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Notes From a Lifelong Volunteer

By Hawley Woods Gray

April is designated as National Volunteer Month and we thought this would be a great opportunity to talk to one of our members about the importance of volunteerism personally and professionally.Hawley Woods Gray is managing VP of Appreciation Financial, founder of Women of Wealth (WOW), and education director on the national board of Women in...

At Your Service: Why Servants Make the Best Leaders

You may not be familiar with the term “servant leadership,” but, as the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart famously said on a very different topic, you’ll know it when you see it. Despite its vaguely biblical sound, “servant leadership” was coined a mere half-century ago by Robert K. Greenleaf...

Too Much of a Good Thing?

By Quincy Krosby, Ph.D.

Every so often, the famous warning from former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Alan Greenspan on Dec. 5, 1996 — “How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions?” — resurfaces in a much simpler form: The market is forming a...

Situational Social Security -- Divorced Spouse

By Marc Kiner, CPA

We emphasize Situational Social Security in the National Social Security Advisor (NSSA®) Certificate program, as all your clients are unique. Your clients may be single, married with wide age differences, married with narrow age differences, divorced, surviving spouses, eligible to file a Restricted Application, public employees, etc....

Life Has Been a Great Journey: A WIFS Elder Stateswoman's Story

By Estella Reyna Kierce

My name is Estella Reyna Kierce and I was born in San Antonio, Texas. I attended the University of the Incarnate Word, where I received my bachelor’s and master’s degrees in education. I have been married to Steiner Charles Kierce for 52 years and we have two children and two grandsons: Carolyn (Andy) Weiblen, Blane (13 years old)...