Talking About Money Blog
occassional reflections on what money means in our lives.
Putting Your Families Front and Center
The American Families Plan proposes wide-reaching protections to increase educational outcomes, provide subsidies to households caring for the young and/or sick, and make permanent tax credits that serve working families. What could your families achieve with a more fortified social safety net?
How To Achieve Any Financial Goal
Simple -- but not easy -- this one step will clear the path for you to achieve your financial goals.
The Invisibility of Safety Nets
If you have a safety net, you do not realize that others do not have one. If you do not have a safety net, you cannot fathom how others get them. And that’s a problem.
Anyone Can Learn Personal Finance
With careful preparation and program design, you can ensure that all your clients can indeed learn personal finance, even those “I don’t do math” types.
What If...
What if every woman was allowed to work at her highest and best potential? What would that world look like, to men and women alike?
Their Success is Your Success
While this slow-and-steady process might feel at first like it’s not going to work, using coaching techniques ensures that your clients baked-in learning wins the race.
Universal Childcare: We Can Do It (Because Once Upon a Time, We Did It)
Working families deserve safe, affordable, and high-quality childcare, now more than ever. And the solution is right there in the history books.
The Question that Could Change Your Life
What is the question that could change the trajectory of your financial life?
Getting to Your "Why"
Discovering your “why” gives you the superpower to sustain your motivation in your work, come rain or shine.
Financial Success Means More Than Money
It’s about the money, yes, but financial success is also about what Commonwealth calls having a “financial security mindset.”
Talking About Money Podcast Club: Hidden Brain "Between Two Worlds"
From the Hidden Brain Podcast: “Determination, hard work and sacrifice are core ingredients in the story of the American dream. But philosopher Jennifer Morton argues there is another, more painful requirement to getting ahead: a willingness to leave family and friends behind.”
Listening to Build Bridges, Across the Aisle and Across the Table
Radical listening and vulnerability is a tactic for building bridges of understanding that will allow you and your listening partner to feel truly heard, and in turn will forge deeper bonds.
Growing Your Financial Capability Community Online
Expanding your one-to-one client relationships to a one-to-many online community gives your clients the chance to grow and learn from each other, and you might benefit from it too.
The Role of Health Coverage in Financial Wellness
Without making some changes to the existing American health care system, your clients will continue to have one more obstacle between them and their financial goals.
Counseling and Coaching Through the Hierarchy of Financial Needs
The Hierarchy of Financial Needs lays out a clear and continuous path for your clients to achieve financial stability and reach their financial goals.
Baby Bonds: The "Sourdough Starter" of Asset Building
Baby Bonds are a straightforward solution to the complex problem of trying to foster greater economic mobility sooner rather than later in an individual’s life.
The Biden/Harris Commitment to Asset Building and Financial Capability
There are a lot of reasons why a Biden/Harris administration might support the advancement of asset building and financial capability efforts of American’s hardworking families.
Talking About Money Podcast Club: More Than Enough
What would it look like if the United States believed enough in the deservedness of all of its people to provide a foundational monthly income?