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  How to Claim Social Security for Maximum Benefit and Litetime Income

  Jeff Young, Senior Wealth Manager, Kierland Financial Group

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Financial

  Around 45% of Americans take their Social Security benefits at the earliest possible time, usually around their 62nd birthday. For a great majority of these people, that is both a grievous and irreversible decision that has long-term deleterious effects. MORE >

  Jeff Young has spend a decade teaching people about the most efficient manner to take these distributions and for a couple, the difference in doing it right and doing it wrong can mean tens of thousands of dollars. Jeff explains how people can benefit from understanding the various strategies available to them and exactly how to employ them. This is an eye-opening session and one you will want to hear prior to making those significant decisions about Social Security.

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  The Run for the Roses: What Needs to be Done Before You Retire

  Jeff Young, Senior Wealth Manager, Kierland Financial Group

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Financial

  You’ve won the game! Now What? The goal of wealth accumulation gradually gives way to that of efficient money management in retirement. It certainly isn’t the same skill set and has a different set of challenges and opportunities associated with it. Planning for that stage while you are in your peak earning years can help insure a retirement of dignity and independence if you plan now. MORE >

  Financial Planner and Investment Advisor Jeff Young speaks about that life phase in this presentation entitled “The Run for the Roses.” It is he will address such issues as:
  • Creating a New Safety Net
  • Gifting
  • Planning a Social Security Strategy
  • What are RMD’s (Required Minimum Distributions from Retirement Plans) and when do you take them?
  • Educating the Survivors
  • Maximizing your tax bracket
  • End of Life Planning
  • The One Property Asset that will give your Heirs Fits and how to avoid that

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  How I Wrote and Published My Debut Novel

  Howard Gershkowitz, Author

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Entertainment

  Sitting in the lobby of the historic Hassayampa Inn in Prescott, Arizona, I sipped my coffee and stared at the period pieces surrounding me. It was January 1, 2015 when my eyes landed on the switchboard, circa 1927, and I started day dreaming. What might it have looked like, some young person sitting at the station, routing calls between the guestrooms and the rest of the country? I pictured the roaring 20’s, the coming market crash, the world plunged into the Great Depression, ultimately bringing about World War II and it’s horrifying consequences. What if I could go back and warn them? Stop it somehow? MORE >

  Thus, began this journey back to 1929, where I sent our hero, Harold, to meet Talia Sanders, the operator. Over the course of the next couple of years—in real time—he navigated the interceding nine decades, traveling back and forth, trying to change the past, and, when he fails, to prevent the same thing from happening in the present.

  As the story unfolded in my mind, I had one major problem; most time travel stories break down because of unresolved paradoxes. If you visit the past, don’t you automatically change it by your presence? What if you only go back a few months or years? You run the risk of meeting your younger self, which is a real no-no in terms of theoretical physics. How, then, could I get around it?

  The main concern, as far as I could see, was this little thing called the Law of Conservation of Matter and Energy, If you take a human being and transport him into the past, you simultaneously remove his bulk from the present and insert into another epoch. The Universe should implode immediately upon such a distortion. The answer? Well, if modern theory is right, we can hitch a ride through a wormhole, traveling unimaginable distances across the galaxy without disrupting the flow of time. So why not a slimmed down version to permit local excursions? Why not a ‘squirmhole?”

  Join Harold as he wanders through time in order to prevent the past from repeating itself.

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  HEALTHY LIVING FOR YOUR BRAIN AND BODY

  Edward Givens, Insurance Agent, HealthMarkets

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Health & Fitness

  Lear ways to change your lifestyle to help your brain and body stay healthy for a long and fruitful life. Currently, an estimated 50 million people worldwide are living with dementia, including more than 5 million Americans. Barring any developments in prevention or treatment methods, this number is projected to reach nearly 14 million by 2050. The disease also affects the 16 million Americans who provide unpaid care for people living with Alzheimer’s or another dementia. More than 80 percent of care provided at home is delivered by family members, friends or other unpaid caregivers. The Alzheimer’s Association® is available in communities nationwide and online to help individuals and families understand Alzheimer’s and dementia, navigate the disease and receive reliable information and support. MORE >

