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Here is a sales action for you to take: Become question aware. Here is another sales action for you to take: Listen with the intent to understand.   Every time

By Julie Neitzel Many investors are not aware that the financial services industry operates under two main standards of care: suitability and fiduciary. Depending on which of these two operating

How mindfulness empowers us and others By Linda Janasz When you interact with someone who is distracted, how does it make you feel? Likely, you experience disconnection or even a

Don’t get left in the dark. By Maurie Backman Look, we can’t all be financial wizards, right? Some of us are better at art, or at writing poetry, or at

OPEC’s strategy of starving its rivals out by keeping crude prices low has worked, and today, its members have the power to dial back global supply and boost prices again

Recent changes to Social Security eliminated two popular filing strategies, but all is not lost. By Maurie Backman Millions of older Americans rely on Social Security as a major source

 By Gerry Czarnecki If you are part of a typical board, your meetings probably follow a pattern that is in direct opposition to what governance professionals would recommend, and it

If you can manage to rid yourself of debt by age 53, you’ll be setting the stage for a financially healthy retirement. By Maurie Backman If there’s one thing Americans

By Jim Fried On this month’s show, we talked about urban development in Miami and what real estate investing trends across the country are going to look like. We even

Distilleries are the new status symbol You’ve undoubtedly seen noticed the wave of craft breweries popping up all over South Florida, but Nanette Watson’s idea for a craft distillery could

 By Chris Fleck For the past two months, I have left my laptop in the office and used only my iPad Pro for mobile work. On my desk, I still

By Nick Sortal “I think a very big part of being an entrepreneur is diversification,” says 29-year-old Jason Mercier. His main source of income? Not the stock market. Not real