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Asian Filial Piety Flex

Last week we moved my mother-in-law out of her storage unit and into the new granny flat in our backyard. I'm hoping it's her forever...

Inspired Coaching and Sponsorship

This week I had an opportunity to be featured on Andy Wang's Inspired Money podcast: Financial Resilience: Building a Strong Foundation...

Toxic Femininity

I recently read an article about how women should plan differently for retirement, based on the stats about women. It said we were more...

Deciding on Guardrails

I once listened to a megachurch sermon where the pastor mentioned the idea of behavioral and moral guardrails. He used the analogy of the...

Budgeting Confession

I have a confession to make. I have not been practicing what I preach. These last few weeks we've been getting hit with large expenses...

Strategizing Career Moves

My parents returned from one of their trips abroad during their retirement and talked about the very interesting people they met on their...

Skill-Building ROI

Returns on Investment (ROI) is key to evaluating the value of an investment. We can't always see the ROI because sometimes the value of...

Money Club Pilot Run

I started a six week program called the Money Club and we had our last session a week ago. It was an opportunity to do a deeper dive with...

Two-Pronged Approach to Growing Wealth

In the financial forums, people sometimes bring up the concept of being your own CFO (Chief Financial Officer). Putting on a CFO hat...

New Year 2021 - Reflections on 2020

While the world struggles through a pandemic and political unrest, most of my friends and family have been fortunate. We are generally...

Timing the Market - Just Don't

There's a quote floating around in the investment community: Time in the market trumps timing the market. I tend to agree. There's a...

Choosing Between 401k Investment Options

Whenever I join a new company, how I invest my 401k contributions is always an important decision I'd like to set and forget. I have...

Dating Opportunity Costs

According to a Marripedia article on the Effects of Divorce on Financial Stability, a family's net worth goes down significantly in the 4...

COVID ROI

When the pandemic first emerged I put up a video on Facebook encouraging my network to consider investing. I generally discourage timing...

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