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So excited to collaborate with Laura McMullen of NerdWallet on this important topic. If you want money to be good to you, look at how you show up for money. Yep, that's right... it all starts with you! What I love about this attitude adjustment is that it's something...

The time is NOW to change your relationship with money! Also, follow me on social media, and learn about “fiduciary.”

I am excited to be quoted in this GoBankingRates article about paying down debt by the end of the year, paying down debt being one of my favorite topics! One of my favorite things to do (unlike most financial planners) is to help people manage their cash flow, aka...

In Part 1 of my story, I chronicled discovering a financial calamity in my family, and what I did to try to salvage my mom’s retirement, while keeping myself afloat.  Read on, for despite the seeming hopelessness of the situation, resolution was in fact, imminent!...

I haven’t shared this story publicly before, but I decided to speak about it at a women’s event recently (with my mother’s permission), with the hope that others can learn from it.  I feel it’s important to share, because financial surprises can happen to any of us,...

Is the cost of financial planning worth it? I think you already know what my answer to this question is, but I wanted to give you some real-life examples that I have come across as a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ professional. When I first started my business I used to...

I am enough Can these 3 simple words change your life? According to therapist Marisa Peer, they can and they do. Marisa became a well-known therapist to celebrities, athletes, and royalty because she discovered the common denominator of all emotional issues: humanity...

I just finished reading the book The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg, and I highly recommend it as its premise is pretty life-changing. Humans are basically a cluster of habits, some good and some not so good.  A 2006 Duke University study found that 40% of the...

As a financial planner, it’s really hard to not give advice during any conversation about money, especially when it’s about money behavior, a topic about which I’m especially passionate. Recently I had an exchange with a younger friend who was wistfully talking about...

This month I'm not posting a video or question/answer -- just an article I think is important! It took me longer than you’d think to come up with the tagline for my financial planning business: “Plan a Richer Life.” When it finally came to me, though, I knew it...