Contact/Hire Me

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

Making Sense of Cents has received several awards, such as:

Plutus Foundation’s 10 Best Personal Finance Blogs in 2021
Won Blog of the Year by the Plutus Awards at FinCon in 2016
Won Best Personal Finance Blog for Millennials by the Plutus Awards in 2015
Blogger of the Month for the site Ready for Zero.
Zillow’s Blog of the Week.
Top 10 Personal Finance Blogs to Watch in 2015 by BadCredit.org
Top Personal Finance Blog of 2012 Nominee (by One Smart Dollar and Ready for Zero)
I have been nominated by the Plutus Awards in both 2013 and 2014 for: Best Personal Finance Blog for Young Adults, Best Blog Contributor/Freelance Writer and Blog of the Year. For 2015, I have been 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
Top 50 Money Saving Resources by Scratch Wireless
Favorite Personal Finance Blogs for Millennials by XY Planning Network
Top 27 Stories of ‘Life After Debt’ by ClearPoint
Voted Top Finance Blog by Broadview Networks
One of WiseBread’s Top Personal Finance Blogs
eCollegeFinder’s Top Finance Blogs
25 Must-Follow Personal Finance Blogs From Around The World on Blogtrepreneur
10 Best Inspirational Blogs for Debtors by BadCredit.org
10 Personal Finance Blogs You Should Be Reading by The Frugal Cottage

I have been featured on the websites below:

