Designing a Financial Game Plan: Where Do I Even Start?

Harvard Business Review · Oct 16, 2026 · 5m

Designing a Financial Game Plan: Where Do I Even Start?

Uploaded 19-07-21

19 Jul 2021

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If you’re overwhelmed with managing your savings—emergency fund? retirement? debt?—here’s a clear, step-by-step plan to get started. Tori Dunlap, entrepreneur and finance educator, lays out which financial goals to prioritize first to best leverage your investment of time and money.

0:00 How (and where) do you start your financial plan?

0:19 Build an emergency fund in a high-yield savings account

0:40 Pay off high-interest debt

1:22 Save for retirement while paying off lower-interest debt

2:00 Big life…