Episode 473: How Service Workers Can Achieve Financial Freedom & Increase Their Financial Health with Barbara Sloan

About this episode

Barbara Sloan discusses how service industry professionals can achieve financial freedom and improve their financial health.

From homeless to bartending at Coyote Ugly, today's guest has gone through it all when it comes to working the service industry. Barbara Sloan is author of "Tipped: The Life Changing Guide to Financial Freedom For Waitresses, Bartenders, Strippers and All Other Service Industry Professionals," and a personal finance expert. She's spent two decades working in every imaginable position in the service industry, in addition to owning and running a woman-owned construction company in Manhattan. Now, she helps other service industry professionals map their way to financial independence. We talk about the unique challenges that face over 4 million service industry professionals, how these workers can use the system to their benefit and all of the mistakes Barbara made on her own way to financial literacy. In this episode, we discuss: What a service industry professional is + their unique career and financial opportunities + challenges How to budget with an inconsistent or fluctuating income + how to build in buffers during seasonal work Advice on how service industry professionals can increase their income + begin to invest The transition from being hired at a construction company to…

People in this episode

Host: Jamila Souffrant

Guest: Barbara Sloan

Topics covered

• financial freedom
• service industry
• budgeting
• income increase
• investing
• financial literacy

Keywords

• service workers
• financial health
• budgeting
• income
• investing
• financial independence
• construction industry

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Tipped: The Life Changing Guide to Financial Freedom For Waitresses, Bartenders, Strippers and All Other Service Industry Professionals

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