- Economic Dependence: Women often experience economic disparities and may be financially dependent on their partners, especially in traditional or patriarchal family structures. If their relationship ends, women will experience economic vulnerability with limited resources and unexpected financial challenges.
- Mental Health: The stress and anxiety resulting from financial infidelity can take a toll on women's mental health. They may experience depression, anxiety, or other mental health issues as they navigate the emotions of betrayal and uncertainty about their financial future.
- Limited Financial Autonomy: Financial infidelity can limit women's financial autonomy and decision-making power within the relationship. If women are unaware of their partner's financial actions or have limited access to economic resources, they will feel disempowered to make informed choices about their well-being.
- Barriers to Seeking Help: Women may face additional barriers to seeking help or leaving a relationship characterized by financial infidelity. Societal norms, cultural expectations, and the fear of judgment can deter women from seeking support or taking steps to handle their financial situation. Women may also worry about the impact financial infidelity has on their children or fear the stigma associated with spousal abandonment, divorce, or separation.
- Long-Term Financial Consequences: Financial infidelity can have long-term financial consequences for women, affecting their ability to achieve financial goals, build wealth, and secure their future. It may result in depleted savings, damaged credit, or missed opportunities for investments or career advancement.
- Impact on Children: If children are involved, financial infidelity can have ripple effects on their well-being and development. Women may bear the primary responsibility for managing household finances; ensuring their children's needs are met, placing additional strain on their emotional and financial resources.
April 13, 2024
Financial Infidelity
August 3, 2021
Black Women's Equal Pay Day
July 23, 2021
Don't Live Within Your Means
- Write your big dreams and read them daily
- Create a vision board with images that coincide with your dreams
- Review, envision, and mediate daily of you achieving your dreams
- Surround yourself with people who have what you desire
- Strive for purpose and not security
- Live by faith and not fear
June 24, 2021
Getting Unstuck
Post-DOS days, the technical instructor realized these questions apply to our everyday lives, and we believe these questions can help individuals get unstuck in their careers, relationships, or finances. If you feel stuck, click here and download our guide that can help you get unstuck.
April 4, 2019
Choose Yourself
April 2, 2019
Security
- Security can be obtained from God’s everlasting arms.
- God is our best security system from past, present, and future sins.
- God is our security from life’s storms because He is our refuge.
- Security is dwelling and abiding in the presence of God.
- Security is knowing that God is our rock, our fortress, and deliverer in the time of trouble.
- Security is the confidence that God is always near, and He will never leave nor forsake us.
- Security is the Sovereignty of God because He has all things under His divine power and control.
- Security is in God’s omniscience because He knows all things.
- Security is in God’s word because it will not return to Him void.
- Eternal security is the belief and knowledge that salvation belongs to Jesus Christ.
June 12, 2017
How We Get Here?
- How We Get Here? – Why black women and their issues are ignored in politics? - Source: Status of Black Women in Politics
- How We Get Here? – Black women 16 years and over has experienced the highest unemployment rate among all other ethnic groups since 2007. - Source: The African American Labor Force in Recovery
- How We Get Here? – Black women are more likely to have children outside of marriage than other racial or ethnic groups. - Source: Congressional Research Service
- How We Get Here? – Women and Violence – 1 out of 5 women is sexually assaulted in college. Source: insidehighered.com
- How We Get Here? - Women Living with HIV and AIDS - Source: CDC.gov
- How We Get Here? - Women are 80 percent more likely than men to be impoverished in retirement. - Source: National Institute on Retirement
- How We Get Here? - Women of Color are more likely to suffer with depression. - Source: Huffingtonpost.com
June 9, 2017
Allow People to Grow
- Mortgage their homes to prevent a loved one from going to jail.
- Expend their retirement to prevent foreclosure or pay for college.
- Become a custodian to their abandoned or neglected grandchildren.
- Decrease their savings to pay their children’s expenses to keep their lives afloat.
July 19, 2016
Poverty is Colorblind
Poverty is more than having more bills at the end of the month than money. It's extreme, situational, institutional, or generational; making it difficult to create pathways to economic independence, wealth, and stability.
When we seek support or investment in our work to decrease the trend of poverty amongst women throughout the Washington region, we often receive a plethora of reasons of why we shouldn't help them because their level of poverty isn't as severe as women experiencing poverty in other countries. A local pastor stated, You haven't seen poverty until you've been to a country where people have to drink and bathe in dirty water. Now, that's poverty. What we have here (i.e., in the U.S.), isn't poverty. Does this mean we should negate our efforts to help women and children experiencing poverty in the U.S. if they have access to clean water?
When our lives are threatened by a disease, we collaborate our energy and resources to find a cure, or a way to stop it from spreading. We don't assess if one disease deserves more attention than the other because of the impact the disease may have on all humanity.
Ignoring the plight of poverty will not eradicate it, but heighten it because poverty affects all ethnicities and nationalities.
July 12, 2016
Equal, But Different
Should women who live subjectively to men expect equal treatment?
According to Genesis 1:26, God said, Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and to let them have dominion over every living thing that creeps on the earth. And, according to Genesis 1:27, "God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them."
These verses share how God equally created men and women in His image to have dominion over the earth in our own distinctive roles. If women grasp hold of this knowledge, maybe women will seek equality through the Image of God instead of man.
December 2, 2014
Invest in yourself
"If my company wants me to stay, they should pay for my training."
"As soon as I get my MBA, I’m out of here!"
"I only enroll in workshops or classes that are free."
If your company pays for training, who’s investing in your professional development, you or your company? If your company pays, what do they get in return? If you pay, what’s the ROI (Return on Investment) for your growth and development?
Imagine hiring a contracting company that specializes in home renovations showing up at your doorstep without the skills, tools, or resources to perform the job. Would you pay for the training and resources the contracting company needs to complete the job? Or, would you hire another contracting company equipped with resources and expertise to meet your requirements and deadline to renovate?
Corporations are discovering better ways to yield returns on their resources and investments. And unfortunately, this doesn’t include ‘human’ capital because too many corporations have witnessed and experienced their education and training investments walk out the door.
If your career has come to a screeching halt, evaluate where you invest most of your time and money. If you plan to excel in your current or future place of employment, you have to transition to self-directed and life-long learners. The library is replete with ‘free’ resources for professional or career development and some organizations are replete with ‘fee-based’ resources. The resource you choose would be based on what you’re trying to achieve and why?
Education has been recognized as an integral path to economic empowerment and wealth. Not designer bags, shoes, or acrylic nails. If you’ve been blessed with these things great! But, if you invest more in these things than yourself, evaluate how these things have positioned you to create the foundation to your financial independence and stability?
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. stated, “We buy what we want and beg for what we need”. Education is a needed commodity to evolve and thrive in today’s society and your growth will be measured by what you endow to yourself.
October 23, 2014
We Plunged
We’ve supported Zumbathon® events to benefit heart disease and ovarian cancer. And one-year later we’re hosting our own to benefit women experiencing poverty in the Washington region.
The Zumba® Corporate Office approved our Zumbathon® Charity Event within two-hours of submission - a process that normally takes two-business days, and within four-weeks, only 10% of our desired participants have registered.
Lesson learned, we’re doing something we’ve never done before and its success can’t be measured solely on who showed up; but, on our commitment to work and move the weight of poverty off the shoulders of women who live with it daily right in our backyard.
Not achieving the desired results from this plunge will not stop us from doing it again. Poverty is growing, and we do not have time to be stagnated by fear, skepticism, or resistance.
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