Financial Stress Reduction Workshops, speaker/author, Los Angeles, CA (2026)

08/25/2026

Have you ever felt out of place?
Like everyone in the room was just different from you?
And maybe you shouldn’t do that thing you planned?

230-August 18
SINGING FOR MY SUPPER – from “The Wealthy Spirit”
“Criticism didn’t really stop us and it shouldn’t ever stop anyone, because critics are only the people who can’t get a record deal themselves.”—Sir Paul McCartney

When you step outside the proverbial box, you have to be prepared for criticism.

As I went from meeting to meeting, networking my way to successful workshop enrollments, I perfected my thirty-second commercial introduction.

I always started with a song: “You’re gonna be rich tomorrow…if you take my class today,” or “We’re in the money…my clients are singing this song.”

Generally, people enjoyed the upbeat flavor of my off-beat presentations.

But then I found myself in a different networking group.

Everyone there gave a standard introduction in the exact same format: “Hi, I’m Larry. I am an attorney specializing in real estate law, I’ve been in business for twenty-five years”; “Hi, I’m Susan. I am a CPA specializing in taxes. I’ve been in business for fifteen years.”

As my turn approached, I hesitated. Maybe I shouldn’t do my singing thing in this room. Then I thought, “Nah,” and went ahead, “Money makes the world go around, that clinking clanking sound…if you want more clinking and clanking in your life, call me.” There were a few shocked faces, but mostly smiles as I looked around me.

The next time I went to this meeting, a woman came over to me. “There were complaints about you at the last board meeting!” she exclaimed. “It was felt that singing was inappropriate behavior at a business meeting.”

“Well, I have to tell you,” I replied, “that may be, but ten people came over to me after the meeting and asked for my card and six of them signed up for my workshop, so I think I’m going to keep singing!” But I knew my days there were numbered.

When I related this story to a friend, she told me about of friend of hers who was a professional singer. In search of work, she moved to Hong Kong and was invited to an office weekend party. She wrote a song for the company and sang it, after which she was asked if she would teach it to the president, whose favorite thing was karaoke. She ended up choreographing and teaching the song to the entire management team. She sang a duet with the president, who then hired her to be the cultural ambassador for the company. She now travels to all their international offices, bringing fun and morale to the company’s clients and employees. Why singing? Everyone in Asia sings—all the business people, every chance they get, all the time. There it is a huge asset to singing. She says she’s like a goddess over there.

Hmm. I think I should start planning a trip….

If you’re having trouble with the box you’re in, take yourself to a different box.
Today’s Affirmation: “There are people everywhere who enjoy the unique gifts I have to share.”

08/18/2026

SWIMMING WITH SHARKS

“If you loan someone $20 and never hear from them again – it was probably worth it.”—Unknown

I divide the world into two groups: My People and Not My People.

My People are Dolphins—happy, friendly, and rich.

Not My People come in two species: Sharks who want to eat you—or Tuna who want to complain to you. You can tell who’s who by the way you feel after you’ve been with them, and the state of your bank account.

This is how to tell which sea creatures you’ve been swimming with:

Dolphins: You feel good and you are rich.
Sharks: You feel bad and you are broke.
Tunas: You feel tired but you broke even.

Sharks are eating machines. That is their sole purpose in life—eating. It’s not their fault—they were born like that. They are big and have big teeth—the-better-to-eat-you-with-my-dear. They are on the hunt. The music plays “Do-do, do-do” and then they pounce. The world is their oyster—literally. They see everyone else in the world as dinner. That includes you.

Sharks are are sometimes rich, but don’t enjoy their wealth because the word “enough” doesn’t exist in their vocabulary. Sharks don’t share with anybody, because their constant thought is “Me, me, me, I, I, I” so there is no room at the dinner table for anyone else except on a plate. You will see Sharks swimming alongside pirate ships and black plague ships.

There are two kinds of Sharks: Angry Sharks and Con-Artist Sharks.

1. Angry Sharks. They are completely self-obsessed. They have no empathy for other people—they just can’t tell that you have thoughts and feelings just like they do. You are food. They are angry with life and the world and are going to take it out on you. These sharks tend to scream and yell and throw tantrums in order to get their way. They will tell you everything that’s wrong with you if you give them an opportunity—like if you say, “Hello.” Powered by rage, they are fearsome to behold. They rip you apart right away.

