It takes a Community to Rebrand

August 19, 2019 By Deanna Leave a Comment

In my announcement about my rebrand, I shared how the name and tagline were formed. In this article, I will share the other details that are involved in a rebrand. Moreover, I delve into how/why it takes a community to undergo such a transformation. Women in recovery are no strangers to leaning on a village. Let’s face it, no one transforms alone and better yet, why would you? It’s so much more fun together.

If anyone has a brand and now realizes it’s time to change it, hopefully, these tips will help you.

Ms. Fiology has Re-branded to Recovering Women Wealth!!

August 12, 2019 By Deanna 7 Comments

It’s with much excitement that I announce the re-brand of Ms. Fiology! It’s been a wild ride already but it’s time to evolve.

As many of you know, Ms. Fiology is all about transformation and the blog is no exception to that. So without further ado, let me introduce my new blog…

Just a Little Update…

May 9, 2019 By Deanna Leave a Comment

Hello! I know I’ve paused Thursdays posts; however, I’ve been able to do a couple of guest posts recently so I’d thought I’d share them with you…

Guest Posts

Tim from Life for the Better reached out to me about swapping interviews for each other’s sites. His interview went live last week on my site. If you haven’t read his interview yet, I highly recommend it. Tim & his wife are killing it financially and you get to see a picture of their tiny home!

Additionally, I participated in an interview for his site which went live on April 25th…

Living a Better Life Interview

My name is Deanna and I’m a 46-year-old single female on the path towards financial independence. Even as I write those words, I’m in awe that this is even possible. My life has been a wild ride thus far. At the end of 2017, I finished digging my way out of debt. All in all, I paid off $46,763 in about 3 & 1/2 years.

However, the more miraculous part of my story is that I was able to get sober in late 2009/early 2010 from drug addiction/alcoholism. I came from a good Christian home but I grew up with a lot of insecurities and was always looking for my worth in things outside of myself.

Unfortunately, I found a false solace in drugging and drinking. I was a high functioning addict/alcoholic for many years which I think is the worse kind because we can go under the radar for too long.

The fact that I’m even on this redemptive path towards financial independence overwhelms me with gratitude every day.

How are you living a better life than you were last year? 5 years ago? 10?

Oh my on this question! I’m sure by my answers, you’ll see the polar extremes of Deanna. Five years ago, I was just starting to work on my financial life. At that point, I had been sober 4 years and had really worked deep on the roots of all of my issues.

I had found peace and reconciled with my past.

Although, I was craving financial peace so I put out the call for help. Many people steered me towards Dave Ramsey and a woman from my church met with me and helped me get on a budget. That really was the first key to gaining control of my financial life.

Ten years ago, was another story. At that time, I had long since walked away from a promising teaching career and gave into a life of addiction. I had also accepted to be in a destructive relationship where I was beaten down by words.

I was at the lowest of lows in my life.

In August of 2009, I had a vision and prayed/asked for help for the first time in years. Furthermore, I got out of the destructive relationship and quit drugs. On February 1, 2010, I committed to full sobriety and quit drinking.

By the grace of God, I haven’t found it necessary to take a mood or mind-altering substance since.

A Tale of Preparedness or a Lack Thereof – Lessons from 1 Year of Blogging

April 18, 2019 By Deanna 25 Comments

Ms. Fiology was born one year ago at CampFI Mid-Atlantic 2018 on the weekend of April 13th – April 16th. I owe a big thanks to Jonathan for introducing me to Kevin Clack and to Kevin Clack for pushing my blog past the goal line.

#Grateful Photo by Courtney Hedger on Unsplash

Happy 1-Year Boggerversary to me!

My first post went live on April 19th, 2018. Okay, okay so I’m releasing this post one day early so technically you can wish me a happy 364 days of blogging. 😉

However, I did start blogging for ChooseFI in January of 2018 so if we want to get technical I’m at a year plus.