How did five women pay off more than 30K in debt and featured in Essence Magazine?  They decided to start a Purse Group:agree to meet once a month and get smart about money.   They heard about the A Purse of Your Own Campaign to financially empower one million women and followed the plan. 

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• Meet once a Month
• Track their spending in a spending diary
• Wrote in their goals and aspirations in their Purse Journal
• Read one Chapter of A Purse of Your Own each month
• Applied the strategies in the book to their personal finances

Deborah Owens is the Wealth Coach and author of A Purse of Your Own published by Simon and Schuster. She a talk show host and speaker and has toured national with T.D. Jakes God's Leading Ladies. Visit her website at http://deborhaowens.com