Money Lessons From Mom with My Mom, Joyce Furubotten In this special Mother’s Day episode where we talk about money lessons from mom, I get to bring my own mom, Joyce Furubotten, to the podcast room. My mom, born during the depression and raised in a large farm family, has lived a self-described life of financial frugality but one rich ...

Prepare to DreamAhead and GET ready to pay for college with Washington’s new 529 plan.  Washington State has launched a new 529 college savings program called DreamAhead College Investment Plan this April.  This investment-based plan is now available along with the original prepaid college tuition program called GET – Guaranteed Education Tuition plan, in existence since 1998.  Although a Washington based plan, ...

How do you plan ahead to pay for medical school? Our guest, Ryan Inman, founded Physician Wealth Services to help physicians just out of medical school.  Like his wife Taylor, many found they didn’t quite know what to do upon graduation from medical school with a mountain of debt and few financial skills to manage their financial life.  Unlike his wife, most physicians ...

Today we are talking to Shihan Mike Franco, owner of three karate dojos including TMAA here in Richland, Washington. You’ll hear him talk about his ‘why’ and the importance of having […]