Category: Under the Influence
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Under the Influence – Investing Is Like Driving
By Shawndi Purselley, CFP®, CDFA®, Owner and Co-Founder, Wealth Advisor This morning while I was driving to the office, I watched cars move up and down the highway. It reminded me of the various personalities I have come across in my years as a financial advisor. There were drivers in the slow lane, the middle lane and some in the fast lane. I also noticed that some drivers spent most of their time weaving in and out of the three lanes. I thought about each driver’s own personality and their risk tolerance for getting from point A to point B. It...read the full article
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Under the Influence – When a Guest Becomes an Unwanted Tenant
By Shawndi Purselley, CFP®, CDFA®, Owner and Co-Founder, Wealth Advisor I have written several times about my family dynamics and some of the things I encountered when my grandparents passed away 5 years ago. I felt this blog entry was of significant importance to write about.
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Under the Influence – My Personal Experience with a Reverse Mortgage
By Shawndi Purselley, CFP®, CDFA®, Owner and Co-Founder, Wealth Advisor My grandparents raised me in a tiny 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom home. My great-grandfather, Ernest, built this house when he came home from World War II. Lucile, my great grandmother, decided about 35 years ago to finally gift this house to my grandparents, Glen and Janet, as part of their inheritance.
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Under the Influence – 7 Rings
By Shawndi Purselley, CFP®, CDFA®, Owner and Co-Founder, Wealth Advisor While top-rated pop star Ariana Grande’s song “7 Rings” talks about complete self-indulgence, it’s not sound financial advice.
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Under the Influence – My View from my Home 2020
By Shawndi Purselley, CFP®, CDFA®, Owner and Co-Founder, Wealth Advisor My blogs have always focused on how I have been influenced over the years by my own life experiences. I make a point of using my own personal life as a teaching tool for others. Today I want to write a different type of blog: What has 2020 taught me?
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Under the Influence – You CAN teach an old dog new tricks!
By Shawndi Purselley, CFP®, CDFA®, Owner and Co-Founder, Wealth Advisor I am living proof that an old dog can be taught new tricks. I know some will say 47 years old is not really old, and I would agree. However, I learned to do two activities that I definitely should have learned in my youth.
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Under the Influence – The Cost of Saying Yes
By Shawndi Purselley, CFP®, CDFA®, Owner and Co-Founder, Wealth Advisor How to finally stop financially supporting your adult children. Cutting the cord can be difficult, but if you don’t you could be risking your own financial security and that’s not okay.
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Under the Influence – Blessed to Have Been Raised by Grandparents
By Shawndi Purselley, CFP®, CDFA®, Owner and Co-Founder, Wealth Advisor My mother was very young when I was born. We lived at home with my grandparents and my aunts.
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Under the Influence: Why Do We Ignore Our Need for Planning?
By Shawndi Purselley, CFP®, CDFA®, Owner and Co-Founder, Wealth Advisor The road to financial fitness can be cumbersome and overwhelming. To draw an analogy, physical fitness is much like financial fitness. The advice given to someone seeking physical wellness is very similar to advice I would give to someone seeking financial wellness. I realized this after my own challenges with both. How do you begin, continue, maintain and thrive when it comes to financial and physical fitness?
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Under the Influence- Forced to Save My Allowance!
By Shawndi Purselley, CFP®, CDFA® As I’ve mentioned before, I lived most of my adolescence with my grandparents. My grandfather Glen only had a 5th grade education. However, he managed to own and run his own air conditioning and heating business. We weren’t well off by any means, but we survived. Even though my grandparents didn’t save well for their retirement years, Glen did teach me a fundamental lesson about saving money.
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