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Category Archives: financial freedom

All Grown Up and Can’t Retire! The 7 Step Baby Boomer Retirement Plan

If you're over 50 without a retirement plan, you may be saying to yourself, "OMG! I'm all grown up with almost no retirement savings. Now what do I do?" They say that 90% of the solution to a problem is understanding how it happened. So let's start by examining how most people got into this mess.

Announcing: MONEY SMART RADIO

I will be hosting a weekly radio show based on the premise that for the last 25 years, Americans have been sold a destructive system of personal money management—a system that never worked and never will. It's time for an approach that works. It’s time to spend smart, invest successfully and live the life you want. That’s Money Smart Radio.

4 Easy Steps towards Financial Peace of Mind

You can do four things right now to feel confident that you are on the right track to have success with money and create financial freedom.

Planning For Your Retirement/Financial Freedom

You can achieve financial freedom, but you need a plan and to be money smart in how you spend, save and invest your money. My aim through Money Smart is to support you along the way with financial education, financial advice and financial coaching.

Why Wait for Retirement?

For most people retirement is a bad goal and a misguided life plan. Why should you have to wait until you are sixty-five (or older) before you can live the life you wish? Instead, replace the R-word, retirement, with two new ones: financial freedom. This is the goal to pursue.

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Should I Invest in Gold?

I've been asked that question a lot, especially in the last month or so. Over the past year I have consistently advised against investing in gold and that advice has been pretty good as the price really hasn't changed much. I do believe there will come a time when owing some gold will be a very good idea, but I don't believe we've reached that point as yet for a variety of reasons.

We See Through the Lies!

Earlier this week, a New York Times article came out that really caught my attention. It was disappointing to see the typical economic spin that encourages people to invest with the financial services industry NO MATTER WHAT taken to such great lengths, but was also encouraging to see that the article was in response to a terrific new trend by their customers. People are really starting to catch on that it’s not a good idea to invest in the stock market, especially not at this time, and have been pulling their money out. Now, that’s great news.