I’m Ashley Barnett and my calling in life is to help you get control of your money.
I have a passion for personal finance. I remember when I first realized that “finance” was a thing. I was 18. I had just graduated from a small high school in Massachusetts and I went over to a friend’s house to hang out for the afternoon. I was sitting on the couch in her parent’s living room and picked up her dad’s book on the coffee table. It was a book about finance, investing actually. I sat there and read the whole thing. I was completely enthralled by this book. Before this point I had no idea that finance industry even existed. I didn’t know people wrote books about money. This was a whole new world.
But it also told me something about myself. I was weird. What 18 year old spends the afternoon reading their friend’s dad’s finance book? And I didn’t stop there. I went to the local library and read every book they had on the subject. Soon I was handing out advice to my friends, and their parents.
At 19, I started working at a local coffee shop where I encouraged my regular customers to pay off their cars early, build emergency funds, and start saving for retirement. There’s nothing like getting a dose of financial advice along with your morning cup o’ joe, right!
It’s been a long time since those coffee shop consultations, but I never stopped trying to get those around me to make the most of their money. I’ve written hundreds of personal finance articles, counseled thousands of people regarding their credit cards, and inspired friends and co-workers to start saving for retirement.
This website is a natural extension of my lifelong passion, motivating people to make the right moves to get out of debt and start building wealth.
Stick with me and together we will change lives.
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