Being a mom of 2 with almost no income during my divorce was terrifying. These are the steps I took to rebuild my finances.

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Jolie Steele reduced her spending drastically to start her life after divorce.

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I tried a 'no-buy year,' only spending money on essentials. It helped me build more meaningful relationships.

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I started "no buy year" in January and I'll never go back to my old ways.

Mia Westrap

My dentist told me they couldn't remove a tooth because of my weight. It was the wake-up call I needed to lose 100 pounds.

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Carol Evans before and after her 100-pound weight loss.

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My wife and I gave up $1 million in Big Tech pay to move from California back to India. I couldn't find purpose in the US.

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Nithin Hassan moved back to India in 2023 after nearly 20 years in the US

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I worked as a wealth advisor for Goldman Sachs. Here's what I learned from how the super rich manage their money.

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Ayesha Ofori was a wealth advisor for Goldman Sachs.

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I'm a former Disney Imagineer who helped create the Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser. Here are 3 tips for landing your creative dream job.

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Ann Morrow Johnson now works at Gensler, an architecture and design firm, after spending years as a Disney Imagineer.

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I'm a computer science professor at UC Berkeley. Tech jobs are drying up and graduates are no longer guaranteed a role.

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UC Berkeley professor James O'Brien says the job market is shrinking, and tech graduates are struggling to secure roles.

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I spent a total of 10 weeks quiet vacationing all over the world without my boss finding out. Here's how I did it.

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Tobi Oluwole spent a total of 10 months quiet vacationing from his sales manager job while only officially submitting three months of vacation time.

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I wrote a manual on how to work with me and distributed it to every coworker I had at Google. Doing that was one of the best decisions I made there.

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Jerry Lee (right), 29, was a former manager at Google. Lee said that he was inspired by his first supervisor at Google, who had his own "Working With" manual.

Jerry Lee

We moved my mom in to help us take care of our triplets. We couldn't afford childcare, but we also couldn't do it alone.

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Stephanie Ross, left, with her mom, Monica Ross, husband, Andrew Philippe, and their triplets dressed up for a costume party.

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