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Out-of-the-Box Team Building

Out-of-the-Box Team Building

Tired of the same old conference room brainstorming session? Engage your employees' creativity and build officewide camaraderie at the same time, with Wine and Canvas.  InspireMany employees spend eight hours a day in front of a computer screen, where the only...

Work is a Blessing

Work is a Blessing

Alice was a troubled real estate agent. She loved her job, and was happy with her occupation and with the company and other agents she worked with, but wanted to meet with us regarding her self-inflicted problems. She was creating her own roadblocks to attaining more...

Women Must Make Money Work Harder

Women Must Make Money Work Harder

Many women enter the job force after raising their children, typically earning less than equally educated male counterparts and statistically living longer than these same males. The amount of money women need to save for retirement is greater than males need, and it...

5 Tips for Savvy Single Women

5 Tips for Savvy Single Women

If you are not single yet, plan to become single. And plan to live well. Statistically it will happen, and you must already be savvy in many important lifestyle areas.   Even if you are married, do NOT skip this article. Elaine and her adult daughter Jane came to...

Help Your Children Become Millionaires and NOT Need Social Security!

Help Your Children Become Millionaires and NOT Need Social Security!

Do you want to make a huge difference for your future descendants and their descendants? If so, do this exercise: Write down a list of your descendants, including the young babies.  If you want to change your world, start at home with your loved ones! You have...

Corporate Social Responsibility

Corporate Social Responsibility

We are hearing more and more about large businesses and Corporate Social Responsibility. Many have heard about Corporate Social Responsibility, but do not know what CSR is or think it is only something large corporations could embrace. Small businesses like...

Build Your Network and Social Profiles Before You Need Them

Build Your Network and Social Profiles Before You Need Them

I recently received a LinkedIn request from someone I worked with years ago. She'd lost her job, through position elimination, and wanted to reconnect to see if I might be able to offer some assistance. It had been several years (five or more) since we’d even worked...

KISS: Keep It Simple Sister!

KISS: Keep It Simple Sister!

Judy was a busy entrepreneur, focused on achieving success in her business and creating a large Free Market retirement plan so she could eventually retire and be financially independent. Her goal was to retire in fifteen years. Trouble was brewing, however...

A Woman’s Nightmare: Fixed Income

A Woman’s Nightmare: Fixed Income

Heather called our office. She and her husband wanted to move their portfolio to “three buckets” of fixed income, so they would no longer have any volatility in their portfolio. They would split up their money into three groups of bonds, each with different maturity...

Market Timing is a Loser’s Game!

Market Timing is a Loser’s Game!

If someone tells you to change your investment portfolio because the market has changed, you definitely should NOT listen to that person!   Market timing is choosing to get in and out of the market, or allowing someone else to decide when to move your money...