The Growing Pains Project

Single.. Married.. Filing Jointly.. 401(k)? Roth IRA? What are all these terms?! Have you ever wished that there was just a glossary of financial key terms for everything you come across in life? We don’t learn this stuff in school. 

Here is our list of Financial Key Terms that you wish you knew when you needed it. By now, we probably know a little bit more, but there’s always more to learn. And that’s the beauty (and the growing pa...

Friends? In Adulthood? How do I do that? 

Making friends isn't as easy in adulthood as it was on the playground. There's no playing at recess or trying to enroll in all the same college classes as your best friends. 

It's different for us, and that's okay. We have our best friends in life, our proximity friends, people that add value to our lives, and some that don't. Life is an ebb and flow of relationships,...

When is the last time you actually thought about who you are? In the craziness of life, work, and responsibilities, we lose sight of who we are sometimes. The answer to what you should be doing in life or how to handle a situation is sometimes as easy as just reflecting on yourself and how you fit into the world around you.

Personality tests have been used time and time again to help individuals identify themselves and le...

We are on FIRE! How do you handle money? How do you define how you live your life? What are you living towards or working towards? There’s working to live and living to work. How will you live your life?

What is the FIRE Movement? FIRE: Financial Independence, Retire Early - a concept birthed by Vicki Robin and Joe Dominguez in their book, Your Money or Your Life. The FIRE Movement has gained a lot of traction with millennials in re...

Are you working to live? Or are you living to simply work? We often get lost in “the grind” of things, of our careers, of our responsibilities. We become distracted by money or the prospects of career advancement and success. We equate work success to life success.

Life is about more than work. How are you going to create a life for yourself where you do the things that you value most about life and work to make those values a reali...

Burnout - whether it’s in your career, school, or whatever is - you’re bound to feel it at some point. According to a Forbes article based on a nationwide study, 4.5 million Americans left their jobs in November 2021 alone.

Healthcare workers - like ourselves - during the COVID-19 pandemic have faced immense burnout that has led to 47% of them saying they plan to leave their current jobs within the next 2-3 years.

Repeated stressors,...

Why are habits important? To get to where we want to be, it starts with doing the smallest things every day, and doing them consistently. Habits turn into behaviors, and behaviors turn into a part of who you are.

We take a deep dive into Atomic Habits, by James Clear, which emphasizes a lifestyle of habits that foster the type of life you want to live. Take the actionable steps to making positive habits, cutting out negative habits,...

“In this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes.” -Benjamin Franklin

We all have to work! That’s a fact of life, which means we all have to find a job at some point. Whether that’s your first job, a career change, a move to a different company or to a different role. With that comes endless applications, rejections, “post-grad depression”, and eventually acceptance.

Navigating the job search can be stressful. We’ve been the...

The Mountain of Debt... How do we face a mountain that seems so high? How did we get here in the first place? An investment in yourself and your future sometimes means a big financial investment as well. But how do we navigate through this mountain of debt from student loans?

Making the right decisions for your future can be hard. Listen as we talk about the difference between Federal Student Loans and Private Student Loans and what...

How do you define health in your life? Is it through weight? The scale? The mirror? How heavy you can lift or how many miles you can run? There’s fad diets and get-fit-quick programs, but ultimately, how are you going to live a long, sustainably healthy life? 

We find ourselves quickly trying to fit into the social norms. When actually, what is most important is our health, our well-being. Do it for you - not for anyone else. We do ...

Change. Growth. Growing Pains. Podcast hosts James Chuatoco and Yochabel Loyola dive into the meaning of growing pains, and the different types that we experience throughout life. Post-grad depression, family changes, the end of a relationship, the start of a new job.

Every change comes with growth. And life is full of constant transitions from one state of being to another - one circumstance to another. Change is what makes life – ...

Growing Pains.. We all experience them. In childhood, it was just a little thing. Now, it’s learning how to deal with this thing called “adulting”. Welcome! Podcast hosts James Chuatoco and Yochabel Loyola talk about their journey through the Growing Pains of adulthood and what this podcast is going to be all about. It's for listeners just like you who are going through the same exact things that we've been through. You a...