Are you wondering how to make smart financial decisions?  Determine your investment personality?  When to get professional help from a financial advisor?

Tune in for this show Friday, October 15, 2010 as I talk with Susan Hirshman, CPA, CFA, CFP® and author of “Does This Make My Assets Look Fat?”  A Woman’s Guide to Finding Financial Empowerment and Success.

The topics of personal finance can be intimidating for many, but Susan does a terrific job of relating it all to something most women have had experience with….dieting! 

We’ll remove the intimidation around investing and personal investing and give you key strategies to take control of your financial situation.

In Seattle on AM1150 or via the internet at www.imthankful.com/radio 

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If you are contemplating pursuing a second career either by your choice….or someone else’s – Friday, September 10th from 9-10 am Pacific is a show you can’t afford to miss.

Best selling author and US News and World Report Contributing Editor Kerry Hannon will be my guest.

Best Selling Author and Personal Finance Expert

We’ll talk about motivations behind mid-life career change, five things to contemplate before making a career change and find the answer to this question, “Why don’t we all pursue our dream jobs from the get-go?”

If you live in the metropolitan Seattle area the show is heard live on AM1150 or 98.9FM HD-3 or via the internet at www.imthankful.com/radio.

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I know many of you are business owners, entrepreneurs – the unemployable!  At some point you made the decision that you no longer would live your professional life by someone else’s set of rules – and made your own.  Giving you the chance to live the life you wanted to live and make the difference you want to see in the world.

genius is about making connections … between ideas + strategies, desires + beliefs, between that flame in your heart and your full potential. 

(gleefully robbed from her website)

Are you ready to light up?  Personally?  Professionally?  Then be SURE to tune in for this conversation with Danielle LaPorte - share this date with your friends and SPREAD the news.  August 20th - 9am Pacific – if you are in the Seattle area AM1150 or 98.9FM HD3 - not here – don’t worry join us online at www.1150kknw.com

About Danielle LaPorte

my past life

I never went to university. For this, I am very grateful.

A LONG TIME AGO … I had a real job, co-running The Body Shop Canada’s Department of Social Inventions. We refurbished Romanian orphanages, and ran recycling and rock-the-vote campaigns. So thankfully, it wasn’t really a real job.

I was the Executive Director of a Washington-DC think tank where I managed a team of brilliant, analysts to create future scenarios for the likes of the Pentagon, IBM and the State of the World Forum. I hung out with Navy Admirals and signed NDAs every other day. Trippy.

Before that, I ran my own communications and business development agency, “promoting visionary people and projects,” including a Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, a philosopher-physicist, a rogue economist, the Pulitzer-winning co-founder of Greenpeace, and a few old pop stars.

NOT SO LONG AGO … I was featured in Elle, Body + Soul, Vogue Australia, Better Homes & Gardens, Globe & Mail, The National Post, The Huffington Post, Entertainment Tonight, and numerous talk shows. I wrote Style Statement: Live By Your Own Design, which The Globe & Mail deemed, “Haute Minded”. It ranked as an Amazon bestseller and caught the attention of Oprah. That was fun. I built a big website and media presence based on that brand, and then went super rogue. Creative sovereignty is bliss.

 Deeply in debt and feeling there is nowhere to go?  Eli Davidson has solutions for you.  She’s not just a ‘talking head’ – she has been through the fire and knows how you feel.  In 18 months Eli lost her marriage, her health, and business leaving her $88,000 in credit card debt.  Eli will share her story – how she changed her financial situation and how you can too!  Tune in 9-10am Pacific - August 6th – in the Seattle area on AM1150 or 98.9FM HD3 or via the internet at www.1150kknw.com – Enjoy the show! 

 About Eli

A successful business owner, life coach and public speaker Eli is a dazzling inspiration to people across North America. Her upbeat attitude and personal story of going from challenge to champion encourages people to take that first step to overcome their own obstacles. Her unique approach combines her “I’ve been in your shoes” manner, playful humor and deep compassion. People naturally wake up to their own possibilities of greater health, wealth and happiness using her tools and Turnaround Techniques. By breaking positive change down into bite sized morsels she assists her audience to implement those steps immediately.

Due to her consistent results her clients achieve in increasing their income, Eli’s work was the cover story of Kiplinger’s Money Magazine.

She is The Today Show’s “Reinvention Expert”, and is a featured columnist at Huffington Post – reaching 21 million readers each month.  Her book, “Funky to Fabulous” is an international best seller and was named the 2008 Motivational Book of the Year. 

As an actress, she shared the stage, television and movie screen with Christopher Walken, Kiefer Sutherland and Michael J.Fox. Oscar winner, John Madden (best director Shakespeare in Love) wrote a role in for her in the Obie Award winning play, Cinders, at the legendary Public Theatre. He cast the entire play, began rehearsals and said, “the play isn’t complete without Eli.”

From the ashes of a difficult divorce, she started a leading Healthcare consulting company working with: Cambridge Insurance, Zurich Insurance, Hartford Insurance, Kemper Insurance, Liberty Mutual, State Compensation Insurance Fund, and Glendale Memorial Hospital.

