You’re With Extended Family at Thanksgiving—How Do You Help Them?
You’re with extended family at Thanksgiving, and while you’re setting the table or washing dishes together—you want to say something about the fun, inspiring, exciting debt-free college journey your family's on. What do you say? Mention how fun and reassuring and...
YOU Can Raise Creative, Confident, Innovative Kids
Here's What We're Talking About This Week! The last thing you want to do is raise a child who's just a dull drone, pouring out memorized facts as though facts have the power to save the world. You want to raise a child who will be valued in a future workplace for...
5 Tips For Anyone Wondering about Commercial SAT or ACT Prep
Here's What We're Talking About This Week! Recently I got such a great question from a mom. I’m hoping many parents will benefit from hearing why I told her, “No, I don’t.” Jeannie, I was wondering if you do coaching for students looking to study for the SAT and ACT...
Who Feels Excited and Happy When Their Kid Heads Off to College?
Who feels most excited and happy on college drop-off day? It’s parents (at all different income levels) who've laid the groundwork necessary to get their kid through college debt-free—and then directly into a career they excel at and love. Even if he or she never gets...
7 Reasons Your MIDDLE SCHOOLER Needs A College Study Skills Class
My 1/2-day college study skills seminar is available both live—that is, in person, with me, online—and in recorded form for those who can’t attend live. Email me at jeannie@jeannieburlowski.com and I’ll get you in. More info below. Here's What We're Talking About This...
This Family’s Raving About My 1/2-Day Study Skills Seminar—THREE YEARS LATER!
My 1/2-day study skills seminar is officially called THE STRATEGIC COLLEGE STUDENT: How to Get Higher Grades While Studying Less Than Most Other People. I'll tell you how to access it below. "A study skills class that teaches you how to study LESS? Really?" Yes! In...
Sending a Kid to College This Fall? Here’s Special Help
Every summer, I share a compilation of the best articles I've ever written for parents who are sending kids off to college this coming fall. Read just one of the articles I've written below, or read them all! Moving Into or Out of a Dorm? DormRoomMovers.com Saves the...
It’s Catch-up Week! Which of These Haven’t You Seen?—Fourth of July 2023
I'm spending the long Fourth of July weekend having as much fun as I possibly can—and I hope you are too. Whenever I take time off like this, I like to point you to some of my most helpful recent articles that you may have missed. This gives you a chance to catch...
This Fun, Easy Game Helps Kids Learn to Accept Responsibility
Today I'm featuring an article by Dr. Henry Cloud that'll help your kids learn to accept responsibility—using a funny, easy game that just might become an ongoing joke in your family. Dr. Cloud writes this about helping kids learn to accept responsibility: "My...
“Can’t We Just Count on All Student Loans Being Forgiven?” (Ah—No.)
URGENT—for early 2026. Do you have even one Parent PLUS loan? Might your parents have taken out a Parent PLUS loan for you? Skip this article and jump straight to the more urgent one here. Are you thinking you won't have to worry about debt-free college ideas, because...
It’s Catch-Up Week! Which of These Haven’t You Seen?—Memorial Day 2023
I'm spending Memorial Day having as much fun as I possibly can—and I hope you are too. Whenever I take time off like this, I like to point you to some of my most helpful recent articles that you may have missed. This gives you a chance to catch up—right on a week when...
URGENT Info For Parents of 9th Graders
Here's What We're Talking About This Week! Today I'm helping financial professionals across the nation to spread the word. There's urgent financial aid info for parents of 9th graders. Yes I'm serious—9th graders. Parents, there are some things you need to know right...
Teen Constantly Angry? It Could be “Launch Anxiety.”
Here's What We're Talking About This Week! 15-year-old Luke had been in a dark, angry mood all day long, starting from the moment his mother wished him a cheerful, "Good morning!" and set hot scrambled eggs and a fresh hot caramel roll in front of him at the breakfast...
Fastest, Easiest Strategy for Getting Kids Through College Debt-Free
Parents ask me, "Jeannie, I've got kids ages 12–18. What's the fastest, easiest way for me to get these kids through college debt-free and into jobs they love afterward?" My answer: "It's actually fairly easy to do this—if you can plan ahead just a little!" Let me...
Top 4 Reasons Parents Put Off College Planning
Why would some parents find out that there's a path to debt-free college (and thriving future career) for their kids—and then say, "Nah, we're not going to walk down that path"? It's understandable! Parents are busy, and they can't do everything. The problem comes...
How to Turn Ordinary Kids Into Brilliant, Frugal Money Managers
Earlier this year I was interviewed on the All Things Education podcast in Australia—which was especially interesting because the host is 19 years old. "She's a teen," I thought to myself. "She's a college student. I wonder, what'll be the first question she'll be...
I’m Helping Financial Advisors Reach More Families
Most of my articles are for parents of kids ages 12–26, but this article is specifically for financial advisors. When you're a financial advisor who follows me, there are 3 things I know about you: 1. One of your greatest goals is to help more families. ...
Simple Check-In Rule Helps Teens Avoid Risk
Here's What We're Talking About This Week! A simple check-in rule can help teens avoid risk Our tweens and teens are going to have to make certain decisions and choices in the face of peer pressure. And generally, they will want to do what’s right. But they may not...
In Just 5 Minutes — Change Your Future Grandchildren’s Lives
Here's What We're Talking About This Week! Recently, I climbed a mountain in Zion National Park. My husband, the avid hiker, gave me a set of hiking poles and these instructions: "When you start to feel exhausted," he said, "just concentrate on your next step. Where's...
A Virtuous Life, a Rich Life—In Just 30 Seconds
As for me—I'd love to live a virtuous life. A rich life. I got great help from this diagram—in just about 30 seconds! I love it. A virtuous life is one of balance between deficiency and excess. Interesting. This is thought-provoking—and worthy of putting up on the...
About
Hi, I’m Jeannie Burlowski.
I am a full-time academic strategist, conference speaker, and author of the book “LAUNCH: How to Get Your Kids Through College Debt-Free and Into Jobs They Love Afterward.”
My writing and speaking provide parents a clear, step-by-step checklist so they can set their kids up to succeed brilliantly in college, graduate debt-free, and move directly into careers they excel at and love.
For more than 20 years, I’ve helped students apply to highly competitive law, medical, business, and grad schools. I still do that from my website GetIntoMedSchool.com.
I am married, and my husband and I have a son and a daughter. We live in Minneapolis.
Hi, I'm Jeannie Burlowski.
My background as an academic strategist provides ideal foundation for me to help parents of kids ages 12–26 set those kids up to graduate college debt-free, ready to jump directly into careers they excel at and love.
I do this primarily through my book LAUNCH: How to Get Your Kids Through College Debt-Free and Into Jobs They Love Afterward. LAUNCH provides parents clear, step-by-step instructions for this journey.
Regular readers of my free email newsletter get additional help from me. Gentle reminding about what to do when, and first access to my live and online sessions, strategy updates, and TRIBE Membership.
My team and I are leading a debt-free college revolution. We hope you'll join us!
Hi, I'm Jeannie Burlowski.
My background as an academic strategist provides ideal foundation for me to help parents of kids ages 12–26 set those kids up to graduate college debt-free, ready to jump directly into careers they excel at and love.
I do this primarily through my book LAUNCH: How to Get Your Kids Through College Debt-Free and Into Jobs They Love Afterward. LAUNCH provides parents clear, step-by-step instructions for this journey.
Regular readers of my free email newsletter get additional help from me. Gentle reminding about what to do when, and first access to my live and online sessions, strategy updates, and TRIBE membership.