by Mary Waring | Mar 10, 2022 | Financial Planning, Mindset, Uncategorized
So often women have a fear around money and carry feelings of guilt and shame. You may think these feelings are experienced by women on a low income or women who struggle to meet their spending needs. But these disempowered emotions are not in fact related to how much...
by Mary Waring | Jan 28, 2022 | Financial Planning, Real Stories
Sometimes coaching needs to be non-directive. You let the coachee get to their own answer by asking the right questions. They then end up with a solution that’s right for them and their circumstances rather than a solution someone else thinks is right....
by Mary Waring | Jan 21, 2022 | Financial Planning
So often people have a New Year’s Resolution to lose weight and/or a New Year’s Resolution to manage their finances better. Now, at first thought, you might not think they have very much in common. But actually, there’s a lot of similarities between losing...
by Mary Waring | Dec 9, 2021 | Financial Planning, Real Stories
It’s easy to think that being a perfectionist is a good thing. Maybe we have the idea that being a perfectionist helps us to achieve what we want, either in work or in our home lives? It is easy to think so. But, there is a big difference between being a...
by Mary Waring | May 19, 2021 | Financial Planning
Do you ever feel like you’re invisible? I don’t mean in the fun Harry Potter, Invisibility Cloak type of invisibility. (By the way, wouldn’t that be the best fun ever!). I mean the women who feel that they reach a certain age and then society begins to...
by Mary Waring | May 14, 2021 | Financial Planning
Is ignorance bliss? I remember the first time I had to give unwelcome news to a client. She was a doctor in her late 50s and had come to take financial advice because she planned to retire at 60 and wanted to check what income she would be able to draw. At that first...
