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    Five Places I Save Money When I Travel (So I Can Splurge Where It Counts)

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    05/01/2025

    Time away is one of my favorite luxuries—but that doesn’t mean I treat every trip like a free-for-all spending spree. I’m a million-dollar girl who knows her numbers. And while I will splurge on the good stuff (hello, signed record at the rock concert), I don’t need to waste money on overpriced…

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    What I’d Tell 25-Year-Old Me (Part 2)

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    04/26/2025

    Money, Love, and Confidence — Lessons from the Other Side By 25, I had already lived a few lives — figure skater, sorority girl, soldier, newbie world traveler. I’d gone from sequins to camo, college parties to convoys. I’d been raised by a single mom who did what she had…

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    What I’d Tell 25-Year-Old Me (Part 1)

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    04/20/2025

    Money, Love, and Confidence — Lessons from the Other Side If I could, I’d sit down with 25-year-old me—in a tent in Baghdad, sweating through an ill-fitting Army uniform, wearing boots that never fit, surviving on MREs and lugging around an M-16. No closet full of shoes, no nights out…

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    When the Market’s a Mess but You’re In Control

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    04/13/2025

    When the Market’s a Mess but You’re In Control It’s been one of those weeks—where the economy feels like it’s running on fumes. The really smelly kind—like that guy you stood next to at the rock show. Markets tanked, headlines screamed, and portfolios everywhere were hit hard. But I didn’t flinch. I stayed…

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