Jan. 16, 2025

Women, Money & Power –take control of your financial future!

Women, Money & Power –take control of your financial future!

Women, Money & Power! Identify your financial personality– be able to understand your personal approach to planning for your financial future. There are different issues & concerns like life events, balancing the needs of elderly parents &...

Women, Money & Power! Identify your financial personality– be able to understand your personal approach to planning for your financial future. There are different issues & concerns like life events, balancing the needs of elderly parents & children. Excerpts from my just-released book, “Money, Mindset and the Suddenly Single” in which we explore some options on how you can proceed if you go through a divorce, or your spouse dies – the woman is now alone, and needs to forge ahead on her own.

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Welcome to to Ask Good Questions Podcasts, broadcasting live every Wednesday,

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six pm Eastern Time on W four CY Radio at

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w fourcy dot com. This week and every week, we

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will reach for a higher purpose in money and life,

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as well as a focus on health and wellness. Now,

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let's join your host, Anita bell Anderson, as together we

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start with Asking Good Questions.

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Welcome to the Ask Good Questions podcast. Thank you so

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much for joining us today for women, money and power

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taking control of your financial future. And my name is

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Benita bell Anderson. I'm your podcast host and a financial advisor.

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Let's go to the slides I have. Okay, today is

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all about taking control of financial future of women. Got

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some interesting things to share with you today and there

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will be a download for you. Go to the Ask

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Good Questions podcast dot com website. There's a link for

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bonus downloads. There you will find a financial questionnaire that

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applies to this website and applies to this podcast. All right,

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so a little bit for those that don't know me,

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I am a licensed financial advisor fiduciary. I've been an

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investor coach and I have actually been in this industry

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for twenty five years. I'm an independent SEC licensed registered

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investment advisor. I do have a book that has just

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recently come out called Money Mindset and the Suddenly Single,

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The Ultimate Guide for Divorcees and Widows. At the end

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of the podcast will be information about where you can

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go find that book. Now. I went through a life

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changing divorce and I also remarried and my husband lost

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his first wife to cancer. So this book is all

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about people that go through divorces and people that lose

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their spouse. We all, no matter what happens to you

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in life, we need to know how to rebuild our

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life after a life changing event. I have three grown

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daughters with their attendant space, elses and children. My husband

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has four grown sons with also spouses and children between

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them all, I have twenty three grandchildren. Who would have

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ever thought? So I enjoy doing this podcast. I'm tremendously

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enjoying having fun with this. I am a financial advisor,

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I am an author and coaching clients, so it's a

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busy life and I love it that way. We are

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going to go through some data from a study done

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by Alliance, which is an insurance company, and we're going

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to do basically identifying financial personality, how that behavior influences

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the decisions you make, and women's issues and concerns. But

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first we have a short minute and a half video

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to show you. So let's roll the video.

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Now, what do you want out of life? What's important

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to you? What kind of future do you want to build?

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You have so much to focus on in the here

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and now. It can be hard to think about tomorrow,

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but there's no question the choices you make in the

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here and now will shape the future, both for yourself

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and the ones you love. There's no doubt that women

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face unique financial challenges. On average, women tend to live

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longer than men, accumulate lower lifetime earnings and face higher

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healthcare costs. But your ideal financial strategy is based on

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knowing what you want out of life, what you want

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your future to be like, and what you can do

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right now to make that possible. Sometimes we need to

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take time to look after what matters, whether it's the

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family we have or the family we build. So if

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you know where you want to go, how do you

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get there? First, set clear goals for your future and

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share them with your financial professional. Continue to educate yourself

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on best practices for your investments, and review your financial

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strategy often. Most importantly, whatever your goals, remember that you

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are not alone. We are here beside you, celebrating everywhere.

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All right, So we are going to talk about all

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of those things that you see there on our agenda

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as well as at the end, we're going to talk

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about seven critical principles of sound money management that come

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from my book. All right, So let's identify your financial

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personality now. I really am hoping you know, if you're

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listening to this or watching this and you haven't downloaded

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the PDF, please do that at least you know sometime soon.

