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Category: Financial Health

You’re More Than Your Paycheck

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Not that long ago, I was half-joking when I said to a friend of mine,

“My kids spell dad, A-T-M!”

But as I said, I was only half-joking….

It often felt as if they either needed or wanted something, and if I couldn’t provide it, I felt like a failure.

And the two times I was out of work, unemployed, I felt that all the more keenly.

In this season of many people being literally locked out of work, unable to earn their regular income and stressed, that joke I told has become a nightmarish reality unfolding before me in the lives of many people I know… the slip comes out of the ATM “Insufficient Funds.”

And so I offer this for you –  You are much more than an ATM or a walking paycheck. Continue reading “You’re More Than Your Paycheck”

Diagnosing Financial Emergencies: An EMT’s Approach to Finding The Real Money Problem

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Sirens blare as the ambulance races down the street, rushing to care for a man having chest pain. With screeching tires, the ambulance shudders to a halt, and two EMTs hop out of the rig, hustling out of the “rig” and into the house.

We watch as with fervor and urgency the medics check a pulse and blood pressure, glancing grimly at each other.

Quickly they put the patient on high flow oxygen, ask him to chew some baby aspirin, help him with his nitro, and start an IV.

Continue reading “Diagnosing Financial Emergencies: An EMT’s Approach to Finding The Real Money Problem”

Your Financial Health During the Pandemic

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If there is one thing I am REALLY worried about right now with COVID 19 it’s people’s financial health. Continue reading “Your Financial Health During the Pandemic”