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Should I Get a Divorce? How to Tell If It’s Time to Leave a Marriage
By Ana Weisberger I was married for seven years when I came home one day and asked my ex husband for a divorce. And while he feigned surprise at first, it was soon apparent that he also knew it was coming. Of course he knew. Nobody gets divorced today because of...
Taking Control: 2021 Savvy Ladies Annual Gala Highlights
By Savvy Ladies Member Dawn Drzal What a Night! Savvy Ladies lit up the night at their virtual Gala on November 18th to celebrate 2021’s unprecedented Year of Successes. The funds raised during the evening will allow the organization to support over 1,400 women in...
Use Affirmations to Attract More Money!
by Stacy Francis, CFP®, CDFA 14 Money Affirmation tips from Stacy Francis, Founder Savvy Ladies So you desire to have a more rich and rewarding life? One of the most effective ways to do this is by harnessing the life-changing power of prosperity affirmations. When...
The Gig Economy: Weighing your options
By Savvy Ladies Helpline Volunteer Vanessa N. Martinez, Managing Director and Partner of The Lerner Group The gig economy has endless possibilities and allows flexibility for a better work-life balance. For this reason, many people are jumping at the opportunity of...
How to Make Investment Selections in Your Retirement Plan
By Margery K. Schiller, CFP® When thinking of investing for retirement, there’s many variables to consider. How to maximize earnings and minimize risk? In this article, Savvy Ladies volunteer Margery K. Schiller, CFP®, shares expert tips to make the smartest decisions...
Your Wealth or Your Health?
By Deb Gordon Lisa Keller thought she was done with cancer. She'd already survived a rare sarcoma at age 12 and breast cancer at age 28, so she was unprepared mentally — and financially — when she was diagnosed with breast cancer again in December of 2017 at age 44....
Your Survival Guide to Unexpectedly Retiring Alone
By Amy Irvine, CFP®, EA, MPAS®, CCFC Retirement is an enormous transition in and of itself. Not to mention when you have to unexpectedly start that new chapter on your own. Retiring alone due to divorce or the loss of a spouse is overwhelming, to say the least. If...
Financial Considerations If You Think Your Spouse Has a Gambling Addiction
By Richard Ibarra, CFP®, APMA, CRPC® For many years I have helped women retire. One of the most successful underlying themes I have seen in women who are married and have built up the majority of the nest egg, is transparency regarding finances. What does that look...
2021 Annual Gala Gets Off to a Great Start
by Savvy Ladies member Dawn Drzal The Kick-off Even before I stepped through the sliding glass doors of Lisa Zeiderman's beautiful Westchester home onto her sunny deck, I could hear animated voices. A group of Savvy Ladies were clustered around the sparkling infinity...
Expense-Sharing Apps for Divorced Parents
By Lisa Zeiderman Co-parenting is a challenge. Keeping track of parenting schedules and all the details of children’s lives is complicated, but probably the most difficult aspect day-to-day is splitting children’s expenses. When you add in heightened emotions,...
Network Your Way to Your Next Job
By Amy Geffen As a professional, whether you work in for-profit or non-profit, you are familiar with networking to build your contacts for partnering, sales, fundraising, and increasing your knowledge of your industry. As a job seeker, there are some key strategies...
ZOOM Presentation Tips and Tactics
By Amy Geffen What is Zoom? Zoom is one of a few online presentation and meeting applications that you can use to make presentations, conduct meetings, or train staff. The key functions include screen sharing, chat, breakout rooms, list of participants, space for...
The Health and Monetary Costs of Always Putting Yourself Last
By Carrie Rattle Does this sound like you? You put yourself last behind your kids, your partner, and your parents’ needs. You have a demanding job, manage the home, and try to be a good citizen in your community. Then there’s the money issue – it may be hard to find...
Fixed vs. Variable Expenses: What’s the Difference?
by Stacy Francis, CFP®, CDFA, Founder Savvy Ladies Perusing the annual report of a company that I am invested in, I got to thinking about how these two words are so much more than just accounting jargon. They affect your financial future to a much greater extent than...
Extreme Cover Letter Mistakes That May Be Costing You a Job Offer
By: Cindy Makita-Dodd Cover letters are the front page of your resume. Crafting a unique cover letter will serve to not only introduce you to the potential employer but also to help you build your case as a strong candidate for the role. In the online hiring world,...
Everything You Need to Know About Social Security and Divorced Spousal Benefits
By: Michelle Petrowski, CFP®, CDFA As Baby Boomers continue to have higher and increasing divorce rates than other age groups, divorce later in life can bring increased retirement risks - there is less time (a shorter investment horizon) and opportunity to recover...
5 Tips for Surviving Grey Divorce in Retirement
By: Michelle Petrowski, CFP®, CDFA A late-life divorce can wreak havoc on even the most well-thought-out retirement plan. You were happy “once upon a time” and planned a future…. Now you’re 55 and getting a divorce. Or maybe you’re 60 or even in your 70’s, and now...
DComply Vs. Venmo for Expense Sharing between Divorced Parents
By: Marco Munoz When we built DComply, we started with focus groups to ensure that we engineered a mobile app that solved a common and difficult problem for divorced co-parents. We overwhelmingly determined the issue was fact-based tracking and accounting of money and...
What Expenses You Can Eliminate in Retirement
By: Jen Smith Are you about to retire and worried about how you will manage expenses during your golden years? You need to know your income might reduce after retirement! As we review retirement it is important to be considering your expenses. Americans aren’t saving...
Finding Financial Health in a Pandemic-Changed World
By: Jessica Larson Financial issues have come to the forefront during the pandemic, a fact that’s even more true for women than for others. Worldwide, the pandemic is projected to widen the gender poverty gap, pushing more women than men into extreme poverty, with a...
Reaching Financial Independence On Any Income
By: Nadia Busseuil The movement is gaining popularity, but the news still hasn’t reached the majority of women. F.I.R.E. is an acronym that stands for Financial Independence Retire Early. Even if retiring early is not your main agenda, the premise of F.I.R.E. can help...
