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Give Every Dollar a Job and Take Control of Your Finances

Give Every Dollar a Job and Take Control of Your Finances

Learn how assigning a job to every dollar can simplify your finances and reduce stress. A clear system for cash, savings, and investments helps you stay organized and make better financial decisions.

What To Do With Extra Cash Sitting in Savings

What To Do With Extra Cash Sitting in Savings

Learn how to make your extra cash work more effectively by balancing savings and long-term investing. A simple framework helps you build an emergency fund, plan for future expenses, and invest with confidence.

Put Your Cash Where It Counts: A Simple Allocation Strategy

Put Your Cash Where It Counts: A Simple Allocation Strategy

Learn how to divide your cash between savings and long-term investments so your money works efficiently for you. This simple framework helps you fund emergencies, cover short-term needs, and build long-term wealth with confidence.

Optimizing Your Cash: Liquidity, Safety, and Yield Explained

Optimizing Your Cash: Liquidity, Safety, and Yield Explained

Many people lose money by chasing yield with their cash. Learn how to balance liquidity, risk, and return so your cash stays accessible, protected, and working for you.

You’ve Funded Retirement and Emergencies - Now Where Should Your Money Go?

You’ve Funded Retirement and Emergencies - Now Where Should Your Money Go?

Maxed out your 401(k) and college funds? Learn why investing extra money in a taxable account can reduce lifetime taxes and grow your wealth with more flexibility.

Can You Access Your Wealth When You Need It Most?

Can You Access Your Wealth When You Need It Most?

The ability to access your money quickly during emergencies is crucial for financial stability. In this blog, we explore why liquidity should be a top priority when building an investment portfolio, the risks of illiquid investments, and how simple, daily-traded securities can provide the peace of mind you need when unexpected events arise.

Protect Your Assets by Understanding Your Exposure

Protect Your Assets by Understanding Your Exposure

Many of my clients originally reached out to me because they have a lot of company stock and don’t understand what it is or when to sell it. They are aware they lack “diversification,” but don’t know what to do about it—or if diversification is a big deal at all.

I Just Sold Some Stock—Now What?

I Just Sold Some Stock—Now What?

You’ve finally pulled the trigger, selling a chunk of your company stock and leaving you with a pile of cash sitting in your brokerage account. What now? Now you have a pile of cash and need to know what to do with it. Let’s talk about that.

Give a Job to Every Dollar You Have

Give a Job to Every Dollar You Have

In today’s busy world, you might often feel like you’re drowning in responsibilities to your family, coworkers, clients, and even your neighbors. There’s always someone or something saying you ought to be doing something.

Make Your Extra Cash Work For You

Make Your Extra Cash Work For You

Some people are concerned about spending their extra cash, while others are concerned that they’re not investing it. In either case, this situation can easily be avoided through a simple process that makes your cash work for you.

Strategize Your Finances: Put Your Cash Where It Counts

Strategize Your Finances: Put Your Cash Where It Counts

Having more income than you spend feels good, yet it’s crucial for us to recognize that this is, in fact, necessary. If you ever want to spend any time without income in your life – whether it’s retirement, a sabbatical, or whatever – then you must earn more than you spend.

Optimizing Your Cash: Where to Put It

Optimizing Your Cash: Where to Put It

There are three important factors when it comes to holding cash: Liquidity, Risk of Loss, and Yield. If you are comparing alternatives and are only looking at yield, you will be giving up something in the other two areas of Liquidity and Risk of Loss.

Create an Emergency Fund

Create an Emergency Fund

You’ve probably heard this one before, but let’s bring some reality to the topic of creating an emergency fund. An emergency fund is simply a pile of cash that we keep safe and available in case we need it.