As Women’s History Month comes to a close, I wanted to recognize emerging women in the Personal Finance community who are making waves and creating an impact. These women are providing valuable insight to help you build wealth and live the life you deserve. And guess what? They are just getting started.

Shanté Nicole

Shante has always been passionate about serving others. She is an autism mom, wife, author, money coach and a certified credit consultant. Her mission is to educate and empower individuals to make better financial decisions. This includes credit repair, budgeting, developing saving strategies and debt management. Additionally, she is the founder of “Kids Making Cents”, a financial literacy program that offers educational products and workshops.

Facebook – @yourfinancialcommoncents; IG – @financialcommoncents

Faneisha “Fo” Alexander

Fo is a millennial personal finance blogger and coach who teaches women how to dump debt & build bank so that they can create the life that they want. She does this through her blog, social media platforms, in-person events, and weekly podcast episodes.

Website – www.GirlTalkwithFo.com ; IG – @girltalkwithfo

Sharon Tseung

In May of 2016, Sharon quit her job, traveled for 2 years as a digital nomad, and ended up increasing her net worth despite travel expenses by building $4k/month in passive income streams! On the blog, she teaches people how to make passive income online and live a financially free, location independent life. Sharon wants to inspire people to design their lives and pursue their dreams by removing financial restrictions.

Website – www.digitalnomadquest.com

Stephanie J

Stephanie J is a Certified Financial Educator, Real Estate Investor, and the Creator of Finances On Point, a financial empowerment website created to teach millennial women how to build wealth through financial discipline and multiple streams of income. Even though she has a degree in Finance, she fell into the consumer lifestyle and found herself in more than $60K of debt. However, after realizing she wanted the freedom to choose how she lived her life, she paid off $45K in 18 months and owned 3 rental properties one year later. Her mission is to empower women to create wealth for themselves and generations to come.

Website: www.financesonpoint.com ; IG – @_financesonpoint_

Naseema

Naseema is the founder of Financially Intentional, a blog about personal finance and living life intentionally. She discusses how taking control of her finances has enabled her to overcome bankruptcy, divorce, and break the cycle of living paycheck to paycheck. She shares her lessons along her path to help others benefit from the freedoms of financial independence.  In fact, by being consistent and intentional, she has paid off $1 million in debt and grew a six-figure net worth in three years without living in deprivation.

Website – www.financiallyintentional.com ; IG – @financiallyintentional

Laura Coleman

Laura is an Accredited Financial Counselor who helps couples with their finances.  She is also an adoptive parent to 3 children who prepares couples financially for adoption and fertility. Laura started a podcast called Family Money Coaching podcast to inspire and guide couples that are uncertain of where to go for knowledge about the financial aspects and challenges of adoption and fertility.

Website – www.familymoneycoaching.org ; IG/Facebook – @familymoneycoaching

Jamila Souffrant

Jamila is a Certified Financial Education Instructor and the creator of the blog and podcast, Journey to Launch. She is also a wife and mom of three small children. Because of her money habits, she and her husband are debt free (besides the mortgage) and are on their way to becoming financially independent by the age of 40. She loves to teach, inspire and help others jumpstart their journey to financial freedom!

Website – www.journeytolaunch.com ; IG@journeytolaunch

Valencia Morton

Valencia is a financial coach, money vlogger, and author. She is also a single mom who strives to help thousands of single moms throughout the year make great strides toward debt freedom through financial services and products.

Website – www.millionairessmama.com ; Facebook & IG – @millionairessmama

Jen Bohler

Jen started her YouTube channel in 2018, shortly after she and her husband started living on a budget. With $0 in savings and over $250k in debt (not including the mortgage) she needed an outlet to talk about our finances. Since then, she realized that her story is helping others, just as others’ stories helped her. Now her focus is to grow The Budget Bounce community and provide information they can apply to help them reach financial independence.

YouTube – TheBudgetBounce; IG – @thebudgetbounce

Carmen

Carmen spent the last 7+ years working in the finance industry and currently resides in NYC. While her background has always been in finance, when it came to personal finances, she had no clue. In 2016, she started Make Real Cents to document her journey towards becoming debt free. In less than 18 months, she crushed over $38k in debt. She is on a mission to provide you with the “been there, done that” do’s and don’ts of personal finance with a little humor on the side.

Website – www.makerealcents.com ; IG – @makerealcents

Sandy Yong

Sandy Yong is the author of an upcoming book called The Money Master: Inside Secrets on How to Make Your Money Grow and Stay Safe. After working in Corporate America, she realized that she needed to save and invest her money to achieve my financial goals.  After reading dozens of personal finance and investing books, she is now a DIY investor with an online brokerage. She has successfully created a 6-figure portfolio and owns several condo properties with her husband.

Website – www.sandyyong.com ; Facebook, IG, Twitter – Themoneymasterbook

Jacqueline Jones

Jackie blogs at Sugar and Money about giving yourself permission to take control of your personal finances. Sugar and Money inspires to show that readers can still save money and enjoy life even while paying off debt, this is what she calls having a sweet life while having sweet finances. Topics covered have been paying off debt, cash flowing large purchases and investing in yourself at different price points. Jackie practices being intentional with saving, spending, and planning your personal finances to create your best financial life.

Website – www.sugarandmoney.com ;IG: @sugarandmoney FB:sugarandmoneyblog

Joyce Chou

Joyce is a digital marketer and freelance writer with a passion for personal finance. At age 21, her dad passed away and she began taking a large role in managing her mom’s finances. This experience as well as dealing with debt after college inspired me to launch Financial Impulse. Knowing that many others find themselves in the same position, Joyce wanted to create a resource for those interested in getting a better grasp of their money and inform our readers about basic personal finance concepts.

Website – www.financialimpulse.com; Twitter – @financeimpulse

Leah Bourne

Leah is the editor of the website TheMoneyManual.com serving over 4 million readers a month (mostly women)! The site was started over a year and a half ago and she became Editor about a year ago after having worked at places such as Forbes, Time and Glamour. Personal finance can be confusing and jargon-y and she sees her job and The Money Manual as a way to break all of that down. People want to care about their finances, they just need a little help!

Website – www.themoneymanual.com

Atiya S. Brown

Atiya S. Brown aka The Savvy Accountant is a CPA, CA and a Certified Financial Education Instructor. She has a real passion for building Generational Wealth and helping others do the same. In fact, Atiya was able to pay of $32K in consumer debt and increase her credit score 110 points in under 1 year.

She is the creator of The Savvy Accountant™ – where she specializes in helping individuals in the Real Estate Industry and the Live Financially Savvy, LLC where she helps others with their foundation to live their best financial lives. Through her podcast with the same name, she connects people doing amazing things in the finance world to those who want to learn how to create wealth.

Website – www.livefinanciallysavvy.com ; IG – @livefinanciallysavvy

Alanna Anthony

Alanna is a Certified Financial Educator and Personal Finance Coach who has paid off over $48,000 in debt.  Her mission is to help at least 100,000 women become great at money management. She created the website, Financialdemics, to help women become confident about money so they can use it as a tool to reach their goals. On the blog, she focuses on the foundation of financial literacy such as how to make and save money, manage cash flow, and pay off debt.

Website – www.financialdemics.com ; Facebook, IG, Twitter, Pinterest – @Financialdemics

Chhavi

Chhavi is a lawyer turned freelance writer and blogger. She and her partner (Amit) help people who cannot work a 9-5 job (due to kids, family, health or lack of local opportunities) by sharing how to start and fund on legitimate work from home jobs that can replace a full-time income.

Website – www.mrsdaakustudio.com

Kathy G. Mills

Kathy’s goal is to provide free, factual and FUN information that takes the FEAR out of finance! Her website, www.wallstreetiswaiting.com is an ad-free repository of investing advice written for beginners.  Kathy’s book, “Market Mojo: A Beginner’s Guide to the Stock Market” was published in 2017.

Website – www.wallstreetiswaiting.com ; IG and Pinterest – @WallStreetWaits

Cara Palmer

Cara strives to help people achieve financial freedom. She believes everyone deserves the right to enjoy luxuries and freedom, regardless of their income. She teaches how to make smart money decisions that will benefit people for the rest of their lives.

Website – https://carapalmer.com ; Pinterest, Facebook – caralpalmer

Ashley Patrick

Ashley helps families eliminate debt using simple strategies so they can stress less and live the life they want. She started her journey by helping others with their debt after paying off $45,000 in just 17 months!

Website – www.budgetsmadeeasy.com ; All social media – @budgetsmadeeasy

Amy Blacklock

Amy is the co-founder of the websites Women Who Money and Women’s Money Talk. At Women Who Money, she is passionate about improving financial literacy and striving to empower women (and men) with the knowledge, skills, and resources necessary to improve their financial health and ultimately build financially secure and independent lives.

On Women’s Money Talk she shares money stories to further the conversation and highlight other women in the personal finance community.

Website – www.womenwhomoney.com ; IG – @WomenWhoMoney

Website –  www.womensmoneytalk.com ; IG – @WomensMoneyTalk

Max Bonds

When Max was pregnant with her second child, she was desperate to leave her 9-5 for something she could do from home that paid well.  She couldn’t find any success stories online, so she decided to reach out to moms who worked from home and interview them to see what they did, how they got started, how they were able to do it with kids, and most importantly how much they were able to earn working from home.

Max created the website Tried and True Mom Jobs to share their stories for moms like me. She also talks about ways to save and invest.

Website – www.TriedandTrueMomJobs.com ; Facebook & Pinterest – triedandtruemomjobs

Bethany McCamish

Bethany is a teacher, freelancer, and founder of His and Her FI blog.  She writes about personal finance, mindfulness, and the way she and her partner live, work and play.  She believes that sometimes it is not about the money and more about the mindset. This often finds a place in her writing, making finances and challenging topics more approachable for people in all stages.

Website – https://www.hisandherfi.com      Twitter – @herandhisfi

Okeoma Moronu

After paying off $400,000 in student loans Okema Moronu realized that while her parents didn’t teach her everything about money, but they did give her a vocabulary about money and comfort with personal finance. As a result, Okeoma writes children’s stories by night and spends her days as a corporate finance attorney. She writes picture books inspired by her belief in the importance of adventure, family, diversity, and of course, financial literacy.  Her first book will be released this Spring.

Website – www.thehappylawyerproject.com ; IG @thehappylawyerproject

Dafina

Dafina is a lawyer and personal finance blogger. After going through many of life’s challenges (She almost died in the ICU from a genetic blood disorder), she was able to become financially free at the age of 33. Not only did she turn her financial situation around, but she’s also helped those closest to her do the same.

She founded www.DollarsPlusSense.com after becoming financially free to document her journey. Her goal is to help as many other women with their money as possible. She offers a ton of free resources on her website to help her readers learn more and gain control of their money.

Website – www.DollarsPlusSense.com ; Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest – @DollarsPlusSense

Felicia Gopaul, CFP®

According to the National Center for Women & Retirement Research, 80-90% of women will be solely responsible for their finances at some point in their lives.  Unfortunately, fewer than 2 in 10 women feel ‘very prepared’ to make wise financial decisions.  The second statistic FRUSTRATES Felicia.

She helps professional, accomplished, and educated women build their money skills before life throws them a financial curveball through financial literacy courses, one-on-one coaching, and group programs.

Website – www.FinancialControlMastery.com ; Linkedin – https://www.linkedin.com/in/feliciagopaul

Alicia Stingley

The reality of how many people, particularly women, who are extremely unprepared to replace a sustainable portion of their income if they are unable to work is alarming. Alicia observed that there is insufficient preparation to manage money in the event of a loved one’s death, divorce, disability, college preparation, or other significant life change.

Her organization, Financial Formation, strives to reach 1000+ women annually, equipping them with knowledge, providing a place of accountability, and empowering them to make confident money decisions so they can live the lives they desire now and in the future.

Website – www.financialformation.com

Kara

Kara, also known as “Aunt Kara” to many, including her 7 nieces and nephews. She is 47 and has been married for almost 25 years. Her nieces and nephews inspired me to create the blog (AuntKara.com) March 2018 to share her experiences, successes, and philosophies about money.  She is also a contributing writer for FinanceBuzz.com. The underlying foundation of her successful money management practices has been to live well beneath her means. Her motto from day one of adulthood is to Save. Save. Save.

Website: www.auntkara.com ; IG: @aunt.kara

Mykal Steen

Mykal resides in Atlanta, Georgia with her husband and son and they are on a journey to financial freedom. She uses sweetlikemoney.com to encourage, educate, and inspire others in her community to live financially intentional, build wealth and legacies for their families, and ultimately enjoy the sweet life of financial freedom. She also serves as a Mombassador for mommination.com, where she shares her experiences becoming a fiscal mommy.

Website: www.SweetLikeMoney.com ; IG – @SweetLikeMoneyBlog ; Facebook, YouTube –  Sweet Like Money

Joshira Maduo

Joshira started Dreams Over Debt to provide firsthand experience in student debt payoff while still pursuing the dreams that she had before getting into debt. She wants to encourage her community to become more financially savvy and conquer debt so that they can feel less frustration and anxiety over debt and feel confident in their journey! She recognizes that she is still learning to be financially savvy, but she hopes her blog will connect to the community on a more personal level.

Website – www.Dreamsoverdebt.com

Sahirenys Pierce

Sahirenys is a Dominican Millennial Mom who loves to share personal finance and mommy tips. After leaving the financial service industry, she decided to fill in the gap of simplified and functional money advice for her millennial audience. She focuses on the beginning steps to start your financial journey as budgeting, emergency funds, and banking. Specifically, she shares how to properly organize your bank accounts to complement your goals and budget. She wants to empower moms to focus on their family and their finances.

Website – www.thepoisedlifestyle.com; YouTube – Poised Finance + Lifestyle; IG – @PoisedFinanceLifestyle

Keina Newell

Keina Newell is a Financial Coach and the Founder of Wealth Over Now.  She works with passionate and hard working single women who need help creating clear financial goals so they can save more, get out of debt, and stress less about money. Before financial coaching, Keina studied Management and Finance but joined Teach For America after graduating to teach in underserved communities.  In her new role as a financial coach, she loves that she still gets to lean into her background in education, while also helping others and sharing her passion for budgeting.

Website – www.wealthovernow.com ;IG – @Wealthovernow

Kayla

Kayla is a licensed Wealth Advisor in Los Angeles, California. She has always had a natural interest in money at a very young age. She started her career in banking and learned a lot about how banks make money. Last year, she took a leap of faith and jumped into entrepreneurship. She states that branding herself as Financial Seeds is one of the best decisions she has ever made!

It’s easy to become rich overnight, but it takes intentional saving habits and the right strategies to have generational wealth.

IG – @financial_seeds

Valuable information is everywhere. You just have to be willing to see it. Take action to educate yourself on how to pay off debt and increase your networth.

That’s getting your FINANCES ON POINT.