As seen in the October issue of Atlanta Magazine, we are excited to announce that our colleague, Todd Mitman CRPC, received a 2020 Five Star Wealth Manager award. This award recognizes wealth management professionals who provide excellent service to their clients. Congratulations, Todd, and thank you to our clients for your continued trust and loyalty.
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Watch your Mail!! We have been sending out our new and improved, Client Information Questionnaire. Please take a few minutes to fill it out and return it in the provided envelope. We want to be sure and have the most up-to-date information to provide the best service possible. Thank you.
Wishing you and your loved ones a meaningful observance and easy fast this Yom Kippur.
Many congratulations go out to our own, T Jackson Keenan! Today is his seventh anniversary with Element Wealth Advisors! Thank you, Jackson, for all the great work that you do and for the helpful and friendly way that you do it. 🎉🍾
Pumpkin spice-flavored treats. Fall activities. The leaves turning. What’s your favorite part of fall?
Learn more about economic, tax and stock themes leading up to the election and the potential implications for investors.
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Throwback Thursday! On this day, in 1896, Charles Dow starts reporting on an average of several industrial stocks from companies that were the titans of their day. The original 12 companies were quite different from the Apples and Amazons that we keep our present-day eyes upon...they helped usher in a trend that would probably make old Charles pretty proud. Thank you, Mr Dow! 📈📊
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🥳 Happy Birthday, T Jackson Keenan!! Today is all about you!! Thank you for your contributions to your clients and the entire EWA team! Enjoy your day and may you have many more! 🎂
Today is a great day for EWA! It’s Lois Wiggins’s first anniversary with us! Lois helps to keep everyone on track and our clients happy. Congratulations, Lois and thank you for a wonderful, first year with EWA! 🍾😊
October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month. This month and every month, it’s important to be alert and aware of threats to your investments and personal information.
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We are cooking up something DELICIOUS at Element Wealth Advisors!! 🧑🍳
Please join us for our first, virtual cooking class!! We are going to learn some healthy cooking tips and make some nutritious, pumpkin muffins, October 29th, 5-6 pm. Email Margaret.Cocroft@ampf.com to RSVP or for more information. See you there! 🎃🍁
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2020 US Presidential Election - 10 Market Truths No Matter Who Wins
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Wednesday, October 28, 2020
1:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
The presentation will focus on these areas:
• The Historical Narrative
• Historical Market Performance post-election
• Markets do not care how people voted
Please RSVP to receive your web and/or phone access credentials for this session to: Margaret.cocroft@ampf.com
Presented by:
Jim Totten, CIMA®
Senior Advisor Consultant
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Wishing you a safe, fun and spooky Halloween!
Don’t forget to set your clocks back this weekend. What will you do with your extra hour?
Trying to choose between two big home projects? Start on the one with the best return.
Changing your portfolio based on this election may be a mistake https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/02/changing-your-portfolio-based-on-this-election-may-be-a-mistake-as-the-fed-could-matter-more.html?__source=iosappshare%7Ccom.apple.UIKit.activity.CopyToPasteboard
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We had a great, virtual cooking class with Shelley Loving of “Shelley Can Help”. We got some fabulous recipes and healthy cooking tips to help make our holiday meals a little bit healthier and a lot more delicious!! We will be hosting another one early next year so keep an eye out for the announcement. In the meantime, check out Shelley’s page and get some great recipes and ideas for the festive meals ahead. 👩🍳🍳
Thank you to all of our wonderful Veterans. We are forever grateful for your service and continuing vigilance to keep our Country safe and secure.
And special thanks to our own Element Wealth Advisor Veteran, Kevin Saylor. Your contributions to our Country and our clients are both greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Keep an eye on the future with financial advice, focused on you.
~VOLUNTEER DAY AT PIEDMONT PARK~
Join us on Wednesday, November 18th (9-11:30AM) as we gather for a work day in historic, Piedmont Park. We will help with light gardening, trash pickup, etc. in a socially distanced environment that allows us to support our community and get a little fresh air. Please email Meg at Margaret.Cocroft@ampf.com to RSVP and get more information. 🍂🍁
If you’re signing up for next year’s workplace benefits, now is the best time to develop a strategy for increasing your savings. Let's connect and discuss your options.
