<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[MMB Financial Coaching LLC]]></title><description><![CDATA[MMB Financial Coaching exists to give working- and middle-class Americans—and the families who look to them—the financial education and tools]]></description><link>https://www.mmbfc.money/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2026 03:21:02 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.mmbfc.money/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Year-End Tax Moves: 6 Things to Do Before December 31 to Shrink Your 2026 Tax Bill]]></title><description><![CDATA[December 31 feels far away, until you realize a contribution, charitable gift, or business purchase you meant to make didn’t happen in time.

If you’re a homeowner, parent, or small-business owner, the next few weeks are a good time to review your 2026 tax picture and see whether there are worthwhile steps to take before year-end. The goal isn’t to chase every possible deduction.]]></description><link>https://www.mmbfc.money/post/year-end-tax-moves-6-things-to-do-before-december-31-to-shrink-your-2026-tax-bill</link><guid isPermaLink="false">7a042819-5436-4016-bab2-5eb1f3be54c1</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2026 18:38:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/425dd5_95b74fe9c26243e881377486362c9fe7~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>G.A. Pimpleton</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Understanding the Role of Financial Coaching: Your Guide to Money Mastery]]></title><description><![CDATA[In today’s world, financial stress is a huge burden for many families. With rising costs, unexpected expenses, and the pressure to save for the future, it’s easy to feel stuck. That’s where financial coaching shines.



Imagine having someone who listens to your money worries without judgment and helps you create a plan that actually works for your lifestyle. It’s not about quick fixes or magic formulas. It’s about building confidence and taking control.]]></description><link>https://www.mmbfc.money/post/understanding-the-role-of-financial-coaching-your-guide-to-money-mastery</link><guid isPermaLink="false">c80b3ca0-b8b7-4d00-878b-74a2de881e46</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2026 13:21:41 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/425dd5_a55229b7aed64085b505e6a987cf5c6b~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_768,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>G.A. Pimpleton</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The End of the Petrodollar: How Tokenized Commodities are Re-Wiring Global Sovereignty]]></title><description><![CDATA[Okay, okay! Okay wait! I KNOW that title made your head go “what in the Samuel L. Jackson, Snakes on a Plane” is this madness? And why do I care? I promise if you give me a few minutes…. I promise I won’t go all “financial geek” and lose you and it will make sense. Maybe give you something to consider and change your perception of geopolitics and money. PLEASE?



The global financial operating system is currently running on code written in the 1970s. For fifty years, the petrodollar system has ]]></description><link>https://www.mmbfc.money/post/the-end-of-the-petrodollar-how-tokenized-commodities-are-re-wiring-global-sovereignty</link><guid isPermaLink="false">3fcc3cec-b0eb-40b9-b4a3-43de3eb706e4</guid><pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2026 00:18:21 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/nsplsh_31c528e0301447289dba9a00a1114509~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>G.A. Pimpleton</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The $70k+ Family's Guide to Side-Stepping the AMT and Keeping More of What You Earn]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Alternative Minimum Tax can quietly ambush families earning $70k-$250k. Learn what the AMT is, how to check where you stand with Form 6251, and three strategies families use to manage their exposure and keep more of what they earn.]]></description><link>https://www.mmbfc.money/post/the-70k-familys-guide-to-side-stepping-the-amt-and-keeping-more-of-what-you-earn</link><guid isPermaLink="false">0135d257-8abc-4847-8cb8-41906d067195</guid><pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 23:56:54 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/425dd5_09eca3164d4e4944902debbbace5a669~mv2.webp/v1/fit/w_1000,h_819,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>G.A. Pimpleton</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life Insurance as a Retirement Plan? Here's When It Makes Sense (And When It Doesn't)]]></title><description><![CDATA[On one side, you have aggressive insurance advocates preaching that permanent life insurance is the ultimate, tax-free wealth machine that beats Wall Street every day of the week. On the other side, prominent internet finance gurus scream from the rooftops that life insurance as a retirement vehicle is a scam designed to drain your wallet with exorbitant commissions.

So, who’s right?

