113: Catherine Alford, Money Guru & Founder of BudgetBlonde
So Money with Farnoosh Torabi
Farnoosh Torabi
4.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 May 2015
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Today's guest is Catherine Alford, or Cat for short. She's the founder of budgetblonde.com and a personal finance writer who's been featured in some of the top media outlets including the Huffington Post, US News World and Report and many others. She's got a formal background in American history. And she worked for years as a historian before she began to focus more on her love of blogging, public speaking, and building online businesses. She now coaches other bloggers on how to market themselves online and build legitimate income streams.
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| 0:00.0 | So Money episode 113, Catherine Alford. |
| 0:05.0 | You're listening to So Money, |
| 0:07.0 | with award-winning money guru Farnu Shkorabi. |
| 0:10.0 | Each day, get a 30 minute dose of financial inspiration from the world's top business minds, |
| 0:15.0 | authors, influencers, and from Farnus yourself. |
| 0:19.3 | Looking for ways to save on gas or double your double coupons? |
| 0:22.9 | Sorry, you're in the wrong place. |
| 0:25.0 | Seeking profound ways to live a richer, happier life. |
| 0:28.4 | Welcome to So Money. Welcome back to So Money, everyone. I'm your host, Farnoose Tarabi. |
| 0:36.0 | Today's guest is Catherine Alford, or Cat for short. She's the founder of BudgetBlond.com and a personal finance writer who's been featured in some of the top media outlets including the Huffington Post, U.S. News World and Report and many others. |
| 0:51.0 | She's got a formal background in American history and she worked for years as an |
| 0:55.2 | historian before she began to focus more on her love of blogging, public speaking, and building |
| 1:01.2 | online businesses. |
| 1:02.8 | She now coaches other bloggers on how to market themselves online and build legitimate income |
| 1:07.8 | streams. |
| 1:08.8 | A number of takeaways from my interview with Kat, I learned a lot. |
| 1:12.1 | One, the counterintuitive strategy for making |
| 1:15.0 | money as an online writer. This I did not realize. Two, the exact amount of money Kat had in her |
| 1:21.0 | bank account that assured her that she could actually leave her day |
| 1:24.5 | job and turn to blogging full-time. |
| 1:27.5 | And three, how she juggles being the breadwinner in her marriage, running a full-time |
| 1:32.2 | blog, and being the mom to twins. |
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