Managing Midlife
Life after 50: it’s no longer what our grandparents touted it to be. Join me as I share the highs and lows, the failures and successes, and the reality of life after 50. It's an amazing adventure and you'll wonder why you had to wait 50 years to get here!
Umbrella Insurance and the Hidden Costs: A Good Idea after 50?
Once you start exploring the many sides of financial security, one of the risk management options you may come across is ‘umbrella insurance’. As a recent subscriber to the free financial planning tool, Savology, I had never heard of umbrella insurance. Having elements of my mother’s panic-gene in me, I casually asked my partner, the…
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Conquer Your Limiting Beliefs for a Successful Second Act
Do you feel stuck? Do you know the cause of that “stuckness”? That feeling or cause is often related to limiting beliefs. We all have them. We all struggle with acknowledging and moving past them. One of mine I know and battle frequently is from this event in my life: From an early age, I…
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Grandparents and Remote Learning – How to Help
School is in session! Or is it? If you are raising your grandchild, then you are jumping into some variation of remote learning like millions of other parents across the world. The situation is much more complicated with so many parents – our adult children -unable to work from home or coping with varying work…
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How to Prepare for Caregiving – Whether It Happens or Not
Could caregiving be in your future? Could you need someone’s help providing your care in the future? These are questions we don’t want to think about or deal with as it means someone we love (or even ourselves) has suffered an extreme injury or illness. A Caregiving Experience X 3.5 I never expected to be…
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When Will You Begin Your Financial Plan?
This post contains an affiliate link. If you make a purchase through the link, I will earn a commission at no extra charge to you. Please click here for more information. Do you feel left out or behind in “the game of life”? Unless you start your family, career, saving, earning, investing, planning for retirement, estate planning…
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Social Security as a Safety Net?
For those of us who have been paying into Social Security since the beginning of time (or, more accurately, when we got our first job at age 16), we put high hopes into the promise of social security as part of the trusted “three-legged stool” for our retirement. However, the trustworthiness and reliability of Social…
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