Purpose with Mark Bertrang

Mark Bertrang never wanted to say "I'm sorry" when it came to making recommendations for a family's life insurance purchase. Today there are many slick presentations to help sway clients from one product to another product based on 'expected' returns and 'potentially' lower premiums. Mark Bertrang has learned over the past thirty years that the promises made through a Whole Life Insurance contract...

If you're green, you're growing. If you're ripe, you rot. What are you doing to improve yourself mentally? Mark Bertrang carves out some time to discuss his current reading list and recommendations.

Learn how a college project became a thriving moving business for Viterbo University graduate - Colin Luz.

There are moments when we should take pause, look around and determine how the plans of others don't necessarily focus on our personal dreams; Mark's personal perspective.

Wildwood Specialty Foods is a woman-owned and women-run business maker of soup, dip mixes, and signature spice products wholesale through several hundred specialty stores throughout the country; and to consumers through the firm's website - http:/www.wildwoodspecialtyfoods.com/

You've had a successful career, but you feel like there's still more to accomplish in your life. You feel a calling ebbing you towards a new direction. Today's guest felt this same pull, which required quitting one job, applying for another while attending college and completing a master's program.

Learn about Lisa's family & values, her evolution of de-cluttering, re-purposing your stuff, goal making made simple, creating memories - not stuff, what is the F5 and planning for an organized move.

While traveling recently Mark Bertrang met a former executive from Starbucks, which always wanted to be consider the "third" place away from where people work and live. Listen to what Mark discovered about the importance of this third place.

A lively conversation revolving around elder law, eldercare, nursing homes, gifting, homeownership re-titling, the divestiture of assets and long-term care insurance. Mark Bertrang visits with Attorney Matthew Cromheecke of Moen, Sheehan & Meyers of La Crosse, Wisconsin.

Hospice provides care for you and for those who care for you. It supports you as a whole person - mind, body and spirit. Hospice focuses on your needs and also the needs of your family. The goal of hospice is to help you feel fulfilled and dignified during the end of your life's journey. Mark spends this hour visiting with a Hospice Intake nurse and her experiences. Please share this podcast with...

Dan Kullman has been instrumental in translating behavioral investing theory into practical tools and processes for the advisory community. Dan helped to develop and oversee Toews Managing Investor Behavior™ Workshop and Coaching program and facilitates communications with advisors. This visit provides insight to how behavior affects investing. Mark & Dan also discuss personal values to integrate...

Tony Szak visits about his career with Speedymason, owning and closing down a construction company, his personal values' journey and the building up of other men through the mission of "Leading with Power", assisting others to become better fathers, husbands and men.

Recently, while traveling Mark Bertrang experienced four gate changes and an hour delayed take-off at Chicago O'Hare. If the technology of twenty-first century air traffic can be this volatile, what does this say about your money plans for retirement, emergencies and opportunities? Here are Mark's thoughts while waiting for his trip home from a business trip.

The Hispanic community work in our local factories and on our local farms. They touch each of our lives, yet we often don't acknowledge the contribution this community makes. This conversation with Michelle Pinzl, Viterbo University Professor/Coordinator of the "Community Interpreting Certificate" program provides personal insight into the language barrier often experienced during times of medical...

Your automobile has a value. Your house has a value. What about you? Do you use a "general rule of thumb" to insure your "stuff"? Then, why would you use that process to insure your life? What is Human Life Value? What is a Human Life Value calculation

Our last episode was so informative, that our guest Rebecca Stetzer, a registered and certified dietician and I decided to continue our discussion at a nearby local grocery store. Here we were able to look at the layout of the store and discuss how to make better decisions with food shopping habits. Think of this episode as having your own personal tour with a registered dietitian as you shop for...

Mark Bertrang wants everyone to live long and enduring lives. One way to live life large, is to live life well. In her nutrition counseling practice, Rebecca Stetzer, RD, CD utilizes Intuitive Eating and a Health-At-Every-Size approach, both of which are rooted in solid evidence, to help people make peace with food and their bodies, and help them feel their best, to be their best.

If the company making the guarantee has a solid track record, a guarantee is valuable! Guarantees give buyers confidence, reduce stress and provide assurance. They limit risk. And they help purchasers make decisions about who they can trust and where their money might be well spent. Oddly enough, people usually put their money in places with few if any guarantees. And without guarantees, even the...

This episode is a continuation of episode #16. How does a farm girl from a small mid-western town who attended a private school and went to church each Sunday find herself under the control of alcohol, drugs and then became a drug dealer? But more importantly, how did she turn that life around, stay sober and clean from drugs to become a successful business owner?

How does a farm girl from a small mid-western town who attended a private school and went to church each Sunday find herself under the control of alcohol, drugs and then became a drug dealer? But more importantly, how did she turn that life around, stay sober and clean from drugs to become a successful business owner?

Term life insurance is for a term of time. Whole life insurance last for your 'whole life'. You want coverage forever, yet you can receive more coverage with term life insurance. Is there another option? Yes! The Third Option – The Convertible Term Insurance Solution.

Each state requires its licensed insurance agents to fulfill continuing education requirements for as long as they hold a license in that state. What's involved in this process?

Have you ever felt you were meant for something more? What is your BHAG, your big Hairy Audacious Goal? Learn a system of discovery with Mark's guest – Tammi Brannan, the Creator of "The Blueprint Process".

What happens when you have a three-hour flight delay? What happens when you have an unexpected retirement delay? Do you have retirement delay insurance?

As Mark Bertrang, Author of "Investments Don't Hug: Embracing the Life Insurance Asset" waits for his connecting flight at the Minneapolis/Saint Paul International Airport, he discusses where to place your 'safe' money for emergencies and opportunities.