Episode 20: Interview with Amanda from Young & Broke

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Amanda was inspired to start blogging because she felt her twenty-something peers needed some financial guidance and she wanted share what she was learning. She continues to share her journey as she blogs about the financial side of planning her upcoming wedding. Amanda is a great writer and I think you'll enjoy her very readable style.

Amanda's Blog can be found at http://youngandbroke.typepad.com/

Links to sites mentioned in the interview:

LA Money Guy It's Just Money: http://itsjustmoney.blogs.com/its_just_money/
Blueprint for Financial Prosperity: http://www.bargaineering.com/articles/

Episode 19: Interview with Cecilia of City Girl's Financial Blog

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Cecilia's a new blogger and she was inspired to start blogging after she read the Business Week article about Personal Finance Bloggers! We talk about the poor financial role model provided by the U.S. government's deficit spending, and about the importance of learning how to manage your finances at an early age.

City Girl's Financial Blog can be found at http://citygirlsfinancialblog.blogspot.com/

Links to sites mentioned in the interview:
LA Money Guy It's Just Money http://itsjustmoney.blogs.com/its_just_money/
David Bach: http://davidbach.blogs.com/blog/
Robert Kiyosaki: http://www.richdad.com/
Victor Sperandeo: Trader Vic II: Principles of Professional Speculation

Epispde 18: Interview with Finance Junkie of PluggedInFinance

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Today's interview is with Finance Junkie from PluggedInFinance. Finance Junkie gives us some solid insight into the personal finances of a career military man. And he offers fascinating answers to my questions about earning vs. saving, and why Americans are so deep in debt.

PluggedInFinance can be found at http://pluggedinfinance.blogspot.com/

Links to sites mentioned in the interview:
pfblogs: http://www.pfblogs.org
Flogz: http://www.flogz.com/
Paranoid Brain: http://finance.paranoidbrain.com
Bank Deals: http://bankdeals.blogspot.com
Dividend Guy: http://www.thedividendguyblog.com

Episode 17: Interview with Him & Her of MakeLoveNotDebt

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Him & Her write a Personal Finance Relationship blog. I think they’ve got great advice for couples who want ideas on how to communicate about money and plan their finances together. And they have their challenges – they incurred a lot of debt in graduate school, and they’ve got a wedding to plan. But they’ve also got a very healthy financial outlook. In the interview we discuss net worth and blogging. And listen for Her’s tip on negotiating!

Him & Her’s blog is at http://www.makelovenotdebt.com/

Links to sites mentioned in the interview:
Consumerist: http://www.consumerist.com/
Curbed: http://www.curbed.com/
John & Jane’s Our Money Matters: http://ourmoneymatters.blogspot.com/
Savvy Saver http://savvysaver.blogspot.com/
Budgeting Babe: http://budgetingbabe.blogspot.com/
Chrees’ world: http://chreesworld.blogspot.com/
Suze Orman: http://www.suzeorman.com/
David Bach: http://www.finishrich.com/pages/home.php

Episode 16: Interview with Caitlin of Clutter2Cash

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Caitlin’s blog is a engaging tale of personal finance challenges peppered with frugal recipe ideas. She offers lots of humorous observations that revolve around money. In the interview we talk about how blogging about your net worth can be an important step in gaining control of your personal finances.

Caitlin’s blog is at http://clutter2cash.blogspot.com/

Links to sites mentioned in the interview:
My Money Blog http://www.mymoneyblog.com/
My Open Wallet http://myopenwallet.blogspot.com/
Single Ma and Money http://singlemomandmoney.blogspot.com/
Stop Buying Crap http://www.stopbuyingcrap.com/