Ruth Soukup

Ruth Soukup is an author, speaker, entrepreneur, and founder of LivingWellSpendingLess. Begun simply as a way to hold herself accountable as she attempted to replace her overspending with a sustainable budget, LivingWellSpendingLess has since grown to be one of the top personal finance blogs on the web, averaging over a million readers each month. She is also the creator of the Living Well Planner, an organizational tool dedicated to helping you live your life on purpose, as well as the founder of EliteBlogAcademy, an online course for professional bloggers and communicators.

She has contributed to articles in Woman's Day magazine, Redbook Magazine, The Chicago Tribune, the Huffington Post, and FoxNews.com, has appeared on The Daily Buzz, Emotional Mojo, and Sister 2 Sister, and Real Life Money. She also writes a feature column for Harbor Style Magazine and appears regularly on WINK News in SW Florida as a Money Saving Expert.

Ruth lives in Florida with her husband and two daughters, Maggie and Annie.