Written as Lightning in a bottle to assist American women age 50 or older seeking financial independence and a better life, Women, Wealth & Wisdom; Unleash the Fire Within to a Life of Purpose blends life and financial planning into one practical guide. Having our own money wisdom trumps family acrimony. If divorce, addictions and suicide are rooted in financial woes it is clear that finances affect our mental and consequently our physical health. By conquering the final frontier, personal finances, women can transcend to a higher intellectual state - one of wisdom and its shadow benefit, enduring vitality and power. Women, Wealth and Wisdom: Unleash the Fire Within to a Life of Purpose is about being psychologically and fiscally prepared for the complex financial world of tomorrow. For example, retirement security is the grave concern of Americans today. Millions of Baby boomers go on Social Security retirement pensions every year. Most are ill prepared for their heavy burdens of escalating costs of health and long term care on one hand and they fear they'll outlive their meager savings on the other. The latter becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy because most boomers take the lowest offer on Social Security's table, age 62 retirements. Half of this group, women, have triple worries: First, lower Social Security benefits than men; second, higher longevity will increase their risk of being bankrupt and finally relative financial illiteracy coupled with surviving their spouses often steals the very wealth that may have carried them through. Based on research and anecdotes of working with women for more than a decade as a fee-only NAPFA Registered Financial Adviser, Wightman's new second edition leads readers to clearly see that we all have a life of choices and that the direction we take at each juncture define our destinies. These very choices make the difference between prosperity or poverty, vitality or vanity, health or hospitals. With little-known tools, strategies and resources well tested in the real world by a now retired financial adviser, Wightman shares his hitherto secret solutions and inspires his readers to seek free fee-only financial advice via weekly free conference calls moderated by Certified Financial Planner licensed Advisers and access a life of power, purpose and prosperity; a life now of fire and focus.
About the Author: Since 1995, now retired Financial Adviser Steven Wightman built trusted relationships with families by strengthening financial foundations. Quoted in Newsweek, Business Week, Dow Jones, Newsweek, U.S. News And World Report, and on the cover of Financial Adviser Magazine, Wightman writes a monthly blog for www.WomenWealthWisdom.com. He is retired from the U.S. Army an he is an active aviator. He lives and flies with wife Margaret from their Lexington, MA home.