What is Family Profits?
Family Profits is a website designed for families who want to put their family first but who still need to spend time earning money to pay the bills. The site covers a variety of issues, including parenting, budgeting and cost cutting, employment, entrepreneurial activities, and managing all these things while living a healthy and sustainable life. Our goal is to help you make more money, have more freedom, and build the stronger family you desire. The site was created by the husband and wife team of Stephanie and Richard. Stephanie is a grant writer who founded a nonprofit consulting company that she ...
The Story Behind Family Profits
Family Profits grew directly from our own experiences as a couple, as the parents of young children, and as individuals who wanted to put family first but who still had to work to pay the bills. We struggled with caring for our children in the way we wanted while still having some time to spend with each other, on ourselves, and, we desperately hoped, getting some sleep. We wrestled with paying off our credit card debt at the same time we were paying for child care. And, like most new parents, we often did this feeling we were alone in dealing ...
How Do I Love Thee, Emergency Fund? Let Me Count the Ways
This may seem like strong language to use when discussing savings but both Richard and I feel very passionate about the benefits of our emergency fund. Having money set aside for a rainy day has truly changed the “depth and breadth and height”* of our life. How, you ask? Let me share our list. No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.
Goal Setting as a Parent
One of the biggest parenting “Aha!”’s for me was realizing that tools and techniques I had learned in my work life could be modified to be helpful in my role as a parent. Goal setting is the tool I have had the most success with to date. After our eldest daughter’s birth, Richard and I joked a lot about our “strong willed woman.” Maddy knew what she liked and did not like and was not shy in expressing her opinions! After a couple of months of jokes only sleep-deprived parents would find funny, it hit me one day that she would, ...
Discussing Connections
Today I wanted to discuss the four categories of Family Profits. Family, finances, income, and sustainability are four areas of our lives that typically aren't talked about together, even though they influence each other. One or two of the connections are discussed a great deal in America - for example, most Americans feel that if they earned more income, their families, finances, and ability to live a healthy life would be stronger. Other connections are hardly ever raised - not many folks discuss how living a personally and environmentally sustainable life helps their family, their wallet, or their career. In ...
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Greening Families Joins in Green Books Campaign
Logo designed by Susan Newman Our sister site, Greening Families, was 1 of 112 blogs that participated in the Green Books Campaign organized by Eco-Libris. For this event, books printed in an eco-friendly manner were reviewed by bloggers around the world in an effort to encourage publishers, and consumers, to consider the publication process for books. The books ranged from children’s books to... [Read more]
The Flu and Flexible Schedules
This morning I am feeling extremely grateful for our flexible schedules. You may have heard details about the flu in Austin on NPR. We’ve been watching it go through Maddy’s class since last week – by Friday afternoon only Maddy and one other child were at school. It appears the flu may have finally caught up with her; yesterday her school called to let us know she was running a fever. We... [Read more]
Discussing Connections
Today I wanted to discuss the four categories of Family Profits. Family, finances, income, and sustainability are four areas of our lives that typically aren’t talked about together, even though they influence each other. One or two of the connections are discussed a great deal in America – for example, most Americans feel that if they earned more income, their families, finances, and ability... [Read more]
Welcome to Steph’s Blog
Hello and welcome! We thought it would be helpful to you to provide a space where you can see the different approaches Rich and I take to parenting, work, and our lives. Our personalities, genders, and length of time being self-employed all vary, which gives us different perspectives. This past week provided a great example of that. Our youngest daughter started at the “big girl” school.... [Read more]
The Story Behind Family Profits
Family Profits grew directly from our own experiences as a couple, as the parents of young children, and as individuals who wanted to put family first but who still had to work to pay the bills. We struggled with caring for our children in the way we wanted while still having some time to spend with each other, on ourselves, and, we desperately hoped, getting some sleep. We wrestled with paying off... [Read more]
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