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Lida Orzeck

Lida Orzeck ON Personal Finance

CEO, Hanky Panky Ltd.

Q: What are your top 3 personal finance tips for women?

A: 1). Pay off your credit cards 100% every month 2). Take full advantage of all pretax savings opportunities offered by employers such as 401(k) 3). Live within your means READ MORE »

Eve Pearl

Eve Pearl ON Personal Finance

President and Owner, Eve Pearl

Q: What are your top 3 personal finance tips for women?

A: Invest in yourself. Shop in your own closet or try exchanging with your girlfriend. Write out your monthly income and expenses…all of them. You will find it amazing at how much money is spent on non-essentials. Try to do some things on your own. Manicure, pedicure, cleaning, cooking, drycleaning. We only realize these things when we don’t have money. Why not realize it ... READ MORE »

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Lisa Wexler ON Personal Finance

Talk Radio Host, Attorney, Advocate, Author, Groucho Productions LLC

Q: Can you share an experience that made you more conscious about the need for women to understand their personal finances?

A: As an attorney, I have had too many women come into my office knowing nothing at all about the money they had, where it was, how to get access to it, nothing. Too many get divorced or widowed, handicapping themselves unnecessarily. Financial literacy is as essential as reading. READ MORE »

Susanna Harwood Rubin

Susanna Harwood Rubin ON Personal Finance

Visual Artist, Writer & Certified Yoga Teacher, Susanna Harwood Rubin

Q: What are your top 3 personal finance tips for women?

A: Put money away with every single paycheck, no matter how small the amount - pretax is best, so an IRA or something similar. Pay your credit card bill in full every month - don't have debt. Make trade-offs. You want that coat? Cook at home for a week! READ MORE »

Maureen Lippe

Maureen Lippe ON Personal Finance

Founder & CEO, Lippe Taylor

Q: What are your top 3 personal finance tips for women?

A: Don’t spend what you don’t have! Invest in things you can touch, enjoy and share, like real estate! Pay off credit card debt the day the bill comes in to avoid interest! READ MORE »

Jacki&Gloria

Jacquelyn Zehner ON Personal Finance

CEO, Women Moving Millions

Q: Can you share an experience that made you more conscious about the need for women to understand their personal finances?

A: I have come to believe that one of the main reasons women's rights are not more advanced, here and around the world, is because women, in general, do not have a better and stronger connection to their financial resources. I was just told last week, by a woman who has been a money manager for 30 years, that she cannot ... READ MORE »