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“I’m going to let you go.”
I remember hearing this when I got fired from a job. I was lost and had no idea what to do. Usually, when I experience a change, I’m...
Tiffany Kent
Oct 26, 20232 min read
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Hexagons + Coffee = Rich experience
When I was a kid, bored at my mom’s boyfriend’s condo, I started to draw hexagons. One within another on graph paper. Then it became an...
Tiffany Kent
Sep 1, 20232 min read
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Sirens and Sorrento
Starting out in marketing my business, I tried everything. I was an expert editor for Nerdwallet I did a weekly news program on money I...
Tiffany Kent
Jun 2, 20233 min read
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Money in the City
We love watching reruns of Sex and the City created by Darren Star. The show motivated a lot of young women to move to NYC and try to...
Tiffany Kent
Jan 27, 20232 min read
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Lucky Girl
In my early 20s, I laid out my vision and goals with my dad on a walk. A few years later, I got the envelope in the mail. My dream came...
Tiffany Kent
Jan 13, 20233 min read
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Rich Girl, Poor Girl
As a kid, I always wanted to be rich. My friends lived in beautiful houses in Beverly Hills. They drove BMWs and Porsches. They bought...
Tiffany Kent
Jan 6, 20232 min read
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Pain Trade
I elected to have major surgery, but I was worried about the pain. To manage my fear, I googled pain management. - Breath deeply - Focus...
Tiffany Kent
Oct 21, 20223 min read
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Tough Love, Hard Bosses
I bounced around from one investment bank to another. Credit Suisse to Goldman Sachs. I struggled in my career until I joined a hedge...
Tiffany Kent
Oct 14, 20222 min read
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He's Just Not That Into You
He's Just Not That Into You My mom moved us to Beverly Hills so I could attend Beverly Hills 90210 (the show was based on my high...
Tiffany Kent
Oct 6, 20222 min read
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Poor Little Rich Girl
At one of the firms I previously worked, a very senior VP, shared with us a vulnerability. He revealed the thing that drives him. It was...
Tiffany Kent
Sep 22, 20222 min read
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Best Secrets I've learned from Men
Men don’t understand the female consumer. - If you are a woman, pay attention to the brand experience. - You might find an investing...
Tiffany Kent
Sep 1, 20222 min read
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Am I Hot or Not
Remember the app? The site “Am I hot or not” was founded by James Hong and Jim Young. The two friends created this site from a...
Tiffany Kent
Aug 19, 20222 min read
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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...
Tiffany Kent
Jul 22, 20222 min read
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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...
Tiffany Kent
Jul 15, 20222 min read
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Tough Love
Last weekend, I cleaned out my son’s bedroom, reviewed Nerdwallet articles, and did normal mom organizing and planning stuff. Meanwhile,...
Tiffany Kent
Jun 3, 20222 min read
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Emotional drivers
As any good investor knows, if you are researching a stock to buy, you need to look at the investment from the opposite perspective. Is...
Tiffany Kent
Mar 18, 20222 min read
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When headwinds become tailwinds
We love routine. We can control our schedule, plot the path we take each day, avoid any major decision. There is cool wind in our hair. ...
Tiffany Kent
Jan 20, 20222 min read
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To be or not to be a rich girl.
When I started out my career in Investment banking I didn’t have the confidence to know if I would be successful. I felt outnumbered...
Tiffany Kent
Jan 5, 20221 min read
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How to reduce financial stress with 6 easy steps 👠
These 6 steps 👟👞 start with the letters TWIRLS 🔄 , like the TWIRLS we do when we dance 💃. A good dance has many twists 🔀, turns, and...
Tiffany Kent
Oct 15, 20213 min read
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Who doesn’t love Disney??
But the Walt Disney Company has been through some tough ups and downs. When CEO Bob Iger mentioned just a “modest” subscriber reduction...
Tiffany Kent
Aug 18, 20211 min read
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