What Is Financial Self-Advocacy?

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Financial Self-Advocacy with Darcy

Get tips and advice from Darcy on financial self-advocacy, on this week’s Queer Money®. Start your financial independence journey by getting your free copy of the 7-Step Credit Card Debt Slasher.

Why is financial self-advocacy more challenging for people in underserved communities?

Want to earn more money? Want to stop being taken advantage of? Want life to stop nickel-and-diming you? Then you’re a ripe candidate to be a self-advocate because sometimes, the best defense for your personal and financial life is YOU.

Darcy Guac is the creator of We Want Guac, a finance-focused blog for college students and young professionals. She also works full-time as a marketing manager in the healthcare technology space.

On this episode of Queer Money®, Darcy joins us to explain how she defines self-advocacy as a way of taking your self-care to the next level, offering examples of what self-advocacy looks like and why it’s crucial for progress.

Darcy discusses the situations in which we should be practicing financial self-advocacy and describes how to ask for what you deserve—without turning into a Karen. Learn why self-advocacy is more challenging for those of us in underserved communities and get Darcy’s advice on what you can do TODAY to start advocating for yourself.

Listen to Darcy’s insights on financial self-advocacy:

Topics covered on financial self-advocacy

How Darcy defines self-advocacy as a way of championing your own wellbeing
Examples of what self-advocacy looks like and why it’s crucial for progress
Situations in which we should be practicing financial self-advocacy
How to research market rates and negotiate for the raise you deserve
How to read the room and identify the best way to advocate for yourself (without turning into a Karen)
Why Darcy suggests building a knockout LinkedIn profile as a form of self-advocacy
Darcy’s tips on catering your LinkedIn profile to the job you want
Why self-advocacy is more challenging for people in underserved communities
How a lack of self-advocacy contributes to the gender, gender identity and sexual orientation wage gaps
Darcy’s advice on what you can do right now to start advocating for yourself

“After going through possibly your entire life being dismissed or your concerns being minimized, it's not easy to shift from that reality to something that seems so counterintuitive like advocating for yourself.” - Darcy Guac Click To Tweet

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Resources on financial self-advocacy

Darcy’s Post on Financial Self-Advocacy
Glassdoor
Salary.com
Darcy’s Post on the Power of Some
The Fioneers
Get Rich Slowly
CreditWise

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We’re David and John Auten-Schneider, the Debt Free Guys and hosts of the Queer Money® podcast. We help queer people (and allies) live fabulously not fabulously broke by helping them 1) pay off credit card debt, 2) become part- or full-time entrepreneurs, and 3) save and invest for retirement.

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