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TEACHING KIDS ABOUT MONEY
A Savings Lesson as Easy as Child’s Play. Source: NLG My oldest son, Xander, is about to be 12. Before the end of this summer, he will...
HOW THE “F” WORD MAKES WOMEN SMARTER
Smart women share a lot of things with each other–a lot. Everything from bad dates to bad bosses, trying to get pregnant to birth...
HOW TO PLAN FOR THE UNIQUE NEEDS OF YOUR FAMILY
Life can change in a moment. One day my family became a family with a special needs person. I had been out of the country (and at that...
HOW MUCH LIFE INSURANCE DO YOU REALLY NEED?
Typically getting the insurance you need is pretty straightforward. Generally someone else will tell you how much you need for your car...
AN AGING PARENT: WHAT’S THE RIGHT APPROACH?
Each of us eventually experiences the challenge of watching a parent age and trying to help them navigate the inevitable changes it...
12 BABY SAFETY TIPS | BECAUSE GROWING SMALL PEOPLE IS HARD WORK
Being a parent is exciting and fun but also exhausting and hard! Let’s be honest, if your parents were like mine, they gave us wooden...
MANAGING IT ALL: MY FIRST STUDENT LOAN PAYMENT IS HERE
I just made my first student loan payment last week….and everything just got real, folks. According to the Wall Street Journal, with 2015...
BORROW FROM YOURSELF
“A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don’t need it.” Source: NLG It’s one of those classics that falls...
IT’S TIME TO CLOSE THE RETIREMENT SAVINGS GENDER GAP
Women earn 78 cents to every dollar that men earn, according to the U. S. Department of Labor. That’s 23% less than their male...
WHEN DID I BECOME A HAM ON RYE? | TIPS FOR LIVING INDEPENDENTLY IN YOUR GOLDEN YEARS
I have aging parents. But I don’t have children. Am I still considered part of the “Sandwich Generation” or does lack of one slice of...
HOW TO LIVE A LIFE YOU LOVE
Many of us struggle to find balance in our lives and often feel like we could have the life we love if only…. And the “if only” list can...
WHY ARE YOU SO AFRAID OF CHANGE?
Change is hard and has the capacity to totally freak people out. It can happen subtly, like the weather changing or the store being out...
WHAT IT REALLY TAKES TO BE A ROLE MODEL
Two years ago my daughter Lindsey had to select a role model for a report in her 7th grade class. She chose Taylor Swift. Not a bad...
THANK YOU FOR SAVING MY LIFE| THE GREATEST COMPLIMENT I EVER RECEIVED
There are not many jobs that allow you to receive that type of compliment. No, I’m not an EMT, a police officer or a doctor. I didn’t...
HOW SHOULD I DOUBLE MY MONEY? HERE ARE SOME CHARITABLE GIVING TIPS
We’ve been going through a fun and interesting debate in my family: Now that we can double our money, who should get it? Source: NLG No,...
SECRETS OF A FORMER FINANCIAL ADVISOR: DANCE WITH THE ONE WHO BRUNG YOU
“Dance With The One Who Brung You” – Old Southern Saying (with various ungrammatical variations). Source: NLG “A man with a watch knows...
HOW I PAID FOR THE LIFE INSURANCE I DIDN’T THINK I COULD AFFORD
Life insurance can be a less than fun topic to think and read about. I get it; life insurance makes you think about things that you’d...
WHAT ARE YOUR BLIND SPOTS?
Blind spots. We all have them. When you’re driving your car, you intuitively know that there are objects that you can’t see. In life,...
CAN WE TALK? | FINANCIAL PLANNING WITH YOUR SPOUSE
Call me crazy but between juggling work schedules, playing hot potato with parenting duties (“but I read stories last night…”), and...
IS A SINGLE PREMIUM DEFERRED ANNUITY RIGHT FOR ME?
Single Premium Deferred Annuities (SPDAs) are not often talked about. Unfortunately, there isn’t a lot of awareness of what this product...
US National Debt Clock : Real Time
Charting America’s Debt: $31 Trillion and Counting. Failing to plan is planning to fail!
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