Money Matters: Women, Take Charge of Your Finances
by Sheri McGregor
When then
45-year-old Nan Taylor of St. Louis came home from a
tennis date to find her husband lying in the driveway,
her entire world turned upside down. The man she calls
“the picture of health,” had suffered a fatal heart
attack. Like
many women, Taylor had let her husband take care of
the finances. She remembers them seeing a financial
planner a couple of years earlier. "Everything they
talked about was over my head," Taylor confides. "But
I pretended to understand. I didn't know what to ask,
and it's hard to look stupid in front of other
people."
Taylor fell into two
money myth traps common to women....
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Dear Mothers Who Dream: With the holidays coming on,
it seems appropriate to focus on money. The article
that starts above was originally written and sold to
Reader's Digest's Walking Magazine, and I now have the
pleasure of sharing it here with you. Due to length I
couldn't include it in the newsletter in its entirety.
Sheri McGregor
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