What if you had a heart attack, but instead of calling your spouse or partner to get medical attention, your first thought was, "I need to meet with my manager tomorrow; this isn't convenient?"

This is precisely what Jonathan Frostick, an IT lead at HSBC, experienced and explained in a LinkedIn post that went viral.  A post that caught the eye of Sarah Green Carmichael, an editor with Bloomberg, and she needed to know more about why someone would think about a meeting before calling for medical help.

Sarah talks us through the process that led her to research and writing multiple articles about workaholism. A critical takeaway from Sarah's work is that workaholics often pin the blame anywhere but on themselves. Instead, it's your overbearing boss, an always-on company culture, or rising economic inequality.  However, we have the power to control what we do, the ability to "reframe" our experience to choose what is best for us.

During our conversation, Sarah shares tactics on reducing workaholism from learning how to embrace trade-offs to developing other identities outside of our work/careers.

Please enjoy my conversation with Sarah Green Carmichael.

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Have you ever wondered what a health coach does?  If you are like me, you may have assumed that a health coach primarily deals with food, nutrition, and eating.  I was wrong.

Cristin Wipfler, a registered dietician and health coach, put it this way, "health coaching is to help you feel your best, and is not a one size fits all process."

Cristin takes a unique approach and is focused on helping people shift their mindsets when it comes to how they feel about themselves.  While diet and nutrition are an essential part of her health coaching practice, it is far from the most critical aspect in how she helps people.

Cristin uncovers "why" people want to change their health rather than only what they want to change. Peeling back the layers of an individual's unique personality, Cristin helps people find a voice to their story.  To which she then helps to identify triggers and reframe potentially negative triggers into positive ones.

Please enjoy my conversation with Cristin Wipfler.

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For parents, have you ever thought about how your child has made you refocus your own life?  For Dr. Paula Ruffin, an unexpected pregnancy forced her to re-evaluate her own life, which brought her to the brink of bankruptcy as a single mom and business owner. 

While not seeking any empathy for being a single mother and entrepreneur, there is a difficult balance to be struck that all working parents tend to face.  In our conversation, Paula and I talk about balance coming from our ability to make decisions (good or bad). And the ability to be able to switch our focus from one person or activity to another as seamlessly as we can.

While convenience may be all around us, Paula talks about how her mother help lead her into the healthcare field because of inconveniences growing up.

Paula talks about her strong sense of community and wanting to grow the area where she lives and works by partnering with other businesses that want to support one another.  As Paula puts it, you need to like the people you are around to be effective. 

Please enjoy my conversation with Dr. Paula Ruffin.

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What if you had a heart attack, but instead of calling your spouse or partner to get medical attention, your first thought was, "I need to meet with my manager tomorrow; this isn't convenient?"

This is precisely what Jonathan Frostick, an IT lead at HSBC, experienced and explained in a LinkedIn post that went viral.  A post that caught the eye of Sarah Green Carmichael, an editor with Bloomberg, and she needed to know more about why someone would think about a meeting before calling for medical help.

Sarah talks us through the process that led her to research and writing multiple articles about workaholism. A critical takeaway from Sarah's work is that workaholics often pin the blame anywhere but on themselves. Instead, it's your overbearing boss, an always-on company culture, or rising economic inequality.  However, we have the power to control what we do, the ability to "reframe" our experience to choose what is best for us.

During our conversation, Sarah shares tactics on reducing workaholism from learning how to embrace trade-offs to developing other identities outside of our work/careers.

Please enjoy my conversation with Sarah Green Carmichael.

For show notes and resources discussed in this episode, visit https://tammacapital.com/32-2-workaholism/.

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Do you know what financial aid optimization is or means?  Or, what about the tax and financial aid implications that taking money out of a retirement account could cause?

In part three of our three-part series focused on our college planning process, we dive deep into the financial aspects of sending your child off to college.  Specifically, we will address saving, how schools optimize financial air packages, loans, and much more.

My objective with this college planning series is to help educate parents on becoming better consumers with it comes to planning for college. In addition, we want to help you take the emotional and financial guesswork out of the college planning process at TAMMA.

