If you're wealthy enough, you can hire a financial or investment adviser. But what if you just need someone to help you along in your own financial planning?  Then you need a financial coach.  Similar to a fitness coach, they help improve the fitness of your finances by showing you better moves, teaching you how to execute them properly and then holding you accountable for getting it down.  Listen to this week's episode of CLOSING THE WEALTH GAP to learn more of this new, low cost category of financial advise. Sort of like LEGAL ZOOM (but for finances).

Listen as wealth manager Tyrone French talks with United Success Network about their unique "help those in need" crowdfunding platform. Here on Orange County's only community radio station, www.OCTalKradio.net.

Why are we so afraid of planning for final expenses?  It's not like we can avoid them by just putting them off. Is it just because we're part of the Peter Pan generation and never going to get old? Or do we just think we can't afford to cover them in advance.  Tune in as financial planner Tyrone French talks us thru this taboo topic and shows us how we can (for a few bucks now) buy everlasting peace. On this week's installment of CLOSING THE WEALTH GAP. Only on www.OCTalkRadio.net.

There’s a widening wealth gap between the “haves” and the “have nots”.  So which side of the divide are you on? And how do you bridge that gap and gain greater economic control, freedom and security for yourself and your loved ones?  Welcome to CLOSING THE WEALTH GAP. The only show with weekly, workable tips, ideas and suggestions for average income earners LIKE YOU on how to regain control of your financial future, from the man who’s helped millions….Tyrone French from TYRONE FRENCH and ASSOCIATES.  Right here on Orange County's only community radio station, www.OCTalkRadio.net.

Join us as Tom Manzo from California Business and Industrial Alliance (CABA) as he talks with attorney Rob Pepple from Epstein, Becker, Green as they discuss the controversial Private Atttorney General Act (PAGA) here in California, commonly known as the "sue your boss act" which empowers employees to sue their employer on behalf of the state.  Here on Orange County's only community radio station, OC TALK RADIO.

Greenpeace's vessel the Artic Sunrise has been pulling into ports along the CA coast as part of a larger campaign bringing attention to the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco next month, Sept. 12-14 as well as Governor Jerry Brown’s climate legacy.  Mary Sweeters, Climate and Energy Campaigner with Greenpeace "leads" us around the vessel as well as maps out the plan to hold Gov Brown more accountable in leaving an environmental legacy of reducing the numbers of oil and gas drilling permits in use in California.

CONFIDENT ROI talks with Angelo Ponzi fr/THE PONZI GROUP

We produce a fascinating show called The Next Chapter that tries to answer (from a practical and philosophical point of view) what comes next...particularly for us aging baby boomers who've been gifted with a whole extra inning in life.  As a group, we baby boomers will live longer than any generation in history with many of us making it well into our nineties or beyond.  So what will we do with that bonus time and  our new found next chapter?  Hosted by former CEO coach and evangelical minister Charlie Hedges, this show took an unexpected turn the last three weeks into exploring religion.  Will our aging group of baby boomers find our way back to the "faith of our fathers" (as the end grows nearer).  Or will we stick to our "enlightened" agnosticim and/or scientific athesim?  Or find a "new religion" in some new age "force" to make sense of the universe and our place in it. These are (after all) the age old questions that have gnawed at man since the dawn of time.  Who are we, where did we come from and where are we going?  The so called "meaning of life".  But as I note in this post series summary, we seem to be entering into a strange new world where a growing number of people just don't care about these questions at all anymore. Meaning we've lost faith not just in our leaders but in faith itself.  We trust no one and believe in nothing.  So it's not just a battle between "believers" and "non-believers" (in politics, religion, philosophy, democracy or any belief system you can name) but the emergence of a new category never seen before...NO belevers.  People for whom "none of the above" is the default answer to just about any question you can ask.  Where the majority of voters (here in Orange County and elsewhere) are now listed in the voter roles as "decline to state". And where a growing majority of people would rather stick a needle in their eye than talk about politics, philosophy, religion or anything "greater than themselve". So do you agree with my gloomy assessment that we're in some strange new "post belief" world. Where facts are all fungible, news is all fake and the experts are all wrong?  And is this just a transition  to some new "age of enlightenment" or the new normal.  A new dark age where anything goes, chaos rules and the old rules or belief systems just don't apply. Or even interest us anymore...

Don't miss the worlds largest PET AND PET PRODUCTS EXPO this weekend (Friday, April April 27 thru Sunday, April 29th) at the OC Fair and Event Center.  Listen to this week's OC SPOTLIGHT as we share all that you'll see including bldgs full of cats and dogs, birds and reptiles (this being the largest reptile exhibit around). Watch the police dog demos, catch the SplashDog demos (as they judge which dog will jump the farthest into an above ground swimming pool to catch a frisbee) and see a world of animals you've only dreamed of. You can even checkout the dozens of dog and cat rescue organizations placing pets with families like yours right there, on the spot. It's all there and more at the world's LARGEST PET AND PET PRODUCTS EXPO, this weekend at the OC Fairgrounds.