We sit down with Carolyn MacCloud, the founder of MAC5 Creative Marketing, a boutique marketing consultancy providing comprehensive marketing support for small businesses in Northern Colorado. Carolyn has a fascinating story, as her life has taken a number of interesting turns, including helping launch the largest woman-owned business in Boulder, speaking as a national advocate for women in the area …
Wolves at the Gate – Part 2
Insurance is boring. Really boring. Experimenting eating paint chips might be more entertaining, if significantly more hazardous for your health. This boredom, along with education and training on how to evaluate insurance, costs consumers over a billion dollars a year in fees, conflicts, and opportunity costs. You too, probably find insurance pretty boring, but when you’re given an opportunity to …
Taking the Leap Ep. 7 – Dr. Carole Keim, MD
This week we’re talking to Dr. Carole Keim, MD, about her medical practice “Doctor at Your Door”, a pediatric medical practice that specializes in home visits for children in and around Boulder, CO. Dr. Carole has a fascinating story, covering her international medical education and experience practicing in multiple countries before setting up her practice in Boulder to help return …
Wolves at the Gate – Part 1
“Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful.” – Warren Buffett It’s a simple but powerful piece of wisdom that the Oracle of Omaha shares with others when the markets are booming or crashing. Human nature often compels us to wait until things are past the point of ideal to get involved in something, and often …
Taking the Leap Ep. 6 – Louis Toenjes, MBA
This week we’re talking to Louis Toenjes, the Director of Marketing for St. Amand, an international importer and exporter of small-batch and craft spirits throughout the world. Louis comes to us not as the founder, but as the second generation of leadership within St. Amand, bringing new life to their search for family-owned breweries and distilleries, and enhancing their process …
A Full Layout
“A full layout” is a dreaded phrase for those who have been in the military. It involves being given a packing list for some sort of operation, typically dozens of items long, which must be crammed into a rucksack. From that point, a full layout is the forced process of pulling the contents of the rucksack out and laying them …
Taking the Leap Ep. 5 – Michael Linsley
The life of a gifted opportunist. This week we’re talking to Michael Linsley, the creative artist behind Art Drenched Life, a ceramic architectural art studio with a mission of bringing more beauty into common spaces. Michael has a fascinating history as an immigrant to the United States working as a software programmer, growing a consulting business, and literally hanging up …
Riding out the Storm
It’s an expression you’ve heard before. “Riding out the storm.” Usually it’s quite literal: families staying at home during a hurricane, huddling in the living room around the fire during a blizzard, and so on. But the idiom comes with a much more literal background. In naval excursions, particularly over long distances and upon the ocean, storms can reach peaks …
Taking the Leap Ep. 4 – Anna Bond, JD
“When you’re blending law, and lives, and people I don’t think you have a more complex area to exist than family law.” -Anna Bond, JD This week we talk to Anna Bond, the owner of Bond Family Law, a boutique family law firm in Boulder, CO. Anna goes through the hurdles and challenges of learning a field of law without …
The Market is on Sale
Good news! The market is on sale. Why do I view it so optimistically when the average news report makes it sound like the world is ending? Well, a bit of context is required. My first year as a financial planner was an interesting one. Within a year we had Chinese market volatility, the first big drop in the preceding …