As a successful life coach she has coached Oscar Nominees, Golden Globe winners and many of the Hollywood’s inner circle as well as clients throughout the United States, Canada and Great Britain. Eli has also coached numerous leaders in the technology, real estate, entertainment and healthcare industries.

Eli received her Master of  Spiritual Psychology degree from The University of Santa Monica. She graduated with the Honor of Student of the Year.

What are your rights as a consumer when contacted by debt collectors?  If you think your rights have been violated by a debt collector what should you do?  Answers to these questions and many more on this week’s show. 

About Gerri Detweiler

Gerri is considered one of the country’s top credit specialists. She serves as Credit Advisor for Credit.com, a free website offering a wealth of tools to help consumers improve their financial lives. In addition to co-authoring Debt Collection Answers, she is the co-author of Reduce Debt, Reduce Stress (Good Advice Press, 2009), The Ultimate Credit Handbook (in print since 1993 and named one of the top five personal finance books of the year by Money magazine), and co-author of both Invest In Yourself: Six Secrets to a Rich Life and Slash Your Debt, Save Money & Secure Your Future.

Gerri has been interviewed in thousands of radio, television, and print news stories, including USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Dateline NBC, The Today Show and many others. She has testified before Congress several times and worked on reform of the national credit reporting laws.

She has served as executive director of the non-profit consumer advocacy group Bankcard Holders of America and as policy director of The National Council of Individual Investors. She has also developed consumer education programs for MasterCard, Bank of America and others. She has served on credit reporting agency Experian’s Consumer Advisory Council and on the board of the National Council for Consumer Education.

Is your business having a brand identity crisis?  This conversation with Maria Ross is sure to provide useful immediate information you can use for your business regardless of size.

About Maria Ross and Red-Slice Marketing

Maria Ross’s mission is to engage, inform and delight audiences and keep them coming back for more.  A born storyteller, she has over 16 years experience building brands, advising on marketing strategies and coaching businesses on how to tell the right story to the right people at the right time. Maria is founder and Chief Strategist at Red Slice, a branding and marketing consultancy, and has worked with large companies like Accenture, Business Objects, Discovery Networks, Monster.com and Microsoft as well as technology start-ups and small businesses like CRAVE and Mudbay in Seattle. She is also the author of Branding Basics for Small Business (2010, Norlights Press). In her free time, Maria is a volunteer, a published lifestyle writer and an actress. Her unique creative talents combined with her business savvy on both the client and agency side enable her to see the whole picture in an innovative way. Maria received a B.S in Marketing, with a minor in Spanish from Indiana University, Bloomington.

Know someone with ADD/ADHD who could use some help with financial tips and suggestions?  Dr. Sarkis takes us on her own journey and shares tips and strategies you can begin using immediately.

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Founder of Get Rich Slowly, J. D. Roth joins me on the show to share his own story of how he went from being in debt – and how he got out of it – to his book Your Money:  The Missing Guidebook, and whether growing and preserving your own food is a money saver and how IS he doing on his ONE goal for 2010.  Enjoy the show!

 About J.D. Roth

J.D. Roth is an accidental personal-finance expert–a regular guy who found himself deep in debt. After deciding to turn his life around, he read everything he could about money and finance. In 2006, he started the award-winning website Get Rich Slowly, which Money Magazine named the Web’s most inspiring personal-finance blog. Over the past four years, Get Rich Slowly has grown into an active community where thousands of readers a month share ideas on how to improve their financial lives. J.D. lives with his wife and four cats in a hundred-year-old house in Portland, Oregon.

From fear to freedom – one woman’s truly inspiring journey.

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From adverse beginnings to experiencing life in full bloom, Kim Crumpler is a veteran Personal Style & Branding Coach, Shopper, Author and Speaker who’s discovered the power of living her “authentic essence and style” and enthusiastically guides others in accomplishing the same. 

Kim believes the process of authenticating one’s Personal Statement of Style is an inside-out journey, one that may be multifaceted – full of unexpected twists, turns and aha moments along the way.   Not only is Kim a coach, she’s a visionary, with the exceptional ability to help you see that which you cannot, enabling her to passionately champion you along your road to style success.     
 
Empowering individuals to step into their authentic essence and style, Kim inspires clients to first discover and celebrate the strengths of their personal brand: skills, talents, abilities, personality and passions – the attributes that make an individual unique. Accurately translating their brand into a personal statement of style according to individual best practices for style, color, lifestyle and budget is a reflection of Kim’s exceptional listening skills and attention to style detail.

A member of AICI, the Association of Image Consultants International, Kim is an engaging and informative speaker for a variety of audiences from corporate to cruise line vacationers. Her 22 years of image and style experience provides reliable expertise for Uniquely Savvy’s Style GPS, Color Compass, “WOW!” Factor wardrobe audit and personal shopping services.  

Kim graduated from Central Washington University and later founded Uniquely Savvy Inc. in 2000.  She’s honored to have earned the trust and confidence to deliver customized solutions to men and women, both locally in Seattle and virtually nationwide.  Whether coaching an executive, lawyer, retiree, realtor, programmer, mom or teen, Kim’s worked alongside clients of all sizes, ages and stages in life while taking into consideration individual budget and lifestyle objectives.