by Betty-Anne Howard | Sep 12, 2023 | Charitable Giving, Financial Literacy, Legacy Planning, Making Your Dreams a Reality, Meaningful Conversations, Philanthropy and Inheritance Planning, Retirement Planning, Women's Empowerment
I remember it clearly, as though it was just yesterday, hearing my Financial Planner, Lise Allin, say to me, “We need people like you in financial services.” By people like me, she was referring to my unique background in psychology and social work. She went on to say...
by Tara Tennant | Apr 21, 2023 | Making Your Dreams a Reality, Meaningful Conversations, Women's Empowerment
I’ve always loved Spring. When I was little, my Mom and I would walk home from my grandparent’s house on sunny Sunday afternoons and I loved following the little rivers of icy water running down the streets as they peeked out from under the melting snowbanks. It...
by Betty-Anne Howard | Sep 14, 2022 | Philanthropy and Inheritance Planning, Women's Empowerment
As a Financial Planner, I know that estate planning, if understood at all, is often perceived as being something that perhaps only rich people do – engaging in a process to preserve their wealth and then seeing to it that their wealth is distributed in the most...
by Betty-Anne Howard | Mar 8, 2022 | Charitable Giving, Making Your Dreams a Reality, Meaningful Conversations, Philanthropy and Inheritance Planning, Women's Empowerment
“When we speak we are afraid our words will not be heard or welcomed. But when we are silent, we are still afraid. So it is better to speak.”Audre Lorde I recently read a fantastic book written by Kristin Hannah called The Nightingale. Her inspiration for telling this...
by Betty-Anne Howard | Mar 8, 2021 | Making Your Dreams a Reality, Women's Empowerment
Over 40 years ago, my friend Dianne Kinnon and I were at the forefront of drawing attention to and addressing the issue of sexual assault and violence against women as part of the work we were doing within feminist organizations. Each year, we celebrated the gains...
