Capital Gains Tax: Why John Dudek Says You May Not Have to Write That $371,000 Check
For longtime homeowners in La Crescenta, La Cañada, and throughout Southern California, selling a home with substantial equity can come with an unexpected challenge: capital gains taxes. But what if selling could also create retirement inc...
Rebecca Secord of Your Home Legal: Estate Planning Lessons Every California Homeowner Should Know
Estate planning is not only for people with significant wealth or complicated finances. Rebecca Secord of Your Home Legal explains why planning can matter much earlier than many people realize. Owning a home, getting married, having children, ...
Dr. Debbie Rose Pro Balance Academy: Why Balance Training Should Start Before You Fall
Balance problems rarely announce themselves all at once. You may first notice someone moving more slowly, hesitating at a curb, looking down while walking, or reaching for support more often. In my conversation with Dr. Debbie Rose of Pro Ba...
What Joe Altepeter of EngAGE Inc. Taught Me About Aging in Place Without Isolation
You can walk through your parents' house and check every box. The stairs are manageable, the yard is under control, the bedrooms are the right size. And you can still miss the one thing that will hurt them most. When I sat down with Joe Altepet...
The Question Marty Stevens-Heebner of Clear Home Solutions Asks Before Anyone Packs a Single Box
A senior move rarely falls apart over boxes or bubble wrap. It falls apart over a torn recipe card, a broken hammer, or two hundred paper clips nobody can quite explain. Those are the things that stall a family for months. I talked about...
Robbyn Battles latest Podcast Guest Angela Fairhurst of Geri-Gadgets
A cut-down kitchen pot holder reached a mother that four years of children's toys could not. That single moment, not a boardroom, is where a whole product line was born. On my podcast, I'm Just Sayin', I talked with Angela Fairhurst of G...
Robbyn Battles latest Podcast quest Tiffany Piquilloud of Challenge Center
Gravity never takes a day off, and neither does the question of what happens to a person's independence once a doctor says therapy is done. A parent comes home from the hospital with a photocopied sheet of exercises. Insurance paid for what ...
Robbyn Battles Podcast latest guest Katie Brandon of Pasadena Village
At two in the morning in Altadena, the power went out. A woman who had stopped driving three years earlier couldn't lift her garage door, and no official ever called her street. The person who got her out was the neighbor she plays ping pon...