Stefanie O’Connell is a nationally recognized millennial money expert and author of the book, ‘The Broke and Beautiful Life’ and she has appeared on CBS News, Fox & Friends, ABC World News and The Dr. Oz Show. Her work has also been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Glamour, SUCCESS magazine, Oprah Magazine and various other print and digital media outlets. She’s all about helping women on how to develop rich habits and feel as confident with their money as they do in the rest of their lives.On this episode of the podcast Stefanie shares how she found herself broke and living paycheck to paycheck in New York city and how an expensive visit to the dentist’s office was the awakening for her to turn her financial situation around.She talks about pursuing her passion as an actor and having the experience of a lifetime but being limited by the financial instability of not earning enough and how she turned that limitation into an outlet to achieve financial success by deciding to start really paying attention to her finances and the type of life she really wanted for herself and taking a new approach to get there.She’s now transitioned into a full time business owner with StefanieOconnell.com and she share exactly how she went from acting to finance.Some other things we touched on include business budgeting and diversifying your income.I had such a great time recording this episode with Stefanie as you’ll hear from how much we were laughing. Money is such a serious topic that sometimes you just have to laugh about it. I hope you guy enjoy this episode as much as I enjoyed recording it!Stefanie's website is http://StefanieOconnell.com For the books, tools and resources mentioned in this episode, visit the main show notes page here: https://www.clevergirlfinance.com/podcast-episodes/from-living-paycheck-to-paycheck-to-building-a-successful-full-time-businessIf you haven't already, be sure to subscribe to the Clever Girl Finance Podcast on iTunes, SoundCloud or Stitcher.Get access to my free budgeting tools in my resource library on www.CleverGirlFinance.comCheck out the Clever Girl Finance YouTube Channel at YouTube.com/CleverGirlFinanceDo you follow Clever Girl Finance on Instagram yet? You should!www.instagram.com/clevergirlfinanceReady to get accountable? Join the Clever Girl Finance Accountability Program over at www.clevergirlfinanceacademy.com