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Have you ever felt like you're just faking it until you make it?You've probably heard that advice a hundred times: Put on confidence you don't feel. Act like you have it all together. Pretend until you finally arrive at "real" success someday. But "faking it til you...

About a year after I quit my comfortable Financial Advisor job to start WatersEdge Wealth Management, I found myself looking out the window of my office.'re just faking it until you make it?A lot had happened over the past 12 months. My business was not at the place...

Many years ago, I was walking through the bogs at Theodore Wirth Regional Park here in Minneapolis, frustrated and uncertain about my future.I had left the financial advisory industry for the time being and was working at a nonprofit…and hating every minute of it. My...

Two weeks before my father died, I came home from work to find him sitting on a stool in the kitchen. He was 90 years old and weak from cancer, but there he was: mixing a batter for pizzelle, those thin, crispy Italian wafer cookies he'd been making for decades.For...

Three years into my business, I found myself crying on my bathroom floor, wondering if I'd made the biggest financial mistake of my life.I was living from one payout to the next, one bill to the next, because I had put every dime and ounce of myself into my business....

When you think of traditional wealth management, what comes to mind? If you’re picturing a lot of Kens telling you how to manage your money from their mojo dojo casa houses, you’re not far off. One of the leading qualities of the traditional economic model that has...

“I have chosen to be happy because it is good for my health.”- VoltaireHere’s a question: Did anyone know that November has been designated Long Term Care awareness month? I certainly didn’t and I must admit it’s not a topic I like to think about much. I don’t feel...

“Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.”- Rudyard Kipling‘Tis the spooky season and so recently I’ve been thinking of that oh-so-frightening question: What scares you the most? For me, it’s not ghosts. It’s not goblins. It’s not demons...

October is a special month in the world of finance – it's Financial Planning Month. Woo hoo! Break out the sparkling apple cider and let’s get to celebrating! Just kidding. But … not really? This month, we celebrate the art and science of managing our financial lives....

“Create the space and a bigger life happens.”- Alysia ReinerWhen Covid hit and the world shut down in 2020, it gave quite a few employers the chance to reimagine how work happens. And it gave quite a few employees the chance to envision what a true work/life balance...

“I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees.”- Henry David ThoreauWhen’s the last time you took a moment or two or ten and really examined what you’ve accomplished? When’s the last time you stopped and said to yourself, “Wow. I’m doing good work....

"Do not go gentle into that good night, old age should burn and rage at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light."- Dylan ThomasI’ve been thinking about ageism a lot lately. It has to do with the fact that, incredibly, I am turning 60 this month! I did...