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What Is Fiduciary Advice (and Why Does It Matter)?
What Is Fiduciary Advice (and Why Does It Matter)? Hi, it’s your Money Mavens and we’re on the lookout today. For P/E ratio. For lump-sum investing. For alpha and beta. For daily dividend factors. What do they all have in common? For our team, we’ll confess to...
Kim, the Entitled Millennial, Tries to Pay for College!
A young lady named Kim is making headlines this week because she called in to an Atlanta radio talk show sick to her stomach because she doesn’t have enough money to pay for her senior year in college. Here’s the story, and my take on it: Kim received a $90,000...
Money Minute Series: The #1 Investing Myth
No matter how good or bad the economy is, there's always someone telling you what you should do with your money. What's worse, there are commonly held beliefs that are just flat out WRONG. Do you believe the BIGGEST INVESTING MYTH? https://youtu.be/OmvLqXxZoUE
Sheryl Sandberg’s Husband Died Suddenly. Where Would You Stand Financially if the Same Happened to You?
Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook, billionaire, and author of the bestselling book, Lean In, is grieving today in a not-so-private way. Her husband, Dave Sandberg, CEO of SurveyMonkey, died suddenly on Friday, May 1, while the couple was vacationing in Mexico. I cannot...
Free Audio Download: Top Entrepreneurial Money Mistakes & How to Avoid Them
I always try to keep things fresh for you here, and today I’m excited to share with you a free audio download that I know you’ll find valuable and actionable. It’s a recording of the conversation Michelle McCollough and I had on her radio show Make it Happen Radio!...
How Couples Can Stop Fighting About Money
Have you ever had trouble talking money with your honey? Is it something you stay silent about, or try to handle in your own way? Or do you just defer to your husband or partner? Money is still the number one reason couples split, and I’m committed to moving that...
5 Investing Fundamentals I Learned in Basketball Camp
I remember the summer between 7th and 8th grade. I was an awkward pre-teen who had already bested 5’9” and my parents put me in basketball camp (obviously, right?!?). Until then, when I played, I probably looked more like I was having a panic attack than actually...
5 Things Women Should Know About Investing
Simply put, women lack confidence when it comes to investing. Study after study consistently reveals that women take charge of buying decisions, budgeting and daily spending plans, but say they lack clarity about how to build wealth. For 15 years, I’ve been working...
One Sure Way to Achieve Money Zen
You’ve heard the kōan, “What is the sound of one hand clapping?” Kōans are the stories, questions and statements used in Zen Buddhism to get people thinking or meditating. On the other side of taking the kōan meditation, people often receive a powerful insight. The...
3 Steps to Improve Financial Intimacy – Couples and Money
A few years ago, before my husband and I were married, we were planning our first vacation together. So there we are, planning to be on the beach in Costa Rica, our first vacation together, and I was nervous about the spending and how to bring it up. So I hemmed and...