Emotional Balance Sheet with Paul Fenner

How would you go about staying out of a divorce attorney's office? Find a great divorce attorney to listen to? Jim Sexton is an accomplished New York divorce attorney who has seen it all throughout his 20 plus year career focused on divorce law.  What makes Jim unique is that he took his life experience and work as a divorce attorney and created a book, How to Stay in Love: A Divorce Lawyer's Guid...

What if you had a superpower that you didn't realize you had?  A superpower that had the potential to change things from bad to good? Karen Allen would tell you that superpower is your ability to make choices. Karen knows the power of making choices firsthand which she describes in her TEDtalk centered on the tragic loss of her husband and instantly becoming a single mother, changing her life fore...

How do you raise financially fit kids?  Joline Godfrey has spent a lifetime helping families to do just this.  Trained as a social worker, Joline has spent most of her career being involved with kids; much of it focused on resilience.  Joline has focused on this issue in a way that few people have been able. Joline believes that financial fluency is a family activity, not just something to help ki...

How many times per day do you tell someone that you are busy?  How often do you wish you had more time? Laura Vanderkam is the author of several time management and productivity books and whose TED talk has been viewed more than 12Million times!  She is also a wife and mother to five kids, so I believe she would know a thing or two about time and being busy. Throughout our conversation, we touched...

What does the future of work look like?  Is it an in-person, fully remote, or hybrid situation? Lisa Hennessey, the Chief People Officer at Happy Money, has a front-row seat answering this question.  When Lisa started with Happy Money over three years ago, they were a traditional company offering in-person work.  Today, they have embraced a fully remote model with employees throughout the country....

All of us are constantly trying to navigate our digital relationships.  What they mean, how we interact with others, the various platforms that we choose to use.  But for parents, this is especially hard when trying to navigate the digital relationships between our kids and their devices and platforms. I first came across Dr. Tracy Dennis-Tiwary by watching a Diane Sawyer report, Letting your phon...

Do you feel stuck, overworked, and under-utilized in your career or life?  Do you realize that your life needs to change, but you are not sure how? At some point in our lives, most of us feel this way and arrive at this level of frustration.  Dr. Benjamin Ritter was no different.  Feeling incredibly reactive when it came to how he was running his life, he reached a point where the pain threshold w...

We all know that self-care is critically important to our overall health and well-being.  But how do you find the time for it?  Where do you even begin? Shana Schneider helps people find time in their busy schedules for fitness where they never realized they could.  Her emphasis on fitness is unique in that she helps people focus on their schedules, building habits, and changing mindsets vs. simpl...

If someone told you that you could land a new job, making more money, in 30 days, how interested would you be?  This is precisely the offer and what interested me in speaking with career coach and consultant Gurpreet Mann.  Gurpreet, who comes from both a human resources and entrepreneurial background, re-engineered the traditional sales process to help her clients find a career that fits their pe...

Have you ever wondered what your life would be like if "this" opportunity had come about?  Or, what would have happened if you did take that job?  As we know, the world works in mysterious ways, and part of that mystery is having conversations about the joys of the journey. Michael Duffy thought that he was going to work for GM some 40 years ago, but as fate would have it, the job offer fell throu...

Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcast | Google Podcast | Amazon Music | Spotify How can we help ourselves define what "enough" is?  I have struggled with this question personally, along with many people that I care about and work with.  So how would knowing the difference between an ideal and goals help us to answer this question? Kim Butler, the founder of Prosperity Thinkers and an affiliate co...

When I say triplets, what is the first thing you think about? What about when I say triplets + 1? For me, the first feelings I had when I found out that my wife and I were having triplets were fear, and was my wife going to be okay? The next thought was that I had to call the auto dealership, which was our next stop after the ultrasound appointment because we would need a bigger car! Our one-day a...

We all know that sleep is a critical component to help us function.  But what if you're a parent who is struggling to help your child fall asleep? Bonnie Dimmick was having this exact issue with her newborn and wasn't finding the help and support she needed.  So, she decided to take matters into her own hands and became a child sleep consultant.  Her firm, Sleep, Love, and Happiness, provides supp...

