Category Archive for Featured | Yakezie.com - Part 40

Sunil from The Extra Money Blog

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Hi Friends, my name is Sunil and I blog at The Extra Money Blog.  This post has been LOOONG pending on my to-do list and I am ecstatic to have finally gotten around to it. A brief background on me: I am of Indian origin, was born in South East Asia and I speak four […]

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What Would You Do If You Got Let Go?

by in Personal Finance on Aug 21st, 2011

Now that it’s the second half of the year and the world is crumbling, all carrots have turned into sticks.  Company managers all over the world are going to beat their employees into producing more.  There’s no more pats on the back and sweet talking to woo the best employees to stay.  Hiring binges have […]

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Hiring Myself as The Family CEO

by in Featured on Aug 19th, 2011

Hi, I’m Julie, the blogger behind The Family CEO. In 2006 I hired myself to save my family money, make extra money, and get us out of debt. I started a blog to document my efforts. That’s how The Family CEO was born. Prior to 2006 I already did all the things that I hired […]

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Don’t Let Time Pass You By

by in Lifestyle on Aug 17th, 2011
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I recently had the good opportunity to travel to Ethiopia, a beautiful and fascinating country located in the horn of Africa. My trip over there was a mind-opening experience: I saw striking contrasts of wealth and poverty, and of beauty and misery. There are many places in the country where people live a simple life […]

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How to Inspire Others

The bottom line: Be worth inspiring and you will inspire others without you even knowing it.  Easy said but like any other endeavor or goal, the “how” aspect is not as easy. Have you ever set the goal to stand as an inspiration to other people?  There are diverse motivations why people would like to […]

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It’s Not Where You Start, It’s Where You End Up

by in Personal Finance on Aug 10th, 2011

Greetings, fellow Yakezies! My name is Andrea and I’m here from So Over Debt. I’m simultaneously excited and terrified to share my Member Post with all of you. My Blogging Beginnings When I entered the world of personal finance blogging, I felt I had a worthwhile message. I was a former teenage mother, now a […]

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Money Is The Root Of All Things…..

by in Personal Finance on Aug 8th, 2011

My name is Justin and I’m the creator of Money Is The Root.   You may have noticed that my tagline is “money is the root of all things good”, a play on the old adage that it’s the root of all evil.  As I’ve said many times I don’t believe that money is necessarily the […]

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Money Mamba: Learning Finance in Reverse

by in Personal Finance on Aug 3rd, 2011
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I learned personal finance in reverse. It seems, at least to me, that the natural progression in personal finance land tends to be: 1. Get in a financial crunch 2. Have an epiphany 3. Concentrate on getting out of debt 4. Learn the language of corporate and institutional finance 5. Start investing for a good […]

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