2. Con-Artist Sharks. They are Sharks in Dolphin’s Clothing. They pretend to be your friend and imitate Dolphin behavior in order to get close to you. They have charisma, a hail-fellow-well-met bonhomie, and a ready smile—there’s no such thing as an obnoxious con artist.

But look in their eyes—you’ll see nothing but calculation. They are running numbers, figuring what you are worth and how they can take advantage of you. Their offers sound so fabulous! You suspect maybe they’re too good to be true, but what if it really is your lucky day at last and this is a fabulous opportunity for you to get rich?? So you throw your skepticism into Davy Jones’ Locker and board their Pirate Ship to search for the treasure. But you’re the treasure and now they’ve got you walking the plank into their jaws. They are your best buddy—until they slowly rip you apart.

After you’ve been swimming in Shark-infested waters, you feel hurt, wounded, and betrayed.

And usually, you are broke, too.

So look around and see who the sharks are in your life. You can throw them out. Leave the abuser, vote against the authoritarian, quit the job with the horrible boss. Find your dolphins and create joy and harmony for everyone!

08/04/2026

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07/21/2026

At a party given by a billionaire on Shelter Island, Kurt Vonnegut informs his pal, Joseph Heller, that their host, a hedge fund manager, had made more money in a single day than Heller had earned from his wildly popular novel Catch-22 over its whole history.
Heller responds, “Yes, but I have something he will never have — ENOUGH.”

THE BUSINESSMAN AND THE WISE WOMAN – from “The Wealthy Spirit”
“To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent, that is to triumph over old age.”—Thomas B. Aldrich

“Getting old isn’t what it’s cracked up to be,” complained the aging rich and powerful businessman. “What’s left of my hair is gray and I have aches and pains I never had before. They never told me that.”

“Of course they told you that,” said the wise woman.

“No, they told me I’d have money, power and prestige,” he replied.

“Well, you do have that,” she said.

“But it doesn’t matter!” he cried.

“Ah,” she said. “That’s what they never told you.”
Today’s Affirmation: “I am young at heart, rich in life experience, and loving in spirit.”

This is my little cheat sheet for Republican vs. Democratic policies:

Republicans help the few: they believe in small government and low taxes that help the rich get richer

Their legislation promotes these ideals:

- Christian Nationalist (led by white male patriarchy)
- No D.E.I. (Diversity, Equity & Inclusion)
- No women’s rights (right to vote & control our bodies under attack)
- No LGBTQ rights
- No Civil Rights for POC
- No Social Security (unless privatized, i.e., run for profit)
- No Medicare (only for profit medical services)
- No Climate Change legislation
- No Workers Rights legislation
- Low services to the public
- The rich get richer

Democrats help the many: they believe in a bigger government with more taxes that help all the people have enough to live

- Big Tent to “Promote the General Welfare” of all
- Supports Freedom of Religion
- Supports Women’s rights
- Supports Civil Rights
- Supports LGBTQ rights
- Fully fund Social Security by raising the cap on taxable income
- Supports Medicare and someday a national healthcare
- Save the planet climate change legislation
- Supports Workers Rights
- Higher taxes on the wealthy to provide services to all
- A great economy for all

Yes, it’s a wonderful talent and skill to be able to make a lot of money. But they just never know how much is enough. It’s like they are playing a game with only other rich people and the contest is who is richer. This game never ends.

I’d be happy for them to play this game for all eternity…just with a cap on it so there is money left over for the rest of us to live.

It benefits them, too – they need people with money to buy their stuff!

07/14/2026

Dear Dolphins,

I’m seeing lots of posts and videos all over social media about the “Manosphere” and the “Loneliness epidemic” of young men.

Some of the video interviews of said young men give you a really clear picture of exactly WHY they are lonely. One young guy said he wanted a wife who worked and earned money, but she should also be “submissive” and run the household, do the cooking, cleaning, take care of the children, etc.

The women are NOT having it. And we love the guys who are standing up for us, too.

It reminded me of this funny exchange on Twitter about J.D. Vance’s comment about women being “childless cat ladies”.

Oh, honey, they SLAYED him!