Are you struggling, feeling anxious, disconnected, or know that you're operating below your full potential? Do you talk about being "stuck" or "spinning your wheels?" These are the same questions that serial entrepreneur Elin Barton was asking herself.  Elin discusses how she moved crossed the country on the belief that something else was possible.  When she finally let go of "how" to make it happ...

Would you agree that life is too short not to get the most out of every single day?  So how do we get more out of our day without burning ourselves out? Curiosity and a drive to improve his own career and personal life led Chris Belfi to take a less-traveled path.  After building a career in finance working for a large multi-national corporation, Chris found that he had a unique skill for helping...

Eight years ago, I was introduced to someone who helped change the direction of my life.  I am quite positive that I am not the only person whose life has been impacted by this one person.  The funny thing, this is the first time that I have been able to speak with and thank Scott Hanselman.   Scott Hanselman is a programmer, teacher, and speaker. Although Scott maintains a full-time role for the...

Wasn't parenting already challenging before COVID hit?  What if you could connect with real-world resources and parents struggling right along with all of us who are trying to figure out how to meet our children's needs amid a global pandemic? Meet Dr. Amanda Zelechoski, a licensed clinical and forensic psychologist and attorney specializing in trauma, who decided to start a non-profit to help par...

How can you develop a baseline understanding of the COVID virus?  For me, it wasn't about getting political, but instead, searching for people dealing with the virus on the frontlines and reading medical journals to help develop treatments. Dr. Teryn Clarke is a problem solver by nature.  She is an MD who specializes in neurology working with high-risk elderly patients.  Dr. Clarke realized early...

Have you ever wondered how to make realistic goals that you could achieve?  Maybe a goal guru could help? After making her own career pivot which turned into a career identity crisis, Meg Wagner launched her coaching and consulting practice, The Goal Guru.  A firm that helps you define your work, align your life, and design your future. While there is a strong emphasis on outcomes in setting goals...

Did you know that research shows that 92% of people do not keep their new year's resolutions or goals?  What if you could find a way to be part of the 8% who see success pursuing their lifestyle and financial goals? With this data in mind, Jackie Ghedine and Mimi Bishop launched their firm, The Resting Mind, to help gen X women who are struggling to define themselves personally and professionally....

Have you ever seen a purple squirrel? It's a term used within the recruiting industry that means a hard-to-find candidate.  But the term and meaning go well beyond that. Carrie Schochet, a mom of three, wife, and entrepreneur, founded her boutique recruiting firm Purple Squirrel to help both employers and candidates find the perfect fit with their search.  A process focused on integrity, ethics, a...

Have you ever wondered what makes a great conversation?  How being present, curious, and creative affect the quality of our conversations? Joe Ferraro, a high school English teacher, thinks about having conversations a lot. But, more specifically, Joe focuses is on how to have damn good conversations. During our damn good conversation, Joe talks about his journey from being a high school teacher t...

Subscribe to the show on Apple Podcast | Google Podcast | Amazon Music | Spotify Are you struggling with career clarity?  The ability to determine what you need or want from your career and how you would go about finding it? Lisa Miller knows first-hand the ups and downs a career can bring, which led her to transition from a corporate role/career into a business owner/entrepreneur.  Lisa's transit...

How does someone become a multi New York Times best-selling author? First, ask yourself, what do you do when no one is watching? Dan Pink, a 4-time New York Times Best Selling author, shares his story on becoming a prolific researcher and writer.  How his side hustle of writing, and a conversation with his wife, turned into the journey of a lifetime.   Dan's story leads us into an inspiring conver...

Have you noticed how organized your parents used to be?  Or maybe you see that they have stopped taking care of themselves physically when you see them in-person or via FaceTime or Zoom.  If so, it may be time that you have a conversation with your parents about their health and financial well-being. Cameron Huddleston, a mom of three awesome kids, was also a caregiver for her own mom, who had Alz...