Your Life in 10 Questions
1. What do you care about?
2. Whom are you responsible for?
3. Where do you live and how do you pay for it?
4. What will happen if you can't work and pay your bills?
5. How is your health?
6. Will your health always be what it is now?
7. How do you want to live when you no longer work?
8. What will you do if you lose your work?
9. How will you take care of the people you love if they need your help?
10. Do you believe in planning ahead?
From Telling Stories to Making Good Outcomes
How do you go from listening to people and sharing their stories with an audience to helping them preserve a legacy for their friends and family? It starts with hard work, hearing what they tell you and helping your clients protect their assets while being prudent about their spending. With the present economic situation, benefits such as life and health insurance and disability pay can vanish with a company's profit margin. Wouldn't you like to have benefits that you own and control? Benefits that would be yours no matter if you were fired, laid off, retired or medically ill and unable to work? Most people think about the worst-case scenarios that are happening everyday and say, "Of course."
For most of my career, I told other people's stories. I wrote about what they did, what they didn't do and things that made them special and interesting.
Now I help people live their stories securely. If they get sick and can't work, I make sure they have income so the people they depend on can continue their stories. If there are fewer chapters remaining than have gone before, I want to make sure the story ends well. If the story include a home and people who need to pay for their education, I want to make sure those chapters are cared for.
So, I have a question for you -- what do you want your story to be? Happy and secure or stressful and unfinished. Talk to me. I can help.
Accomplishments
Member Grace Lutheran Church in Evanston.
Volunteer canvasser and pollwatcher with the Jan Schakowsky for Congress Campaign in October-November 2010.
Did marketing for Boordy Vineyards, Maryland's oldest winery.
Volunteered with the New Jersey chapter of the American Diabetes Association and the Greater D.C. chapter of the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation of America. Walked one and a half marathons to raise money for diabetes research. Participated in Wine Country Half Marathon to raise money for Crohn's research.
Four-time regular season Jeopardy! champion and semifinalist in the 1998 Tournament of Champions and the 2002 Million Dollar Masters tournament.