Riches Get Stitches ft. BGR – PB132

Kitty and Piggy of B*****s Get Riches join the PB family today. Kitty and Piggy are anonymous financial bloggers whose aim is to guide young people through their financial hurdles and careers. They do this through their fun, unique blend of sass, comedy, and bluntness. The driving force behind their wildly successful blog is their longtime friendship. Kitty and Piggy met as college roommates over a decade ago.

In this episode, you’ll hear both women’s stories about what got them interested in talking to Millennials about money and careers. They touch on their upbringing, working in corporate America, paying off debt via a side hustle, their views on retirement and why adulting is so different for Millennials.

Show Highlights

• How to immediately stand out from the blogging crowd
• The financial impact of being asked to lend your parents money, even as a child
• How you can use a side hustle to pay down debt
• FIRE – Financial Independence / Remain Employed? Retiring to create and put things out into the world, not to just stop working
• The flaws of online retirement calculators
• Accepting the first job offer you get out of college while continuing to look for the RIGHT job
• The rules to adulting as a millennial
• Overcoming your own Imposter Syndrome

Key Takeaway: Determine your values and priorities. These will help guide you through your career and financial decisions.

Find BGR Around the Internets

• Website: bitchesgetriches.com
• Patreon: patreon.com/bitchesgetriches
• Kitty’s Instagram: @BGRKitty
• Piggy’s Instagram: @BGRPiggy

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Mentioned on This Week’s Show

• The New York Times: For These Women, a FIRE That Burns Too Male and Too White
• Which Came First: the FIRE Movement or Millennial Burnout?
• Losing Two Jobs in One Week May Have Been the Best Thing that Ever Happened to Me

Our Favorite Tools This Week

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Break the Paycheck-to-Paycheck Cycle

• Digit – Struggling to save money? Sign-up for Digit at paybal.co/digit to automate your way to saving hundreds or more! Digit analyzes your spending and automatically saves the perfect amount every day. Read why Rich loves Digit and how much it’s already saved him.
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Side Hustles and Passive Income Streams

• How to Start a Blog – Michelle Schroeder-Gardner is the self-made millionaire behind MakingSenseOfCents.com who credits finding her purpose and sharing her story through blog writing for her personal and financial success. With her easy-to-follow course, you can be up and running a blog in less than a day!
• Making Sense of Affiliate Marketing – Over 50-percent of Michelle’s How I Made Over $1,500,000 In 2018 revenue comes directly from successful affiliate marketing.
• Making Sense of Sponsored Posts – You can also quickly learn how she made her first blogging income, and how she now makes $10,000 – $20,000 a month with sponsored partnerships.

Announcements

• The Young Money Podcast with Dasarte Yarnway: EP 45: Hacking Income with Marcus Garrett of Paychecks & Balances – On this episode, Marcus Garrett (@TheMarcusGarrett) of the award-winning Paychecks & Balances (@PayBalances) joins Dasarte — a fellow 2019 Nerd Wallet Financial Gurus Alum — to discuss ways that millennials can hack their income and shift their money mindset.
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