By Kathleen M. Rehl, Ph.D., CFP®, CeFT® Emeritus Welcome to 2023! Are you thinking about making a New Year’s resolution? Have you done this before? Possibly you focused on a self-improvement goal, like losing the 5 pounds you gained between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day. Maybe you resolved…
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By Kathleen M. Rehl, Ph.D., CFP®, CeFT® Emeritus A triple whammy sent me crashing. My husband died. A month afterward my mother passed. And I had said farewell to my father less than two years before. But before their deaths, they each gave me a gift that…
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By Kathleen M. Rehl, Ph.D., CFP®, CeFT® Emeritus The daily news is filled with stories about people suffering personal economic discomfort. Exploding inflation, increasing interest rates, over-the-top gas prices, wages not keeping pace with expensive grocery bills and home rental costs, fear of recession, lingering pandemic problems, exploding value…
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By Kathleen M. Rehl, Ph.D., CFP®, CeFT® Emeritus www.KathleenRehl.com My six-year-old grandson and I love reading stories together. Nothing beats snuggling with a delightful picture book and following the adventures of colorful characters on those pages. I cherish our precious times together; however, as a long-distance grandma, in-person…
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By Kathleen M. Rehl, Ph.D., CFP®, CeFT® Emeritus www.KathleenRehl.com Many say they’re worried about their finances. Uncertain economic reports, rising rental costs, sky-high inflation, surging cost of gasoline, high grocery bills, volatile stock market, job markets good for some and bad for others, crazy real estate values, rock bottom…
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Kathleen M. Rehl, Ph.D., CFP®, CeFT® Emeritus www.KathleenRehl.com “I’m going to jail, Mom! But I didn’t do it.” My biracial son’s frantic phone call from a police station over 1,000 miles away made me tear into mama bear mode. With the help of effective, expensive legal and professional…
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Kathleen M. Rehl, Ph.D., CFP®, CeFT® Emeritus wrote the award-winning book, Moving Forward on Your Own: A Financial Guidebook for Widows. She owned Rehl Financial Advisors for 18 years before retiring to a six-year encore career empowering widows. Now happily “reFired” at age 75, Rehl writes legacy prose, poetry, and letters . . . plus is an ambassador for several nonprofits. Her work has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Kiplinger’s, CNBC, USA Today, and many other publications. Her website https://kathleenrehl.com.
