The Penny Hoarder

Yakezie Member Post: Delta Class

by in Featured on Apr 17th, 2012

Seventeen months ago I had just finished working on one of the 2010 congressional campaigns (my guy lost, for the record). I had done this before, so I knew the next few months would bring about a nervous, sometimes frantic, search for my next campaign, the next candidate; in other words, the next paycheck.

Such is the life of a campaign worker. I had basically lived on the road for the last 6 years and while I loved my job, I knew that I wanted something different. I wanted something steady. I wanted a home.

I’m Kyle Taylor from The Penny Hoarder. I couldn’t be more excited to join Yakezie as a full member this month and for my introduction post, I’d love to share my journey to becoming a blogger and my plans going forward…

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My University Money

Yakezie Member Post: Delta Class

by in Blogging on Apr 8th, 2012

“Ok, you never get a second chance to make a first impression,” I thought as I sat down to pen something epic for our inauguration into the Yakezie family.  Then I looked over some other member posts to steal get a feel for what I wanted to say to this group of high-achieving people.  Bad decision.

Now I can’t help but feel as intimidated as the day we decided to join the Yakezie challenge.  Do I really belong in the same group as these people who have 4 degrees, or know 8 different languages?  These entrepreneurs who make so much money off of their blogs that they quit their day jobs?  Am I in the same league as someone with multiple financial designations behind their names and writes about earning 6 figures a year?  So the conclusion I came to was: HAHA! Sam sent us the email, we have our own password, no take-backs now suckers!

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My Multiple Incomes: Creating Income Streams One Drop At A Time

Yakezie Member Post: Delta Class

by in Featured on Apr 6th, 2012

I’m Robert from My Multiple Incomes. For those of you who don’t know, this is my second time around the Yakezie Challenge block.  I’m also the guy behind The College Investor, a blog dedicated to personal finance for young adults and college students.  I started My Multiple Incomes in 2011 after blogging for over 2 years at The College Investor.  At first, I was leery about starting a second blog due to the time and effort involved, and continued to ask myself – what if I just posted everything at The College Investor?

In the end, I decided to keep The College Investor focused on it’s mission of delivering great personal finance topics geared towards young adults, and start My Multiple Incomes to discuss the multiple income theory I had been developing.

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FrugalBeautiful Joins Yakezie

Yakezie Member Post: Delta Class

by in Featured on Apr 2nd, 2012

I’m not really sure how most people come to blogging- but I came up with the idea while at a bar aptly named the “Rock Bottom” when I was literally crying into my beer after discovering I had made some big mistakes.

At the time, I found myself in downtown Chicago, quickly approaching my first-ever real winter, in a city I’d never even been to before packing up my hatchback Toyota to move to the midwest from sunny California and start graduate school.  See, here’s the thing- I was at the Rock Bottom Brewery, crying into a beer- broke and disillusioned with my life as a graduate student.

Some people start a blog as a hobby and others, well- we start blogs because we find ourselves in very odd circumstances in ironically named locations and blogging just seems like the right thing to do.   This is exactly how Frugalbeautiful.com was born at a literal Rock Bottom. Read More

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Daily Money Shot

Yakezie Member Post: Delta Class

by in Personal Finance on Mar 28th, 2012

Who are you? Who am I? I am the walrus…

OK. Not really, but whenever I need to write about myself, the first thing that pops into my mind is that scene from The Breakfast Club where Anthony Michael Hall is talking to himself. Nothing makes me more anxious than talking about myself but I guess not talking about me defeats the point of this post. So here goes.

Who am I really? I’m Jana and I blog at Daily Money Shot (established May 31, 2011). My site was born out of a compelling need to write, an unnatural love of talking about money and a desire to marry the two. I’ve always wanted to be a writer and thanks to the advent of blogs, I finally had a corner of the world where I could write what I wanted and have people who weren’t related to me read it. Though I don’t consider myself an expert on anything except glam metal bands, I believed I had something to contribute to the personal finance world and I dove in without thinking about it. I’m glad I did because that fleeting moment of bravery landed me here, in Yakezie. But I’m getting ahead of myself. I should probably give you a little bit of background. Read More

  • femmefrugality: I’m excited! Plan on working on my submission this weekend.
  • Shilpan: It’s incredibly well written essay. I am still spellbound by every word and the message.
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