By now, you may have noticed that something doesn’t look quite right on your grocery shelves. Could it be that bag of chips, or maybe that roll of toilet paper, seems to have shrunk? Let me assure you it is not your eyes; we have all come down with a bad case of shrinkflation. Shrinkflation is an actual term, according to Wikipedia, which means “a rise in the general price level of goods per unit of weight or volume, brought about by a reduction in the weight or size of the item sold.” I must admit that, until recently, the…
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Financial Femmes
As a 24-year-old woman, when I tell people I’m a financial advisor, I sometimes get some squints and questioning looks. Or even a face that suggests “aw, how sweet.” Little do these people know, females are a massive presence in the finance space. Yet, according to Cerulli.com, 18.1% of financial advisors are women. Do those statistics represent what you see when you look around your community? Of course not. So why is the financial field so heavily dominated by white men? Well, this may come as a shock to you, but much of the world is as well. Women couldn’t…