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But we will go through what that test says is

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basically what's your financial personality? Right, So it's going to

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identify kind of how you tick. It's you know, it'll

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help you understand your particular needs better. It'll help you

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understand a little bit more about your financial decision making process.

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You'll understand help you understand your approach to planning your

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financial future. And so again, find that pdf. It's a

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financial workshop questionnaire. Find it on the podcast website at

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ask Good Questions podcast dot com. And there's a link

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that says bonus downwards, all right, so you'll click on that.

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So if you don't have that right now, this may

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be a little bit hard to see if you're watching

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the video, but at least you'll get an idea of

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what this is, what's your why. Identifying your financial personality

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will allow you to better understand your particular needs, making

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your decision making processes and personal approach to planning your

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financial future so much smoother. This way, you can also

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be better understood by your investor coach. All right, So

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if you were going to use a scale and how

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much do you agree or disagree with the following statements? Okay,

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this will be kind of fun. You'll give yourself a

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point value for each one of these statements, and then

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you'll add up your points at the end. So strongly

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agree is five points, Somewhat agree is four.

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Points, Neutral neither here nor there three points, but disagree

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is two points, and strongly disagree is one point.

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All right, here's the questions. I feel I am confident

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when it comes to managing money and investing. Okay, give

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yourself a number there. Number two. I feel I have

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adequately planned for retirement, savings and security. Give yourself a

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point value. Number three. I feel I am educated when

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it comes to managing money and investing. Give your self

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a point value. Number four. I feel I have sufficient

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knowledge about money and investing, and I am very involved

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in the management of my long term savings and investments.

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How do you think give yourself a point value? Number five.

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I feel I am clear about my financial goals and

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my plans to achieve them. Okay. Number six, I feel

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I am highly responsible and take initiative when it comes

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to money and investing. What do you think? Give yourself

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a point value number Let's see one, two, three, four, five,

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sixty seven. It is very important to me that I

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always have a complete understanding of my household financial situation

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do you think give yourself a point value? And the

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last one is when in a relationship, I like to

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collaborate with my partner in financial decisions. So you're going

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to give yourself a point value for that one. You

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are then going to tuttle up all of your points

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and give yourself a score. This is a two part

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download that when you have this in front of you,

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you'll find that you've figured out what your personality is.

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Thirty five to forty points you are a financial initiator,

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twenty seven to thirty four points you are a financial analyzer.

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Now we are going to go through each of these.

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Twenty to twenty six points you are a financial collaborator,

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fourteen to nineteen points you're a financial void, and eight

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to thirteen points you are a financial dreamer. So this

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page does have descriptions of each one of these, but

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we are going to go through some slides so that

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you can kind of get a better idea of what

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each of these is really you know, delve into it.

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So if you've added up your points, how do you

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feel you did? Did you learn anything about yourself? Is

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it exciting? Are you depressed? Are you resolving to do better?

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Kind of the thought here for me is to help

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to encourage you to do something about this, not just

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listen to it, but actually do something about it. I

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want you to be more in tune with your behaviors

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as they relate to money and finances. I want you

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to position yourself to take the next steps for you

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and help you assume control of your financial future. I

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want you to realize that you are the best judge

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of the accuracy of any financial description that reflects your

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financial behavior. And so let's take a little closer look

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at what each of those descriptions means. So again, they

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were financial initiator, analyzer, collaborator, void, and dreamer. We're going

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to start at number five and go up the list.

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Which one describes you or maybe you feel like I'm

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a combination of a couple of them, right, So let's

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talk about that dreamer. I've met quite a few people

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that are kind of a voids and dreamers. They really

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this is a person that really doesn't have a confident

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history with money. They maybe have never had the opportunity

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or responsibility of taking care of their own money, and

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they feel intimidated when thinking about managing their own finances.

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They really lack experience and knowledge, and especially this is

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really can be a problem if you're suddenly divorced or

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if you've suddenly lost a spouse who did it all.

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Sometimes people will feel hopeless and hope somebody else will

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do it. A lot of times people will defer all

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financial matters to a partner. So in that study I

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reference to eight percent of women typically identify with this type.

