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I have been featured on the websites below:
- CNBC’s 33-year-old mom makes $40,000 a month in passive income—and lives on a sailboat: How I work ‘just 2 hours a day’;
- CNBC’s This 33-year-old mom makes $760,000 a year in passive income—and lives on a sailboat: ‘I work just 10 hours a week’;
- Business Insider’s I only work 10 hours a week and made $4 million in revenue over the last 5 years. Here’s how I built multiple income streams and reached financial freedom;
- Time’s This Blogger Makes $2,000/Day While Sailing Her Family Around the World. How She Became Financially Independent at 30;
- Forbes’ Feature How This 27-Year-Old Made $1 Million Last Year;
- Forbes’ This Blogger Earns Over $1 Million Per Year While Sailing;
- Forbes’ 6 Secrets For Getting Rich Enough To Retire Early;
- Oprah’s How This Woman Created a Blog That Generates $1.5 Million a Year;
- Reader’s Digest I Live in an RV Year Round. Here’s What It’s Really Like, also on MSN and Business Insider;
- CNBC’s This 28-year-old earns over $100,000 a month blogging and traveling full-time;
- Forbes’ 10 Legitimate Ways To Make Money Online;
- Business Insider’s 5 people reveal how they made a million dollars before turning 40;
- Business Insider’s Creating your career: 19 content creators share how they turned their social-media side hustles into full-time jobs;
- MSN.com’s 28-year-old blogger earns over $100,000 a month while traveling full-time;
- Money’s This Woman Paid Off $40,000 in Student Loans in 7 Months. Here’s Her Secret;
- MSN’s How this expert paid off $40,000 in student loans in 7 months;
- Bigger Pockets’ Retirement Accelerator: 7 Steps to Reach Financial Independence in 5-10 Years;
- Grow’s Thanks to my side hustle, I went from paycheck-to-paycheck to traveling full time, debt-free;
- Forbes’ How To Use Technology To Own Your Finances As A Millennial;
- Huffington Post Live (on-air interview);
- Motley Fool’s 4 Ways to Make Up for Lost Income in 2020;
- FITnancials’ How Michelle Started A $1,000,000+ Blog With A Full-Time Job;
- Houston Chronicle’s This blogger makes $100k a month from her sailboat;
- Well Kept Wallet’s 18 Best Debt Blogs to Help You Tackle Your Debt;
- Elite Daily’s How To Finally Stick To A Budget When You Suck At Saving Money;
- Huffington Post’s Can You Profit from Buying and Selling Websites? and Why I’ll Never Buy A Timeshare;
- Forbes’ 21 Ways To Earn $100 Every Day Online;
- Entrepreneur’s How to Start a Blog and Make $100,000 a Month Before You’re 30;
- Credit Sesame’s 5 Real Grads Share Their Extreme Student Loan Debt Payoff Stories: How They Did It;
- Local news What the Tech: Blogging for profit;
- The Globe and Mail’s Should well-off people shop at thrift stores?;
- Forbes (see here for one example);
- Forbes’ 5 Steps To Building A Million-Dollar Business With No Employees;
- Entrepreneur’s Why a Blog Gets You Further than an MBA;
- Investopedia’s How to Get a Personal Finance Education for Free;
- Forbes’ 12 Ways You Can Absolutely Make Money Online;
- Million Mile Secrets’ “If You Want to Reach Your Financial Goals, a Mixture of Both Frugality and Growing Your Income Is Extremely Beneficial”;
- Insider’s 14 people who turned their hobbies into million- and billion-dollar careers;
- TripAdvisor’s Travel Tips from a Digital Nomad RV-ing Across North America;
- Kiplinger’s Proven Tactics to Overcome Big Debts;
- Channel 3 WRCBtv’s What the Tech? Make money by blogging;
- Inc’s 11 Smart Personal Finance Blogs You Should Read This Year;
- Reuters’ Your Money: How college fast-trackers save time and money;
