by Michael Isom | Feb 16, 2024 | Thoughts on Financial Security
The other day Wendy and I took the pre-runner out for a little rip. It’s so much fun for me to explore around the desert and mountains of Southern Utah.We truly live in an amazing part of the country.The headphones that we were wearing allowed us to talk to each other...
by Michael Isom | Feb 2, 2024 | Thoughts on Financial Security
This last year I developed a slight fear of dying. It was not fun. I would wake up in the night thinking about it. Go to bed thinking about it. Have it pop into my mind at random times throughout the day. I’ve had a few people I know, friends and clients, who have...
by Michael Isom | Jan 26, 2024 | Thoughts on Financial Security
Lacey here with exciting news about my family! My husband, Tyler, who serves in the Army, has been assigned to a new station in Connecticut. This means that we, along with our energetic 4-year-old son, Anthony, and our sweet 10-month-old, Isaiah, will be relocating...
by Michael Isom | Jan 19, 2024 | Thoughts on Financial Security
People hide when they are in scarcity. They hide and they shrink. They retract. They don’t expand. There is no expansion. Just retraction.Life becomes unfulfilling. Loss of desire and hope. They stop believing in themselves and others.They blame others for their...
by Michael Isom | Dec 29, 2023 | Thoughts on Financial Security
Here is THE life lesson of the year for me, if I were to sum it up. It’s one I struggled with not wanting to accept for a few years now. After this year, 2023 I am now convinced it’s true. CHOOSE YOUR HARD. There I said it. I know, I know, many of you reading this are...
by Michael Isom | Dec 22, 2023 | Thoughts on Financial Security
Less than two weeks ago Wendy and I with our son drove to Las Vegas and stayed the night in the Trump hotel. The Trump hotel in Vegas does not have a casino in it. We like that. #nogambling Our daughter and her finance Corbin, along with our grandson Weston, drove...
by Michael Isom | Nov 17, 2023 | Thoughts on Financial Security
Who here is familiar with what an income statement and a balance sheet is? A property value balance sheet. Assets and liabilities. Assets minus liabilities equals the equity in a property value balance sheet. Take a home valued at 1,000,000 and a mortgage of 500,000....
by Michael Isom | Sep 28, 2023 | Thoughts on Financial Security
We have all felt the effects of inflation in our lives in the last few years. Record highs! Since Covid it’s been extremely challenging to know what to do. How to navigate the effects of an ever-changing market. Real Estate is super unpredictable.Extremely highly...
by Michael Isom | Sep 28, 2023 | Thoughts on Financial Security
Interest rates are high and so are the gas prices (currently $4.99 a gallon where I live). My husband works about 40 minutes from our home in Arizona and while he loved his fast, orange Dodge Charger… that thing only gets like 13 miles to the gallon and we needed to...
by Michael Isom | Mar 15, 2023 | Thoughts on Financial Security
The Safest Place on the Planet for your Money. Today we are going to look at risk on our cash with the recent SVB bank closure. Remember The AIS Triangle? #1 Asset, #1 Investment and #1 Strategy. The #1 Strategy with cash that you are going to relinquish control of...