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They're comfortable with somebody else doing it. Please please, please,

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It's a stereotypical approach in the past. It's really this

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is something that's really before the time that women really

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started gaining the right to earn their own money, and

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women started realizing that they needed to know more about

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how to control their own money. Right, So does this

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describe you? If it does, well, we've got some work

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to do. Huh. Number four is the financial avoid I

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call her the uncertain searcher. She is concerned about her

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future and her current finances, but she doesn't feel confident

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enough to make good decisions to resolve her financial problems,

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and she's overwhelmed by all the choices out there. So

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eleven percent of women say that they fall into this category.

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They're confused about money. There's too many complex financial choices.

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They're worried about their situation, but they avoid making financial

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decisions because of the lack of knowledge and experience. They

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just want to not deal with it if they can

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avoid avoid, right, So there's a lot of work here

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to do too. If you fall into this category, well,

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let's go up the ladder a little bit. This gal's

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getting there. I call her the collaborator. I also call

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her the power partner. Now, twenty four percent of women

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identified themselves this way. Very balanced in life, healthy, happy,

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cooperative in their main relationship. They are really successful with

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resolving financial issues. They provide their family with financial comfort

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and stability. They're all about sharing financial power on an

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equal basis with their life partner, and they prefer to

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make decisions as a team. There's nothing wrong with this.

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The problem is, like I wrote the book about people

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that suddenly find themselves. The reason I call that money

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mindset and the suddenly single is because when someone loses

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that partner, if they're in this situation and they lose

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that partner, then sometimes they can feel lost. All right,

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let's go up the scale one more to the financial analyzer.

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I call this gal the perceptive planner. She has a

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good understanding of household finance. She has taken initiative in

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thoroughly researching investment opportunities and tracking financial results. She's a

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comparison shopper. She's an avid saver, and she rarely buys

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anything that she hasn't really thought out and that she

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can't afford. She has very analytical behavior, very disciplined approach,

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and this type of gal has usually worked with financial

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advisors in the past. She is the type of person

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that's going to want to seek out holistic, all around

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good advice, and she's going to keep trying to get

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it right. Though there were quite a few women in

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this group, thirty five percent of women in that study

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said they fell into the group. The thorough researcher, weighing

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all the options, being clear on the road ahead before

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making financial decisions. Probably keeps the spreadsheet of everything she's doing.

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I do that. I have a spreadsheet for everything I'm doing,

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otherwise I might forget Anyway, let's talk about that gal

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who's the number one, the financial initiator. I also call

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her the alpha female. Now, eighteen percent of women actually

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surveyed saw themselves as an alpha female confident, optimistic, proactive,

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really feels like she's sophisticated in financial knowledge. A lot

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of times gals that are in this situation, I find

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that they are like this, but they want to have

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you as a partner because they don't want to have

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to deal with their investments all by themselves. They are

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confident in making good financial decisions, they are clear about

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their goals, and they usually do take the initiative to

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work with a financial advisor. Now, just to let you know,

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in a couple of weeks, we are going to be

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having a podcast episode about choosing a financial advisor. So

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just a little sneak ahead that we're going to be

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doing that to go into that issue. But here's an

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insight for you on the alpha female. Often she sees

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herself this way because she feels like she has to

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take care of herself, and though she cares about financially

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in part because that's the way it has had to be.

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She has to take care of herself and her family.

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Sometimes this is by choice, sometimes it's because of necessity. Right,

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So my goal in having you take this test is

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to just become more aware of where you are in

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this process and what you need to work on. So

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we're going to move on to the next thing that

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is in our purfew today, and that is how behavior

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influences financial decisions. This will come as no surprise that

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our formative years really help form how we approach money. Now,

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the genesis of our current beliefs in our habits goes

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all the way back to childhood. It's called a money imprint. Now,

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what are some things that you can hear in your head?

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Like money doesn't grow on trees? You know who there

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could be. There's a whole bunch of things. The biblical

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one that always gets wrong is money is evil. But

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that's not what the scripture says. It says the love

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of money. So think about what your family taught you.

