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Featured Articles: Good Writing From Around The Web The Healthy Advisor: Living With Cancer With Lynn Ballou Diana Britton does another great interview with one of my EP partners, Lynn Ballou, on living with cancer and letting go. I remember sitting with Lynn at LPL Leadership conferences 15-20 years ago. She is one of the

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Looking back on my own life, the hundreds of personal finance and meaning of life books and blogs I have read, and the tens of thousands of conversations I have had with clients, prospective clients, financial professionals, industry folks, and coaches of every stripe I have distilled a few very simple things that can stack

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The last “F” in BFF stands for forever. Forever isn’t over when somebody dies. I was recently on a podcast that features BFFs. The podcast, “How I Met My BFF” is hosted by Leisa Reid & Tamara Kindred (whose couch I crashed on one summer in college). Tamara, thanks for the opportunity to remember. ABOUT

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