The priority for the day was to attend a webinar that featured Susanne Lesko. Susan is noted as a pioneer, one of an elite group of women to rise to the rank of Captain in the U.S. Navy. During the webinar, Susanne spoke about her team combat experience and the extreme importance of owning your …
Have you ever been to a fair or bazaar where you were asked to guess the number of jellybeans or marbles or whatever that was contained in a large jar? For a small donation and your ‘guessed’ number being the closest to the actual amongst all participants; you could potentially win a prize. The prize …
What would happen if your computer were to suddenly ‘die’ and your data on the computer was no longer accessible? Do you have your personal financial data backed up? If affirmative; is it backed up securely? If affirmative; no need to read any further😊. If you replied “no” to the first question, then ask yourself …
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While sitting in their camping chairs one evening and looking across the water from their new property on the Hood Canal, a woman says to her husband, “it doesn’t seem real”; after all the dreaming, “we actually own our little piece of heaven”. His response was that they had worked hard. Each year they had …
Hey, we have good news, here at White Raven Financial, we can finally text!! Yes, we know texting has been around forever, but you see we had this impediment called a landline. We also had another obstacle called compliance. A few months ago, we discovered this subscription service that allowed us to send/receive texts through …
Annuities have long been frowned upon by consumers and even some financial advisors as well. But do they deserve to be immediately dismissed as a solution? You may have heard the saying, “Annuities are sold, not bought”, which we believe may have held some truth back in the day, but not necessarily anymore. In certain …
Traveling the country road that is near to our office one evening during the first week in November, we could not help but notice where a single house stood out amongst the rest on the road. You see, the residents had strung their Christmas lights quite early. Lots of them! Then, a few days later, …
As the clocks fall back, the afternoons grow darker by the hour, and the weather turns wet & chilly, the desire to hibernate rather than exercise becomes more appealing. Comfort foods, such as chili, lasagna, and casseroles, become, well, comforting. Gyms are closed and school sports are non-existent, but we try to take advantage of …
It was a Friday, and as some Friday’s go, those of us in the office were chatting about tasks that still needed completing which neither of us were looking forward to doing. (Note, they both involved some type of “schoolwork”.) As conversations sometimes do – it shifted into another subject – about a conversation at …
Yeah!! It is that time of the year again. It has rained and now they are ready! Bright orange reflective vests are brought out of storage and a family member or a good friend has phoned for the day and time. A few select people know where you are going, and they swear not to …
