About

Hello,

Thank you for visiting The Everyday Dollar! I created this site to share content, resources, experiences, and strategies I have found helpful along my journey to financial literacy. I’m excited you decided to visit the The Everyday Dollar and hope you find the information I share helpful, engaging, and accessible for your own financial journey. If you do find any of the content particularly helpful, please share it with others!

My wish is that we begin to communicate more openly and authentically about finances, financial education, and our own financial journeys. Our relationship with our finances is one of the most significant relationships we will have in our lives. It shapes a great deal of how we move through this world. So, I think it’s crucial for us to understand how we can manage our finances and know the tools/ information available to help us do that.

A Word About Me and My Content

I want to be very transparent about my identity, the perspective I am writing from, and this space that is The Everyday Dollar. I identify as a Black, American, cisgender woman. With that said, although I will share general content related to financial education, I will dedicate a large portion of The Everyday Dollar space to sharing content which centers and is dedicated to exploring the financial experiences, journeys, histories, and cultures of historically marginalized groups of people, both of my own identities and that of others. So, please be aware of, open to, and respectful of that.

As I mentioned earlier in this section, my wish is that we engage in more open and authentic conversations about finances, financial education, and our own financial journeys. And in order to do that, it’s going to be necessary to share content on The Everyday Dollar, that delves not only into the adversities that historically marginalized groups have faced, but to look at where their strengths are and where they have flourished.

I believe it is important to discuss these things, so we’ll have a more complete understanding of what makes up not only our own experiences and thoughts about finances and financial education, but also what shapes the financial experiences and thoughts of others. I also think it’s important to discuss these things, so we can know how people have been strategically included in or excluded from certain financial systems, conversations, and/or opportunities, so we ourselves don’t participate or perpetuate those practices, nor allow those practices to continue.

What occurs today can have an incredible impact on what happens tomorrow, in a month, in a year, and even in the next 100 years. How we engage in these conversations about finances and financial education with our families, friends, and communities can change the trajectory of our futures. So, I hope you will be willing to engage with the content presented on this site and open to what the content has to offer you and those who you choose to share it with.

Thank you for visiting The Everyday Dollar. I’m excited to share content with you and am so glad you are taking the steps to expand your knowledge about finances and investing in your financial education. I hope you enjoy the content!

Rachel

Founder of The Everyday Dollar

I am not a financial advisor or planner. Content shared on this site are either of my own opinions/experiences and/or the opinions/experiences which I have found helpful on my own financial journey and should not be considered legal financial advice. If you feel you need a financial advisor or planner, please seek out certified professionals.