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Does Your Estate Planner Take an Ice Cold Shower Every Morning?

It’s 4:30 am and my feet would rather stay tucked warmly in my bed. But I made a commitment somewhere around the time when most Americans were focused on fireworks in July, 2018. So now my mind steps in and decides FOR ME and the clients I am committed to instead. So the day looks something like this:

4:30 Cold Shower

4:45 Healthy Breakfast

5:15 Set my day

6:15 Respond...

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Without a Will: Lessons Learned from Aretha Franklin

You’d have to be living under a rock not to have heard the news last month about the passing of Aretha Franklin, the legendary “Queen of Soul.” Soon after the news emerged, however, another report surfaced that Franklin had not left a will or trust. Her “intellectual property” attorney told the press that he had been “after her for a number of years to do a trust," but that she had never gotten...
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