Featured entries from our Journal

Details Are Part of Our Difference

Embracing the Evidence at Anheuser-Busch – Mid 1980s

529 Best Practices

David Booth on How to Choose an Advisor

The One Minute Audio Clip You Need to Hear

Category: A piece we love

A Few Thoughts on Spending Money

Morgan Housel has always been thought-provoking, including his recent piece, “A Few Thoughts on Spending Money.”  The title is apt because he shares his thoughts, wide-ranging perspective, and excellent questions about money and how to think about it. Stated differently, Morgan doesn’t provide specific answers or recommendations about money. Instead, he encourages a mental exercise to discover what money and wealth mean to you. However, instead of doing that exercise alone, if you’re a Hill client, we’d love to engage in such a dialogue with you…and your family…if you’re open to it. Call us or schedule a time here!

Frugal vs. Independent

Morgan Housel does it again in this recent piece. We think you’ll like it for the same reasons we do which are several because it engages your mind, heart, and soul. Are you frugal, independent, or something else entirely? Is long-term investment success dependent more on knowledge or behavior? Either way, do you invest alone or with a trusted advisor? And possibly most importantly and challenging to do, answering the question for and about yourself, “What’s my relationship with money?” That answer will likely make answering the prior questions much easier; however, this keystone question is often unasked and unanswered because it’s so hard for most of us to confront because it gets to our deepest essence. Let us know if you’d like our help discovering your answer.

Money As a Tool for Impact with Chip Gaines 

If you’re a long-time reader of our content, you recognize the name Carl Richards. Carl is the former New York Times writer and artist known as the “sketch guy.” He’s also an author and hosts two podcasts (plus a great friend). What’s the common thread in all his content: money and meaning. Carl lives and works at that intersection. His latest podcast, called 50 Fires, is intended to explore this connection with various successful and thoughtful friends. Here’s a fun place to start if you’re interested in thinking more deeply about what money means to you and your family.

Most of us were first introduced to Chip Gaines on “Fixer Upper,” the blockbuster renovation show where he serves as the genius contractor, adoring husband, and comic relief. In this episode of “50 Fires” Carl’s questioning reveals a different side of Chip–entrepreneurial, spiritual, philosophical, and reflective.
Carl and Chip discuss Chip’s unconventional attitude toward risk, using money as a tool for impact versus a measurement of success, the challenges of raising children in the Instagram era, and Chip’s wife Joanna even makes a surprise cameo.
Click the video below for a sneak peek of an honest conversation about money and meaning with Chip Gaines on this week’s episode of 50 Fires, or click here for the full episode on Apple Podcasts.
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Featured entries from our Journal

Details Are Part of Our Difference

Embracing the Evidence at Anheuser-Busch – Mid 1980s

529 Best Practices

David Booth on How to Choose an Advisor

The One Minute Audio Clip You Need to Hear

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