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What lessons did you learn from your parents and your family?

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How you know? Did you have a good relationship with money?

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Did you interact with money in a positive way when

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you were growing up or not. I remember babysitting when

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I was like twelve thirteen years old, and I think

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I got like fifty cents a fifty cents an hour

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for that. So did that experience earning money when you

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were young make you feel better or worse about yourself?

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And another question is what money a source of conflict

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in your family and worry or was it considered a tool?

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So here's the thing to think about. When your money

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beliefs don't support you and your values in the adult world,

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it's time to construct a new set, craft a new

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message for yourself. One example might be an old belief

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could be I use money to show others that I

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am successful. That sort of thing may lead to overspending.

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You may want to think about a new belief, like

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I use money to create long term security for myself

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and my family. This all kind of gets back to

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the why. Remember remember that you are not chained to

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old beliefs or past beliefs that only serve to prolong

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and support misery. You want the ability and you realize

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you have the ability to make changes that lies clearly

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and strongly within your power. Just to hope you'd take

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that in and think about that, here's some key findings

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regarding behavior. Financial knowledge in the USA is really quite low,

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and this may will not be a surprise. Older women

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are less likely to have a bachelor's degree. Women under

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age forty five are more likely to have a bachelor's degree.

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Women are less willing than men to take financial risks.

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This is something I have seen a lot. Women also

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wish that they save more. Women have more credit cards

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than men. Women are actually equally likely to pay their

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credit cards off in full every month. Now, the sobering

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thing is that unmarried women with dependent children are the

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most vulnerable subgroup to financial stress. And financial knowledge and

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financial matters can be learned, but you have to teach yourself.

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Here's one of the questions by the Finra Investor Education

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Foundation was do financial knowledge, behavior and well being differ

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by gender some of these things is a big yes,

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there's differences in how the sexes deal with money. And

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here's another thing. This is a fact. For every dollar

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that you spend on financial education by you as a consumer,

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the financial services industry is spending twenty five dollars on

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marketing its products and services to you. Think the e

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trade baby, think the little paper squirrels, Think of any

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of the financial services advertisements that you've seen. There's a

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lot of money being spent to impact where you go

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for financial advice. So we're going to turn this is

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kind of an overview today of some of the issues

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that women face. We're going to explore a little bit

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about the many different roles and issues that most women

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are encountering. The biggest ones are like long term care

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for parents while you also have children at home, or

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maybe you have a child that never left home. What

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about disabilities and illnesses and taxes and custodial needs and healthcare.

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A lot of times women are pled in several different

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directions because they're having to take care of their family,

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They're having to take care of their finance, and a

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lot of times they're having to take care of aging parents.

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It's a lot of things. And the reason that we're

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going to end today with doing some sound moneage management

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is I'm just thinking, if you can do just one

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thing for yourself, that'll be a step in the right direction.

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That would be great. So families are not so typical anymore.

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There's new roles, new roles, new responsibilities, and new financial needs.

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There are changing dynamics, blended families, stay at home dads,

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same sex couples, aging parents, moving in, children returning after college,

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or maybe never leaving in the first place. Those are

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just some of the examples. Women are finding themselves responsible

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for long term financial needs and security. The balance of

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power seems to be shifting towards women. There's more earning

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power and many are the primary breadwinner. Many believe that

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women in general cannot rely on a spouse to handle

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investing matters, which is an interesting thing to think about.

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And many also say they haven't learned much from their

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husband or partners, so a lot of times men are

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just as lost. But women are increasingly doing their own

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financial research on retirement ideas, and they're also doing their

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own tax preparation. And they're most importantly is they're the

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ones that are usually teaching their children about money and

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helping them be successful with getting started with a good

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money mindset. You'll also find that most banks in particular

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are doing financial education classes, so you might look that

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up for the bank that you go to. And then

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there's this interesting dynamic coming forth, and I'm calling them

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women of influence. They have higher incomes, they have higher

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incidents of postgraduate education, they're more successful in the workplace,

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they're more likely to have their own business, and they're

