Free Live Teleseminar on Understanding How Women’s Emotions impact Their Investing February 3, 2009

Join us for a live Teleseminar on February 3rd, 2009 at 3:00 EST

Click or copy the link below to type-in and submit your question, first name, and primary email.
http://www.msmorrisonspeaks.com/ask_ms_morrison/

NOTE: If you don’t have a specific question, you can still listen-in and learn! Simply type “no question today” in the box and complete your registration.

Here are the call details for you:
Date: February 3rd, 2009
Time: 12:00 PM PST, 1:00 PM MST, 2:00 PM CST, 3:00PM EST
Call in Number: 1-219-509-8222

Debra L. Morrison uses her wit, sincerity, and finance and lifestyle savvy to empower women over 60 to break out of their white knuckled, bag-lady fears about money and energize them to dream big in the second half of their lives. Whether you would like to…

* be smarter about your financial security
* have the retirement of your dreams
* travel to the places you’ve always wanted to go
* buy a second home
* volunteer your time and talents
* support your children and charities financially

Debra will show you how being fiscally fit is just as important as your physical, emotional, and spiritual health.

Contact:

Debra L. Morrison Speaks, LLC
Motivational Speaker
Phone: 877-239-4732
FAX: 800-620-4232
Email: info@debralmorrisonspeaks.com
http://www.msmorrisonspeaks.com

If Barack Can, We (Too) Can Do it Women! February 3, 2009

If Barack Obama can defy the terrific odds of being raised by his grandmother instead of a nuclear family, graduate Harvard magna cum laude, become a community organizer in Chicago in 1985, serve Illinois as their Jr. Senator from 1996-2004, win their US Senate seat from 2005-2008, and later outsmart, outrun, and out-fundraise Hillary Clinton to become the Democratic nominee, and ultimately win the prize of the United States of America’s first black President, then we women can surely push past our resistance to learning about our money. By comparison…well there really IS no comparison, period.

Yes, we do live in a sexist society still, and for 60+ year old women, whom I prefer to call mature women, the socialization was especially steeped against women embracing money knowledge.

Yet, I mention Barack’s accomplishments because we are also still living in a racist society, albeit far less so than 40 years ago, and he is living proof that with determination and perseverance, these systemic shackles can indeed be shed, like old coats.

The urgency for women to begin their quest for financial knowledge and investment know how is prompted by these statistics:

• 90% of women will be SOLELY responsible for their money at some point in their lives, perhaps for decades.
• 51% of first marriages end in divorce after which both parties suffer a net worth drop of 77% on average, according to the Journal of Sociology’s Marriage & Divorce’s Impact on Wealth report.
• The average age of widowhood is 56; widowhood causes a average of a 20% drop in income.
• 1/3 of all widows are under age 60 and 1/2 of all widows are under age 65.
• 1/3 of women over age 75 are living in poverty; i.e., less than $890/month.
• The average female lives seven years longer than the average male.

Let’s understand some basics and begin a step-by-step plan of tracking our expenses and assessing our investments now to determine if we are on track to achieve financial security. We Can Do It Women!®

Measuring Cups Essential In Baking And Life October 22, 2008

Measuring Cups are essential in baking and in life. Cooking allows for more variation, of course…you have the opportunity to taste as you go while cooking. Baking, however, is entirely different. First you decide what it is you want to make! Today let’s choose to bake a cake.

Then we often entrust that outcome to a recommended recipe—our own or one that has been referred to us by trusted friends or sources. Some of our favorite restaurants publish cookbooks that tantalize us with their tasty treats. Often donors to charities donate their favorite dessert recipes to be compiled into fund raiser cook books.

All this to say that we tend to follow a recipe, measuring ingredient by ingredient, paying particular attention to how many teaspoons of baking soda compared with how many cups of flour. A quarter teaspoon measurement for baking soda is equally important as a cup of flour, even though the measurements are not equal. It’s the combination that is essential to a great outcome.

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