Check this out:
Postmenopausal Women’s Epic Responses to JD Vance
JD Vance, speaking in past interviews, agreed that “taking care of grandchildren is the whole purpose of the postmenopausal female.” He also said, “We’re effectively run in this country, via the Democrats … by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made. And so they wanna make the rest of the country miserable too.” People who don’t have kids, he said, don’t have “a stake” in this country.

Whoops! That got the attention of a whole lot of women on Twitter, and this thread was hilarious! Here are some of my favorites:

“I find it humorous that JD Vance comes after menopausal women. Have you ever negatively interacted with a menopausal woman? And survived? We are, at best, mildly difficult and, at worst, moderately homicidal.”

“We have had kids, pets, careers and suffered through hot flash crazy hormone menopause while now dealing with aging parents. WE WILL END YOU AND SLEEP LIKE A BABY.”

“Am not in my 70s & still going thru it…bring that little scum to me. I will fold him like a fitted sheet!!!”

“We run out of f***s right around the time we run out of eggs.”

“My mother (in her 50s) had gotten into an argument with a mechanic working on her car when his boss approached and pulled him away. She overheard the boss saying, ‘Didn’t I tell you never NEVER argue with a middle-aged woman?’ We don’t take no sh*t.”

“I always said menopausal women are who they should send to war…when I went thru menopause I wanted to kill any human being that even looked at me stupid.”

“This is one of the all-time great threads. Similar to one ostensibly about makeup & skincare tips to get men to scroll by but was actually women & their allies plotting to take on the patriarchy. Lots of talk re: specific skills, weaponry & who’s bringing snax & alcohol.” “GOLD”.

“I’m in the UK and perimenopausal – just say the word and I’m packing a bag and a pitchfork.”

“I went through menopause & created an ‘if I were a serial killer’ list…sooooo.”

“Whilst I was going through menopause, the husband started each day with a blanket apology for anything he might do. It didn’t work.”

“We’ve taken up ax throwing to relieve stress. Yeah, don’t mess with us. Plus we slay at voting because we have been doing it for decades. Don’t make me cut you with my mail-in ballot.”

“And what do we say to those who claim to be so deadly they could kill a man with but a pencil?
Amateur. Who needs a pencil?

“I will fold his mo*********ng clothes while he’s still wearing them.”

“HELL TO THE YEAH!”

“We ride at dawn.”

It’s fun to be snarky and laugh at it all.

But do not think we aren’t serious about this problem. We watched Roe v Wade be overturned. We see pregnant women being unable to get medical care and dying in ER parking lots. We see the patriarchy wanting to take away women’s right to vote. We see the demand that women cure men’s loneliness.

Happy Bastille Day! It was the women of Paris who could not afford bread to feed their children who marched on Versailles and took the King and Queen prisoner.

FAFO

07/02/2026

JOHN’S CHAIR

“Ah, kindness. What a simple way to tell another struggling soul that there is still love to be found in the world.”—A.A. Malee

Since the beginning days of the Covid lockdown, my sisters and nieces and I have had a group text chat. It’s lovely to stay in touch, share photos, memories and the little adventures of life.

This morning, Marissa said she was out walking her dog, Izzy, and suddenly heard her neighbor John, calling for help! He’s in his 80s so she hurried to turn the corner and see what was wrong.

There he was, lying on the grass because his chair had tipped over! While she helped him up he said he had been there for about 15 minutes calling for help. His wife was in the house and hadn’t heard him, poor guy.

We all chimed in how great it was that Marissa had been out walking and had heard him so she could help!

She said that John loved being outside and takes daily walks up their street. Marissa and one of the other neighbors have put benches on their yards for him to sit in and rest along the way. He typically spends time resting in each of their yards on his daily walks.

What a lovely day in the neighborhood.

It doesn’t take much to help, to love, to be kind. With all the anger, upsets, wars, poverty, disease and strife, take the time to hug someone. Give a compliment. Share a joke. Smile at a stranger. Make this path we walk a little nicer for someone.

And the magic is, it makes it nicer for you, too.