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  5 Career BLINDSPOTS

  Juan Kingsbury, Talent Strategist, Career Blindspot

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Business

  Workplace conflict is untapped opportunity, but will remain conflict until at least one if not all of the career blindspots are embraced. Talent, Systems, Resources, Network and Skills are the 5 Career Blindspots that influence every problem that hasn't quite become an opportunity. Attend this session to create accountability, compassion and ultimately progress to a better work environment! MORE >

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  MVD Is Serving You Better

  Doug Nick, Asst. Communications Director for Customer Outreach, Arizona Motor Vehicle Division (ADOT)

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Miscellaneous

  At the Arizona MVD, our vision is “To get you out of line and safely on the road” and I think we’re doing some interesting things to reach that goal. MORE >

  Since everyone has to use MVD at one time or another, I’ve found that we get a pretty healthy discussion when we share some time with groups like yours. I have a general-interest presentation as well as one more focused on business practices that may be of more interest to Chambers of Commerce.

  I’d love to drop by your group and share my presentaion and I’m always happy to take questions.

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  10 Biggest Mistakes People Make Starting or Creating a Healthy Lifestyle

  Robert Kelly, CEO and Owner, Results Only Fitness

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Health & Fitness

  Staying in shape is a challenge for most people. Starting a fitness routine or getting healthy after a long layoff is even harder. Why would anyone want to try and figure it out alone? You hire a lawyer for your legal needs and an accountant for your taxes. You would never ask your doctor how to perform surgery on yourself. That would be crazy. However, every single day people start and stop exercising with little or no guidance. MORE >

  The things you remember from when you were in high school are obsolete. Every magazine says something different, and late night TV only show programs for elite fitness enthusiasts. Learn tips, tricks and techniques to ensure you succeed with your fitness and fat loss goals this time.

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  How to Use Your Intuition to Make Decisions in Business and Life

  Saloua Ibaline, Business Coach, S.M.A.R.T. Women Inc.

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Business

  Too many of use rely on external factors to make inner decisions. The truth is, some of it can help you but it all comes down to your own intuition. Your inner circle will advise you based on what they think is good for you based on their opinions. Some are genuine advice but you should take it with a grain of salt because listening to your gut is the only way to know the answer. In this talk we will discuss what is intuition, how to uncover it, how to differentiate it with the ego-negative self talk and few practical actions step you can do today to be more in tune with yourself. MORE >

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  What’s Your Bike?

  Dave Cooke, CEO and Board Chair, 100Pedals, Inc.

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Motivational

  “What’s your bike” introduces audiences to the struggles of addiction in the family, while lending credibility with those on their similar paths. Dave takes his audiences on a profound, personal journey where they transition from a feeling of helplessness and hopelessness to a place of empowerment and possibility, as they confidently begin the search for their path through the adversities which are dragging them down. MORE >

  As the audience discovers the possibilities for change in the face of chaos, Dave moves them from a place of fear and worry to one of hope and opportunity while helping them recognize the impact of both on their lives and their outcomes.

  After learning his youngest child was addicted to heroin, Dave Cooke spent the next eighteen months on a relentless quest to save him. This determined commitment took him through all the experiences a parent goes through – deception, theft, overdoses, multiple arrests, jail, homelessness and untold sleepless nights. With every painful experience guilt and failure took another piece out of his spirit to the point where he felt as though everything was lost. His business nearly collapsed, his health was suffering, and his relationships were falling apart. Dave was broken in every way imaginable.

  Late one night, in a desperate plea for relief, Dave took on a personal challenge to ride his bike for one hour a day, for one hundred consecutive days. It was an activity which completely changed his life. Dave’s inspiring story provides powerful insights into the experiences of being a parent of an addicted child, while offering an incredibly inspiring message for parents struggling to find their way through life’s adversities such as the chaos of their child’s addiction.

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  Challenging Your Top Performers

  Rachel Weiss, Founder, Executive Consultant, The Human Manager

  TOPIC CATEGORY: Business

  Most managers focus on the lower performers when it comes to performance management, and they need a lot of coaching time and energy. The employees you want to retain, your top performers, often get lost in the mix since they're doing good work already. But if you're not challenging them, they may leave to go somewhere they will get professional development. This can also be an interactive workshop. MORE >

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