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#FridayFollow: The Power of Connections
Andi Wrenn, AFC® is a financial counselor who is passionate about helping people make great financial decisions. She is equally as passionate about helping other financial professionals make connections and build a rewarding career. As an early recipient of the FINRA Foundation Military Spouse Fellowship, Andi’s supportive presence has been a...
March 20, 2019
Read More >Financial Literacy Month 2019: Share Your Story!
April is Financial Literacy Month. Let's break the silence. Let's talk about money. #MyFinLitStory “In our culture, money is not only a basic need, but also a measure of success…[and] anything that can be conflated with our sense of value as humans is often difficult to discuss with ease.”1 If...
March 18, 2019
Read More >#FridayFollow: Helping You Take Your Finances to the Next Level
Diana Kyu Yacob is an AFC® and FFC® with a passion for helping anyone with a desire to have a better financial future – whether that’s not living paycheck to paycheck, reducing debt, saving, improving credit, or whatever it is their heart desires financially.AFCPE: When people ask you what you do, how...
March 15, 2019
Read More >#Friday Follow: Helping People Live in Financial Freedom
Ellie Kay is an author and speaker who has spent more than 20 years working in the financial space. She is also the founder of Heroes at Home, a non-profit company dedicated to providing free financial education to service members and their families. In 2019, Ellie joined the AFCPE Board of...
March 08, 2019
Read More >Making Sense of Cryptocurrencies
Social and traditional media have been abuzz with articles and information about the rising phenomenon of digital currencies. Words and phrases like blockchain, cryptocurrency, initial coin offering, and digital tokens populate our newsfeeds. But what does it all mean, and should you buy in?What is Cryptocurrency?Cryptocurrency, or simply crypto, is...
March 04, 2019
Read More >#FridayFollow – Goal: Financial Self-Sufficiency
Michele Godfrey is a personal financial counselor and educator who is passionate about supporting clients to make the best financial decisions for their future. Through education and resources, she helps them build skills and gain financial self-sufficiency. Along with being a Financial Readiness Program Manager (Fort Belvoir Army Garrison) and...
March 01, 2019
Read More >#FridayFollow – “A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats”
Starlett Henderson is a freelancer who has a created a work life that fits the needs of her family and those whom she serves. She provides life skills services to nonprofit organizations, government contractors, and individuals based on their particular needs and timing. Starlett began her journey with AFCPE as...
February 08, 2019
Read More >#Friday Follow: “Communicating Family Finances”
Ashley LeBaron is a family finance researcher at the University of Arizona. As a researcher, she runs statistical tests and writes papers focusing on how money influences couple relationships and how parents teach their kids about money. She and her colleagues were recently published in the latest issue of the...
January 25, 2019
Read More >Support those affected by the government shutdown
Let AFCPE raise awareness for the work you are doing to support furloughed workers! The federal government shutdown is now the longest in American history, leaving more than 800,000 government employees working without pay or placed on unpaid leave or furlough. The loss of a paycheck is leaving many individuals and...
January 16, 2019
Read More >#Friday Follow: Contribution Through Career Path
Dr. HanNa Lim, PhD is an assistant professor at Kansas State University researching and teaching personal finance. Her research focus includes college students’ financial wellness and the effects of family relationships on financial behavior. At the 2018 AFCPE Symposium, Dr. Lim and her colleague Frank Magwegwe won the Outstanding Symposium...
January 11, 2019
Read More >Resilience Starts with Financial Preparedness
Disasters and emergencies happen often with little or no warning – whether it is a fire in your house or a massive hurricane, the unexpected can take a toll on your financial planning. Being financially prepared helps disaster survivors to bounce back much more quickly from a disaster, yet research...
December 18, 2018
Read More >Coaching Your Clients: How a High Savings Rate Beats Juiced Market Returns
Many financial coaches and advisors report difficulty in working to improve their clients’ consumption patterns for the purpose of increasing their savings rates. One helpful approach in this endeavor is to provide concrete evidence of the future value that a client will receive by improving his or her consumption habits today. Compound growth...
December 10, 2018
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