On this page you'll find the ten most recent articles on the topic of money. These articles are inspired by interviews on The Art of Imperfect Adulting.
Julian Kohlbrand has an economics degree, she spent years helping other people buy houses, and she and her husband still found themselves $107,000 in consumer debt before they turned 30. What made it worse than the number itself was the shame that came with it, the sense that she “should ...
Sometimes success can blind you to the cracks forming beneath your feet. For three decades, Dominique Levesque lived as a nomad before most people knew what digital nomadism was, building and selling businesses across continents, following impulses that always seemed to work out. She had finally found what looked like ...
Stacy Walker experienced a wake-up call in a hospital emergency room in 2008, when her doctor delivered news that would redirect the entire trajectory of her future. At just 25 years old, her liver was failing, her body was septic, and she was approximately two days away from death. The ...
Twenty-three years ago, Katrina Sawa walked into her boss’s office and told him exactly what she thought of his leadership. With his superior sitting right there, she delivered a blunt assessment of the toxic work environment, the broken promises, and the unsustainable 70-hour work weeks. Then she walked out, never ...
Trust forms the foundation of intimate relationships, but when that trust extends to financial matters without proper safeguards, the consequences can devastate more than just bank accounts. The assumption that a partner shares your values about money responsibility can lead to a harsh awakening that reshapes everything you thought you ...
The weight of other people’s expectations can turn even the most personal decisions into public referendums. When major life choices involve financial commitments, guest lists, and family traditions, the pressure to follow through can feel insurmountable—even when every instinct screams that something isn’t right. Alli Williams knows this feeling intimately. ...
The woman standing in the hospital corridor fielding assumptions about her role as “the nurse” had once been told by her own family that “people like us don’t become doctors.” Dr. Angela Downey’s white coat and stethoscope couldn’t immediately override decades of gender stereotypes, but they represented something far more ...
When disaster strikes and derails our carefully planned professional lives it can feel like the security we’ve built crumbles, the identity we’ve cultivated vanishes, and we’re left wondering how we’ll ever recover. But what if these moments of professional catastrophe aren’t endings at all—what if they’re actually invitations to discover ...
For Karen Dwyer-Tesoriero, the phone call that changed everything arrived on a Tuesday afternoon when she locked herself in her bedroom and answered the phone before her husband could intercept it. What she heard from the bank representative would shatter not only her marriage but everything she thought she knew ...
It was an ordinary Tuesday morning. Twenty people walked into work that day and walked out unemployed, their entire sales department eliminated in a single corporate restructuring decision. Among them was a top performer who had just celebrated her two-year anniversary and announced her pregnancy to the company. What happened ...