Addiction

Addiction

According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the use of tobacco, illicit drugs, and alcohol costs our nation over $700 billion a year in health care and work-loss related expense. This figure does not begin to touch the toll addiction takes on families and...
Make Care a Verb

Make Care a Verb

There has never been a time in my 63 plus years of life when it felt like we were drowning in words. We e-mail, tweet, post, blog, send, forward, save, edit, create, copy, paste, delete, and share words at an alarming rate. The fact you are reading this discussion...

THE POWER OF PERMISSION

You would think that working with and being around adults most of the time would free us from needing to ask anyone for permission to do anything. With maturity comes autonomy, with autonomy more responsibility, and with both of those, a sense of self-actualization...
Connecting with Stories

Connecting with Stories

The pressure to develop new clients always stares us in the face—normally on Monday morning!  As the manager who hired me wisely taught, “new relationships are oxygen to your business.”  We all know it and yet the vast majority of advisors in our firm and all firms...