Who you are – and where you are – can impact your ability to achieve financial security.

As a financial capability professional, not only do you provide direct service to your clients, you also promote financial stability among all of the households in your community. And part of promoting financial stability is supporting the ability to freely cast a vote for your elected officials.

The goal of niching your business is to attract the exact right customers who will most appreciate the special talents that you have to share. Doesn’t that sound lovely?

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?

Simple -- but not easy -- this one step will clear the path for you to achieve your financial goals.

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.

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 every woman was allowed to work at her highest and best potential? What would that world look like, to men and women alike?

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.

Working families deserve safe, affordable, and high-quality childcare, now more than ever. And the solution is right there in the history books.

What is the question that could change the trajectory of your financial life?

Discovering your “why” gives you the superpower to sustain your motivation in your work, come rain or shine.

It’s about the money, yes, but financial success is also about what Commonwealth calls having a “financial security mindset.”

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.”

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.

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.

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.

The Hierarchy of Financial Needs lays out a clear and continuous path for your clients to achieve financial stability and reach their financial goals.