Recall that this three-part series focused on the college planning process is not just about saving, financial aid, or loans. Instead, the college process that I am building at TAMMA is a comprehensive look at how to plan, have conversations with your kids, and the right questions to ask students and college administrators, and professors.

I hope that you enjoy part three of our college planning process series.

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Do you know the right questions you should be asking schools for how they will be teaching your kids to learn at their institutions?  Or how the skills they may learn will translate into the working world?

In part 2 of the college planning process, we build off part 1, where I spoke about the cruel optimism we face as parents when balancing all the financial and lifestyle challenges facing us.  In this episode, we focus on how to find a college or university that best fits your kids.  Our need to be having conversations early with our kids about college and the blunt questions we should be asking them.

Additionally, we talk about the transfer process and how it could or could not be a good option for your kids.  And, we set realistic expectations with it comes to obtaining an athletic scholarship to pay for undergraduate education.

Recall that this three-part series focused on the college planning process is not just about saving, financial aid, or loans. Instead, the college process that I am building at TAMMA is a comprehensive look at how to plan, have conversations with your kids, and the right questions to ask students and college administrators, and professors.

I hope that you enjoy part two of our college planning process series.

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Are you concerned about the rising costs of college?  What college or university would best fit your kids? Or curious about how critical a mentor for your kids in college could be?

This week I kick off a special three-part series focused on the college planning process.  It’s not just about saving, financial aid, or loans.  The college process that I am building at TAMMA is a comprehensive look at how to plan, have conversations with your kids, and the right questions to ask students and college administrators, and professors.

In part one, I look at the cruel optimism we face as parents when it comes to balancing all the financial and lifestyle challenges facing us.  Part two is focused on how to find a college or university that best fits your kids.  And part three, I cover how to take the financial guesswork out of the college planning process.

I hope that you enjoy part one of our college planning process series.

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What is the difference between seizing an opportunity and not?  The ability to take action in the face of fear and anxiety?

Husband, father, and serial entrepreneur, Justin Bright, has believed in himself to start not one but three businesses within the last ten years.  One of which he launched in 2020 during the COVID pandemic.  Justin felt that he had some to offer in starting each of the three businesses, which are all in completely different industries and unrelated to each other.

Like most entrepreneurs that I have met, Justin has this enate mindset to persistent, be consistent, and have an ability to always figure things out when challenges arise, which they always do with running a small business.  According to Justin, having a positive mindset is a powerful asset.

"Passing the bus test," as Justin described it, meant that he was doing everything necessary to prepare his businesses and family for the unfortunate day that he would not be here for them.  A noble endeavor that was cemented by a conversation that he had with his oldest son.

Please enjoy my conversation with Justin Bright.

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People often ask me what it is like raising triplets?  However, I have often wondered what it has been like for a mom with a full-time career to raise six boys ranging from age 29 down to 7?  Leah Nauseda is just the person to help answer this question.

Transitions have been a way of life for Leah as she talks about going through a divorce, being a stay-at-home mom, and then slowly working her way back into a new sales career.  A career that highlights her natural abilities to be a great networker but an even better connector of people.

The true success of Leah's ability to raise her six boys while developing her new career has been to be open with herself, her boys, and to opportunities when they uniquely present themselves.  Her ability to stay open has helped to deepen the strong relationships that she has developed with her sons and the deep connections her sons have built with each other.

Please enjoy my conversation with Leah Nauseda.

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Have you ever heard the phrase, "never let a good crisis go to waste?" Whether it is a global pandemic, a housing crash, or a great financial recission, recognizing and seizing an opportunity can be a life-changer.

This is precisely what Chris Dyer decided to do back in 2009 amongst one of the worse recessions we have seen since the great depression.  Faced with cutting costs and laying off people to keep his business alive, Chris went from a sticks and bricks business to a completely virtual company.

To succeed in a remote working environment, Chris points out that employees need to set boundaries, communicate those boundaries (both internal and external), and have the discipline to stick with it.  Chris acknowledges that there is no natural start or stops when it comes to working remotely, which is why it is so critical for people to set boundaries so they do not fall into the trap of working constantly.

Chris advises both employees and employers to figure out how to create the right environment and determine what the practical methods necessary are to make virtual work successful for all parties. 

Please enjoy my conversation with Chris Dyer.

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