Being your own financial self-advocate.
Standing up for ourselves affects everything. Here’s how financial self-advocacy affects you and how you can be stronger personally and financially. Start your journey to financial independence by getting rid of any credit card debt with the free, 7-Step Credit Card Debt Slasher.
Why financial self-advocacy is so important
Want to earn more money? Want to stop being taken advantage of? Want life to stop nickel-and-diming you? Then you’re a ripe candidate to be a self-advocate because sometimes, the best defense for your personal and financial life is YOU.
Darcy Guac is the creator of We Want Guac, a finance-focused blog for college students and young professionals. She also works full-time as a marketing manager in the healthcare technology space.
On this episode of Queer Money®, Darcy joins us to explain how she defines self-advocacy as a way of taking your self-care to the next level, offering examples of what self-advocacy looks like and why it’s crucial for progress. Darcy discusses the situations in which we should be practicing financial self-advocacy and describes how to ask for what you deserve—without turning into a Karen.
Listen in for insight on why self-advocacy is more challenging for those of us in underserved communities and get Darcy’s advice on what you can do TODAY to start advocating for yourself.
Listen to Darcy’s suggestions about self-advocacy:
Topics Covered
- How Darcy defines self-advocacy as a way of championing your own wellbeing
- Examples of what self-advocacy looks like and why it’s crucial for progress
- Situations in which we should be practicing financial self-advocacy
- How to research market rates and negotiate for the raise you deserve
- How to read the room and identify the best way to advocate for yourself (without turning into a Karen)
- Why Darcy suggests building a knockout LinkedIn profile as a form of self-advocacy
- Darcy’s tips on catering your LinkedIn profile to the job you want
- Why self-advocacy is more challenging for people in underserved communities
- How a lack of self-advocacy contributes to the gender, gender identity and sexual orientation wage gaps
- Darcy’s advice on what you can do right now to start advocating for yourself
Previous 3 Podcast Episodes
- Why LGBT Folks Should Become Trades Workers
- How to Be an Angel Investor with Arlan Hamilton
- 8 Answers to Questions about Lesbian Money
Connect with Darcy
Resources
- Darcy’s Post on Financial Self-Advocacy
- Darcy’s Post on the Power of Some
- The Fioneers
- Get Rich Slowly
- CreditWise
- Queer Money Facebook Group
- Subscribe to Queer Money on iTunes
- Email [email protected]
Connect with David and John
- Debt Free Guys on Youtube
- Queer Money Facebook Group
- Queer Money on Instagram
- Subscribe on iTunes
- Email [email protected]
We’re David and John Auten-Schneider, the Debt Free Guys (www.debtfreeguys.com) and hosts of the Queer Money® podcast. We help queer people (and allies) live fabulously not fabulously broke by helping them 1) pay off credit card debt, 2) become part- or full-time entrepreneurs and 3) save and invest for retirement.