Category Archives: Benefits of Strength Training

Episode 37: How to Prepare for Tax Season with Less Stress



Learn how to prepare for tax season with less stress with insights directly from JL Smith Holistic Wealth Managements’ experienced tax team. This episode, hosted by Bryan Bibbo, features Jeff Warnkin, CFP, CPA, NSSA, BPC, Senior Wealth Management Advisor, with over 25 years of experience and a master’s in taxation, and Kelli Knudsen, EA, Controller and Enrolled Agent at JL Smith who leads the tax division. 

Listen as Warnkin and Knudsen share practical strategies to simplify your tax preparation process and help you make informed decisions about your filing. They’ll walk you through how JL Smith’s holistic approach to wealth management helps prevent tax-time surprises while keeping you on track with your financial goals. 

Key Topics: 

  • Document Organization: Discover effective ways to gather and submit your tax documents using both digital portals and traditional methods 
  • Filing Status Benefits: Understand how to choose the best filing status for your situation, including special considerations for life changes and dependent claims 
  • Security Measures: Discover important steps to protect yourself from tax-related identity theft, including the value of IRS Identity Protection PINs 
  • Strategic Planning: Learn how incorporating tax planning into your wealth management strategy helps you prepare better and save more throughout the year 

Episode 36: Protecting Your Wealth from Cybercrime with Identity Fraud Investigator, Carrie Kerskie



As technology like AI advances, so do the methods criminals use to compromise your financial security. This essential episode, hosted by Jason L Smith, features the return of Carrie Kerskie, a certified identity fraud investigator and author, who shares proactive, sophisticated strategies to protect your wealth today.  

Listen as Carrie Kerskie, founder of the Kerskie Group, provides actionable strategies to protect your wealth from emerging cyber threats while maintaining the convenience of modern financial tools. 

Key Topics: 

  • AI Security Protocols: Learn how to safely leverage AI tools for business productivity while protecting sensitive financial information and maintaining data privacy 
  • Modern Identity Protection: Master the three-part framework of prevention, awareness, and recovery to safeguard your wealth from sophisticated cyber threats 
  • Digital Privacy Management: Understand critical vulnerabilities in everyday technology, from smart vehicles to mobile applications, that could compromise your financial security 
  • Fraud Prevention Strategies: Implement the “privacy pause” methodology to prevent financial fraud and protect against social engineering attacks enhanced by artificial intelligence

Episode 34: Exploring How Financial Intimacy & Attachment Styles Build Healthier Money Relationships 



Navigating finances within relationships can be a complex and deeply personal journey. In this episode of the Holistic Wealth & Health podcast, co-host Jason L Smith is joined by Ed Coambs, CFP®, founder, trainer, and therapy informed planner of Healthy Love & Money. Ed bridges the worlds of financial planning and relationship psychology, offering a transformative approach to understanding how our emotional and relational patterns influence financial decision-making. 

Join us as we unpack strategies for fostering financial intimacy, overcoming money-related conflicts, and creating a balanced approach to wealth management that supports your emotional and financial health. 

Key Topics Discussed: 

  • Understanding Financial Intimacy: Learn what financial intimacy means and how it fosters transparency and trust in relationships. 
  • Attachment Styles and Money: Discover how attachment styles—secure, anxious, avoidant, and disorganized—affect financial decision-making and conflict resolution. 
  • Overcoming Financial Trauma: Explore methods to recover from past financial setbacks and rebuild confidence in managing money. 
  • Balancing Risk and Emotional Comfort: Strategies to align financial decisions with personal comfort levels and long-term goals. 
  • Practical Exercises for Couples: A simple yet powerful exercise to improve financial communication and connection in relationships. 

Episode 10: Strength Training for Holistic Health: Building Your Best Self



Join host Jason L Smith and guest Jeff Tomaszewski, founder of MaxStrength Fitness, as they discuss the power of incorporating strength training into your holistic health plan. Jeff shares the numerous benefits of strength training and his business’ holistic approach, emphasizing the importance of full-body fitness and injury prevention. They also delve into how prioritizing your physical strength sets an example for your family and future generations. Whether you’re a CEO or a parent, this podcast provides actionable steps to start weight training to better your overall health and improve your daily functioning.

 

Resources: MaxStrength Fitness Personal Training Provider

Key Topics Discussed:

1. Strength-training benefits: Jeff highlights the many benefits of exercise, specifically strength training, and how it can profoundly improve the quality of your health and daily functioning.

2. Ease of implementation — Listeners learn how MaxStrength’s methodology of high-intensity, low-force strength training exercises makes it possible to achieve remarkable results in sessions of just 20-25 minutes in as little as 2 days a week.

3. Use it or lose it — Muscle tissue and mass diminish as we age. Adding muscle to your frame is vital for longevity.

4. Leading by example: whether CEOs or parents, Jeff and Jason discuss the powerful impact leaders can have by setting an example of prioritizing health.

5. Fostering healthy habits: The podcast highlights the importance of cultivating healthy habits like exercise, nutrition, and meditation practices within families and organizations, ensuring a legacy of wellness for generations to come.

6. Flexibility of weight training: Jeff explains how MaxStrength has adapted to offer virtual training options, making it convenient for clients worldwide to benefit from their approach.

7. The Mission of holistic health: Jeff shares his mission to help people become the strongest versions of themselves, not only in physical strength but also in all aspects of life.

Our priority is helping you take care of yourself and your family. We want to learn more about your situation, identify your dreams and goals, and understand your needs. Reach out to Us at JL Smith Holistic Wealth Management to see how we can help.