Episode #68 More Than Words and Money with Tess Wicks

Today I am more than thrilled to have the wonderful Tess Wicks with me. I was honored to be a guest on Tess’s Words and Money podcast a little while back, a podcast that educates millennial women on personal finance through casual money conversations, and we had a great conversation. Tess is a financial literacy expert and Profit First Professional. She works with individuals and online businesses to implement systems for successful cash management, debt payoff, and ultimate profitability. She believes that you can have anything you want in life, as long as you’re willing to do things a little differently.

Quotes

• “When I was in school for finance, I realized I had a hard time keeping pace with my male counterparts, which was a majority of my class, mainly because I had a lack of confidence and didn’t follow my intuition.” -Tess
• “A lot of personal finance things we just don’t learn about in school, and if I have questions about these things, I know my peers do too.” -Tess
• “I try to track my time, and if I don’t clock eight hours, that’s ok, because we don’t realize how unproductive we really are in the workplace.” -Tess
• “[The amount you should go into debt for your business] highly depends on your strategy to monetize and pay off that debt.” -Tess
• “Make sure that you take on the right amount of debt and recognize what your payoff strategy is going to be, and maybe even testing the market before you really go big on it.” -Tess
• “Debt is a tool like handcuffs, where you can get locked in without a key to get out of them.” -Jen
• “It’s important that you don’t use debt as a bandaid or something to get you to the next level.” -Tess

To connect with Tess Wicks, check her out on Facebook, her website, or on her highly curated instagram feed. For more information on how to work with her on Profit First check out this page of her website: tesswicks.com/creative-profit-co.

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Tess Wicks is financial literacy expert and Profit First Professional. She works with individuals and online businesses to implement systems for successful cash management, debt payoff, and ultimate profitability. As the host of Words and Money, a podcast that educates millennial women on personal finance through casual money conversations. She believes that you can have anything you want in life, as long as you’re willing to do things a little differently.