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Firstly, our hearts are broken for the victims of the shooting at the Garlic Festival in California on Monday (one of whom was a six-year-old boy). These events accumulate to paint a picture of deep pain buried within our modern culture, and it's important, in my...

Summer is flying by. Do you feel that way? It's an exciting season with cookouts, vacations and extracurricular activities (my thoughts and sympathies for Staten Island parents with multiple kids playing multiple sports among 100 other things). Before you know it...

How we are raised around financial matters can impact us for a lifetime. When a close friend or family member loses their home, or their job (or both), it can be frightening on several levels. You begin to wonder if the same could happen to you. And, as you're...

We're all still basking in the World Champion US Women's Soccer Team over here in the Mauriello Enterprises offices. Pretty amazing to see so much excellence, and on behalf of our country. Here's to hoping for continued unification within our culture in...

Independence Day is this week. Bombs. Patriotism. Picnics. Barbecue. All those things. I often write about "financial independence" this time of year (yes, I like the puns) ... and when I do, invariably I get contacted by a few clients (or former clients),...

Believe it or not, 2019 is almost halfway over (!). We're through the summer solstice, the days get shorter from here on out, and here at Team Mauriello Enterprises we begin to turn our eyes more directly at 2020. We're pretty thrilled by the opportunity,...

I'm so old, I still remember the days when "hashtags" were only about a particular button on your phone. Yep, the world has shifted massively underfoot. You know it; we all know it. And one of the developments we've all seen is the proliferation of...

Do you know what the number one month is for weddings? Check today's date and there it is: June. With that fact in mind, I'm not sure where you currently fall on the wedding spectrum... Are many of your friends getting married? Are your friends' kids...

No, the IRS is not shutting down their operations -- there is still (and probably ever will be) a federal income tax. But states are a different story... This being travel season, and the season during which some of our clients turn their eyes towards making a move, I...

I recently wrote about the cost of raising children, but there was one glaring omission: college. But imagine if you had sent your son to Morehouse College. Here's what happened there this month... On Sunday, May 19th, investor and philanthropist, Robert F. Smith,...

To be clear, children are costly in the best way possible. Once the dust settles from changing diapers, sweeping floors, slapping bandaids on booboos, driving to sports practice, attending back-to-school meetings, saving for college, and buying countless goldfish...

It's understandable if things might feel a little bit ... shaky right now for you. If you pay attention to the media, you are seeing trade wars with China, uncertain stock markets, apocalyptic elections rumbling in the future, even the Apple juggernaut is seeing...