Striving in your career is seen as necessary for experiencing success, but what if all that hard work leads to your demise? What happens to your finances as a result?

While having a strong credit profile is a key component to unlocking the doors of wealth building opportunities, it is important to understand that even with the best personal financial management, credit scoring algorithms appear to disadvantage certain customers.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them. ~Ernest Hemingway

Helping professionals like you might be feeling the effects of burnout after this year+ pandemic. Let’s band together to lift each other up.

What if the United States enacted policies that supported people’s financial well-being and that were so clearly the right thing to do that people took them for granted?

Utilizing aspects of social comparison theory can provide your clients with the motivation they need to reach farther and attain goals beyond their wildest dreams.

How the South Won the Civil War provides an alternative look at the time period after (and before) the Civil War, and explains how the determination of a few led to their ever-growing wealth while leaving most everyone else behind.

Who you are – and where you are – can impact your ability to achieve financial security.

As a financial capability professional, not only do you provide direct service to your clients, you also promote financial stability among all of the households in your community. And part of promoting financial stability is supporting the ability to freely cast a vote for your elected officials.

The goal of niching your business is to attract the exact right customers who will most appreciate the special talents that you have to share. Doesn’t that sound lovely?

The American Families Plan proposes wide-reaching protections to increase educational outcomes, provide subsidies to households caring for the young and/or sick, and make permanent tax credits that serve working families. What could your families achieve with a more fortified social safety net?

Simple -- but not easy -- this one step will clear the path for you to achieve your financial goals.

If you have a safety net, you do not realize that others do not have one. If you do not have a safety net, you cannot fathom how others get them. And that’s a problem.

With careful preparation and program design, you can ensure that all your clients can indeed learn personal finance, even those “I don’t do math” types.

What if every woman was allowed to work at her highest and best potential? What would that world look like, to men and women alike?

While this slow-and-steady process might feel at first like it’s not going to work, using coaching techniques ensures that your clients baked-in learning wins the race.

Working families deserve safe, affordable, and high-quality childcare, now more than ever. And the solution is right there in the history books.

What is the question that could change the trajectory of your financial life?