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Tiffany Kent
Aug 12, 20223 min read
My 50 shades of gray hair
Every morning during the summer, my email inbox was filled with negative headlines. Inflation, War, Lockdowns in China, stagflation, and...
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Tiffany Kent
Aug 4, 20222 min read
Thrifty in the City
One of the things I hate most about being a busy working mom is going to Costco. - Can’t find parking. - I have to dig out of my purse...
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Tiffany Kent
Jul 28, 20222 min read
Bear market made me run barefoot
My knee gets dislocated - sometimes, when I’m walking or - when I jerk around too quickly. When my knee pops out of place, - it swells...
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Tiffany Kent
Jul 22, 20222 min read
Caught in the rain
Raining one day and clear skies the next day. Over the last 2 years, we have experienced so much volatility. - Uncertainty in our health...
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Tiffany Kent
Jul 15, 20222 min read
Which Way?
There is always an opportunity in a crisis. Sometimes events can cause us to re-evaluate. Two years ago, during COVID-19 when the world...
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Tiffany Kent
Jul 8, 20222 min read
Experts Only
We had poor timing buying our Old Greenwich house in 2007. Housing was really depressed given the Great Financial Crisis. In 2010 things...
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Tiffany Kent
Jul 1, 20223 min read
Road Trips help us think
6 years ago I was scared. At that time, there was no: - health crisis - major market correction - #inflation - high gas prices At my...
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Tiffany Kent
Jun 24, 20222 min read
How fat on my body is like inflation
And now it's time to tighten my belt. We just returned from summer vacation. We ate cheese and meat, drank wine and shopped. And so...
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Tiffany Kent
Jun 12, 20222 min read
90210
I went to a very rich high school. I tagged along shopping with my friends who spent a lot of money using their parent’s credit cards....
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Tiffany Kent
Jun 3, 20222 min read
Tough Love
Last weekend, I cleaned out my son’s bedroom, reviewed Nerdwallet articles, and did normal mom organizing and planning stuff. Meanwhile,...
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Tiffany Kent
May 26, 20222 min read
Working Girl vs Party Girl
In 2003, I was in the right seat at the right time. China was aggressively building out its infrastructure. Everything that China was...
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Tiffany Kent
May 20, 20222 min read
Lonely Girl
Market is crashing My 9-year-old is screaming at me! No weekend plans with friends. Worse, my husband tells me to do our taxes! Calgon...
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Tiffany Kent
May 12, 20222 min read
Dirty, Sexy, Money
Making money on money can be both sexy and dirty. You remember the show. Filthy-rich Darling family sucks in Nick George to be their...
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Tiffany Kent
May 6, 20222 min read
A Queen of Riches
Why is it so much easier to be negative? Living in: - SF during the Dotcom bubble (2001 - NYC during the Great Financial Crisis bubble...
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Tiffany Kent
Apr 29, 20222 min read
A Rich Life
My dream years ago was to start my own business But I had a problem. A big problem!! It wasn’t that I didn’t have enough money. It wasn’t...
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Tiffany Kent
Apr 22, 20222 min read
To Serve or to make money?
Do you think anyone plays sport for money? No, they play because they love the game. Can our financial lives be like tennis? I think...
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Tiffany Kent
Apr 15, 20222 min read
Being the only girl in the room can make you rich
I attended hundreds of meetings filled mostly with men - CEOs, CFOs, and other equity research analysts. It was uncomfortable to stand...
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Tiffany Kent
Apr 7, 20223 min read
For Love or for Money?
Section G was throwing a party when we were graduating from Harvard Business School It was called G Love, G Money. I arrived late....
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Tiffany Kent
Mar 31, 20222 min read
How finding hidden treasures can make you rich
At year-end, I didn't meet my year-end goal. Not even close. The process to hit a goal is pretty formulaic 1. Set out a 3-month goal, 2....
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