Last week when I launched my current promotion for Military Spouses and shared it on Twitter, I received a DM asking what did I know about Taffy Wagner.  Needless to say, that made me stop and think. Military Spouses might not know anything about Taffy Wagner. Hence this blog post.

Taffy Wagner is a veteran of the United States Armed Forces. When she enlisted,  she had only graduated from high school a few short months prior. Her experience with money was very limited having grown up in a single parent household.

This was her chance to have more options for career, college and employment. There she was enlisted and moving away from home for the first time making a statement that most did not believe she would make because she was the youngest child.

Striking out on her own, she did not not do that bad. Joined the service, learned a skill and was receiving early promotions. Since she initially did not have a car, one of her biggest expenses was her phone bill. Taffy called home a lot because of her close relationship with her family. Mind you she was not home sick, but her ties with her family were deep.

During her first term of enlistment, she saw friends come and go. Reassignment, temporary duty assignments and short assignments to Korea and Japan. She experienced reconnecting with people several years later. She re-enlisted for a second term to accomplish all of her goals that she had set for herself.

Financial challenges she faced during her enlistment was emergency car repairs, learned about automatic deductions and had one or two credit cards. After separation within fifteen months, had unmanageable debt. So this is a veteran of the United Armed Forces that knows about money management, cleaning up credit and starting over.

Be sure and view her current promotion to assist military spouses:

http://debtatthealtar.com/military-spouse-marriage-and-money

She is ready to help!

As a veteran Air Force staff sergeant, Taffy Wagner, DMin, knows how challenging it is for young engaged women to military service members, newlyweds and spouses to be put in the position of money management when they have not had a chance to get used to the military lifestyle. The excitement of being a bride and saying “I DO” can quickly turn into sadness and feeling lonely because of a deployment or even a short temporary duty assignment.  Let’s face it, being “Married to the Military” is its own unique community. Finances are different for military service members and families.

 Wagner created Money Talk Before The Commitment Walk and Debt Stops At The Altar financial education program to teach couples how to communicate in a non-threatening manner throughout the lifetime of their marriage. “I believe this course would be a great starting point for military spouses who are placed in the position of managing money for their household.” Wagner said. “I know it is hard for spouses to be “thrown into” managing money when they might not have done  well on their own. What I teach will follow them wherever they go and equip them for financial harmony.” Wagner’s innovative Money Talk Before The Commitment Walk and Debt Stops At The Altar financial education program is a program that spouses can do in the privacy and comfort of their own home. This is the first of its kind for engaged couples and newlyweds. She’s offering a 25% discount to military spouses that purchase this program and is donating 15% of all purchases made from January 14, 2009 to January 30, 2009 to be divided between eMOM, National Military Family Association and Help A ServiceMember Out organizations to reach out to the community she still considers herself a part of. 

From her own independent research, Wagner was aware that there was not a financial education program specific for engaged couples and newlyweds. Wagner said, “As a veteran, who has talked with military spouses and had friends that were military spouses, I believed military spouses could  benefit from this program as well as civilians. I developed this program to help create financial harmony in marriage versus financial stress and division.”

As a happily married wife of 13 years, Wagner shares about bankruptcy, slow pays, cleaning up credit, the shopper in the house versus the saver and more. Wagner says, “There are many financial issues that couples will face some planned and others unplanned. There is absolutely no reason a couple cannot be equipped with financial guidance beforehand.”

 This program is being discounted for the next two weeks. Everyone that purchases this program will also receive a pre-release copy of Wagner’s deployment and financial program, FE4PPDS at no cost.  

For more information, go to http://debtatthealtar.com/military-spouse-marriage-and-money/