THE YAKEZIE ETA CHALLENGER APPLICATION IS NOW OPEN Greetings all Challengers! For those of you who joined the challenge before February 15, 2013 please fill out the questionnaire to be considered a Yakezie Eta Class Member. If you are within 30 days short of the six month period, you should still apply for consideration as […]
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Oh, hi. You look adorable. Every single one of you. Did you do something to your hair? Is that a new shirt? What a great looking bunch! I’d like to thank all the little people who helped me get to where I was today. Wait, no, wrong acceptance speech. Let’s try this again. Stage One: […]
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Wow, is everyone else as surprised as I am? I mean, I went through the secret handshake and everything, but I didn’t think they’d actually let me join the club!*Steps through the door…* So…am I…am I actually allowed in here? Like, I’m in? Can I eat the crackers and salmon dip too? Sweet! …… *pockets […]
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Hi, my name is Dominique, and this member post is severely late. I narrowly missed my chance at being a Yakezie member in the last class, and now I almost blew my shot for the Epsilon class. I need to get my life together. Let’s start this post over… Hi, everyone my name is Dominique, […]
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When I first got the email that I had been accepted as a member into the Yakezie network, I was tickled purple. I had been a challenger for an entire year and didn’t apply the first time around, finally…my time had come. Then after the excitement wound down, I realized that I had to come […]
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I am fascinated how one small event leads to a series of dominos that change your life. When I was an advisor, one client told me he loved having me there so he “had someone to kick.” You’d think that’s what drove me from the business, but it wasn’t. In fact, that one spurred me […]
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When I started blogging about personal finance in 2011, my financial life was in transition. My wife and I had been aggressively paying down a mountain of consumer, student loan and auto loan debt for a few years at that point, and we were about one year away from finally being debt free. But like […]
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I sometimes think that everyone agrees on a few key facts. Just the usual stuff, like: It’s OK to make fun of people who wear Ed Hardy or Affliction. There’s no such thing as a good tampon commercial. It’s a tie between Gabriel García Márquez and Margaret Atwood for the title of greatest living novelist. The best […]
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