by April Stroink | Jun 25, 2025 | Personal Finance
As we move into the second half of 2025, many Canadians begin to reflect on the financial goals that may have slipped through the cracks during the first half of the year. Whether you’re managing unexpected debt, haven’t made the most of your savings...
by April Stroink | Apr 17, 2023 | Personal Finance
They say money can’t buy love……but can it buy happiness?Turns out, it CAN!According to the book “Happy Money (The Science of Happier Spending)” by Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton if you are spending your money correctly you can...
by April Stroink | Jan 18, 2022 | Personal Finance
Let’s face it, friend, the past 18 months have been tough on our immune systems. Not only has it been fighting off the COVID- 19 virus, but it has also been under attack by cortisol – the stress hormone. While there are many stress triggers during the pandemic one of...
by April Stroink | Oct 5, 2021 | Personal Finance
At the end of every quarter, I ask members of my Profit Habit group what they are spending their profit account on. Shelly sent a picture of her son, Canon next to a giant skeleton. The look on his face really says it all. Canon loves Hallowe’en. Every October he...
by April Stroink | Sep 25, 2019 | Personal Finance
I have watched Greta Thunberg’s address to the United Nations at least a dozen times. I have watched it alone, with colleagues, my husband and my two teenage daughters. Each time my emotions run the gamut of anger to despair. Anger because Greta is right, we...
by April Stroink | Sep 12, 2019 | Personal Finance
True confession…I have never in my life been so happy for the first day of school. Don’t get me wrong I love summer and the unscheduled time that we get to spend together as a family BUT holey moley . . . when mid-August rolled around this year I was craving the...
by April Stroink | Aug 14, 2019 | Personal Finance
As mid-August rolls around it is hard to avoid the “Back-to-School” reminders. From groceries to electronics retailers are looking to cash in on stressed out parents. According to MoneyWise, Canadians spend on average $833 on back-to-school shopping with some parents...
by April Stroink | May 10, 2019 | Personal Finance
Congratulations graduate! Years of lectures, parties, exams, papers, and all-nighters have paid off. But now, it’s time for the real world. You might be a little stressed. You’re likely thinking about a pile of debt and wondering how to get your start. Not...
by April Stroink | Apr 25, 2019 | Personal Finance
With Convocation just around the corner you may be searching for the perfect gift to give the new graduate in your life. What do you buy someone who has spent so much time invested in learning and preparing to take on the world? There’s one lesson they most...
by April Stroink | Apr 4, 2019 | Personal Finance
“No one has ever shown me how to be good with money, they’ve just criticized me for being bad with it.” That’s the answer I got when I asked a client to share with me her money truth. There it was, the shame we all feel about money, more...
