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The job market has been a rollercoaster over the past few years (to put it lightly.) First, there were furloughs and layoffs. Then the pendulum swung in the other direction as employees quit en masse (“The Great Resignation) and companies had to really compete for talent. But not, with rising inflation and the potential for […]

By Anna Paul, CFP®, Investment Adviser, Certified Financial Planner, and Money Coach at Snowball Wealth. I still remember believing that being rich meant you had stairs in your house. Growing up, my family always lived in apartments so any friend that had a two-story home was rich to me. In 2015, I purchased my first

Looking for a new job is really friggin’ hard. It can take a long time (on average 3 to 6 months!), it’s super tedious, and – and this is something we don’t talk enough about – it’s also really emotionally draining. You are putting yourself out there to be judged and that takes courage. And

I love coming up with big ideas, dreaming of the future, envisioning all kinds of possibilities. Following through? A bit trickier. Being consistent? Even harder. I’ve been like this for as long as I can remember; I have a vivid memory from high school of my mother exclaiming (with exasperation), “You just don’t have discipline!”

Office politics. Difficult managers. Catty colleagues. Whether it’s miscommunication, competing agendas, or a mismatch of personalities, sometimes there’s no amount of goodwill and collaboration that can help prevent it. (And sometimes there are company cultures that encourage it.) Unless you’re in an unsafe or toxic environment where you need to look for another job ASAP,

You probably already know the answer to this. There’s a gut feeling you have, deep down inside, that’s been flickering for quite some time. Maybe it’s no longer a flicker but a full-out siren, blaring at you to get the hell out of there. But you’re torn. There are reasons to stay (a steady paycheck,

“Tienes que ser una lider.” My mom always used to say “You have to be a leader.” She would say this what seemed like every time I ever left the house growing up. To this day, I hear these words in my head over and over again but now I finally understand why my mom

We’ve been on Slack since 2016 and with 50,000 active members and more than 2 million messages exchanged, it’s been thrilling to watch it – and YOU – grow. But now we’re moving on to bigger and better things. After a year of research, we found the perfect platform to replace it which we’ll be