When I was a financial advisor I attended a handful of training sessions about the signs to pay attention to if you suspect an elderly client is being financially abused. The training sessions taught advisors to notice if an elderly client client was being taken advantage of by family, caretakers, or new friends that could pop into their life.  There wasn’t any training about other

It’s not okay for us to continue acting like the beatings we got as children didn’t affect us. Notice that I didn’t say “spankings”, because a lot Black and Brown don’t get spanked. We get beat and it’s time to call the kettle black by saying, “That was a beating and that was not okay”. Many of us have been traumatized so much that we

“If you don’t trust you, it doesn’t matter what anyone else says or does, you will not be able to move beyond the level of the confidence you have in yourself.” – Iyanla Vanzant Trust. Lately this word has been appearing in random places like in conversation, a book or article I read or in a discussion with colleagues. I pay attention to when a