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Happy Thanksgiving From All Of Us! [Video]

Thanksgiving is the season and time of year where we all get to stop reflect and celebrate what has happened throughout the last year. And we all have stories from this past year. And one that we are thankful for is your receptiveness to our growing team.  And one of the things I’m personally thankful…

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21 Days To Better Habits – There’s More Than One Starting Point [Video]

We’ve all heard stories from people, who started their careers in different ways. everyone has a different story of where they got started. There’s not only one right path, for your professional career. Some people went to school. Some started an opportunity right away. Some are public figures. And some are even athletes. Developing Good…

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Roth IRA Contributions [Video]

STEPHEN SMALENBERGER, EA ® So no matter what you read, what you listen to, you probably have heard max out your 401K. Put away money into retirement accounts. Max out maybe even your Roth IRA contributions. That’s all good advice, if you take it completely blind. But how many times have we taken advice blind, only to find after the fact that…

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Skills That Are Always In Demand [Video]

How often do you daydream in your head a job that you think would be really cool? Or maybe you dreamed about being a professional athlete? And maybe some of you had the skills that you could have done that. But you just missed an opportunity, or didn’t quite make the cut. There are things…

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Expand Your View Point [With These Financial Experts]

You can physically only be in one place at a time. Now, we know there are some of you out there who think of the state lines or country borders where if you straddle them you are actually in two places at one time! Ok, we will give you that! The point we are making…

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TWO Things That Happened This Week

There were two things that happened this week we want to share so you continue to learn how investments work! First, you may have heard that Apple had an event this week! What has become normal for Apple is to update many of their current devices with new or better features. To investors this is…

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