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"My wife and I are expecting our first child in the spring. Yay! We're planning to open a 529 account soon and creating a budget for stuff like food, clothes, etc. Any other recommendations I should plan for financially for our little one?"
"I suddenly felt like I didn't have an identity anymore. I'd spent 20+ years in public radio and that brought with it a certain element of recognition. And so I really, for most of my career, identified myself with my job. I was Marketplace's Tess Vigeland and then all of a sudden I was just Tess Vigeland."
"I finally got exposed to real people trying to make decisions with their money...I thought it was a math job, and it turns out it's not. It's about emotion and goals, and dreams, and fears, and worries. And so when I found that out, that's what kept me in the business."
"The way I have people start to look at it is, any money that you're paying to pay minimums on past debt is taking away from our ability to help you to save for the future and to be able to live the life of financial freedom when we want for you today."
"I think that one of the most important things that people need to understand is not to wait for opportunities to happen, but rather to create them."
"I want to get my MBA but don't think my employer will sponsor it. What is the best money option to pursue it?"
"The way that we're changing that is by creating a business model and a service model and a fee structure that makes financial planning accessible to folks, whether you have a million dollars in debts or a million dollars in assets, or anywhere in between."
" I think as entrepreneurs, a lot of people burn themselves out very quickly and so I try to help my clients create packages, and services, and offerings and help sell those packages and services and offerings in a way that supports the life they really want to create."
"You also have to be in need of the money that you have in stocks in the next five years or so to really be worried. And if you are in need of that money, it should never have been in stocks in the first place. So like you, I'm not concerned at all."
