Personal Finance
Marie Ortega-Sterling
Marie Ortega-Sterling writes about money as a means to freedom. Her work treats personal finance as a practical discipline grounded in the question of what wealth is for.
She approaches finance with curiosity, examining how financial decisions shape the lives people are actually able to live.
Her writing develops this perspective through clear principles and concrete situations. She writes for readers who want to think carefully about money and who want enough wealth to support their real priorities.
Her work is attentive to the psychology of financial choice, including why people make predictable mistakes and how systems can be designed to support better decisions over time. The aim is financial structures that serve a considered life.
Book by Marie Ortega-Sterling
Dispatches by Marie Ortega-Sterling
"Cheap is about spending less. Frugal is about spending right."
The Difference Between Frugal and Cheap
From the outside, they can look identical. From the inside, they are opposites.
"The breathing room evaporates before you ever get to take that first deep breath."
Why Raises Don't Feel Like Raises
The raise arrives, and yet the math never changes.
"Enough is not a number you reach. It is a relationship you build."
The Quiet Math of Enough
There is a moment many people reach without realizing it has a name. When the numbers rise but the feeling does not.