Have you ever wondered about how Alzheimers can affect working with a financial advisor? Jennifer L. FitzPatrick, MSW, LCSW-C, CSP is the founder of Jenerations Health Education, Inc., a full service healthcare education organization. With over 20+ years experience in healthcare, Jennifer is also a gerontology instructor at Johns Hopkins University’s Certificate on Aging program. Her mission is to help healthcare organizations and professionals grow while empowering patients and their caregivers...
Nov 11, 2018•30 min•Season 1Ep. 215
Are you currently looking for work? What things can you do to better navigate the job market? Mark Anthony Dyson is the Founder of The Voice of Job Seekers, the award-winning blog and podcast. He is a career consultant and career-advice writer, and a passionate advocate for job seekers. Mark loves helping the unemployed, underemployed and underappreciated find jobs, and his career advice has been featured in Fast Company, Money, TIME, and Fox Business. To learn more about Mark, visit: https://th...
Nov 04, 2018•30 min•Season 1Ep. 214
Are you going through financial hardship in life? If so, you could be prey to predatory payday loan lenders in the state of Texas. Even though lawmakers continue to look for ways to regulate payday loan lenders, a legal loophole allows lenders to charge unreasonable rates in the state of Texas. To combat this issue, Zara Mohidin works with Fig Loans to offer products that charge lower rates for people that are struggling financially. Zara Mohidin is the head of strategy and business development ...
Oct 19, 2018•30 min•Season 1Ep. 213
House of Trump, House of Putin offers the first comprehensive investigation into the decades-long relationship among Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, and the Russian Mafia that ultimately helped win Trump the White House. Our guest today was Craig Unger. Craig Unger is the New York Times bestselling author of House of Trump, House of Putin; House of Bush, House of Saud, and other books. The former editor in chief of Boston Magazine, he has written for New York Magazine, The New Yorker, Esquire, amo...
Oct 05, 2018•31 min•Season 1Ep. 212
More and more retirees are turning to the equity in their homes to finance their retirement. Would you like to learn how to navigate reverse mortgages to access this equity? Eric Rittmeyer is a veteran of the United States Marine Corps. He founded Fidelis Mortgage in 2006. In 2010, he was the first person in the United States to obtain the designation of Certified Reverse Mortgage Professional (CRMP). Eric speaks regularly at just about all the Realtor® Associations in Maryland, educating real e...
Oct 02, 2018•30 min•Season 1Ep. 211
Are you thinking about retirement? Are you overwhelmed by the pressure of the decisions you now have to make? A Certified Financial Planner practitioner and Retirement Income Certified Professional based in Stamford, Connecticut, Nahum Daniels has specialized for over thirty years in serving clients facing the challenge of making income last in retirement and wealth span generations. Independent and experienced, he has travelled the world, lived abroad and offers a global perspective. A teacher ...
Sep 28, 2018•29 min•Season 1Ep. 210
Why do businesses do the things they do? What makes people make certain life decisions? Melina Palmer is the host of the The Brainy Business Podcast, which explores concepts of behavioral economics, and why people buy (or don't buy) certain items. Consumers are weird. They don't do what they say they will do and don't act how we think they"should." Enter Melina Palmer, a sales conversion expert with a personal mission to make yourbusiness more effective and brain friendly. In her podcast, The Br...
Sep 26, 2018•30 min•Season 1Ep. 209
How much do you pay in Flood Insurance? The average homeowner can pay over $100 a month. Which of course is $1200 a year. On a thirty-year loan, that equates to $36,000. That's a lot of money! Wouldn't it be great if you could get your Flood Insurance rate reduced? Better yet, what if you didn't have to pay for ANY Flood Insurance? In his book, Flood Money, author Brad Hubbard shares how he has saved residential clients hundreds of thousands of dollars by legally getting them out of a flood zone...
Aug 31, 2018•30 min•Season 1Ep. 208
Don’t plan to die? Bad news – humans have a 100% mortality rate. Yet only 30% of us make end-of-life plans: wills or trusts, advance medical directives and pre-need funeral planning. That leaves 70% of us unprepared and devastated, not if but when a death occurs. Listen to Gail Rubin on why we avoid the topic of death and what we can do to improve end-of-life planning rates so everyone can have a good goodbye. Gail Rubin is a pioneering Certified Thanatologist – a death educator who uses humor a...
Aug 17, 2018•30 min•Season 1Ep. 207
Budgeting is hard enough, but relocating your place of residence every few years can make this age-old task even more difficult. Charlene Wilde is a veteran and military spouse who has experienced permanent change of station both here and abroad. She has managed relocations both alone and with her family, including seven moves in the past 15 years with her husband and two sons. Charlene works for AAFMAA. Charlene discusses budgeting tips, insights on military home buying and mortgages, and resou...