06/16/2026

The 12-Step Program for Financial Stressaholics

I was speaking at a 12-step meeting one day, and this Twelve-Step program for Financial Stressaholics suddenly came to me. With a wink and a nod to Alcoholics Anonymous and twelve-step programs everywhere, here are the twelve steps to treat your money disorders – spending bulimia and income anorexia:

1. We admitted we were powerless over money—that our checkbooks had become unmanageable.
2. Came to believe that a Budget greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
3. Made a decision to turn our will, insurance, checkbooks, and retirement accounts over to the care of a Financial Advisor that we understood.
4. Made a searching and fearless moral inventory of our debits and credits.
5. Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact nature of our accounting errors.
6. Were entirely ready to have our Financial Advisor remove all these defects of our accounting software.
7. Humbly asked her to adjust our bank reconciliations.
8. Made a list of all persons to whom we owed money and became willing to pay them all.
9. Made direct payments to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would overdraw our bank accounts.
10. Continued to take financial seminars and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.
11. Sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with our Financial Advisor, praying only for knowledge of her retirement plan for us and the power to invest enough money in it.
12. Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to income anorexics and spending bulimics and to practice these principles in all our finances.

Live long and prosper!

06/11/2026

My Story of Women’s Credit Card Blues in the 1970s

“Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.” ― Gloria Steinem

After I graduated from college in 1970 and got a job, I qualified to get my first credit card, a Bankamericard.

But only with the signature of a man. My boss signed my application for me. (Those were the dark ages, before the 1974 law that made credit card companies extend credit to women). I used the card intermittently and always made my payments on time. I had an excellent credit record.

After being married for awhile, in 1974 I asked to have my husband’s name added to my card. The Bank of America immediately asked for me to turn in my credit card, telling me that I had to reapply for credit with my husband. (I told you those were the dark ages.) I dutifully filled out another application, along with my husband.

They denied our application.

They denied it on the basis that he was a free-lance actor, therefore self-employed, therefore without verifiable income. They didn’t consider my 4 years of perfect credit and stable income at all.

We were angry, but didn’t know what we could do, until we saw a Bankamericard commercial on television, starring Dennis Weaver. At this time, Weaver was the president of the Screen Actors Guild! Without further ado, I wrote a scathing letter to Mr. Weaver, telling him in no uncertain terms that we were very unhappy that the president of our union was supporting a company that denied credit to actors.

Within two days, we received a two-page letter from Dennis Weaver’s attorneys. Attached was a copy of the letter they had sent to the Bank of America demanding that this matter be rectified. The day after that, I received a call from the President of the Bank of America, asking me what he could do to make me happy. I said he could send me a Bankamericard. He promised to do that right away.

You can bet I had one the next day. I wrote thank you notes to him, to Dennis Weaver, and to his attorneys.

You can have right on your side, but it helps to have might on your side, too.

It didn’t hurt that the law establishing women’s right to have their own credit had just been passed in 1974.

When I graduated from college in 1970, women’s lib was just getting started. “Equal pay for equal work” was the motto, and arguments were made for fair employment practices for all. The Civil Rights Act, Title VII and other legislation made it illegal to discriminate on the basis of gender.

I remember here was a woman’s cigarette Virginia Slims whose motto was “You’ve come a long way, baby!”

National Organization for Women passed out buttons that said, “We haven’t come that far and don’t call me baby!”

Let’s keep it that way, shall we?

06/02/2026

Romantasies, Ruin and Reviews

My secret pleasure these days is reading romantasies of all kinds – dark, light, funny, spicy (sexy) – with great love stories amidst angst and adventure. I’ve read them for years, but this category is “having a moment” and selling wildly. “Fourth Wing” is selling millions and is set to be a major TV series produced by Amazon.

The “Throne of Glass” and “A Court of Thrones and Roses” (known by fans as ACOTAR) series by Sarah J. Maas are well-known top sellers in this category, along with “Quicksilver” by Callie Hart, “From Blood and Ash” by Jennifer Armentrout.

But I love finding the beautiful series written by “indy” authors who write, publish advertise and deliver exciting tales all on their own.

I quickly found some BookTok influencers who share about what’s popular, new and exciting (thank you Kaila of Kaila’s books and Jaimee of That Girl Reads).

They both let me know that Liv Zander’s Court of Ravens Duet and the Heartstrings Duet “Crown Me Dead” and “Crown Me Yours” were fabulous and would ruin you beautifully.