- Farnoosh So Money Podcast’s Michelle Schroeder-Gardner, $1MM Blogger;
- Inc.’s Want to Start a Freelance Business? 12 Successful Freelancers Share Their Best Advice;
- The Consumerist (twice – one time was here);
- Wisebread’s How Are People Retiring in Their 30s?!;
- Apartment Therapy’s Lessons You Can Learn From People Who Paid Off Debt Quickly;
Lifehacker (here’s one mention and here’s another);
- Mic’s How to make money on Instagram and get paid for sponsored posts;
- Amanda Abella’s 24 Best Money Bloggers Every Millennial Should Follow;
- Starter Story’s How I Started A $100K/Month Blog About Personal Finance;
- Yahoo! Finance (I am a regular contributor);
- Business Insider (How To Pay Off $40,000 in Student Loans);
- Get Rich Slowly (see my guest post here);
- Cosmopolitan’s 6 Useless Excuses That Keep You From Saving;
- Lifehack (regular contributor);
- MSN’s 6 bloggers making six-figure salaries;
- The Street’s 5 Money-Saving Questions to Ask Your College Financial Aid Officer and Road Wage: Take These Key Financial Steps To Buying A New Car This Fall;
- H&R Block’s 5 Budgeting Tips For New Homeowners (regular contributor);
- US News (I was mentioned here);
- Living Low Key’s How Michelle Ditched Debt To Travel Full-Time;
- Career Contessa’s 11 Personal Finance Resources to Successfully Manage Your Money;
- Lauren Greutman’s 6 Ways You’re Wasting Money By Trying To Save Money;
- Think Save Retire’s What they don’t tell you about living on the road;
- Retire by 40’s Why I Gave Away Nearly All Of My Belongings To Live In An RV;
- ProBlogger’s How To Make Time To Grow A Successful Blog When You Have A Full-Time Job;
- WiseBread (one mention is here – How One Young Entrepreneur Paid Off $40,000 in Student Debt By Age 24);
- Rockstar Finance;
- Principles Of Increase’s 10 Women Bloggers who Retired Their Husbands;
- The Everygirl’s Starting Your Own Business? How to Prepare Financially;
- Mint.com (here is my interview);
- Learnvest (Real People Dish: The #1 Thing That Inspired Me to Get Out of Debt—and Stay Out);
- Money Strands’ 10 Female Personal Finance Bloggers You Should Follow;
- MarketWatch’s Nearly 100,000 members of Generation Z own a home (they’re 23 and younger);
- Small Business Trends’ 10 Online Business Tips Suggested By Our Community;
- Daily Finance;
- Motley Fool’s 3 Women Share Their Inspiring Financial Wins;
- Nasdaq’s 23 Reasons Why You Will Always Be Poor;
- Invibed’s Extraordinary Under 30: Michelle of Making Sense of Cents;
- FEInternational’s How To Grow A Niche Website: Experts Reveal Secrets;
- Stacking Benjamin’s The 23 Worst Pieces of Financial Advice We’ve Ever Heard;
- The Simple Dollar’s When Enough Is Enough;
- Daily Finance’s What To Do When Your budget Exceeds Your Income;
- MoneyTalksNews;
- Yahoo (12 Tips to Stop Wasting Money on Food);
- CreditCards.com’s You did WHAT to pay off your debt?;
- XY Planning Network (see here);
- Be a Freelance Blogger’s 15 Real-Life Freelance Bloggers Who Prove You Can Create a Successful Business from Nothing;
- The Professional Hobo’s Financial Case Study: Michelle Schroeder-Gardner, Millionaire Blogger;
- GO Banking Rates (see here and here);
- ClearPoint (see here);
- Wallet Hacks’ Millennial Money: How Five Premier Millennial Bloggers Think About Money;
- Shoptathome.com;
- Grasshopper’s article 5 Biggest Fears For Small Business Owners (And How To Fight Them);
- Smarterbucks;
- Well Kept Wallet (here);
- Studenomic’s The Article About Money I Wish I Read Before College (Open Letter to All Students);
- The Debt Myth (here);
- Victoria Heckstall’s 19 Female Entrepreneurs to Watch;