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We had an absolutely wonderful morning at our “Tidy Up the Park” Volunteer Workday on Wednesday, November 18. The Element Wealth team met at Piedmont Park along with some clients and friends to brave the chill and help out the Piedmont Park Conservancy. The sun came out and it turned into a perfectly gorgeous day! We got a lot accomplished and had a great time doing it! Thank you to everyone who joined us!
For LGBTQ couples, financial obstacles are sometimes unique. Let’s make sure you have a strategy that supports your goals.
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Working toward your long-term financial goals starts with making the next right move.
Happy Thanksgiving! While 2020 has been a challenging year, it’s also shown us how much we still have to be grateful for. What are you thankful for?
We want to wish all of our wonderful clients and dear friends a very, Happy Thanksgiving. This year may feel a little bit different but the sentiment of blessings and thankfulness still prevail. However you choose to celebrate, enjoy your day!
Are you scaling back your Thanksgiving celebration this year? Here’s some tips to celebrate simply – and safely – this season.
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The stock market’s roller-coaster year shows why staying invested pays off. If you have questions about your individual investments please reach out to us. We can help.
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It’s not too late to save on your 2020 taxes. We can join a conversation with your tax professional to discuss strategies to help lower your tax bill.
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How will you give back this holiday season?
A successful first night of Hanukkah at the Mitman household.
From all of us at Element Wealth Advisors Wishing your family peace and light this holiday season. Happy Hanukkah!!
Retirement planning is even more important during the last five years before you retire. If you’re approaching that five-year countdown, let’s talk.
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While the makeup of Congress remains uncertain, we believe it’s important to maintain pragmatism in this fluid environment. We remain committed to helping you navigate the near-term conditions.
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Policy implications: economy, markets and taxation
Only four out of 10 adults have a long-term estate plan, primarily due to procrastination. Let’s talk about finally getting around to it.
Best wishes for a peaceful holiday season.
What’s your favorite winter activity?
Merry Christmas from our family to yours. We wish you the most wonderful holiday.
Happy New Year! So long, 2020.
What are your financial goals for 2021? Together, we can work towards achieving your priorities for this year and beyond.
To our Valued Clients, Colleagues and Friends:
Wow- what a year 2020 has been! As this historic year finally draws to a close, we look forward to good health, success, and happiness that we hope 2021 will bring to us all.
This has been a year of uncertainty and profound loss. It has also been a year filled with hope and resilience. But more than anything else it has been a year filled with gratitude.
We are grateful for the healthcare workers, teachers, first responders, and essential workers who have given so much of themselves to others this year, often at great personal peril.
We are grateful for our families and friends who have carried us through these unique times with love, compassion and a little humor.
We are grateful for the Element Wealth Advisors team members. Ten months ago, this amazing group of people were notified that they would all be working from home. Everyone gathered their things, set up their PC’s, phones, kitchen table workstations and were ready to go within hours of this monumental work change. Everyone stepped up seamlessly to move our firm to a remote work environment while ensuring that all our clients’ needs were taken care of without disruption. As the months at home past, our team has continued to perform at the highest level. They have juggled the demands of young children, school-aged children learning remotely, technology challenges and pets who were not used to having us around all day. Our successes this year are your successes. They would not have been possible without an aggressive, thorough and deliberate plan coupled with your understanding.
This year, more than any other year, we are grateful for your continued support and trust. Despite the uncertainty of 2020 we were proud to have been able to provide the same high-quality service and advice you have come to expect. We take pride in providing an unparalleled client experience, quality advice, and expert investment management. As we look forward to the New Year, we extend our promise to continue our highest level of service while we explore innovative ways to elevate the experience you have with our firm. It is with an immense amount of gratitude we thank you for working with us.
Please accept our best wishes for a happy and healthy new year for you and your families.