They were right. I loved Court of Ravens and although it was dark and rough, it had HEA (Happy Ever After) but an emotionally devastating plot turn as well. I just had to find her Facebook group so I could mourn and talk about it with fellow readers!

The Heartstrings duet completely wrecked me but it is gorgeously written – here are just a few lines that struck me:

"Windows blinded with layered cloth that wants to be white but fails."

The description of Vale's (the MMC) clothes: "clean boots meant for better floors, a fine vest that refuses to stain, ruffle at his throat, bright as a dove held too tight."

“I have longed for you…” he whispers gently, “longer than I had a name for longing.”

“He felt the hourglass in his chest. Because he knew the sand was running, and so he spent every grain like it was gold.”

Elara is a terrific FMC, bright, hard-working, fuss of sass: "Love? You expect me to walk into a place and...what? Make a king fall in love with me? By when? Supper?"

You'll be with her every step of her journey as she endeavors to break the curse on the kingdom and falls in love. It's amazingly plotted and I grew to love these people and the enormity of the obstacles they faced. I finished it last month and it still haunts me like a beautiful disaster.

Liv Zander’s recent newsletter wrote eloquently about the importance of good reviews. I know this, too! All authors enjoy reading praise – who doesn’t? We love people who love us!

So check out Liv’s books if you’re interested or just go post a review or two for the last book you read and loved, or an old favorite. Our Amazon rankings depend on it and enable new readers to find us!

*Note: these books have trigger warnings as do most “dark” romantasies. Check them out in order to avoid situations or themes that depress you or make you anxious. They are found on their Amazon pages and in the front of their books.

05/26/2026

The Real Black Limo – from “The Wealthy Spirit”
“Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where you least expect it, there will be fish.”—Ovid

As a kid, I used to fantasize about a black limo that was full of casting directors looking for children to invite to be on the Mickey Mouse Club. Yeah, that wasn’t how it worked…but once it actually did!

About 10 years after I quite acting, I got a call from my sister, Jane. A friend of my her’s worked for a market research company, and was looking for women to test Dove soap. They called me one afternoon to invite me down to their office for an interview, so, on a lark, I went. A friendly woman interviewed us, one by one, on videotape.

A week later, I got a call from the marketing company telling me that they had selected a group of women to do a seven-day trial use of the soap and inviting me to participate. I had them send me the sample bar of soap.

You know what? I really liked it! “It’s one-quarter cleansing cream” and it made my skin feel really soft. So it was easy for me to praise the soap when I went back in for my follow-up interview.

I knew that the makers of Dove used “real people” as opposed to professional actors in their commercials. I wondered if this was an audition in disguise?

When I got there, I could tell that it was: I saw several people behind a camera in a small room, and others in another room with see-through glass walls. The lighting was professional and there was an excitement and energy in the room.

I said every good thing I could think of to say about the soap and they all smiled and beamed at me. OMG, I was actually about to get a national commercial. Of all the fleet of ships I had launched during my acting days, most of which had sunk or sailed into someone else’s harbor, this one staunch, lone survivor was about to sail home.

They hired me! They called and asked me if I’d like to go to New York to film a television commercial and I said, “You betcha!”

They flew me to New York, put me up at the Grand Hyatt Hotel, and gave me a check for $1,000 for expenses while I was there. I was getting paid standard Screen Actors Guild rates (there was a moment’s hesitation when they discovered I already belonged to SAG—maybe I wasn’t a real person after all—but since I hadn’t done anything in so long, they said it was okay).

I had a great time running around New York between shooting days, but when I got back to LA they said that this had been a test commercial and they weren’t going to use it after all. But they were shooting another commercial in Los Angeles that they would air, and they wanted me to be in that one! So I got paid for another shoot – and this one started airing on TV.

Over the next two years, I made about $15,000. Residuals are glorious: You work a couple of days and get paid for it over and over and over. Checks just keep showing up in your mailbox—truly “Magic Money.”

But for me, the best part was waiting for me at New York’s JFK airport: The “Real Black Limo” had arrived to whisk me away.

Good energy is never completely lost. Whenever you reach out to accomplish something, that positive energy will manifest somewhere, sometime, in unexpected ways.

You still have some hardy little ships clinging to the waves out there. Check the horizon.
Today’s Affirmation: “All my ships are sailing into my harbor loaded with treasure for me!”

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