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Today's personal finance blogger interview is with W of Well-Heeled. Well-Heeled Blog is a personal finance blog on savvy living which includes building a solid financial foundation for tomorrow while enjoying life today. Read below to learn more about W's experiences as a blogger and her own financial journey. Is well heeled your first blog? How did you originally...

I see life as the ability to accomplish anything you want, with very few exceptions. I could become the president, I could go be an astronaut, I could go make a billion dollars, heck I could even become a woman if I wanted (just checking if you're still reading ;) ). I'm a believer in the 10,000...

Ever wonder what it's like to be a globetrotting internet entrepreneur? Well you're about to meet one first hand. Colin from Exilelifestyle.com owns a boutique branding studio called Colin Is My Name. His business allows him to work anywhere in the world, which he's currently doing. Keep reading to learn about Colin's thoughts on...

I always enjoy reading a good interview.  Especially when it's with people who I'm interested in hearing more about.  From that perspective I'd like to gain the perspective of many of the bloggers who write about the subjects discussed on this site, however the majority will be from personal finance bloggers. This will be an ongoing, and never ending (knock...

Are your friends about as well off as you? Are they more poor or more rich? Does this interfere with your friendship? At this point, I'm about equal with my friends, maybe actually more on the poor side because of my choices, but I can't help but shake the thought that "You are the sum of...

I'm sitting alone writing this post. It's 9pm and everyone has cleared out of the internet cafe to make their ways to the bars and clubs of nearby Waikiki. I do my best work alone, I can concentrate, there aren't distractions, and I can choose my own music. My brain can relax and I can think...

Mopeds are wildly popular here in Honolulu. At all hours of the night I hear the vroom vroom of their tiny little engines as they weave through traffic and narrowly miss colliding with over-sized SUV's and the ever present Buses.  I live near one of the universities so there are an army of these little guys constantly parading...

In honor of the great Martin Luther King Jr., I thought I'd like to touch on the concept of dreaming today. Dr. King did not have grandeur visions of wealth, or possessions, but rather he envisioned something more valuable, something that tore into the fabric of our society's way of thinking; Dr. King dreamed of a world for...

I like to take advice from old people. They've seen more, done more, and often have made the mistakes that I'd like to avoid in life. Older people are wiser (most of the time), they're often much more content, and they have qualities I lack. Patience and a greater sense of what this thing they call...

After the big bank fiasco and credit crunch we've seen over the past few years there's been a movement for customers to leave big banks and partake in their local communities via credit unions. Credit unions offer a ton of unique advantages, but they are limited in the range and breadth of services. Using a big bank...