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July 7, 2022
📈 All About Investing Part 1
The markets are down, inflation is up, and the thought of a recession is looming. It's heavy stuff. And it puts strain on our emotions and brokerage accounts. It takes some mental fortitude even to consider long-term investing in tough times, but hi…
June 3, 2022
😃 Finding Real Happiness and Leveraging Kindness
Is seeking happiness a worthwhile goal? Is it something we can actually achieve? Or just an elusive pot of gold at the end of a rainbow? Perhaps it’s more of a journey with no final destination. While we all may have different takes on the way…
May 19, 2022
💳 Hidden Credit Card Benefits
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For the post, I want to dig into all the credit card benefits I think so many of us (myself included) forget we have (or didn’t even know about in the first place…
April 21, 2022
🍎 Optimizing Your Health
With the world opening up and summer on the horizon, I wanted to go back through all the health tips I've learned since working on this show and put them in one place.
However, just because there’s so much here absolutely does not mean you ha…
March 24, 2022
🏝 Optimizing a Babymoon with Miles & Points
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🌎 Where do …
March 10, 2022
🏡 When Renting is Smarter Than Buying
Earlier this week I had a conversation with someone who was sick of “throwing away money on rent” and felt like it was time to buy a home. It’s a common invisible script that you need to own a home – after all, isn’t it…
Feb. 24, 2022
🛫 Travel, Points and Miles in 2022
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In a few short weeks, winter will officially be over and if you’re like me, you’re looking forward to the hope of things getting closer to normal again and …
Feb. 10, 2022
💸 Optimizing Insurance Part 2 (Life, Disability and Travel)
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In Optimizing nsurance Part 1 I wrote about a few main types of insurance: homeowners/renters, auto, liability/umbrella and pet. While those made up most of the policies I had since going to college, there are a few other type…
Jan. 27, 2022
💸 Optimizing Insurance Part 1 (Home/Auto/Liability/Pet)
Last year, weather-related disasters cost the US $145 billion dollars1 and in 2020 the total cost of motor-vehicle deaths, injuries, and property damage in the US was $474 billion2. Now despite that insurance companies are still making lots of money…
Jan. 13, 2022
📝 Bucket Lists and Living a Life Without Regret
Coming into a new year has always had the feeling of starting fresh. The calendar year starts over and we all have a proverbial blank slate to work with. Some of you may be working on new resolutions and others might still be figuring them out. …