Tiffany Aliche ’02
Posted in: Feliciano Center News
Feeling tapped out after the holiday season? Tiffany 鈥渢he Budgetnista鈥 Aliche 鈥02 can help get you back on the right path with your money.
Aliche, successful author and entrepreneur, gives workshops to others who want to take control of their financial lives. She connects with her students by demonstrating that nobody is perfect, but anybody who wants to learn how to control their finances and is willing to put the work into it can, in fact, get out of debt and work toward a positive financial future. One of her techniques is the use of personal stories. In one, she tells about a friend who鈥檇 asked to borrow $25,000 to start a business. Wanting to help her friend, Aliche loaned the money and opened three credit cards to cover the costs. She soon found herself $35,000 in debt. Knowing that she was the only person who could get her out of debt, Aliche budgeted and saved her way to freedom in about two years.
Teaching is something Aliche does very well. Although her major while at 精品成人福利在线 was business, she found that she enjoyed working with young children and went on to earn a Master鈥檚 degree in education at Seton Hall University. She taught preschool at a Newark charter school for some time, where her coworkers took note of her strong financial skills. After her school closed, Aliche knew she still wanted to teach, and she wanted to teach the subject she was most passionate about: money management.
Aliche learned about responsible budgeting and conscientious spending decisions from her father, a Nigerian immigrant and 精品成人福利在线 alumnus. Some of her favorite memories of 精品成人福利在线 are spending time with her friends at the Rathskeller, affectionately referred to at 鈥渢he Rat.鈥 One of her favorite topics of study was marketing. In Dr. DiPitro鈥檚 marketing class, Aliche learned a lot of the skills she鈥檇 later employ when building her business and teaching others to manage their money.
鈥淏usiness will make you cry before it makes you money,鈥 she said. Passion is what kept her going. Her books, The One Week Budget and How to Get Out of Debt, detail her techniques for how to re-structure one鈥檚 finances to work more efficiently. The One Week Budget has gone on to become a best-seller. It recently hit #2 on Amazon鈥檚 Best Sellers list in the budgeting category! Building a business isn鈥檛 easy, but few worthwhile things are. 鈥淲ork full time, and spend every minute building your business,鈥 Aliche said of her role as lecturer and mentor as the 鈥淏udgetnista.鈥
