Pursuing True North
Ready to level up your finances and start thriving? We're here to help you go from living paycheck to paycheck to living your best life. Gain control of your money and align your future with your dreams. With the perfect balance of faith and finances, you'll find clarity and peace like never before. Let's make your financial success a reality!
Can I Ever Catch Up Financially? ⚖
Pursuing true North Friends, I've been asked some version of this question for eight years now. Eight. Years. "Jenny, is it too late for me?" "Jenny, will I ever actually catch up?" "Jenny, everyone else seems so far ahead - what's wrong with me?" Here's the truth I wish I could hand every single one of you the first time you ask it: This is not a race. It's not a competition. Nobody is handing out medals for who paid off debt the fastest or who retired the earliest or who had the "right"...
You Can't Pour From an Empty 529 💸
Pursuing true North Last week I was mid-lecture with my kids about the importance of healthy eating. Real food, not junk, you know the speech. Right when I hit my stride, my purse tipped over and out rolled my emergency chocolate bar. My kids just looked at it, then looked at me, and didn't say a word. They didn't have to. It was a good reminder that we can believe something is important and still not be practicing it perfectly ourselves. And that's exactly what I want to talk about this...
I Used to Live in the Land of Ambiguity 😎
Pursuing true North For a long time, I lived in a beautiful little country called the Land of Ambiguity.Maybe you've been there. The weather's always perfect. The sun is out, the rainbows are doing their thing, and somewhere off in the distance there's a soft, comforting voice whispering, "It'll all work out eventually."I loved it there. Zero forecasts, zero itineraries, zero adulting required. My finances would just... work out one day. I didn't know how. I didn't know when. I just knew it...
She Grew Up Poor and Managed Millions. So Can You. ✨
Pursuing true North Hi Friend, By now you've heard: we lost Dolly Parton this week. And if the internet has taught me anything the last couple of days, it's that it can be a good thing to come together and spread good and share. So many people shared all the great things Dolly did with her life and how she touched them. That right there? That's a legacy. She grew up in a one-room cabin in the Smoky Mountains with more siblings than square footage, and she ended up a business mogul, a...
Are You and Money on Speaking Terms? 🤨
Pursuing true North Hey friend, Let's talk about stinking thinking. (Say that five times fast. I'll wait.) Here's a question I want you to actually sit with instead of skimming past: what is your relationship with money? Now before you write back "Jenny, money isn't a person, I don't have a relationship with it," I hear you. But stick with me, because money has a sneaky way of stirring up real feelings in us, even though it's just paper. Metal. Numbers on a screen. Here's the analogy I love...
Groceries, Debt, and the Quiet Anxiety Nobody's Naming 🛒
Pursuing true North Hey friend, Can we talk about the thing nobody's saying out loud? You check your accounts. The numbers are... fine. Bills are paid. You're not drowning. And yet you're standing in the cereal aisle doing mental math like you're back in a final exam you didn't study for, and there's this low hum in your chest that won't quite turn off. That hum has a name. It's just anxiety wearing a really convincing disguise. Here's what's real: total U.S. credit card debt hit $1.26...
5 Things I Will Never Say to You 💭
Pursuing true North Hey friend, I've been coaching people through their money and their lives long enough to know exactly where my limits are. So today, in the spirit of honesty, I want to give you a list of things you will never, ever hear come out of my mouth. 1. "Give up your coffee." Absolutely not. I would never ask you to walk away from the one hot beverage standing between you and public property damage. Your latte is not the problem. Your latte is a coping mechanism, and frankly, a...
The quiet costs nobody budgets for ⭐
Pursuing true North Hey friend, I finally got the quote back on the HVAC work we need to get done. A few thousand dollars, all in. Adulting is so hard and sometimes not fun. Nothing is broken yet. I still felt my stomach drop when the number came through. That's the thing about summer down here. School doesn't start for three more weeks, so we still have a little room to breathe before the calendar takes over again. But if I'm honest, the second half of the year is already knocking on the...
When You Feel Like It's All Falling Apart 😣
Pursuing true North Friends, I still remember what it felt like before I understood our finances. Everything felt like it was hanging on by a thread. I needed every paycheck to hit on time. I needed certain checks to clear on certain days, or the whole week would come undone. If you have ever done math in your head at the grocery store, praying the card would go through, you know exactly the feeling I am talking about. The money fights were intense back then too. Not the cute kind of...
Freedom Is Worth Celebrating. 🇺🇸 So Is Financial Peace. 🎉
Pursuing true North Happy 250th, America! 🇺🇸 Friends, This week, our country turns 250 years old. Two and a half centuries of grit, hope, and the kind of freedom worth celebrating. As a veteran, this one hits a little different for me, and I hope you'll pause to feel the weight and the joy of it too. Freedom is the gift. Stewardship is our thank-you. "It is for freedom that Christ has set us free." - Galatians 5:1 (NIV) There's freedom in our country's story, and there's freedom in your...
Ready to level up your finances and start thriving? We're here to help you go from living paycheck to paycheck to living your best life. Gain control of your money and align your future with your dreams. With the perfect balance of faith and finances, you'll find clarity and peace like never before. Let's make your financial success a reality!