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Live in Har-Money
Living in financial harmony together is a lot about trust, fairness and flexibility around expectations. For most it presents challenges, especially when there is debt involved. I have met hundreds of client couples swamped in chronic debt and I consider...
Read about what a Financial Coach does
Discomfort, frustration, shame and anxiety are common emotions that often colour a first financial coaching conversation. Listening and being aware of what is really “going on” here is crucial.Morgan O’Connell gives us a personal insight into his role as a...
Grasping the Financial Nettle – Think about your money this Christmas
I did a talk last week about money and being mindful of what you have and how you use it coming up to Christmas. It led me to write this post as I have recently been reading about the “Financial Independence Retire Early” (FIRE) movement. This is an...
Grasping the Financial Nettle – Insurance
A: “Hey, what are you up to this weekend”?B: “Going to renew all my insurance polices with my partner at the kitchen table. We have blocked off a few hours Saturday and my parents are taking the kids”A: “Damn you are so lucky! I did mine last month and it...
Coaching tools: Accountability
Ahhh the good old Rack! Such design, such beauty! Only kidding. This doesn’t look like fun.In the old days this was a good way of motivating some. Not legal any more to my knowledge. Coaches use accountability with clients to get the job done. It is...
Grasp the Financial Nettle – Mortgages
“When a man with money meets a man with experience, the man with experience leaves with money and the man with money leaves with experience.” Suraj DuhalLet’s start the second in the series of Grasping the Financial Nettle and mortgages.A few things...
Grasp the Personal Finance Nettle
Financial Resolutions and ChangeI decided to get the jump on the New Year’s crowd.Looking at your finances is akin to bringing the bins out, bringing books back to the library, making the school lunches for the kids. You put them off (well I do) but you...
Do you fight over money at home?
As a man have you ever:Resisted opening a joint bank account?Hidden your earnings, savings, investments, losses, spending?Fought about your debtsResisted being “told what to do” with money?Fought about the best way to get out of debt, save, invest, manage...
Give Your Debts the Frosty Two Fingers!
The way to accelerate multiple debt repayments (and make you feel you are finally getting somewhere!).For clients in problem debt, I first request a recent Standard Financial Statement (SFS), a document which is the bane of the lives of those in mortgage...
Keeping the Credit Card Company Happy
Becoming debt-free often involves tackling credit card debt. Paying the minimum payment as directed by your credit card company will keep the credit card companies happy and off your back, many feel. But this is not why they are happy with you. They are...
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