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What’s Wrong with Practical Money Skills for Life from VISA

May 9, 2012

We all know that VISA is in the “use our money so we can charge you compound interest on the balance and make a lot of money from your inability to pay it back in full because you never learned about money” business. And you know what? That’s their right as a company residing in [...]

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Financial Literacy: The Missing Pieces

January 5, 2012

A Financially Literate Society – The Five Critical Missing Pieces If it’s one thing most of us adults are painfully aware of, it’s that we weren’t taught how to manage or invest our money when we were young so that we could live independent, financially free lives as adults. We went to school ‘assuming’ we [...]

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Financial Complications – Choose them wisely.

December 8, 2011

What I have noticed most in the past ten years of being entrenched in this financial literacy business (and it is a business even though there there’s more passion than profit in it…more on that later), is that human beings tend to make their lives complicated. Most of these ‘complications’ take money and I have [...]

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Stop, Read and Clarify…How to Avoid Costly Mistakes

October 7, 2011

Have you ever made a mistake that cost you money? Lots of money? And when you thought back over how it happened, you realized it was simply a lack of attention to detail on your part? Of course you have. We all have. I know I have, and recently I might add. It started out [...]

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Anatomy of a Financial Summer Camp

August 11, 2011

Every Camp Millionaire we hold has the same group of kids in it. We have marveled about this for years. We chuckle about it during and after camp as we notice how, over and over again, the same personalities show up. Since we just had one of our weekend Camp Millionaire programs two weeks ago, [...]

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Financial Freedom – What you are doing, and NOT doing, to create it.

July 22, 2011

I once heard Harv Eker, the author of Secrets of The Millionaire Mind, say during his Millionaire Mind Intensive… “We have two kinds of habits…habits we DO and habits we DON’T do.” Simply said, you’re either in the habit of doing something or in the habit of NOT doing something. This is important to contemplate [...]

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Camp Millionaire and The Money Game on Fox Business News!

July 19, 2011

Hi all, Well, last friday, the 15th of July, was fun here at Creative Wealth in the morning. I got a call from Megan at Fox Business News about the interview I ‘thought’ we were doing on the phone or something (what was I thinking). She said something about coming to get me in a [...]

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Nothing Teaches Money Like Money…Real or Play

April 21, 2011

It seems, these days, that companies and nonprofit organizations are more focused on taking curriculums and lessons online…including the much needed financial literacy curriculums we’re all convinced need to be incorporated into every school program. Maybe it makes sense to provide some education virtually these days. But financial education will always be more effective when [...]

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Financial Literacy: We Need A Paradigm Shift

February 17, 2011

Financial Literacy – The Old Paradigm Many years ago, most parents felt that the only way their adult children would succeed in life was to go to college, get good grades, graduate and get a good steady, secure job. This approach doesn’t work very well, however, for a kid who wants to be his own [...]

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