by Libby Balke | Maximize Career
Come rain, come sleet, come snow, he’s there, dancing on the corner. Sometimes he has a sign in his hands, other times, he’s wearing a brightly colored t-shirt with a store’s logo emblazoned upon it. You can’t hear the music in his head –...
by Libby Balke | Debt Free Living, Maximize Career
For the past two years, my husband and I have lived on a gross income of less than $50,000 – and while we were never part of the “entitled” 47% of Americans who didn’t pay income tax (our effective tax rates during those two years averaged out...
by Libby Balke | Maximize Career
When I got married, one of the first things I did was to change my last name. In fact, within a month of our wedding day, I had my new social security card, driver’s license, passport, and credit card in my wallet, all proudly bearing my married name –...
by Libby Balke | Maximize Career
Have you ever played the Hollywood party game “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon”? In the game, you take a random actor – say Jennifer Aniston – and try to use starlet’s movie roles, relationships, and friendships to connect her to Kevin Bacon...
by Libby Balke | Maximize Career
I have to admit, I probably watched 50 hours of television during the Olympics. My eyes were so tired of staring at the screen that I had a headache, and while you may think I was bordering on technology overload, I simply couldn’t turn away… after all,...
by Libby Balke | Maximize Career
The world of personal finance is full three-letter acronyms: CPA, CFP, MBA, CFO, just to name a few. But there’s another set of three letters that’s been on my mind lately – LLC If you’ve spent any amount of time listening to the radio lately,...