Jul 27, 2018•25 min•Season 1Ep. 206
Immigrants arriving in the US already have a plethora of struggles. To add finance struggles to that is a whole other issue entirely. Adina Appelbaum founded and helps lead the Immigration Impact Lab, CAIR Coalition's newest initiative and first-ever concerted appellate impact litigation project. From 2015-2017, Adina was an Equal Justice Works Fellow sponsored by the Arnold & Porter Foundation at CAIR Coalition, where she created and led the Crim-Imm Pro Bono Project to expand access to cou...
Jul 12, 2018•30 min•Season 1Ep. 205
Common misconceptions, assumptions, and behavioral biases often prevent people from building robust and flexible retirement plans—and this is an enormous problem. If you don’t know your decisions are based on false assumptions, how can you avoid making serious mistakes? Rewirement: Rewiring the Way You Think about Retirement! offers a solution. Under the expert guidance of Jamie P. Hopkins, Esq., CFP®, RICP®, you’ll learn to identify problems that might sabotage your savings while learning how t...
Jun 19, 2018•30 min•Season 1Ep. 204
Dr. Art Langer founded Workforce Opportunity Services (WOS), which is a nonprofit charitable organization that helps empower young adults and military veterans through unique, innovative work-study programs. WOS works with companies to identify specific staffing needs and then trains its students to fill those roles. The goal: To provide these students with long-term career and educational opportunities, along with the tools to become productive citizens. WOS works with academic partners (includ...
May 28, 2018•30 min•Season 1Ep. 203
What if the real secret to greater productivity, happiness and success is a habit that is thousands of years old? Productivity has become an international obsession. We celebrate a work culture where people boast of long working hours, their extreme schedules and how little they sleep. A constant stream of emails, texts, tweets and more keeps us connected every minute and we rarely put our phones down. Every moment needs to be maximized and no time can be wasted. And yet most of us also feel som...
May 22, 2018•29 min•Season 1Ep. 202
The chief scientist at the Institute of Noetic Sciences (IONS) turns a critical eye toward such practices as telepathy, clairvoyance, precognition and psychokinesis. Are such powers really possible? Science says yes. According to noted scientist and bestselling author of The Conscious Universe , Dean Radin, magic is a natural aspect of reality, and each of us can tap into this power with diligent practice. But wait, aren't things like ESP and telepathy just wishful thinking and flights of the im...
May 14, 2018•30 min•Season 1Ep. 201
Tommy Servos is a trial attorney who focuses on representing clients that were injured in car, truck and bus accidents, plant and refinery explosions, offshore accidents, and by dangerous prescription drugs. He has tried—and won—a number of cases across Texas and recovered millions of dollars for his clients. Mr. Servos was born and raised in Texas, living the majority of his life in Houston. He received his Bachelor of Arts in Government from the University of Texas at Austin. While there, Mr. ...
May 08, 2018•30 min•Season 1Ep. 200
Houston Money Week (HMW) is a community-wide financial education initiative that empowers families and individuals to be successful in making financial choices. The Women’s Resource helps women and girls make choices toward becoming independent, productive and financially stable. In its programs, women acquire the essential financial knowledge, skills and confidence they need to make sound decisions and improve their lives - for themselves and for generations to come. Christine has led The Women...
May 04, 2018•29 min•Season 1Ep. 199
Houston Money Week (HMW) is a community-wide financial education initiative that empowers families and individuals to be successful in making financial choices. HMW provides resources to help consumers better manage their personal finances through the collaboration and coordinated effort of organizations across Houston and surrounding counties. HMW’s programming offers free financial education events that cover all facets of personal finance while raising awareness of community resources. HMW pa...
Apr 24, 2018•30 min•Season 1Ep. 198
Houston Money Week (HMW) is a community-wide financial education initiative that empowers families and individuals to be successful in making financial choices. HMW provides resources to help consumers better manage their personal finances through the collaboration and coordinated effort of organizations across Houston and surrounding counties. HMW’s programming offers free financial education events that cover all facets of personal finance while raising awareness of community resources. HMW pa...
Apr 18, 2018•30 min•Season 1Ep. 197
Houston Money Week (HMW) is a community-wide financial education initiative that empowers families and individuals to be successful in making financial choices. HMW provides resources to help consumers better manage their personal finances through the collaboration and coordinated effort of organizations across Houston and surrounding counties. HMW’s programming offers free financial education events that cover all facets of personal finance while raising awareness of community resources. HMW pa...
