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Please email me at michelle@makingsenseofcents.com if you have any questions, tips, suggestions, guest post ideas, requests and so on. All are appreciated.

 

 

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:

1. The Motley Fool’s Women in Investing Awards – Investing Blogger of 2022
2. Plutus Foundation’s 10 Best Personal Finance Blogs
3. Won Blog of the Year by the Plutus Awards at FinCon in 2016
4. Won Best Personal Finance Blog for Millennials by the Plutus Awards
5. Zillow’s Blog of the Week.
6. Top 10 Personal Finance Blogs to Watch by BadCredit.org
7. Top Personal Finance Blog Nominee (by One Smart Dollar and Ready for Zero)
8. 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.
9. Top College Blog
10. Bloglovin’s Top Blogs, and Up and Coming Blogs
11. 10 Best Personal Finance Bloggers To Help You With Your Money
12. 25 Must-Follow Personal Finance Blogs From Around The World on Blogtrepreneur
13. One of WiseBread’s Top Personal Finance Blogs
14. eCollegeFinder’s Top Finance Blogs
15. 5 Blogs That Inspired Me to Pay Off My Debt by Dream Beyond Debt
16. 10 Personal Finance Blogs You Should Be Reading by The Frugal Cottage