You check your 401(k), imagining the day when you can finally kick back and relax — no worries, just enjoying the fruits of years of hard work. But then you see it: your balance has taken a sharp hit. That…
Fear. It’s powerful, isn’t it? For me, fear doesn’t show up as dramatic panic. It’s quieter than that. It’s a whisper. “Don’t leave your comfort zone. You worked too hard to build this.” “What if the new thing isn’t as…
I used to be terrified of Excel. In my early days working in corporate accounting, spreadsheets weren’t just intimidating — they gave me real anxiety. Sure, I had taken a few Excel classes in college, and I thought I had…
Every time I take a road trip, I’m amazed by the sheer number of trucks on the highway. Trucking is often the silent, underappreciated force that keeps our society running—rarely making headlines, yet essential to our daily lives. Truck drivers…
I told my boss I was quitting on March 7, 2025. I had rehearsed what I wanted to say a million times in my head. But when I finally sat down with my boss to deliver the news, I stuttered.…
For most of my late teens and early twenties, budgeting wasn’t even on my radar. As long as my bank account wasn’t in the negative, I figured I was doing fine. My financial “plan” boiled down to mental math, occasional…
More than ten years ago, I was a junior in college, interning for a small business owner. On the last day of my internship, the owner asked me a question that has stuck with me ever since: “I don’t…
