Articles
What is a Fee-Only Financial Advisor and Should You Use One?
Let’s take a closer look at a fee-only financial advisor and whether or not you should use one.
5 Ways to Turn Profit Into Personal Wealth
You’ve already taken the biggest step on the path less traveled. You’ve determined the right way to balance your earnings, your responsibilities and your life is to start your own business. You’ve forgone the corporate ladder no matter the rung you climbed to, and...
Women in Business: The Big Lie
More than anywhere else on earth, women in business are taking the reigns and changing the trajectory of their lives. Increasingly we’re making more of our own financial choices and earning more money. There are still a few glass ceilings, but many of us are...
What I Learned from my Cat about Failure
I watch my cat in the backyard. He is a hunter. He eyes his prey—a bird? A mouse? He watches carefully. He notices movement. He anticipates where the prey will go when he pounces. He puts his whole body into the act. It’s rare that he brings me a kill—though over...
5 Ways to Have a Successful Business
All the “How To Start A Business” books will tell you that you have to write a business plan to have a successful business. These documents are, essentially, the Declaration of Independence and Constitution for your business—meaning they declare your intentions for...
Stock Market Predictions: 5 Reasons Why Financial Psychics are Flat Out Wrong
Every single first week of January, no matter what new year, the media starts spinning stories and stock market predictions. What’s going up? What’s coming down? What’s in Vogue (in the Wall Street Journal). I suppose it’s kind of a basic human trait to imagine that...
Debunking the Real Estate Myths: 5 Things Future Homeowners Need to Know
So, you’re ready to buy a house. You’ve had the dream a long time, and this year, smack in the center of your vision board, you’ve got an image you cut out of a magazine to represent moving in to your dream house. Last year I was invited to share some insight on the...