If your company matches your 401(k) contribution, then no matter what, contribute to your 401(k) first. You put in a dollar, they put in 50 cents. It's an automatic 50 percent return on your money. You can't pass that up. I'd rather have the 50 percent than pay 32 percent interest on a credit card.

Women need to turn their attention from saving their spouse, their mothers, their this, their that, their kids, to putting that financial oxygen mask on their face first. When they're solid, they can pick up the whole world.

... true financial freedom doesn't depend on how much money you have. Financial freedom is when you have power over your fears and anxieties instead of the other way around.

If you have debt I'm willing to bet that general clutter is a problem for you too.

Power comes from who you are, not what you have, and the transformation starts with how you allow others to treat you.

Private student loans should be avoided at all costs.

Absolutely pay off your credit card debt, because a child can always get a loan to go to school, possibly a scholarship, a grant.