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more likely to achieve a director or a vice president position. Now,

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the only downside, I'm a big believer in family and

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having somebody at home. Sometimes in the past that you

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know that women were mostly at home and men went

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off to work. That dynamic has changed a lot. But

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we can say that increased financial involvement has improved their

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quality of life. We know that has happened. I just

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am hoping that it's not at the expanse of family

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and that other ways are found to make sure that

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the children's needs are taken care of. All right, So

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we're going to go into an excerpt from my latest book, Money,

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Mindset and Suddenly Single. We're going to talk about seven

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critical principles of sound money management. This is not just

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for someone who's lost somebody, anyone that's gone through any

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kind of life changing event. It's critical. But please seriously

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think about each and every one of these and think

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about something that maybe you can implement into your life.

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Principal number one is pay yourself first. I want everybody

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to be thinking about this. You need to have some

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savings that you automate, automatically goes into savings of some

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court some kind. With my work with people that have

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lots of different savings accounts and retirement accounts and all that,

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the principle is to make sure that you're doing something

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on a regular basis. The compounding advantage is you know,

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if you've heard about, you know the interest. The compounding

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interest is a great thing and it does help you

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build a financially search your future. No matter what you do,

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make sure you're in the habit of saving for yourself

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and putting aside some money every single month. Principal number

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two is getting your state in order. My mother said

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take care of business now. That was her way of saying,

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you need to have your will done. You need to

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have your estate, you know, papers taking care of. You

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need to safeguard your legacy and safeguard your assets. Please

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find a competent attorney that you can work with to

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get a will done, power of attorneys, a living will,

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all those different things that are important because, as you know,

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people do die in car crashes, people do have crazy

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things happen. So it's the loving thing to do for

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your family to make sure that your family is taken

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care of. Make sure, if you still have children at home,

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that you have life insurance. That's going to be another

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topic that we're going to do in one of our

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episodes is the importance of life insurance and why in

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the heck do you need that? So but this is

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something that I know it can be kicked down the road.

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You will say, oh, I'll take care of that later,

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and then later never comes. So please make sure that

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you get this done and then update it like every

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five years or so. Now, Principal number three is spend

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within your budget. Now, I don't like the word budget.

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I would rather use the word cash flow. And so

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we're going to do We're going to be talking about

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some of these things here. We are not going to

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get into specifics, but I just want you to know

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you can develop techniques within yourself for effective wealth management,

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doing that simple savings, thinking about what you want to

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create for yourself for the future. There are techniques that

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I want you to think about, and I don't want

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you to think in terms of lack. I want you

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to think about what do you want to provide for

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yourself for the future. That psychological aspects of spending within

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your means are critical. When when you come from a

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mindset of abundance and you know that you have set

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yourself up so that you are not spending above what

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you earn, that is a big deal. So please please

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please think about what your cash flow is. How much

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are you bringing in as opposed to how much is

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going out, and please think about making adjustments if you

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need to adjust. That concept. A related concept is limiting debt.

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Most of you will have heard of Dave Ramsey and

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his debt snowball method, basically taking the smallest debt and

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getting rid of it and then move and then having

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a whole system to get rid of debt. Categorize that

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debt by type and interest rate, figure out what's what

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and what is going on. Use that debt snowball method,

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Negotiate for better rates if it's something you can do.

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Possibly leverage financial windfalls, bonuses, tax refunds, inheritances, think of things.

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Think of ways that you can get yourself out of debt.

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And again, remember how we you know I'm hard being

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on automating savings for an emergency fund critical you need

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to have. You know, the saying is have three to

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six months. I'm going to tell you I have six months. Like,

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if your monthly expenses that you need to have is

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four thousand dollars, then I think I need to have

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twenty four to twenty five thousand dollars in a savings

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account just in case anything crazy happened explore consolidation offers.

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If you have a need to get ahead of this,

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maybe you're going to adjust your lifestyle temporarily. Maybe you're

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going to take another job temporarily to get rid of

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something that has come your way. Alternative income streams, you know,

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you never know. Use a dedicated debt repayment account if

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you have to. But above all of this is just

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educating yourself fund financial management the kind of the Number

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one thing is getting out of debt and then staying

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out of debt. Number five is tracking and paying your taxes.

