by Marie Burns | Jan 7, 2026 | Financial Tips for Women, Financially Organized
How Autopilot Shapes Our Financial Habits What habits do we have, or wish we had? In business or our personal lives, most of our daily actions are completed out of habit without giving them much thought: our morning routine, our drive to work, our bedtime ritual. Have...
by Marie Burns | Dec 20, 2025 | Estate Planning, Financially Organized, Gift Giving
The Holidays Remind Us Why Family Comes First Do you love the holidays as I do? Or do you feel more like Scrooge (like my husband pretends to be)? If you’re not in the “Bah humbug” mood, what is it that brings you joy about this season? Lights, music, food,...
by Marie Burns | Dec 9, 2025 | Caregiver
Family caregiving often enters our lives before we expect it Human nature is that we don’t pay attention to things around us until they happen to us personally. For example, if you were pregnant, you didn’t notice all of the pregnant women around you until you were...
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...
