Chief Mom Officer

Helping you manage money (yours and your kids), have success at work, and ultimately achieve financial freedom-all while having fun along the way.

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How To Go From $22k Per Year To Six Figures. A Real Guide (No Ivy League. Not Quick. Not Easy.)

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There’s a lot of stories out there about people who make six figures, but not much on how exactly to do it.

Or you can find plenty of “get rich quick & easy” advice, encouraging you to take big risks for a big payoff. That’s great, but they neglect to mention all the people who did that and failed. They’re also short on specifics. “Come up with a million dollar business idea!” sounds great, but, um, how.

I’m going to change that. Today I have CMO’s complete guide to going from a low-paying job into a lucrative career. This is all either what I did to go from someone going to community college and earning $22,000 per year to an MBA earning six figures.

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Breadwinning, Six Figure Moms – Jenny

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Today I have another entry in my world-famous breadwinning, six figure mom series – Jenny from Living Life, Loving Us. She hacked her way into a six figure income, and shares her career advice and her families financial journey.

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Chief Household Officer-Running The Family Office, and Re-Branding Stay At Home Parents

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Do stay at home dads – and moms – have a branding problem? The issue with the title of “stay at home parent” is that it doesn’t convey the real value of having someone at home to run the household. I’m suggesting a promotion to Chief Household Officer, sharing a great video from a military ER doc with a stay at home dad husband, and talking about some of the financial (and non-financial) value a stay at home parent brings to the family. P.S. The Mommy Wars have no place here

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A Frank Accounting Of The Ups and Downs of (Almost) Avoiding Childcare

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My husband and I haven’t paid for childcare in the 14+ years we’ve been parents. With one short exception, which I’ll talk about here. On Friday I shared the story of the real reason my husband became a full time stay at home dad at 40. Since you all enjoyed hearing our story, I thought you might want to know a bit more about how we came to avoid childcare – and some of the frank pluses and minuses I’ve noticed about our approach.

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Why Is My Husband A Stay At Home Dad?
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The Real Reason My Husband Is A Stay At Home Dad

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It’s a silent question that I see in many peoples eyes when they find out my husband stays at home with our three sons (14, 10, and 3). Sometimes I’ll get a “it must be nice” or “you’re so lucky!” Most people want to know why, but they’re too polite to ask. Today find out about the series of events that led him to becoming a stay at home dad at 40.

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