Teaching Financial Literacy Teachers

I have been holed up since Tuesday of this week (7/6/10) teaching a new group of trainers how to use accelerated learning to make financial education programs like Camp Millionaire more effective and so much more fun for the participants. Though I haven’t had...

Teaching Yourself About Money…Where Do You Begin?

There you are…faced one morning, noon, or evening…with the stark reality that you don’t have a clue how to manage your money, let alone how to prepare for the R word…Retirement. Though the concept of retirement has recently moved aside and...

The Value of a Father’s Day

My father passed away when I was 26. My son, his only grandson at the time, was just a year old when nature took it’s course with a man who had never taken care of himself physically, nor had the tools to find an underlying source of happiness during his short...

Financial Education: Right or Privilege?

Financial Education: Fact or Fiction In 2001, a young woman started questioning her lack of financial education as she looked around and saw so many WITH money but even more WITHOUT. She didn’t understand how she’d gotten mostly A’s in high school...

Financial Exit Points…Where are YOURS?

I am reading the most wondrous of relationship books called Undefended Love. In it, there are many areas where the word ‘money’ could be substituted for the word ‘relationship’ or ‘love’ and lately I find myself considering a...