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"The problem with the one time financial planner is that there’s no incentive for the client to actually get things done. There’s nobody holding them accountable. So I give my clients an accountability checklist and prioritize a list and I work with them...My clients get a financial planner and an accountability coach."
"There’s nothing wrong with passion. You’ve got to have passion but I think where passion falls short is that passion is self-serving. But when we start talking about purpose, that's where it gets multidimensional. This is where we start to talk about service and impacting others."
"I was recently offered an opportunity to get rid of some of my student loans through a program. I have $12K in student loans and they've offered to reduce them to a little under $4K. But, they say they'll charge anywhere from $500 to $1,400 to fill out paperwork. Will this ultimately affect my credit?"
"It’s the right time culturally and economically for women to really stand up and say it’s time for me to have my own money. Don't just be in charge of the family finances and the budgeting but also be empowered to build up that nest egg."
"Nowadays we have mortgages, student loans, car and credit card payments. We have retirement savings and emergency savings. We need to save for our kid’s college. It's becoming incredibly difficult. We have created a system that is very, very complex."
"I actually don’t use the word retirement very often. Stopping work doesn't appeal to me. It was never about cutting the cord on work altogether. It's about having the power and the freedom to do what I want when I want. To work on the things that I want to work on regardless of whether they pay or not."
"You always trade your money off for some value. When I was holding up a Coach purse... if I held up a Coach purse in one hand and then I held up a picture of my family in the other, I have to look at both of them and decide which one is more important to me in the long run."
