86. Breaking Up with Debt, Saving Intentionally and Structuring Your Family Finances Equitably with Stacey Shieh Lee

<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Stacey Shieh Lee is passionate about finance and her purpose is to empower people to achieve their financial dreams.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As a financial executive in the start-up tech space, she has helped founders and CEOs build sound financial processes and systems to get to the next level. </span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">She has translated her experiences into her company, Solve Your Books, where they bring a next level service to accounting in e-commerce, creative and PR agencies and women-owned businesses.</span> <span style= "font-weight: 400;">Stacey is also a personal finance coach and provides advisory and CFO level services.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">But above all she is a mom of 2, a 6 and 8 year old, who were the motivation and wake-up call for her to leave her corporate dream career to pursue entrepreneurship.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">In this episode, Stacey and I chat about...</span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Her personal journey leaving her dream corporate career to launch her own business and how she financially made it happen</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">How to start an emergency savings fund</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">How to allocate your paycheck into different buckets</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">Money mindset and what important questions you need to ask yourself when saving (and spending) money</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">A step-by-step plan to get out of personal debt</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">How to have an intentional conversation about money and structuring your finances with your partner (without fighting)</span></li> <li><span style="font-weight: 400;">How she personally structures her family’s finances (hint: this is how you save for a mom’s weekend to Miami and still put money toward retirement even if you’re a stay-at-home mom)</span></li> </ul> <p> </