Sincerely,
Todd Mitman
Jeremy P. Reese
T. Jackson Keenan
Based on stabilizing market and economic conditions and favorable monetary and fiscal policies, combined with broadly available vaccines, #AmeripriseResearch believes the opportunity for outsized growth next year is real.
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Being organized can save you time and money. What are you doing to get better organized this month?
January is National Financial Wellness Month. When was the last time you checked your progress on your goals?
A lot has happened in the past year. Let’s talk about any factors that may have affected your retirement plans, discuss updates and ensure sure you’re on track.
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What are your expectations for the markets in 2021? Lets discuss how the markets can effect you and your financial goals. Call or email our office.
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The new year can inspire a fresh look at your financial picture. Call or email to schedule time to talk.
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We want to wish a very, Happy Birthday to Kevin Saylor!! Thank you, Kevin, for all that you do for our clients and many happy returns! 🥳🎂🎈
Did you know that if investors missed the 10 best days in the past 20 years their S&P 500 returns would have been cut in half? Let’s connect to discuss investing over the long term.
A new year brings new opportunities. While you check progress toward your current goals consider setting new ones, too.
What are your wellness goals for the new year?
Today and every day, we respectfully honor the legacy of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
What are your expectations for the markets in 2021? Lets discuss how the markets can effect you and your financial goals. Call or email our office.
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We want to wish a very, Happy Birthday to Kevin Saylor!! Thank you, Kevin, for all that you do for our clients and many happy returns! 🥳🎂🎈
What are your wellness goals for the new year?
Today and every day, we respectfully honor the legacy of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
What are your expectations for the markets in 2021? Lets discuss how the markets can effect you and your financial goals. Call or email our office.
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The new year can inspire a fresh look at your financial picture. Call or email to schedule time to talk.
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We want to wish a very, Happy Birthday to Kevin Saylor!! Thank you, Kevin, for all that you do for our clients and many happy returns! 🥳🎂🎈
This #blackhistorymonth, we remember 2021 as the 60th anniversary of the Freedom Riders, black and white activists who helped end segregation. Who inspires you?
We are having another virtual, cooking class!! The first one was such a hit that we have asked holistic chef and nutrition educator, Shelly Loving of ShelleyCanHelp.com, to do another one for our Element Wealth family and friends. It will be February 18th, at 6:30 pm EST. Please email Meg at Margaret.Cocroft@ampf.com to reserve your spot! We will be making Italian, chicken stuffed peppers! Feel free to invite family and friends. This will be a lot of fun and we will learn great tips and tricks for healthy cooking! See you there! 🫑🧑🍳
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Today and every day, we respectfully honor the legacy of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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🎂🎉 Happy Birthday, NASDAQ! 50 years old TODAY! 🎈🥳
It was founded in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), now known as the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA).
It’s appropriate that National Time Management Month is the shortest month of the year. This February, let’s find time to talk.
This #blackhistorymonth, we remember 2021 as the 60th anniversary of the Freedom Riders, black and white activists who helped end segregation. Who inspires you?
We are having another virtual, cooking class!! The first one was such a hit that we have asked holistic chef and nutrition educator, Shelly Loving of ShelleyCanHelp.com, to do another one for our Element Wealth family and friends. It will be February 18th, at 6:30 pm EST. Please email Meg at Margaret.Cocroft@ampf.com to reserve your spot! We will be making Italian, chicken stuffed peppers! Feel free to invite family and friends. This will be a lot of fun and we will learn great tips and tricks for healthy cooking! See you there! 🫑🧑🍳
🎂🎉 Happy Birthday, NASDAQ! 50 years old TODAY! 🎈🥳
It was founded in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), now known as the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA).
It’s appropriate that National Time Management Month is the shortest month of the year. This February, let’s find time to talk.
This #blackhistorymonth, we remember 2021 as the 60th anniversary of the Freedom Riders, black and white activists who helped end segregation. Who inspires you?
Kindness and helping others are more important than ever. How do you plan to observe #randomactsofkindness day?
