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Urge Surfing Carrie RattleCarrie Rattle is a Principal at BehavioralCents.com, a website for women focused on mind and money behaviors. She has worked in the financial services industry for 20+ years and hopes to inspire women to better prepare themselves for financial independence. Read More

  Fabric from Food Waste? No Need to Scrap Fashion From dissolving thread, fabric made from food waste to clothes made from algae, the winners of this year’s Global Change Award are trying to plot a new way forward for a fashion industry that’s been too focused on disposable clothing. These innovative, out-of-the-box alternatives to… Continue reading Fabric from Food Waste? No Need to Scrap Fashion

Tomorrow I’m flying to Johannesburg where I’ll be one of two American counselors at Camp Sizanani,* a camp for HIV-AIDS affected teens who come from Soweto, a large township rich in the history of the struggle against apartheid.  Poor housing and infrastructure, overcrowding, and high unemployment are still the norm.  In addition to regular camp… Continue reading Tie-ing Together Two Continents: My Holiday Experience Gift

Are you taking Aristada or Abilify? Have you begun to shop compulsively, or has your compulsive shopping gotten more pronounced? Both of these medications, sold under the generic name aripiprazole, have been associated with compulsive shopping and spending, as well as other compulsive behaviors such as binge eating, gambling, and sex. Until now the only… Continue reading Are You Using This Prescription Drug? It Might Explain Your Compulsive Shopping

Despite what you see when you look at your credit card bills or what you hear when a creditor calls, or what you see when you try to open your closet and stuff falls on you, do you still think that your shopping is under control? Have you begun to see the costs, financial and… Continue reading What Stage of Change Are You In?

It is great that you have reached out! Click the link below to hear Christina Salerno, project coordinator, helping you prevent buyer’s remorse. How to Prevent Buyer’s Remorse Carrie RattleCarrie Rattle is a Principal at BehavioralCents.com, a website for women focused on mind and money behaviors. She has worked in the financial services industry for 20+ years… Continue reading How to Prevent Buyer’s Remorse

Alexis Hall was 31,637.84 pounds in debt. That’s over $57,000 in American money! You’ll hear how she used her fear to kickstart her healing journey and…how you can do the same. Listen to this Part of Our Conversation These three 1-hour conversations I had with three different women, who each wrote a book about her… Continue reading Listen To This Clip

Classical economic theory and the Darwinian principle of “survival of the fittest” both suggest that self-centeredness is the way to succeed. Edging out the competition, selfish people take the best mates and the best resources, goes the theory. However, new scientific studies suggest that instead, humans are actually hard-wired to be altruistic. Why? One school of… Continue reading Hard-Wired for Giving?