Purpose with Mark Bertrang

You've had a successful career, but you feel like there's still more to accomplish in your life. You feel a calling ebbing you towards a new direction. Today's guest felt this same pull, which required quitting one job, applying for another while attending college and completing a master's program.

Learn about Lisa's family & values, her evolution of de-cluttering, re-purposing your stuff, goal making made simple, creating memories - not stuff, what is the F5 and planning for an organized move.

While traveling recently Mark Bertrang met a former executive from Starbucks, which always wanted to be consider the "third" place away from where people work and live. Listen to what Mark discovered about the importance of this third place.

A lively conversation revolving around elder law, eldercare, nursing homes, gifting, homeownership re-titling, the divestiture of assets and long-term care insurance. Mark Bertrang visits with Attorney Matthew Cromheecke of Moen, Sheehan & Meyers of La Crosse, Wisconsin.

Hospice provides care for you and for those who care for you. It supports you as a whole person - mind, body and spirit. Hospice focuses on your needs and also the needs of your family. The goal of hospice is to help you feel fulfilled and dignified during the end of your life's journey. Mark spends this hour visiting with a Hospice Intake nurse and her experiences. Please share this podcast with those you love.

Dan Kullman has been instrumental in translating behavioral investing theory into practical tools and processes for the advisory community. Dan helped to develop and oversee Toews Managing Investor Behavior™ Workshop and Coaching program and facilitates communications with advisors. This visit provides insight to how behavior affects investing. Mark & Dan also discuss personal values to integrate into our everyday lives.

Tony Szak visits about his career with Speedymason, owning and closing down a construction company, his personal values' journey and the building up of other men through the mission of "Leading with Power", assisting others to become better fathers, husbands and men.

Recently, while traveling Mark Bertrang experienced four gate changes and an hour delayed take-off at Chicago O'Hare. If the technology of twenty-first century air traffic can be this volatile, what does this say about your money plans for retirement, emergencies and opportunities? Here are Mark's thoughts while waiting for his trip home from a business trip.

The Hispanic community work in our local factories and on our local farms. They touch each of our lives, yet we often don't acknowledge the contribution this community makes. This conversation with Michelle Pinzl, Viterbo University Professor/Coordinator of the "Community Interpreting Certificate" program provides personal insight into the language barrier often experienced during times of medical emergencies or legal situations. This is not a border issue; but instead, probably a miscommunication issue. This episode doesn't attempt to solve a problem, but it may help each of us to understand the problem more completely through another's eyes.

Your automobile has a value. Your house has a value. What about you? Do you use a "general rule of thumb" to insure your "stuff"? Then, why would you use that process to insure your life? What is Human Life Value? What is a Human Life Value calculation