❗️Please note: NEW DATE ALERT❗️
Because of the inclement weather in Texas, we have to reschedule our Virtual Cooking Class that was to take place this Thursday. The new date is Tuesday, February 23 at 6:30 pm est. If you have already registered, please make a note of the change. If you haven’t registered and would still like to attend, we do have a few spaces remaining. Please email Meg at Margaret.Cocroft@ampf.com to reserve your spot ASAP. Thank you for your understanding.
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Congratulations to Todd Mitman, who has been named to the 2021 Forbes Best-in-State Wealth Advisors list. All of us at Element Wealth Advisors are proud to work alongside you to help each of our clients stay focused on, and achieve, their long-term financial goals.
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Today, we are going to feature a home-town entrepreneur, David Tobias Howard. He rose from slavery at his birth in Crawford County, Georgia in 1849, to being called “Atlanta’s most beloved citizen and the city’s pioneer businessman” in the Atlanta Daily World’s obituary of him in 1935.
Howard, who took the name of his slave master after the Civil War, worked as a railroad porter in Atlanta before becoming an undertaker, with his mortuary business eventually making him one of the city's first black millionaires. He was also a founder of the city’s first, black-owned bank, Atlanta State Savings Bank.
Howard was a noted philanthropist and civic activist and his efforts and contributions included support of the Butler Street YMCA, Big Bethel AME Church and education on behalf of Booker T. Washington High School and the Atlanta University Center, according to the Daily World.
Perhaps the most lasting example of his legacy was his donation of the property at 551 John Wesley Dobbs Ave., which from 1923 to it’s closing in 1976 was the site of the David T. Howard School. Among the notable students at the school given by a former slave to educate black Atlantans were Martin Luther King Jr., Maynard Jackson, Vernon Jordan, Herman J. Russell, Eldrin Bell, and Walt Frazier. Howard died at his granddaughter’s house in Atlanta at age 85. His body was taken to the David T. Howard Mortuary.
On a personal note, the school that he helped establish has very recently been renovated and re-opened as an Atlanta middle school. My son is proud to be a student at the David T. Howard Middle School. The building has been empty since 1976 and the renovation, which took over two years, has left a thoughtful and stunning tribute to Mr. Howard’s legacy in Atlanta. Read about the renovation and see pictures at the link below.
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Photos: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Atlanta elementary school was spared from ruin
Today, our very own, Sherry Preslar McFarland, celebrates 20 years in the finance industry!! 20 years of knowledge, helping clients reach their life goals and a lot of smiles along the way. Thank you, Sherry, for everything that you are and everything that you do for Element Wealth Advisors!! Congratulations! 🎈🍾🎉
Today, we are going to feature Madam C. J. Walker. Born under the name “Sarah Breedlove”, Madam C.J. Walker developed a special line of beauty and hair products for black women under her company, “Madame C.J Walker Manufacturing”. Much like Annie Malone, she was one of the first American women to become a self-made millionaire; in fact, it was through Malone's Poro College that she first learned about the science of black cosmetology. Many of her philanthropy efforts went towards anti-lynching. The successful Madam Walker also used her fortune to fund scholarships for women at the Tuskegee Institute and donated large parts of her wealth to the NAACP, the Black YMCA and other charities.
Her daughter, A’Lelia Walker, took over the company after the death of Madam CJ in 1919 and remained in that position until her own demise in 1931. Their incredible story is featured in the Netflix movie, “Self Made”.
EMPLOYEE SPOTLIGHT! ~ Bailey Birol🔦
Bailey was born in Tampa, FL but she didn’t stay there long! At the age of six, she and her family moved to Moscow, Russia for 8 years. After returning to the States, home base became Georgia. Bailey attended Berry College and graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Anthropology. After college, she moved to Texas to work with the primates of the Houston Zoo. She had every intention of returning to Georgia sooner rather than later (Texas is very hot), but decided to stick around because she met this cool guy named Onur who did magic tricks on their first date. They must have been wildly impressive magic tricks because she ended up marrying him in 2016.