- Where My Soul Belongs’ The 4 Best Blogs to Keep You Motivated About Your Financial Goals;
- HuffingtonPost (see here);
- Forbes’ The 33 Cheapest Places To Travel In 2018;
- Run The Money’s 8 Money Blogs To Help Keep Your Finances in Check;
- NerdWallet’s How I Ditched Debt: Making Sense of Cents;
- BankRate.com’s article 5 true tales of crazy credit card rewards buys;
- The Centsible Life (here);
- Student Loan Hero’s article This Woman Started a Business to Help Pay Off $40K in Student Loan Debt in Only 7 Months;
- The Work At Home Woman (here and here);
- “Goodbye Sallie Mae” – Round 1 on BrightCents;
- Careful Cents’ 8 Entrepreneurs Prove You Can Earn an Honest (and Lucrative) Living Online;
- Debt Roundup’s article The 54 Best Personal Finance Tips of 2014;
- Money Under 30’s article The Best Personal Finance Writing Of 2014;
- Credit.com (here);
- My Money Wizard’s The Best Debt Crushing Tips from 11 Inspiring Debt Bloggers;
- The Penny Hoarder’s How to Buy and Sell Websites: Expert Advice on Maximizing Your Profit;
- The Dollar Stretcher’s Creating a Side Income in Retirement;
- Investment Zen’s How One Blogger Accidentally Built A $320,000/Year Income;
- MSN Money’s 23 Reasons Why You Will Always Be Poor;
- Kara and Nate’s Travel Hustle Interview: Michelle Makes Sense of Cents for Us
- allBusiness’ 5 Steps to Building a Million-Dollar Business With No Employees;
- The Savvy Couple’s 19 Full-Time Bloggers Share Their Worst Blogging Mistakes;
- The Leveraged Mama’s Downsizing Families: We travel full time, we live on a BOAT;
- Drew DuBoff’s How to Make $100,000 per Month Blogging and Travel Full-Time;
- The Wicket Wallet’s Top 25 Female Bloggers & Podcasters in Personal Finance;
- Forbes’ 9 Investments That Made Higher Returns Than Index Funds – More Than 11%;
- Apartment Therapy’s 6 Money Management Apps That Personal Finance Experts Swear By;
- Freedom is Everything’s How to Build a $1 Million Blog & Find Your Own Paradise;
- Rent.com’s How To Save Money Like A Financial Pro: 16 Budgeting Tips and Tricks For Renters;
Youtube and Podcast interviews:
- Monica Louie’s How to Build a 7-Figure Blog as a Digital Nomad;
- Jeff Rose’s She Makes $100,000 Per Month Blogging at 28 Years Old;
- SideHustleNation’s How Michelle Makes $50,000 a Month Selling Other People’s Products;
- Choose FI podcast 069 | Making Sense of Cents;
- My Wife Quit Her Job 282: Michelle Schroeder Gardner On How To Make 7 Figures With Affiliate Marketing;
- Zero to Travel’s Personal Finance and Travel + Is This The Best time EVER to Travel?;
- Heath and Alyssa’s How Michelle Makes Six Figures from a Blog While Full-Time RVing;
- Cheddar’s video interview How to Make $100,000 a Month Blogging;
- Farnoosh.tv’s So Money;
- Her Paper Route Podcast – She Earned $5,000,000 Blogging;
- Freeom In A Budget’s SIDE HUSTLE | Michelle Went From $40k in Debt to Earning $100k a Month | Mindset of a Millionaire;
- She Did It Her Way Podcast From $40,000 in Student Loan Debt to Earning $100,000 a Month;
- Noah Kagan’s How To Grow a 7-Figure Blog;
- Do You Even Blog’s Building a Million-Dollar Blog with Michelle Schroeder-Gardner;
- Become the Lion’s Creating A Million Dollar Blog with Michelle Schroeder-Gardner;
- Thriftylittlemom’s Secrets of Full-Time RV Living;
- Simple Pin Media’s Affiliate Marketing and Pinterest: Tips and Strategies for Success;
- Millo’s From financial analyst to million-dollar blogger with Michelle Schroeder-Gardner and ‘Making Sense of Cents’;
- Adulting.tv’s Live in an RV ft. Michelle Schroeder-Gardner;
- BlogProfits Michelle Schroeder-Gardner from Making Sense of Cents;
