Listen Money Matters - Free Your Inner Financial Badass. All The Stuff You Should Know About Personal Finance.

Fellow Best New Blog winner Stephanie Halligan talks to us about student loan debt, negotiating and Matt’s favorite, the side hustle. Like a lot of teenagers, Stephanie took out a lot of college loans without realizing what that meant.   She graduated with $30,000 in debt.  She was asked through an internship if she wanted to teach personal finance to newly migrated refuges. The more she learned, the more she wanted to help her students and herself manage money and get out of debt.  Prioritizing not only debt, but what mattered to her most was the first  lesson.  Spending money on the things that really matter to you and scrimping on things that matter less is key. Negotiating is lesson two.  Negotiating salary, with debtors, when buying big ticket items, are things everyone should do but few of us attempt.  We talked about negotiating in Episode 191 but that was from a male perspective. Things are a little different for women.  Stephanie recommends Get Raised to help you learn how to get more money from