They decided to move back to Georgia in 2017 and Bailey changed careers and joined the team at Element Wealth Advisors as an executive assistant. Now, she acts as a financial planning specialist and assists with the collection and entry of client data, running insurance policies, and client follow up.
Bailey and Onur just had their first child, Finley, in January of 2020. He is an absolute joy and Bailey cannot wait until he’s old enough to drive a Go Kart – Onur is less excited about this idea.
I asked Bailey to answer a few questions and got some really fun answers!
~Describe something unique about your childhood/teen years?
I grew up in Russia! My parents did humanitarian work and helped manage an orphanage in Moscow.
~People would be surprised if they knew:
My entire family is obsessed with Formula 1.
~What would you most like to tell your 13-year-old self?
This sounds so cliché, but follow your dreams; however, don’t forget that it’s okay if your dreams change.
~Do you have a pet? What is your favorite thing about them?
According to Onur, we have too many pets. Barnum, the dog. Winchester, the cat. Tupelo, the cockatiel! Don’t tell the other two, but Barnum is the favorite because he’s the best boy.
~Be honest, do you wear elastic waistbands while working remotely?
Yes – yoga pants for days. 😊.
Thank you, Bailey, for everything that you do for our clients and the Element Wealth Team. We appreciate your sense of humor, knowledge of EVERYTHING around the office and seeing Finley’s precious face on the occasional Teams Meeting.
As we continue our celebration of Black entrepreneurs, we are going to talk about Samuel T. Wilcox. S. T. Wilcox, was a retail and wholesale grocery-store entrepreneur in Cincinnati, Ohio. His turned out to be the first, established, grocery store chain, owned by a Black man; selling the highest quality of dried fruit, hams, soaps, and other popular commodities.
His layout of the local store was a feature that attracted many customers. Some say that he had the most extensive business house of its kind and it had more of the appearance of an fine, apothecary store rather than just a simple, grocery house.
Quickly, he became “the largest dealer of provisions in the city,” establishing commercial links with New Orleans and New York. By the mid-1850s, he had mostly rich customers contributing to his $140,000/year annual sales. That’s about $4.2 million in today’s dollars, adjusted for inflation.
Wilcox eventually built up a large wholesale market in New York, Boston, and Baltimore and a local, retail trade among elite families in those cities. When asked why he went into the grocery business, Wilcox said, “I might have bought a farm and lived on my money, but I wished to show, if I could, that colored people could do something besides being barbers…Many advised me not to try, and said nobody would buy groceries of a colored man.”
Kindness and helping others are more important than ever. How do you plan to observe #randomactsofkindness day?
Today, our very own, Sherry Preslar McFarland, celebrates 20 years in the finance industry!! 20 years of knowledge, helping clients reach their life goals and a lot of smiles along the way. Thank you, Sherry, for everything that you are and everything that you do for Element Wealth Advisors!! Congratulations! 🎈🍾🎉
Today, we are going to feature Madam C. J. Walker. Born under the name “Sarah Breedlove”, Madam C.J. Walker developed a special line of beauty and hair products for black women under her company, “Madame C.J Walker Manufacturing”. Much like Annie Malone, she was one of the first American women to become a self-made millionaire; in fact, it was through Malone's Poro College that she first learned about the science of black cosmetology. Many of her philanthropy efforts went towards anti-lynching. The successful Madam Walker also used her fortune to fund scholarships for women at the Tuskegee Institute and donated large parts of her wealth to the NAACP, the Black YMCA and other charities.
Her daughter, A’Lelia Walker, took over the company after the death of Madam CJ in 1919 and remained in that position until her own demise in 1931. Their incredible story is featured in the Netflix movie, “Self Made”.
Today and every day,/we celebrate the achievements of women and support the fight for gender equality. #ChooseToChallenge #IWD2021 #AmeripriseWomen
Today, for Women’s History Month, let’s talk about Lydia Pinkham. Lydia Pinkham reputedly came into possession of a secret medicinal recipe when her husband, Isaac, accepted the formula in lieu of money owed to him. The recipe contained five main herbs—pleurisy root, life root, fenugreek, unicorn root, and black cohosh—and alcohol. Pinkhman brewed her first batch of the soon-to-be-famous Vegetable Compound on her stove, and just three years later, she launched the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co., a home remedy business run by and for women.
