Teach Kids About Money by Igniting Their Entrepreneurial Spirit!

• The average high-school student thinks they will make $145,000 a year.
• Only 34 percent of teens understand credit card fees.
• The bankruptcy rate among 18- to 24-year-olds has increased by 96 percent over the last 10 years.

Shocking! You probably agree that we need to start teaching our kids about money. Read more

From Minimum Wage to Rooftop Gardens

Teresa Carleo’s client roster reads like a who’s who in New York real estate development. But her success started with the question, “What am I going to do with my life?”
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Build a Better Nest Egg

The stock market lost 38 percent in 2008. But if you lost more than 20 percent, your problem wasn’t really the stock market—it was the design of your nest egg. Storms occur in markets, as they do in the real world, but your home shouldn’t be flooding every time they happen. Read more

Q&A with Nancy O’Dell

Access Hollywood host Nancy O’Dell shares tips for balancing work and motherhood.

As a reporter, Nancy O’Dell has plenty of access to information. She knows how to get the scoop on crime, politics and, of course, hot Hollywood celebrities. So when she was pregnant with her daughter, O’Dell was surprised she didn’t have the information she needed. Based on her personal experiences, O’Dell wrote Full of Life: Mom-to-Mom Tips I Wish Someone Had Told Me When I Was Pregnant. Here, O’Dell shares some of her insights on balancing motherhood (she has two stepsons in addition to her daughter) and work. Read more

View From the Top

It didn’t take long for Edie Ames to get hooked on life in the restaurant business. She started as a teenage waitress at a Bakers Square in Chicago, and that was it. She liked the fast pace, the energy and the interaction with people. “The restaurant industry just grabbed hold of me at that point, and then I had no desire to do anything else,” Ames says. Read more