Discover Diane Birch & Donate To a Charity & Chance to Win!!

Wednesday, June 03, 2009

Discover the critically acclaimed debut album, Bible Belt from new artist Diane Birch. Her music is sinfully soulful and her single of the week, “Rise Up” is already one of the 10 top albums on iTunes – and it was just released yesterday.  But the best part of the story, in my opinion, is that if you purchase her album through the link provided below, $1 will be donated to charity - automatically.

S-Curve Records and Diane Birch are proud to present Discover & Donate. You discover Diane Birch’s soulful debut album, “Bible Belt” ,then you choose one of six charities to receive a $1 donation from your purchase. The charities are:  SOS Children’s Villages, Autism Speaks, March of Dimes, Keep A Child Alive, Share Our Strength or Susan G. Komen for the Cure.

Additionally, you can download the Discover & Donate widget to your site – wherever that might be and who ever raises the most money for charity through their widget by June 23, 2009, will win a FREE PRIVATE PERFORMANCE in the winner’s hometown!! How cool is that? Click here to start sharing.

Please do one of 2 things to support Diane Birch, her music and cause:

Download the Discover & Donate widget to your site here – and when someone clicks through that widget to buy the album, $1 to charity will be made in YOUR name and who ever raises the most $ - wins a Free Private Performance with Diane Birch.

Or just click below at the banner and BUY the CD to support one of the charities.

Are You Responsible For Your Financial Life?

Tuesday, June 02, 2009

When my friend Jacki and I meet – which is quite often, we always invariably leave with this burning question:  why are women less likely to take responsibility for their financial wellbeing? The question came up again because I ran across a statistic that states:

Only 15% of married women feel responsible for their financial lives, planning, or retirement.

Source: The National Center for Women and Retirement Research

One of my friends thinks that maybe it has to do with women’s relationship with perfectionism, how we hate to appear inadequate or ignorant on any front. When she was going through the process of buying her first apartment, she despised how frequently she didn’t know terminology or ended up feeling intimidated by all the ins and outs (especially in the New York market). “Most of the time,“ she explained, “I feel pretty competent, so not knowing what the heck I was doing was a feeling I really hated.“ I wonder if some women avoid taking those first difficult steps to understand finances because it simply makes them feel dumb.

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