Pinkham claimed that her Vegetable Compound could cure a spectrum of female-specific ailments. She started out small, first distributing her compound to neighbors and friends, but in the midst of the financial crisis of 1873—when her husband was ruined—she began selling it and writing female health pamphlets to go alongside it. Her three sons helped her package, market, and sell the compound, and the strategic advertising campaign they implemented was key to the business’s success. She was the first woman to put her own likeness on her product, which helped create brand loyalty and spoke to her target audience: women. Eventually, she was able to expand her business beyond the U.S. and into Canada and Mexico.
There is little evidence proving the medical efficacy of Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, and she is often lumped into the quackery category along with hundreds of other 19th century patent medicine producers. But she was also addressing a need for women-centered health care, which was often inadequate at the time. To find alternative methods of care, and avoid dangerous, expensive doctor visits, women often turned to home remedies—like Pinkham’s compound.
Today, we are learning about a woman who was an early success in the aviation industry, Olive Ann Beech. From an early age, Beech knew how to manage finances. Born in 1903, she had her own bank account by the age of 7, and by 11 she had taken on the unusual childhood responsibility of keeping track of her family’s accounts. Already with a mind for business and finance, Beech enrolled in a business college in her home state of Kansas, where she studied stenography and bookkeeping. After college, she took a position in 1924 as a bookkeeper for Travel Air Manufacturing Company, a new commercial and passenger aviation company.
Beech was fundamental to the company’s growth, managing its correspondence, records, and financial dealings, and the organization quickly became the world’s largest commercial aircraft manufacturer. In a short time, she was promoted to office manager, and eventually became personal secretary to Walter Beech, one of Travel Air’s co-founders. Their working relationship became much more, and they married in 1930. As partners, they formed Beech Aircraft Company, and when Walter fell sick for a few months, Beech took over. With the onset of the U.S.’s entry into World War II, Beech Aircraft boomed, building over 7400 military aircraft over the course of the war.
When Walter died in 1950, Beech became president—the first woman president of a major aircraft company. She then took the company into the Space Age, establishing a research and development facility that supplied NASA with cryogenic systems, cabin pressurizing equipment for the Gemini program, and parts for the Apollo moon flights and Orbiter shuttle. Under Beech’s leadership, the company’s sales tripled.
In 1980, Beech Aircraft merged with Raytheon; Beech stayed on as chair of Beech Aircraft and was elected to Raytheon’s board of directors. Though Beech never piloted an aircraft herself, she was awarded the Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy that same year—the first woman to receive the award—for "five decades of outstanding leadership in the development of general aviation."
The month of March is Women’s History Month. We are going to feature some Women entrepreneurs that you may have never heard of. These remarkable ladies achieved some pretty amazing things and laid the pathway for every other woman that would come after them.
When 22-year-old Margaret Hardenbroeck arrived in New Amsterdam (later New York) from the Netherlands in 1659, she was ambitious and ready to work. She already had a job lined up—collecting debts for a cousin's business. She continued to work even after she married the wealthy merchant, Pieter de Vries, this time as a business agent for several Dutch merchants. She sold small goods, like cooking oil, to the colonists, and bought furs to send to Holland.
When Peter died in 1661, Hardenbroeck inherited his estate and took over his business. She expanded her fur shipping operations in Holland, trading the furs for merchandise to sell back in the colonies. For the Dutch, it was not wholly unusual for women to run businesses on equal footing with men; in New Amsterdam, they sometimes called themselves she-merchants. Hardenbroeck would become the most successful and wealthiest she-merchant in the colony.
Eventually, she was able to purchase her own ship, the King Charles, and accumulated real estate holdings throughout the colonies. Ever the savvy businesswoman, Hardenbroeck ensured that her wealth, properties, and independence were protected when she married her second husband, