Poster Child for Career Change Financial Planning featured in Kiplingers article

This story, How to Erase $70K in Debt by Lisa Gerstner, touches on an important point when you’re planning ahead for a change in your career: Identifying a goal can help ease the pain when it comes to making  the necessary sacrifices. In this case, the couple wanted to start a family but felt they [...]

More follow-up on Post-Pink Slip Financial Planning talk: Pros & cons of bankruptcy

Continuing with still more follow-up from Thursday’s “Making the Most of Your Money: Post-Pink Slip and Beyond” presentation at the Network for Work meeting… Look familiar?? Today’s gloomy-yet-again weather presents the perfect backdrop for another question I was asked after the talk: “What are the pros and cons of bankruptcy?” While this is not an [...]

More follow-up on Post-Pink Slip Financial Planning talk: Good WSJ article “How to Tap Crisis Cash”

Continuing with my follow-up from Thursday’s “Making the Most of Your Money: Post-Pink Slip and Beyond” presentation at the Network for Work meeting… Another hot topic during the session was, not surprisingly, where to get cash to cover living expenses that, pre-pink slip, used to be covered by wages.  As discussed during the meeting, once you’ve [...]

“Making the Most of Your Money: Post-Pink Slip and Beyond” – Will bank freeze home equity line?

As I mentioned in Friday’s blog post, I thoroughly enjoyed my time with the Network for Work group this past Thursday. Many thanks go to longtime friend and colleague Tammy Hildreth (pictured with me, above), as well as Paul Philbrick, Jim Starrett, and Joe Guilfoyle, the group’s esteemed co-leaders, for extending the invitation to present [...]