Remember the classic fairy tale of the princess and a pea? It’s where the prince is looking for a royal to marry and this woman shows up at the castle claiming to be one. She’s soaking wet from the storm and looking for a place to crash, but the prince’s mom is skeptical and decides to give her the ultimate test. The queen puts a single pea under a towering stack of mattresses, with the idea being that only a “real” princess would be sensitive enough to feel its presence and have her sleep disrupted. Lo and behold, the next morning, the princess wakes up complaining about tossing and turning ..read more

If you’re anything like me, you kick off every March with the familiar thrill of filling out a fresh bracket for March Madness. For me, it’s bigger than basketball – it’s an annual prompt to reflect on life’s unexpected twists and how we handle the things that are outside of our control. In my younger days, I dreamt of dominance. Maybe it was fueled by my alma mater’s record Final Four appearances in history or perhaps just a nod to my competitive spirit, but I would always scribble in undefeated runs for my favorite teams. Only after many years of having my predictions shattered, did I s ..read more

Advertiser Disclosure: rich & REGULAR is a member of affiliate marketing programs and may receive commission in exchange for promoting products and services. I [Julien] hate hotel gift shops. Every time I set foot in one, I can feel the insane price premium squeezing money out of me. One time, while visiting Florida, I’d completely forgotten to pack swim trunks. But after seeing the hotel gift shop only sold one pair for $75, I decided pools were overrated anyway. The character Omar from The Wire said it best—”a man got to have a code” and mine includes not overpaying for anythin ..read more

A couple of weeks ago, a woman named Reesa Teesa became internet famous after she created a viral TikTok series called “Who TF Did I Marry?”. Reesa recorded over 50 videos to tell the story of her marriage to a man she called “Legion” and the increasingly wild things she learned about him after they split and shared some hard-won lessons about relationship red flags and knowing when to throw in the towel. Now, I confess that I didn’t have 7 hours to watch it, but millions of people were glued to their screens vicariously reliving their own relationship traumas in real-time. She unwittingly bec ..read more

Picture this: It’s Saturday morning, you’re there, hunched over your laptop, and coffee number three is growing cold beside you. You’re frantically proofreading an email, the same one you’ve been at for hours, because that nagging voice in the back of your head keeps insisting, “it could be better.”  You know it’s fine – more than fine, actually. But then, like a glitch in the matrix, a typo leaps out at you, mocking the 100 rounds of edits it dodged!  Sound familiar? Welcome to the perfectionist’s dilemma, where “good enough” is as mythical as a unicorn. Legendary, sought after, but ..read more

Growing up, my dad taught me everything I know about money. He has a way with words and can drop these backwoods one-liners that make you think and laugh at the same time. He didn’t care how much money anyone had, he cared how you acted. He would say things like, “people are either good, bad, or broke.” To him, being broke was never a moral failing, it was just a symptom of fear. He taught me how to treat money like a boomerang saying, “if you have the courage to ask for it, money has no choice but to respond.” It wasn’t just money, though. He used the same approach for everything in life to s ..read more

It’s Valentine’s Day so this morning, we gave our son Beau two of his favorite things: cars and clothes. The car-thing comes from my side of the family. I come from a long line of car enthusiasts who can tell you the make, model, and year of a random vehicle on the road. But the clothes-thing, though, also comes from my side of the family. Ha! I’ll admit it, I like clothes, but not as much as he does. He loves clothes in a way that only an almost-seven-year-old can. There’s something about fashion sense at that age that’s both utterly baffling and deeply philosophical at the same time. You eve ..read more

Advertiser Disclosure: rich & REGULAR is a member of affiliate marketing programs and may receive commission in exchange for promoting products and services. Montgomery, Alabama in 1955 was America’s racial reality in a nutshell. Segregation was the law of the land and Black folks knew their lane. In the middle of this deeply hostile and oppressive city, one simple act of defiance sparked a movement that would change life as they knew it. Rosa Parks’s refusal to give up her seat to a white passenger is one of the most well-known acts of protest, but it wasn’t an isolated incident ..read more

Advertiser Disclosure: rich & REGULAR is a member of affiliate marketing programs and may receive commission in exchange for promoting products and services. A few weeks ago, we introduced our first class called Making Money Grow.  It took months of writing, research, lesson planning, creative design, filming and editing to make the kind of learning experience we wish was available to us when we first started.  Back then, we had to piece together insights from dozens of sources like podcasts, books, documentaries, and in-person conferences to develop a point-of-view on ..read more

Advertiser Disclosure: rich & REGULAR is a member of affiliate marketing programs and may receive commission in exchange for promoting products and services. Last month we celebrated the one-year publishing anniversary of our book Cashing Out: Win the Wealth Game by Walking Away. Yet, even now, whenever we walk into a Barnes & Noble, stroll over to the business section and autograph a copy for a future reader, we’re brought back to our twenties and reminded of how this book is a physical manifestation of our dreams come true. Signing copies in the Barnes & Noble, Metairie ..read more