About
Welcome!
I am Julie Mayfield, the creator and author of The Family CEO. I started this blog in 2006, after I hired myself to save my family money and pay off debt. I’m passionate about family finance, and — as the bookkeeper for two small family businesses and the person who manages our family’s finances — I think about it a lot.
But money is about more than just money; it’s about life. And creating an authentic, intentional life is something I’m equally passionate about. So over time the blog has expanded to include lifestyle topics like decorating, traveling, and finding ways to simplify and give back.
The blog is organized into the following departments and categories, which you will also find in the right sidebar of the blog:
Family Finance: Debt Reduction, Money Management, Paying for College, Simple Investing
Simplifying: Decluttering, Organizing
House and Home: Cooking, Decorating, Getting Things to Grow
A Full Life: Travel, Entertaining, Gifts & Giving, Books and Reading
I hope you’re able to find several areas that interest you.
In addition to The Family CEO, you will find my writing at U.S. News & World Report, where my daughter and I have blogged about college and at the PerkStreet Financial Blog, where I was a customer columnist.
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Comments
My goal is for this blog to be a conversation, and not a one-way communication. Nothing makes me happier than comments on the posts, so I encourage you to add your voice to the conversation.
And if there is anything you’d like to see covered on The Family CEO, please use the contact form to tell me about it. I’d love to hear from you.
Finally, thank you for stopping by The Family CEO, and for taking the time to find out more. I sincerely appreciate it.
Julie
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Well, you seem to be very well informed! That’s for certain!
Julie, love your blog. Keep up the wonderful work. This is a truly great resource.
Julie,
You are absolutely one of the best personal finance bloggers online. I love your work and appreciate your insights. Keep up the great work and I’ll keep reading!
-Kyle
Julie,
Just read your bio over here at Family Ceo, after connecting with you via email about Mr Rebates commissions, and I am SO similar to you in my view about our family finances and goals. I’m looking forward to reading all your blog posts!
Hi Julie,
Thanks for the comment on my blog. Glad to have found you and glad to see we have some things in common, hopefuly the debt thing we share in common will be gone soon. Adding you to my blog roll.
Hi Julie,
Love Family CEO.
definitely one of the best Personal Finance blogs!
Hi Julie,
My name is Christy Kondogiani and I work for Cari Cucksey who has her own HGTV show called Cash and Cari. I’m a new member to her team and also will be on the show (Season 3) starting this Febr. Just wanted to say that I try to find a lot of fun articles and blogs to post to our readers (we’re also working on a blog ourselves) and I found your blog just today so I hope you don’t mind I mentioned you a few minutes ago on our RePurpose FB pages.
Your blog is awesome as I’m also married and a mother of two little girls. Everything we stand for at RePurpose is exactly what you live as well…it’s great to see you talking about it to your readers too! 
Just wanted to say hi and let you know that I put a link to you on our FB pages…RePurpose and RePurpose Estate Services…hope it gets you more readers!! 
Thanks so much! Happy New Year!
Christy