Apr 10, 2018•29 min•Season 1Ep. 196
In order to boost the economy of Houston, Houston Center for Literacy strengthens providers of adult education who, in turn, provide necessary skills for underemployed citizens to fulfill their potential and become economically self-sufficient. Houston Money Week (HMW) is a community wide initiative to empower families and individuals with financial education. Through the collaboration and coordinated effort of organizations across Houston and surrounding areas – including businesses, financial ...
Apr 04, 2018•30 min•Season 1Ep. 195
The first insider account straight from Trump University, by one of its principal instructors. While the President of the United States seems to be able to shock with each new tweet, and no depth seems too low for him to sink to, we've yet to hear from someone who was at the heart of one of his signature outrages--Trump University, the infamous and elaborate scheme to con hundreds of earnest citizens out of their hard-earned dollars. Until now. Stephen Gilpin is a real estate guy. His forte is b...
Mar 11, 2018•30 min•Season 1Ep. 194
Who doesn’t want to know how to be their best when it matters most? To be more creative, more contented, more consumed? To soar and not to sink? As the deeds of these athletes prove, if we can master flow, there are no limits to what we can accomplish. In this groundbreaking book, New York Times –bestselling author Steven Kotler decodes the mystery of ultimate human performance. Drawing on over a decade of research and first-hand reporting with dozens of top action and adventure sports athletes ...
Mar 08, 2018•30 min•Season 1Ep. 193
Our ego, and its accompanying sense of nagging self-doubt as we work to be bigger, better, smarter, and more in control, is one affliction we all share. And while our ego claims to have our best interests at heart, in its never-ending pursuit of attention and power, it sabotages the very goals it sets to achieve. In Advice Not Given , renowned psychiatrist and author Dr. Mark Epstein reveals how Buddhism and Western psychotherapy, two traditions that developed in entirely different times and pla...
Feb 26, 2018•29 min•Season 1Ep. 192
Ira Shapiro places the Senate at “ground zero for America’s political dysfunction”--the institution that has failed the longest and the worst. In Broken, Ira Shapiro, a former senior Senate staffer and author of the critically-acclaimed book The Last Great Senate, offers an expert’s account of some of the most prominent battles of the past decade and lays out what must be done to restore the Senate’s lost luster. With a narrative that runs right through the first year of the Trump presidency, Br...
Feb 13, 2018•30 min•Season 1Ep. 191
“Once you have satisfied your basic sustenance needs—food, water, health, and a roof over your head—poverty has more to do with your head than your wallet.” - John Hope Bryant In John Hope Bryant's insightful new book The Memo: Five Rules for Your Economic Liberation , he makes bold claim: he supermajority of people who live in poverty, whom Bryant calls the invisible class, as well as millions in the struggling middle class, haven’t gotten “the memo”—until now. Bryant gives readers tools for em...
Feb 07, 2018•30 min•Season 1Ep. 190
The old adage that leading creative people is like herding cats is wrong. It's more like herding tigers . In Todd Henry's riveting new book Herding Tigers , he provides compelling insight into the most efficient ways to lead creative people, and to do so with confidence. Todd Henry is the founder of Accidental Creative, a company that helps creative people and teams be prolific, brilliant and healthy. He regularly speaks and consults with companies about how to develop practices that lead to eve...
Jan 30, 2018•30 min•Season 1Ep. 189
Rudy Cavazos Jr. gives the inside scoop into exclusive tips and tricks to help manage your debt and reduce expenses after the Christmas shopping rush. Rudy Cavazos Jr., Founder of The BridgePath, a boutique nonprofit with a mission to provide expert, comprehensive and fundamental personal financial education to families and individuals, by creating a collaborative environment with the goal of empowering communities. Cavazos has over 25 years’ experience in the Personal money and credit managemen...
Jan 26, 2018•30 min•Season 1Ep. 188
Think you know everything about your husband or wife? There’s a 40 percent chance you don’t even know how much they make. And there’s more than a 5 percent chance they’re hiding money from you. On this week show we spoke with author John Stirling Kinross about his new book How to Bullet Proof Your Marriage or How Your Husband Screws You In Divorce. This book is a guide to financial equality in a marriage and teaches women how to be confident in merging finances with her spouse, as well as, navig...
Jan 22, 2018•30 min•Season 1Ep. 187
Those offences which proceed from the misconduct of public men, or, in other words, from the abuse or violation of some public trust... as they relate chiefly to injuries done immediately to the society itself - Alexander Hamilton Author and lawyer Barbara Radnofsky takes us through the mechanics of impeachment and how it relates to the world today. A lawyer since 1979, Barbara Ann Radnofsky is a mother, wife, teacher, mediator and arbitrator. In 2006, after 27 years of law practice, Barbara Ann...
Jan 08, 2018•30 min•Season 1Ep. 186
