As much as I’d like to believe I’m an expert on personal branding I always learn that there’s some area I haven’t touched or some base not covered. I recently had a discussion with someone on Twitter who I’ve been connected with for quite some time and it was like…

Earlier today, 3/10/2023, regulators shut Silicon Valley Bank down in the largest US bank failure since the 2008 financial recession. …

The rapid accumulation of wealth with a poor understanding of risk management — “70% of lotto winners lose or spend all their money in 5 years or less,” according to a Reader’s Digest article. “78% of professional athletes go broke after just 3 years of retirement,” according to Craig Brown, an NKSFB Sports Business Division partner. Although seemingly unrelated, what’s not being talked…

Exploring the role of cultural incompetence in shaping the financial beliefs and experiences of Black people — I had a conversation this week where I was given the biggest compliment: “I LOVE how you talk about race in finances!” I went on to explain how at the beginning of my journey as a financial educator I would often recite what I learned from the likes of Dave…

How and when to initiate it — “The first step to solving a problem is to recognize that it does exist” — Unknown There is some confusion around the proper attribution to the above quote however it’s an often used idiom that makes a lot of sense in financial education and wellness. With regard specifically to financial…

I’ve been MIA and here’s why… When I first heard of the money making opportunity with Medium that allowed for me to combine my skills as a writer with the potential for getting paid I thought it was a no brainer to establish a presence here. So I started writing…and…

Writing is A Lost Art form Like Music or Conversation — Recently while having coffee with a friend and fellow writer, we discussed the intricacies of writing and the use of “high language”. Although we didn’t quite land on a consensus definition of what constitutes high language, there was just a knowing. …

Are They So Different or Are They 2 Sides to the Same Coin? — I stumbled across a tweet that read: “Voting should require $10,000 of assets and a 600 credit score. Fairly low bar, but high enough to stop the 60% of society that has no business contributing to social policy” I retweeted it and then commented within the thread that “This is…

If you feel like someone might be attempting to (or successfully) gaslight you listen up. — In simpliest terms gaslighting occurs when someone attempts to get someone to think twice about what they accept as their reality, memories, or perceptions. Gaslighting is a manipulative tactic that we might subconsciously learn to use in order to: Maintain a position of power, authority, or control Justify our wrong…