway through! It felt like telling a story and watching everyone walk out before the best part. Their eyes must have been tired! So, I started adding little … Read more
Wealthfront Why I Chose Wealthfront Over Betterment (The Key Feature That Sold Me) Picking my robot helper felt like choosing between two amazing superheroes! Betterment was friendly, but Wealthfront had a super cool tech power: Stock-Level Tax-Loss Harvesting (like extra-fancy tax magic for bigger gardens!). It promised even more potential tax savings down the road. … Read more
Empower Retirement (Participant Site) How I Used Empower Retirement Tools to Boost My 401(k) Savings Rate by 5% Painlessly Seeing my future savings goal felt HUGE, almost scary! I thought saving more meant giving up fun stuff. But Empower had this super neat tool, like a volume knob for savings. I nervously nudged it up … Read more
Credit Card Rewards Portals (General Category) How I Redeemed Chase Ultimate Rewards® for $2,000 Worth of Travel (1.5x Value!) Wow! Imagine trading your arcade tickets for a prize worth WAY more than usual! That’s what happened with my Chase credit card points! I used them in Chase’s special travel website (“portal”), and because I had … Read more
Simplifi by Quicken Simplifi by Quicken Review: Is This Paid App Better Than Free Budget Trackers? Tired of free budget apps cluttered with ads or unreliable connections, like a free toy that breaks easily? I decided to try Simplifi by Quicken, which has a subscription fee. It felt like choosing a well-made, sturdy toy instead! … Read more
Brand Deals & Monetization How I Got a $225K Brand Deal With No Script Being forced to read boring brand scripts felt like wearing itchy clothes – uncomfortable and fake! It made me sound like a robot, and I knew my audience would hate it. For one HUGE potential deal, I bravely told the brand, … Read more
Betterment Why I Handed My Investments Over to a Robot (My Betterment Experience) Trying to pick the best seeds for my money garden felt impossible, like guessing jellybean flavors in the dark! I worried I’d mess it up. Then I heard about Betterment, a smart robot helper designed by experts to plant and grow money … Read more