by Marie Burns | Nov 11, 2025 | Estate Planning
In the spirit of Halloween and Estate Planning Awareness Month, I couldn’t NOT share this picture I took on a lovely Fall walk the other day. It made me chuckle but also think about the futility of waiting for the perfect anything… man in our life, time to achieve a...
by Marie Burns | Oct 27, 2025 | Mindset, Retirees
Already retired or thinking about retiring? Once we are over 60, most of us likely fall into one of those two categories. No matter which one you are in, I encourage you to ask yourself if there has been a whisper in your mind that you have been ignoring? The Whisper...
by Marie Burns | Sep 23, 2025 | Mindset, Vacation Planning
Where have your summer travels taken you this year? Some new places, challenging adventures, or enjoyment of favorite stomping grounds? I was reflecting on this during one of many “longer than I like” drives to get from Point A to Point B. And I realized we always...
by Marie Burns | Aug 25, 2025 | Financial Wellness, Youth
Oh, if we had only known then what we know now! We can say that about many things in life. August is Wellness Month, so I want to share some thoughts and a challenge for you about financial wellness. It’s a topic we have yet to embrace as a necessary life skill to be...
by Marie Burns | Aug 6, 2025 | Financial Tips for Women, Grandparents, Parents, Youth
Why Financial Independence Starts Early Did you have an allowance when you were a child? Did you put an allowance in place when your children were young? Or perhaps you didn’t have children but watched nieces/nephews and friends’ children learn about money, or not?...
by Marie Burns | Jul 10, 2025 | Financial Tips for Women, Suddenly Single, Widow
When I first started my Health and Financial Wellness (HFW) for Women group here in Phoenix about nine years ago, I asked the initial gathering of women which topics they would most want to learn more about. Most of the women attending were in their 60s and many were...
by Marie Burns | Jun 25, 2025 | Financial Wellness, Marriage
I invite you to take yourself off of autopilot mode for a minute when it comes to how you and your significant other handle your finances. Research suggests that half or more of our daily activities are driven by habits, done with little or no conscious thought. I...
by Marie Burns | Jun 5, 2025 | Financial Advocate, Financial Tips for Women, Retirees, Suddenly Single
I am positive that you or someone you know has experienced a scam. No matter which technique was used, the resulting behavior is known as an “amygdala hijack.” The brain’s fear and threat response center, the amygdala, was triggered by criminals to elicit strong...
by Marie Burns | May 30, 2025 | Financial Wellness, Mindset
Does this sound like you? I like my life just the way it is. I know a lot is going on in the world. I keep abreast of it but can’t do much about it all. Inflation has sky-rocketed prices. So I’ve adjusted my spending. Geopolitical and market headlines seem to...
by Marie Burns | May 15, 2025 | Financial Wellness, Mindset
In the United States, since the late 1990s, financial experts and educators have identified a significant gap in financial knowledge among young people, not just in terms of basic skills, but also in developing a healthy money mindset. An effort began to designate a...
by Marie Burns | Apr 28, 2025 | Widow
Although I am not familiar with Christine Caine, an author and speaker focused on empowering women globally, I recently encountered a quote of hers that resonated with me deeply: “Sometimes when you’re in a dark place, you think you’ve been buried. But you’ve actually...
by Marie Burns | Apr 10, 2025 | Financially Organized
Does your stuff – and the things around you – represent who you are today, or who you were in the past? This is one of several thought-provoking questions in my friend Kim Kubsch’s new book, Joy of Downsizing. Kim Kubsch on Decluttering Kim is what I would describe as...
