“Be slow to hire and quick to fire.” — Ben Taitelbaum Despite my military background, I’d like to think of myself as a warm and fuzzy kind of guy. When I was in the Army, we came up with an acronym to describe such people: SNAGs – Sensitive, New Age Guys. During my Army days, … Read more

If you’ve recently experienced a loss in your family and are looking for information on what to do with your insurance policy, please click here. The financial planning industry paints a very incomplete picture of the outcomes in your life. We tell you to save money, get insurance, budget, and the like, and whoosh, we … Read more

“If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.” –Les Brown When I founded my last company, my phone rang constantly. Unfortunately, it wasn’t always the ringing of customers who were dying to hire us and let us make their internal site search come as close as possible to … Read more

“Stress is the trash of modern life – we all generate it but if you don’t dispose of it properly, it will pile up and overtake your life.” –Danzae Pace “No news is good news.” That is what I used to tell my parents to expect before I deployed to Bosnia. Even during my second … Read more

“Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.” –Harriet van Horne “When the waitress asked if I wanted my pizza cut into four or eight slices, I said, ‘Four. I don’t think I can eat eight.’” –Yogi Berra I grew up in a Southern family. My grandmother cooked … Read more

“My doctor tells me I should start slowing it down – but there are more old drunks than there are old doctors so let’s all have another round.” –Willie Nelson “If two heads are better than one, then what about double chins?” –Jarod Kintz Have you ever walked into a doctor’s office or a hospital … Read more

“If you don’t take the time to [make] an estate plan, the government has done so for you.” –Ben Grosz We hear about trusts and estates and think that they’re for the ultra-wealthy. I had the opportunity to interview trust and estate attorney Ben Grosz of Ivins, Phillips, & Barker to dig into the truth … Read more

“The singer-songwriter has always played music that was stylistically rooted in the ’30s and the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. But the fact of the matter is that none of us remember the Depression firsthand.” –Steve Earle My grandparents grew up in the Great Depression. Both of them lived in agricultural areas that weren’t … Read more

“Cocaine is like really evil coffee.” –Courtney Love The steps of getting out of debt are pretty simple. Budget. Spend less than you earn. Put the difference towards debt. Rationally, it’s not particularly difficult to envision the path to getting out of debt. However, like losing weight (take in fewer calories than you expend) or … Read more

“You know what they say; when you have lemmings, make lemmingaid.” –Debbie Ohi Recently, Twitter confidentially filed a S-1 to the SEC for their forthcoming initial public offering. We’ve confidentially submitted an S-1 to the SEC for a planned IPO. This Tweet does not constitute an offer of any securities for sale. — Twitter (@Twitter) … Read more