Money is such an amazing teacher: What you choose to do with your money shows whether you are truly powerful or powerless.

It pays to be a fee fiend.

It's easy to underestimate the real cost of home ownership.

I've learned from her [ Oprah Winfrey] really how to stand in one's truth, how if you just simply are who you are, you know, you're heavy, you're thin, you're happy, you're sad - if you just speak your truth as it comes into your mind, then that's what people relate to.

Credit card companies are jacking up interest rates, lowering credit limits, and closing accounts - and people who have made timely payments are not exempt. So even if you pay off your balance - and that's tough when interest rates are insanely high - there's a good chance your credit limit will be slashed, and that will hurt your FICO score.

The world does not need another credit card.

When someone chooses to value herself over the things she can buy, true transformation begins.