by Sandi Martin | Mar 12, 2019 | Design Thinking, Personal Finance, Relationships, Retirement Planning
There is a truth about retirement that I want you to understand: You don’t have to know precisely what you want to plan for the day when you stop working. Sure, it helps financial planners if you can say that you want to retire in the summer of 2021, stay in your home...
by Kathryn Mandelcorn | Oct 23, 2018 | Book Review, contentment, Personal Financial Planning, Relationships
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success is the outcome of decades of research by Stanford University psychologist, Carol S. Dwek. Her findings produced the idea of fixed mindsets and growth mindsets. Dwek describes the Fixed Mindset as belonging to those who believe...
by Julia Chung | Oct 18, 2018 | Personal Financial Planning, Relationships, Retirement, Retirement Planning
Your parents have been adults for as long as you can remember. They always had things in hand. They paid the bills, put a roof over your head, bothered you about cleaning up your room and doing your homework, and cried at your graduation/childbirth/other meaningful...
by Kathryn Mandelcorn | May 24, 2018 | Book Review, Budgets, Cash Flow, Relationships
The Soul of Money by Lynne Twist is not a personal finance book. It’s a book that will have you exploring your values, how you define money and how you use money. Twist’s work stems from 4 decades of experience in fundraising to eradicate world hunger. She has...
by Sandi Martin | Dec 9, 2013 | Blog, Christmas, Personal Finance, Personal Financial Planning, Relationships
The point: frugality isn’t a virtue, especially when you’re hitting your family over the head with it. Repetitious, I know. Are you upset by the amount of stuff that your family is going to give your kids this Christmas and resent them for their...
by Sandi Martin | Apr 15, 2013 | Blog, Inside the Bank, Personal Finance, Relationships
The point of this post: treat the people you’re dealing with like people to reduce the chances of getting screwed by a faceless institution. Also because it’s the right thing to do. I’m going to warn you: all this talk about skepticism is going to...
