I’d like to take a minute to talk about a taboo topic—money. We can't escape it. It motivates entire populations of people to get up and go to work every day, it can determine what you buy or where you choose to live, yet people shy away from talking about it.
Why is that?
Fun fact about me—for the past several years, I’ve been voracious for personal finance information. Growing up, we weren’t taught about personal finance in school. Sure, we were taught the importance of money at home, but sometimes those lessons would go in one ear and out the other ... as a lot of parental advice often does when you’re young. (I know I'm not the only one who spent a significant amount of allowance money from the ages of 7-9 on Beanie Babies.) Even my personal finance course in college (financial elective? check) was so uninformative, my only takeaway was the deep-seeded fear of identity theft, creating the need to always shred financial documents.