{"id":1115,"date":"2023-06-08T06:05:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T11:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alumni-association\/?p=1115"},"modified":"2023-06-01T15:06:33","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T20:06:33","slug":"3-pieces-of-personal-finance-advice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alumni-association\/3-pieces-of-personal-finance-advice\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Pieces of Personal Finance Advice"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"panel body-content\"><div class=\"panel__container\">\n<p>Grant Essink, DDS&#8217;17, MS has been passionate about finance since he was a Finance\/Economics major at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He shares three tips for students and recent graduates from his perspective as both a business owner and someone who graduated with student loans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"3 Pieces of Personal Finance Advice\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rGc-k0xRCqE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out additional blogs on financial advice:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alumni-association\/an-introduction-to-investing\/\">An Introduction to Investing<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alumni-association\/creating-a-budget-setting-financial-goals\/\">Creating a Budget &amp; Setting Financial Goals<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alumni-association\/finance-101-for-recent-grads-young-alumni\/\">Finance 101 for Recent Grads &amp; Young Alumni<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grant Essink, DDS&#8217;17, MS has been passionate about finance since he was a Finance\/Economics major at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He shares three tips for students and recent graduates from his perspective as both a business owner and someone who graduated with student loans. Check out additional blogs on financial advice:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1160,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-financial-literacy"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>3 Pieces of Personal Finance Advice - Alumni Association - Connections Project<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Grant Essink shares three personal finance tips from his perspective as both a business owner and someone who graduated with student loans.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alumni-association\/3-pieces-of-personal-finance-advice\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"3 Pieces of Personal Finance Advice - Alumni Association - Connections Project\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Grant Essink shares three personal finance tips from his perspective as both a business owner and someone who graduated with student loans.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alumni-association\/3-pieces-of-personal-finance-advice\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Alumni Association - Connections Project\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-06-08T11:05:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Hohenstein, Laura J\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Hohenstein, Laura J\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alumni-association\/3-pieces-of-personal-finance-advice\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alumni-association\/3-pieces-of-personal-finance-advice\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Hohenstein, Laura J\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alumni-association\/#\/schema\/person\/4ac75dee0c754b599e68e725ae55f2fb\"},\"headline\":\"3 Pieces of Personal Finance Advice\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-06-08T11:05:00+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alumni-association\/3-pieces-of-personal-finance-advice\/\"},\"wordCount\":80,\"commentCount\":0,\"articleSection\":[\"Financial Literacy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alumni-association\/3-pieces-of-personal-finance-advice\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alumni-association\/3-pieces-of-personal-finance-advice\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alumni-association\/3-pieces-of-personal-finance-advice\/\",\"name\":\"3 Pieces of Personal Finance Advice - Alumni Association - Connections Project\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alumni-association\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2023-06-08T11:05:00+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alumni-association\/#\/schema\/person\/4ac75dee0c754b599e68e725ae55f2fb\"},\"description\":\"Grant Essink shares three personal finance tips from his perspective as both a business owner and someone who graduated with student loans.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alumni-association\/3-pieces-of-personal-finance-advice\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alumni-association\/3-pieces-of-personal-finance-advice\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alumni-association\/3-pieces-of-personal-finance-advice\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alumni-association\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"3 Pieces of Personal Finance Advice\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alumni-association\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alumni-association\/\",\"name\":\"Alumni Association - Connections Project\",\"description\":\"UNMC\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alumni-association\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alumni-association\/#\/schema\/person\/4ac75dee0c754b599e68e725ae55f2fb\",\"name\":\"Hohenstein, Laura J\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/76cb3828776511675f0b9982dd3cdf932fa1540ab82002bc3085342c69dabffc?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/76cb3828776511675f0b9982dd3cdf932fa1540ab82002bc3085342c69dabffc?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/76cb3828776511675f0b9982dd3cdf932fa1540ab82002bc3085342c69dabffc?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Hohenstein, Laura J\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alumni-association\/author\/884d79963bd8bc0ae9b13a1aa71add73\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"3 Pieces of Personal Finance Advice - Alumni Association - Connections Project","description":"Grant Essink shares three personal finance tips from his perspective as both a business owner and someone who graduated with student loans.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alumni-association\/3-pieces-of-personal-finance-advice\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"3 Pieces of Personal Finance Advice - Alumni Association - Connections Project","og_description":"Grant Essink shares three personal finance tips from his perspective as both a business owner and someone who graduated with student loans.","og_url":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alumni-association\/3-pieces-of-personal-finance-advice\/","og_site_name":"Alumni Association - Connections Project","article_published_time":"2023-06-08T11:05:00+00:00","author":"Hohenstein, Laura J","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Hohenstein, Laura J","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alumni-association\/3-pieces-of-personal-finance-advice\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alumni-association\/3-pieces-of-personal-finance-advice\/"},"author":{"name":"Hohenstein, Laura J","@id":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alumni-association\/#\/schema\/person\/4ac75dee0c754b599e68e725ae55f2fb"},"headline":"3 Pieces of Personal Finance Advice","datePublished":"2023-06-08T11:05:00+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alumni-association\/3-pieces-of-personal-finance-advice\/"},"wordCount":80,"commentCount":0,"articleSection":["Financial Literacy"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alumni-association\/3-pieces-of-personal-finance-advice\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alumni-association\/3-pieces-of-personal-finance-advice\/","url":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alumni-association\/3-pieces-of-personal-finance-advice\/","name":"3 Pieces of Personal Finance Advice - Alumni Association - Connections Project","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alumni-association\/#website"},"datePublished":"2023-06-08T11:05:00+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alumni-association\/#\/schema\/person\/4ac75dee0c754b599e68e725ae55f2fb"},"description":"Grant Essink shares three personal finance tips from his perspective as both a business owner and someone who graduated with student loans.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alumni-association\/3-pieces-of-personal-finance-advice\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alumni-association\/3-pieces-of-personal-finance-advice\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alumni-association\/3-pieces-of-personal-finance-advice\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alumni-association\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"3 Pieces of Personal Finance Advice"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alumni-association\/#website","url":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alumni-association\/","name":"Alumni Association - Connections Project","description":"UNMC","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alumni-association\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alumni-association\/#\/schema\/person\/4ac75dee0c754b599e68e725ae55f2fb","name":"Hohenstein, Laura J","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/76cb3828776511675f0b9982dd3cdf932fa1540ab82002bc3085342c69dabffc?s=96&d=mm&r=g","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/76cb3828776511675f0b9982dd3cdf932fa1540ab82002bc3085342c69dabffc?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/76cb3828776511675f0b9982dd3cdf932fa1540ab82002bc3085342c69dabffc?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Hohenstein, Laura J"},"url":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alumni-association\/author\/884d79963bd8bc0ae9b13a1aa71add73\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alumni-association\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alumni-association\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alumni-association\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alumni-association\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alumni-association\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alumni-association\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1116,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alumni-association\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions\/1116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alumni-association\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alumni-association\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.unmc.edu\/alumni-association\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}