At Accudo Capital Investments, we don’t do hype, and we don’t do blanket condemnations. The blunt truth is that]]></description><link>https://www.mmbfc.money/post/life-insurance-as-a-retirement-plan-heres-when-it-makes-sense-and-when-it-doesnt-ada32b34</link><guid isPermaLink="false">b5bb1f68-662a-4e6c-aaf4-5bc9995c9d8b</guid><pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 23:33:54 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/425dd5_f45523f0fd0443d686dc903941366b64~mv2.webp/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>G.A. Pimpleton</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Why Is Your Business Stuck? It Might Be Cash Flow!]]></title><description><![CDATA[Most business owners don’t think they have a strategy problem. They think they have a time problem, or a luck problem, or—if they’re being hard on themselves—a hustle problem.

Here’s what I’ve found after years of doing this show: almost none of that is true. The businesses that stall out at six figures, or never make it past year two, or can’t seem to hire past “just me and maybe my cousin”—they’re not missing hustle. They’re missing structure. And this article walks through exactly where that]]></description><link>https://www.mmbfc.money/post/why-your-business-is-stuck-maybe-cash-flow</link><guid isPermaLink="false">83166b5a-a616-49a0-8e61-d3f4be1387dc</guid><pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 22:57:19 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/425dd5_0b48370244e24f09aaef8f16295441de~mv2.webp/v1/fit/w_1000,h_971,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>G.A. Pimpleton</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Canadians Stopped Vacationing in America. Here’s How to Actually Profit From It.]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you’ve paid any attention to the news lately, you’ve probably caught a headline about Canadians boycotting U.S. travel. It’s not exaggeration — it’s one of the sharpest, most sustained travel pullbacks Statistics Canada has ever recorded outside of the pandemic. Canadian trips to the U.S. fell roughly 22–25% in 2025, and the decline is still holding into 2026. The cause isn’t a mystery: tariffs, “51st state” rhetoric out of Washington, and a general souring of U.S.-Canada relations. Canadians]]></description><link>https://www.mmbfc.money/post/canadians-stopped-vacationing-in-america--heres-how-to-actually-profit-from-it-a-plain-english-look-</link><guid isPermaLink="false">ad62f92d-215e-43f7-9281-bdba27720a5f</guid><pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 22:43:00 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/425dd5_a59d47464d4341ba800a226221ac6458~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_720,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>G.A. Pimpleton</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Company That Refuses to Pick a Winner (And Why That's the Whole Lesson)]]></title><description><![CDATA[In 2021, a group of senior researchers at OpenAI—siblings Dario and Daniela Amodei among them—walked away from the company that would go on to build ChatGPT. The reason, as it’s generally told, is that they believed OpenAI was moving too fast on commercialization relative to safety, and they wanted to build something where caution was the actual design constraint, not a feature bolted on after the fact.

That company became Anthropic. For years it was seen as the smaller, more cautious sibling i]]></description><link>https://www.mmbfc.money/post/the-company-that-refuses-to-pick-a-winner-and-why-thats-the-whole-lesson</link><guid isPermaLink="false">d2564d6f-395b-49b9-8f2f-9ae8360831fc</guid><pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 14:15:37 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/425dd5_ac6a8b0bdaba4edaa79c3ec3bdc63213~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_720,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>G.A. Pimpleton</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wealth Starts Upstairs: What a Fed Chair, a Gutted Sector, and a Football Cut All Have In Common]]></title><description><![CDATA[Somewhere in the middle of writing this, I kept coming back to one sentence a young man said to me:

"Even if you do your job perfectly, if somebody else controls the opportunity, you don't control your life."



He wasn't talking about the stock market when he said it. He was talking about football. But by the end of this article, you're going to see why that line is the single most important thing you'll read this morning — more important than anything the Fed Chair said this week, more import]]></description><link>https://www.mmbfc.money/post/wealth-starts-upstairs-what-a-fed-chair-a-gutted-sector-and-a-football-cut-all-have-in-common</link><guid isPermaLink="false">3396bfe4-4e86-4782-b769-ec9562072664</guid><pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 07:10:32 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>G.A. Pimpleton</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Book Lady's Ledger: What Dolly Parton Taught Us About Money]]></title><description><![CDATA[We lost a legend yesterday morning. Dolly Parton passed away in Nashville at 80 years old, and by the time most of us poured our coffee, the tributes were already stacking up — the music, the wigs, the theme park, the fact that half the country can't hear the word "Jolene" without singing it under their breath for the rest of the day.1

I want to talk about something else. I want to talk about the ledger.