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Don't ever let yourself get beyond that. Don't ever let

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yourself get into some kind of back taxes situation. There

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are costs and risks to getting yourself into this kind

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of a pit. So make sure that if you don't

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have an employer that's saving for taxes for you, that

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you're doing it on your own, or you're paying quarterly taxes,

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you're doing something to keep up with this obligation because

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it is there and it's always going to be with us,

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isn't it. Number six is kind of my forte. Putting

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your money where the growth is. That means investing, and

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that is what I've spent my whole career on is

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to teaching people how to prudently invest, need to spread

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your investments across a widely diversified portfolio. Again, there's going

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to be a podcast talking about what does that mean?

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What's a widely diversified portfolio? You want to add to

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it on a regular basis, And you're going to want

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to learn what does rebalancing mean? There's terms that are

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unique to this world. Rebalancing basically means has something to

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do with how much risk you take. So you want

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to make sure that you're not taking too much risk.

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If you are getting close to retirement, you need to

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make sure that maybe you're thinking about backing off on

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how much risk you take because the market does go

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up and down and can be volatile. All right, And

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an interesting kind of side note is, and again remember

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me talking to you about looking at things from a

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space of abundance. Well, I don't want you to overlook

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the importance of donations and being charitable, thinking about others

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instead of yourself. Come at this from a space of

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abundance instead of scarcity. Get excited, Think about how am

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I how do I want my future to look? So

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get excited about having enough to really make a difference

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in the world and give to the concerns that matter

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the most to you. That is a very proactive way

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to think and to go about this whole thing in

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trying to think about what can I do so that

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I can give back. So here's a few closing thoughts.

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This is achievable. It is you need to become educated

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on money management. Hopefully this podcast is going to help

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you do that and think about also health and wellness issues.

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I want you to think about the money working for

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you instead of working for the money. I'm going to

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pick on you to become more disciplined, set yourself up correctly,

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avoid the mistakes others have made. One of the things

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I've done in my book is talk about some of

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the mistakes I've made in the past, and a lot

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of times, some of our biggest learnings come from our

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biggest mistakes, don't they But learn from others who have

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been there before you and the pitfalls to avoid. This

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does require focus and wisdom. It does require you getting

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quiet with yourself and really thinking about what you want

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to accomplish. I'm going to say it again, stay out

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of debt. The biggest freedom is going to be staying

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out of debt, care for your money, and your money

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will take care of you all right. And if you

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have any questions, realize you can contact me. The link

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to buy money, Mindset and Suddenly Single is here on

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this slide. I basically to make it easy. It's an

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You can just go out to Amazon and look it

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up by the name of the book and my name

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and it'll come up. But I've got I've got a

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TinyURL dot com slash Suddenly Single book and it'll also

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come up that way. My email, the podcast email, my

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author's site, and my registered investment firm website are all there.

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Another thing I did to make this available on a

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regular basis is I have created a flyer that is

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in the bonus downloads as well, and that flyer has

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all of this information about where to find the book

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and how to email me, and how to get to

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the podcast website, as well as the author website and

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the registered investment firm website, which you can also check out.

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Thank you so much for attending this website and this

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podcast again. The website podcast is. The podcast website is

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Ask Good Questions podcast dot com. There you will be

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able to find all this information the downloads that are

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available from each of the episodes. And thank you so

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much for attending today. If you are in a life

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changing transition, realize that there is help out there. You

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can do this. You are strong, you are a woman,

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You can do this, and you can meet the challenges

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in your life. Thank you so much for attending.

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Today's episode is over, but we need ask good questions again.

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Vidn't don't miss out as we broadcast live every Wednesday

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six pm Eastern Time on W four CY Radio at

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w fourcy dot com. Joined Benina Bellm. We're saying next

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week for more conversations with experts on finances, retirement, behavioral

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finance issues, health and wellness and more. Until then, remember

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to ask good questions.