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Tax Tips for Couples with Blended and Step Families

As April 15th quickly approaches, the US turns its attention to taxes. If you’re reading this and you haven’t completed your taxes, you are not alone! Many people wait until the last possible minute to do their taxes.  If you’re one of them, stop everything right now and take a deep breath – in AND [...]

 

Protect Yourself from Being Drained by ANTICIPATORY ANXIETY: When there is uncertainty about the future (be it an upcoming custody hearing,  a diagnosis, a financial crisis, or a potential inheritance), the mind often projects all sorts of doomsday scenarios to throw the adrenals in a perpetual state of fight or flight – with the goal [...]

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Living Life on a Walk-About without Bank Accounts or Credit Cards: A Conversation with Lenedra Carroll

On the November 6, 2012 Wealth Psychology Show at Sylvia Global Radio, Emily interviewed author, musician, poet, and luminary, Lenedra Carroll about her experiences over 4 years without having an income, home, or bank accounts. In the course of our conversation we explored some of Lenedra’s wisdom regarding what it means to be human and [...]

 
Wealth Psychology and the “Architecture of Health” with Lenedra Carroll

On Sylvia Global Radio, on Tuesday, Oct. 30th, 2012 Emily has a conversation with Lenedra Carroll, who authored The Architecture of All Abundance and founded the non-profit, “Higher Ground for Humanity”.  Lenedra developed and managed the career of the artist, Jewel, and is also Jewel’s mother. Together, Emily and Lenedra explore what Lenedra has discovered [...]

 
Wealth Psychology: Raising Empowered vs. Entitled Children

Listen Now to the Sylvia Global Wealth Psychology show about how affluent parents can raise resilient, savvy kids when it comes to money. This topic was inspired by listeners who called in last week asking for support with their children ranging in age from 17 months to 22 and over.  These parents are not alone, [...]

 
September 16th is Stepfamily Day!

In the United States, and perhaps in other countries as well, September 16 has been designated as “Stepfamily Day”.  A day dedicated to the stepfamily. A day to honor all the StepHeroesTM out there who choose every day to be parents to ALL the children in their lives. I will be featured on Headline News [...]

 
Successful Techie Women and Fashion Sense makes Good Sense

Silicon Valley women execs were front and center in the Sunday Styles section of the New York Times on August 5th in an article focused on how “Techies Break a Fashion Taboo.”  According to the article it seems in the San Francisco Bay Area “a growing group of women is bucking convention not only by [...]

 
Blended Families Bond Using Giving and Philanthropy

  Families of all shapes and sizes and backgrounds can benefit from understanding how to incorporate giving into their family conversations and activities. There are other distinct advantages to introducing giving into your stepfamily system. In stepfamilies, there are children who, more than likely, are not enthralled with the reconfiguration of their family.  One powerful [...]

 
Philanthropic Journeys: Connecting Family Travel, Values and Giving

Enjoy this guest post from Melanie Hamburger from Catalytic Women: I was talking recently with a member of Catalytic Women and mentioned the topic of connecting family travel plans with our values of giving back. (Catalytic Women hosts a free webinar on this topic on July 11, so it must have been on my mind! [...]

 

I was recently made aware of Mary Beth Caschetta’s article in the New York Times about her personal experience with being disinherited.  My heart broke as I read how her father chose to use the reading of his will to express to her his enduring disapproval from the grave: “My father had put my mother’s [...]

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