How to Have a Meaningful Retirement
What do I do after the honeymoon period is over? [...]
What do I do after the honeymoon period is over? [...]
It seems odd to be writing about layoffs when unemployment in the U.S. is at its lowest since the 1960’s. [...]
What's all this hoo-ha about passive income? [...]
My husband came up with this month’s topic; he has been happily “retired” for almost two years now. He knew when he was ready, but wondered if others might have a harder time making up their minds. [...]
The pandemic seems to have prompted a lot of people to re-think their career and what they want from their working life. During that time, many were affected by job loss, The Great Resignation, or just burnout. [...]
I recently came across some data about people in the U.S. who don’t have children, and it got me thinking about how financial life planning differs when kids aren’t in the picture. [...]
We just passed another Tax Day in the US, which brought up the question of what to do with a tax refund. [...]
In honor of International Women’s Day on March 8 I’m going back to a presentation I gave a few years ago at a women’s event in Seattle. The title of my presentation was “Get Your Financial Sh*t Together,” and it focused on some of my learning from working with women clients over the years. [...]
Even if you haven’t heard of lifestyle creep, I’ll bet you have a pretty good idea what I’m talking about. Lifestyle creep is the very human and potentially damaging phenomenon of increasing our spending to match our increases in income. [...]
In my time as a Financial Life Planner, I covered just about every topic under the sun: death, disability, having kids, taking care of aging parents, beliefs and habits around money…you name it. I had to get used to having honest conversations with people about how much money they make, too. Yes, what you earn is a critical component of [...]