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About Barbara Sloan
Barbara Sloan is the author of the book Tipped: The life-changing guide to financial freedom for waitresses, bartenders, strippers, and all other service industry professionals. Barbara says she was a homeless teen, who danced for dollars, and definitely did not graduate from college. She is now a personal finance expert and money coach that spent two decades working in every imaginable position in the Service Industry all over the country.
In addition to owning and running a badass women-owned Construction company in the heart of Manhattan, she helps Tipped workers achieve Financial Freedom like she did. She is passionate about all the amazing aspects of Tipped work and passionate about all of the terrible aspects of Tipped work.
What You’ll Learn
In this episode we talk about:
- Common financial struggles for people in the service industry
- How she learned everything she needed to run a multimillion-dollar business from the service industry
- Where tipping in America came from
- Why the majority of retired service industry workers rely on social security for their retirement
- Tipping standards and rules of thumb
- A good reminder of why going out to eat and buying coffee is a luxury service
- Best practices for increasing your tips
- Why you want to make sure you’re claiming all your tips