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’ 6 Secrets For Getting Rich Enough To Retire Early;
CNBC’s This 28-year-old earns over $100,000 a month blogging and traveling full-time;
Reader’s Digest I Live in an RV Year Round. Here’s What It’s Really Like, also on MSN and Business Insider;
Forbes’ 10 Legitimate Ways To Make Money Online;
Forbes This Blogger Earns Over $1 Million Per Year While Sailing;
Forbes’ 21 Ways To Earn $100 Every Day Online;
Business Insider’s 5 people reveal how they made a million dollars before turning 40;
MSN.com’s 28-year-old blogger earns over $100,000 a month while traveling full-time;
Oprah’s How This Woman Created a Blog That Generates $1.5 Million a Year;
Elite Daily’s How To Finally Stick To A Budget When You Suck At Saving Money;
Huffington Post Live (on-air interview);
Motley Fool’s 4 Ways to Make Up for Lost Income in 2020;
Time’s This Woman Paid Off $40,000 in Student Loans in 7 Months. Here’s Her Secret;
Huffington Post’s Can You Profit from Buying and Selling Websites? and Why I’ll Never Buy A Timeshare;
MSN’s How this expert paid off $40,000 in student loans in 7 months;
Kiplinger’s Proven Tactics to Overcome Big Debts;
Forbes’ 5 Steps To Building A Million-Dollar Business With No Employees;
The Consumerist (twice – one time was here);
Time’s 6 Ways You’re Cheating on Your Budget;
Lifehacker (here’s one mention and here’s another);
Yahoo! Finance (I am a regular contributor);
Bigger Pockets’ Retirement Accelerator: 7 Steps to Reach Financial Independence in 5-10 Years;
Credit Sesame’s 5 Real Grads Share Their Extreme Student Loan Debt Payoff Stories: How They Did It;
MSN’s 6 bloggers making six-figure salaries;
Entrepreneur’s Why a Blog Gets You Further than an MBA;
Get Rich Slowly (see my guest post here);
CreditCards.com’s You did WHAT to pay off your debt?;
Lifehack (regular contributor);
H&R Block’s 5 Budgeting Tips For New Homeowners (regular contributor);
Inc’s 11 Smart Personal Finance Blogs You Should Read This Year;
US News (I was mentioned here);
Motley Fool’s 3 Women Share Their Inspiring Financial Wins;
Reuters’ Your Money: How college fast-trackers save time and money;
WiseBread (one mention is here – How One Young Entrepreneur Paid Off $40,000 in Student Debt By Age 24);
Million Mile Secrets’ “If You Want to Reach Your Financial Goals, a Mixture of Both Frugality and Growing Your Income Is Extremely Beneficial”;
Wisebread’s How Are People Retiring in Their 30s?!;
Investopedia’s How to Get a Personal Finance Education for Free;
Inc.’s Want to Start a Freelance Business? 12 Successful Freelancers Share Their Best Advice;
Nasdaq’s 23 Reasons Why You Will Always Be Poor;
Amanda Abella’s 24 Best Money Bloggers Every Millennial Should Follow;
Rockstar Finance;
Houston Chronicle’s This blogger makes $100k a month from her sailboat;
Forbes’ 12 Ways You Can Absolutely Make Money Online;
The Globe and Mail’s Should well-off people shop at thrift stores?;
ProBlogger’s How To Make Time To Grow A Successful Blog When You Have A Full-Time Job;
Business Insider (How To Pay Off $40,000 in Student Loans);
Mint.com (here is my interview);
Entrepreneur’s How to Start a Blog and Make $100,000 a Month Before You’re 30;
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
Channel 3 WRCBtv’s What the Tech? Make money by blogging;
Daily Finance’s What To Do When Your budget Exceeds Your Income;
Local news What the Tech: Blogging for profit;
His and Her Money’s How Michelle Turned Her $0 Blog Into a Million Dollar Blog;
MarketWatch’s Nearly 100,000 members of Generation Z own a home (they’re 23 and younger);
Forbes (see here);
Living Low Key’s How Michelle Ditched Debt To Travel Full-Time;
Well Kept Wallet’s 18 Best Debt Blogs to Help You Tackle Your Debt;
Insider’s 14 people who turned their hobbies into million- and billion-dollar careers;
Time’s How to Make the Most Money Being a Mystery Shopper;
Cosmopolitan’s 6 Useless Excuses That Keep You From Saving;
XY Planning Network (see here);
GO Banking Rates (see here and here);
ClearPoint (see here);
Money Strands’ 10 Female Personal Finance Bloggers You Should Follow;
TripAdvisor’s Travel Tips from a Digital Nomad RV-ing Across North America;
The Everygirl’s Starting Your Own Business? How to Prepare Financially;
MoneyTalksNews;
The Professional Hobo’s Financial Case Study: Michelle Schroeder-Gardner, Millionaire Blogger;
Farnoosh So Money Podcast’s Michelle Schroeder-Gardner, $1MM Blogger;
Wallet Hacks’ Millennial Money: How Five Premier Millennial Bloggers Think About Money;
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;
HuffingtonPost (see here);
Scratch Wireless (see here);
Run The Money’s 8 Money Blogs To Help Keep Your Finances in Check;
Apartment Therapy’s Lessons You Can Learn From People Who Paid Off Debt Quickly;
Debt Roundup’s article The 54 Best Personal Finance Tips of 2014;
Money Under 30’s article The Best Personal Finance Writing Of 2014;
Career Contessa’s 11 Personal Finance Resources to Successfully Manage Your Money;
Yahoo (12 Tips to Stop Wasting Money on Food);
Well Kept Wallet (here);
Forbes’ How To Use Technology To Own Your Finances As A Millennial;
Invibed’s Extraordinary Under 30: Michelle of Making Sense of Cents;
The Dollar Stretcher’s Creating a Side Income in Retirement;
The Debt Myth (here);
Kara and Nate’s Travel Hustle Interview: Michelle Makes Sense of Cents for Us
Small Business Trends’ 10 Online Business Tips Suggested By Our Community;
Grasshopper’s article 5 Biggest Fears For Small Business Owners (And How To Fight Them);
The Centsible Life (here);
Time.com’s 50 Ways to Save for Holiday Shopping;
Mic’s How to make money on Instagram and get paid for sponsored posts;
Be a Freelance Blogger’s 15 Real-Life Freelance Bloggers Who Prove You Can Create a Successful Business from Nothing;
Principles Of Increase’s 10 Women Bloggers who Retired Their Husbands;
Learnvest (Real People Dish: The #1 Thing That Inspired Me to Get Out of Debt—and Stay Out);
“Goodbye Sallie Mae” – Round 1 on BrightCents;
NerdWallet’s How I Ditched Debt: Making Sense of Cents;
The Work At Home Woman (here and here);
The Daily Interview (here);
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;
BlogProfits Michelle Schroeder-Gardner from Making Sense of Cents;
BankRate.com’s article 5 true tales of crazy credit card rewards buys;
Credit.com (here);
Forbes’ The 33 Cheapest Places To Travel In 2018;
The Way’s To Wealth 11 Student Loan Success Stories To Motivate You Right Now;
Investment Zen’s How One Blogger Accidentally Built A $320,000/Year Income;
The Penny Hoarder’s How to Buy and Sell Websites: Expert Advice on Maximizing Your Profit;
Careful Cents’ 8 Entrepreneurs Prove You Can Earn an Honest (and Lucrative) Living Online;
CouponPal’s article Best Of The Web: Tips On Saving Money From The Pros and Interview With A Savings Expert;
My Money Wizard’s The Best Debt Crushing Tips from 11 Inspiring Debt Bloggers;
MSN Money’s 23 Reasons Why You Will Always Be Poor;
Studenomic’s The Article About Money I Wish I Read Before College (Open Letter to All Students);
Victoria Heckstall’s 19 Female Entrepreneurs to Watch;
Where My Soul Belongs’ The 4 Best Blogs to Keep You Motivated About Your Financial Goals;
allBusiness’ 5 Steps to Building a Million-Dollar Business With No Employees;
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%;

Youtube and Podcast interviews:

Jeff Rose’s She Makes $100,000 Per Month Blogging at 28 Years Old;
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;
Adulting.tv’s Live in an RV ft. Michelle Schroeder-Gardner;
Farnoosh.tv’s So Money;
She Did It Her Way Podcast From $40,000 in Student Loan Debt to Earning $100,000 a Month;
Cheddar’s video interview How to Make $100,000 a Month Blogging;
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;
My Wife Quit Her Job 282: Michelle Schroeder Gardner On How To Make 7 Figures With Affiliate Marketing;
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’;
Noah Kagan’s How To Grow a 7-Figure Blog;
Freeom In A Budget’s SIDE HUSTLE | Michelle 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;
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!;
SideHustleNation’s How Michelle Makes $50,000 a Month Selling Other People’s Products;
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;
The Off Beat Life’s How to create a million dollar blog while full time RVing;
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 Financial Grownup Podcast with Bobbi Rebell;
Millionaires Unveiled 22: Guest Interview – $100K+ Per Month Blog;
Choose FI podcast 069 | Making Sense of Cents;
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;
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;