Because underneath all that sparkle was a woman who turned a guitar and a coat of many col]]></description><link>https://www.mmbfc.money/post/the-book-ladys-ledger-what-dolly-parton-taught-us-about-money-430e3697</link><guid isPermaLink="false">43bb3db4-d006-4c7a-9acf-48dfb2d2c60c</guid><pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 06:53:36 GMT</pubDate><dc:creator>G.A. Pimpleton</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Dollar Isn't Dying. It's Just Going Through Sumpin' Right Now.]]></title><description><![CDATA[A completely accurate, mostly serious, occasionally unhinged breakdown of what actually happened at the BRICS summit four days ago — and why your group chat lied to you about gold coins

Four days ago, eleven world leaders sat down in New Delhi, adopted a 140-page declaration with roughly 140 points in it, and apparently unleashed enough financial doom onto the internet that by the time I finished my coffee, I had eleven different slideshows in my messages insisting the U.S. dollar had approxima]]></description><link>https://www.mmbfc.money/post/the-dollar-isnt-dying--its-just-going-through-sumpin-right-now-</link><guid isPermaLink="false">0fd86f9a-6aa5-44a6-a516-c8aa4ca362c7</guid><pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2026 10:17:59 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/425dd5_931e74e6847c4bac9b01ab3264586517~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>G.A. Pimpleton</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Master Your Wealth: Practical Tips for Building Wealth in America]]></title><description><![CDATA[In today's fast-paced world, understanding how to manage your wealth effectively is more crucial than ever. Many people struggle with financial literacy, leading to poor investment choices and missed opportunities. The M.O.N.E.Y. Method offers a unique approach to wealth management that can transform your financial future. This blog post will delve into the M.O.N.E.Y. Method, breaking down its components and illustrating how you can apply it to master your wealth while building wealth in America]]></description><link>https://www.mmbfc.money/post/master-your-wealth-practical-tips-for-building-wealth-in-america</link><guid isPermaLink="false">9fa81ed9-d845-44f0-b5b7-3dc3c9ab96bf</guid><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 20:09:53 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/425dd5_022a32e8b0a542a6bcd4385bb725c68a~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>G.A. Pimpleton</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Transform Your Finances with Monthly Coaching Packages]]></title><description><![CDATA[Managing finances can often feel overwhelming. Many individuals struggle with budgeting, saving, and investing, leading to stress and uncertainty about their financial future. Fortunately, monthly coaching packages can provide the guidance and support needed to transform your financial situation. In this blog post, we will explore how these coaching packages work, their benefits, and how to choose the right one for your needs.

]]></description><link>https://www.mmbfc.money/post/transform-your-finances-with-monthly-coaching-packages</link><guid isPermaLink="false">8732ee36-9217-48a0-bca6-c195c2c5f3e1</guid><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 20:09:50 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/425dd5_e3a38b7a43ea4fe28e83567ea6644826~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_1000,h_768,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>G.A. Pimpleton</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[Breaking Financial Silence: Strategies for Generational Wealth]]></title><description><![CDATA[Understanding Generational Wealth and Financial Strategies



Generational wealth refers to assets passed down from one generation to another. This can include money, property, investments, and other financial resources. The importance of generational wealth cannot be overstated; it provides families with a safety net, opportunities for education, and the ability to invest in future endeavors.



The Importance of Financial Literacy



One of the first steps in building generational wealth is to]]></description><link>https://www.mmbfc.money/post/breaking-financial-silence-strategies-for-generational-wealth</link><guid isPermaLink="false">679e4f0b-8717-4c2c-9255-29a797103ea3</guid><pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 20:09:50 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/425dd5_30215af84b7c4a65aa7c11288643f1a4~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_671,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>G.A. Pimpleton</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>