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Bank of Mom & Dad Update: Stacey
While Stacey was resistant to change on this week’s episode of Bank of Mom & Dad, in this clip we learn how the 22-year-old assistant teacher is actually taking our advice and making improvements.
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Crafting Your Personal Budget
The “B” word is reentering the economic fray. Budget is a top search on Google, as debt-ridden Americans frantically hunt down ways to create a manageable personal budget. Each week on Bank of Mom & Dad I present our ladies with a personal spending plan or budget…
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Catching Up With Carmela
In the latest episode of Bank of Mom & Dad we meet 26-year-old Carmela from Bayonne, New Jersey who is fighting to save her plans for a Great Gatsby wedding, all with more than $30,000 of debt in her name. After almost a month since filming the show together Carmela and I reunited at the video studios at AOL. I was eager to see if the intervention worked…check out for yourself in the video below…
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Credit Check with Dina from Bank of Mom & Dad
Dina moves out on her own! Woah! Looks like the week of parental control and financial counseling got her to think twice about her mooching ways. While she’s not going the exact route I laid out for her, the important thing is that she’s finally motivated and understands she can do much better!
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Credit Check with Danielle From Bank of Mom & Dad
Danielle Martin, last week’s profile on Bank of Mom and Dad, confesses how she’s doing on the budget I created for her. Is it just me or does Danielle seem happier and more confident? Hmmm. Coincidence? I think not. Scroll down to watch the full interview with Ms. Danielle.
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Update: Danielle Boosts Income After “Bank of Mom & Dad”
Last week Danielle Martin, our most recent damsel in debt, and I stopped by Connecticut Style to catch up with host Sonia Baghdady to dish about all the behind-the-scenes action on B.O.M.A.D. (You can watch the full interview below) It was a fun interview and I was excited to catch up with Danielle after our week of [...]
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Fashionista Meets the Bank of Mom & Dad
“If I see something I want, I just gotta have it!” Those have been Danielle Martin’s words to live by and it’s finally catching up to her bank account. In this week’s episode, I met with the 28-year-old budding fashion designer who has a whopping $41,000 in deb. It includes $29,000 in student loans, an [...]
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Bank of Mom & Dad Update: Christina
Click here to watch how Christina from Episode 1 of Bank of Mom and Dad is doing with her finances. Is she cutting back? And what is this about buying a new iphone, miss thang?
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Want to Be Debt Free? Discover Fear.
My alma mater’s daily newspaper, The Daily Collegian at Penn State, features a piece on the upcoming SOAPnet reality series Bank of Mom and Dad where young women come face to face with their financial challenges and with the help of Mom and Dad (and me as a financial coach and mentor) develop a better [...]
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Meet Bank of Mom and Dad’s Premiere Family
The Intelligencer Journal/Lancaster New Era features a profile of our first family in the reality series Bank of Mom and Dad, which airs this Wednesday at 10pm on SOAPnet.
