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!
Track It and Take Control 📈 💲
Pursuing true North Hello friends! Let’s dive into a topic that’s at the heart of financial freedom—expense tracking! Keeping tabs on where your money goes is the magic key to unlocking financial clarity and making smart choices about your spending. So, WHY should you track your expenses? Financial Clarity: Understand where your money is really going, spot those sneaky unnecessary expenses, and find areas where you can cut back. Budgeting: Create and maintain a budget that reflects your true...
What if you didn’t wait until January? ⏳
Pursuing true North Hey friend, Real talk: it's not even Halloween yet and Target has already tried to sell me a Christmas tree, a costume, AND a Thanksgiving centerpiece in the same aisle. My wallet filed a complaint. Here's the thing about fall - it's sneaky. It feels slow and cozy right up until you look at your bank account in December and go "wait, WHO spent $600 at Bath & Body Works candle sales??" (No judgment. Some of us know exactly who.) So instead of waiting for January 1st to "get...
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...
Brace Yourself (See What I Did There)
Pursuing true North Hey friend, This week I watched three different clients open a dentist bill, then an orthodontist bill, in the same seven days. Two called me sounding like they'd just taken incoming fire. One texted me a single word: "why." Here's the truth nobody puts on a motivational poster: teeth are not optional, and neither is paying for them. Cavities don't check your calendar. Wisdom teeth don't wait for a raise. And if you've got kids, orthodontists have apparently decided a...
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 budget reset nobody puts on the school supply list 📝
Pursuing true North Hey friend, We've got about two weeks left before school starts back up, and I can already feel the calendar filling in around the edges. Sports sign-ups. Practice schedules. The group text that starts with "so who's doing carpool this year." Everybody talks about the school supply budget. New backpacks, new shoes, the fifty-seven glue sticks the list swears you need. But nobody talks about the two budgets that actually wreck families every fall. Budget one: your actual...
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...
The 3 money lies you're telling yourself (be honest) 🤨
Pursuing true North Friend, we need to talk about the lies. Not the big, dramatic ones. The quiet ones. The ones you whisper to yourself so smoothly you don't even notice they're lies anymore. I've told all three of these. So no judgment here - just a fellow recovering liar handing you a flashlight. Lie #1: "I'll save at the end of the month." Oh, sweet summer. There is no money at the end of the month. The end of the month is where money goes to disappear - eaten alive by Target runs, "treat...
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!