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What do I do now?
Investing: What Do I Do Now? A Plain-English Beginning for People Who Know They Should Invest but Aren’t Quite Sure What That Means There is a moment in almost every financial conversation when someone says:
Your Emotional Relationship with Money
Fear, Guilt, Shame, Anger, Oh My! Learning to Work With Money Without Letting It Run (or Ruin) Your Life Money is numbers. Until it isn’t. A bank balance is a number. A credit-card balance is
Getting Out of Debt without Obsession
Reduce What You Owe Without Making Debt Your Whole Financial Life There is a point in almost every conversation about debt when somebody says something like: “I just want it gone.” I understand. Debt can
The 60/40 Principle of Money Management
How to Build Financial Stability Without Making Debt the Only Job Your Money Has One of the biggest mistakes I see people make with money is actually a very understandable one. They decide they are
When Life Falls Out of Tune: Stay in the Process
Open Friday Coffee | Recorded on: August 14, 2026Special Guest: Mark Hardcastle, author of The Symphony of Your Life: Restoring Harmony When Your World Is Out of Tune Sometimes life doesn’t need to be brought
How Do You Build Connection Across Generations Without Trying to Control the Other Person?
Building Connections Across the Generations With insights from Open Friday Coffee special guest Roland Thompson, co-author of Grand Connect When someone we love is making choices we don’t understand, our first instinct is often to
How Do You Rebuild Your Life After Everything Changes Without Burning Out?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gJK2lAv-2A When several parts of your life change at once, rebuilding begins by slowing down enough to see the facts, creating routines that reduce mental strain, and asking for help. You do not have to
How to Navigate Change Without Losing Yourself | Janine Bolon on AngelTalk
https://youtu.be/nSPikhBiKas?si=iIppwMN-15WIroxH A Conversation with Brenda Hardwick on AngelTalk What do you do when life changes faster than you can process it? When an unexpected conversation, relationship shift, career change, family situation, or other disruption leaves
What are you carrying
People rarely arrive at Open Friday Coffee empty-handed. They may not be carrying a visible suitcase, but they are usually carrying something. Some people are carrying a fear of money. They are tired of feeling
5 Questions Podcast
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y73HnXfbg4&list=PLfhuxz7xFUCigO-zX6-ekK9zwoUmzgnal Five Questions Every Experienced Business Owner Should Ask This week I had the pleasure of joining Stuart, The Unicorn Mentor, on his Five Questions Podcast. What I expected to be a simple interview turned
How to talk to people without giving it all away
How to Help People Without Giving It All Away? It is a fair question. Many of us are natural helpers. We listen to someone describe a problem, and before we know it, we are
What Comes After Success? Finding Your Next Meaningful Step
Have you ever worked toward something for months (or in my case, 10 long years) only to accomplish it and suddenly find yourself asking: “Now what?” It surprises people when I tell them this is
Productive Procrastination
Productive Procrastination: When Good Work Keeps You From Doing the Right Work This week I had one of those moments that made me laugh out loud. An author I work with sent me an email.
Beyond the Book: Four Years Later with Todd Cherches and VisuaLeadership
One of the unexpected joys of my Beyond the Book research project has been reconnecting with authors I interviewed several years ago and asking a simple question: “What happened next?” Back in 2022, I had
The Gentle Book Launch Plan for First Time Authors
The Gentle Book Launch: A Simple Plan for First-Time Authors A few days ago, I was helping a first-time author prepare for her book launch. The book was already published. The hard work was done.