- Jessica Moorhouse’s How to Become a Millionaire Blogger with Michelle Schroeder-Gardner;
- Money Peach’s Episode 062: 27 Year Old Blogger Makes $1,000,000 Per Year;
- Authority Hacker’s #86 – Turning Paying Off Student Loans Into a Million Dollar Business;
- Do You Even Hustle’s We Chat With A 7-Figure Blogger Who Lives Out Of RV!;
- Chain of Wealth podcast E14: Michelle Schroeder-Gardner;
- New Heights Financial Planning’s Would You Live In An RV If You Made $100K A Month?;
- Heath and Alyssa’s Learning How to Make $5k/Month in Blog Revenue;
- Empower’s On the Road with Michelle Schroeder-Gardner;
- Daily Grind Podcast’s Michelle Schroeder-Gardner, The Million Dollar Blog;
- Fire Drill Podcast The RV Lifestyle with Michelle from Making Sense of Cents;
- Marc Guberti Scaling Up Your Own $100K/Mo Blog;
- Ryan Robinson’s From Side Project to $130,000/mo Blogging with Michelle Schroeder of Making Sense of Cents;
- His and Her Money’s How Michelle Turned Her $0 Blog Into a Million Dollar Blog;
- Marriage, Kids and Money’s Building a Million Dollar Blog in Your 20’s – with Michelle Schroeder-Gardner;
- The Money and Media Podcast Sharing Income Reports on Your Blog a Good Thing?;
- The Off Beat Life’s How to create a million dollar blog while full time RVing;
- The Financial Grownup Podcast with Bobbi Rebell;
- Millionaires Unveiled 22: Guest Interview – $100K+ Per Month Blog;
- Beautifully Equipped’s Talking Sense and Cents;
- The Online Course Guy’s Snowballing Blogging into an Ultra-Successful Online Course;
- Young Yet Wise’s Money Tips from Michelle who makes over 100k a month from her blog;
- TruFinancials’ She Went From $40k in Debt to Earning $100k a Month – Mindset of a Millionaire;
- Stacking Benjamins’ From Student Loan Debt to Six Figures a Month;
- The FI Show’s “Retired” at 24, Now Earning $1.5 Million Blogging;
- Wealth Without Wall Street’s This Girl is On FIRE! How Michelle Schroeder-Gardner Went from a Cubicle to $100k a Month;
- Michelle Is Money Hungry Podcast;
- House of FI’s How Michelle Created a Seven-Figure Blog and Now Travels the World on a Sailboat;
- Paychecks & Balances Part-Time Hobby to Million Dollar Business;
- Popcorn Finance’s Life on a Boat;
- Lessons From a Quitter’s How Michelle Schroeder-Gardner makes millions blogging while traveling the world;
- Journey To Launch’s Making 6 Figures Online & Living a Location Independent Lifestyle To Work & Live From Wherever You Want;
Making Sense of Cents has received several awards and mentions over the years, such as:
- The Motley Fool’s Women in Investing Awards – Investing Blogger of 2022
- Plutus Foundation’s 10 Best Personal Finance Blogs
- Won Blog of the Year by the Plutus Awards at FinCon in 2016
- Won Best Personal Finance Blog for Millennials by the Plutus Awards
- Zillow’s Blog of the Week.
- Top 10 Personal Finance Blogs to Watch by BadCredit.org
- Top Personal Finance Blog Nominee (by One Smart Dollar and Ready for Zero)
- I have been nominated by the Plutus Awards for: Best Personal Finance Blog for Young Adults, Best Blog Contributor/Freelance Writer and Blog of the Year. For 2015, I was nominated for Best Personal Finance Blog for Millennials as well as Blog of the Year.
- Top College Blog
- Bloglovin’s Top Blogs, and Up and Coming Blogs
- 10 Best Personal Finance Bloggers To Help You With Your Money
- 25 Must-Follow Personal Finance Blogs From Around The World on Blogtrepreneur
- One of WiseBread’s Top Personal Finance Blogs
- eCollegeFinder’s Top Finance Blogs
- 5 Blogs That Inspired Me to Pay Off My Debt by Dream Beyond Debt
- 10 Personal Finance Blogs You Should Be Reading by The Frugal Cottage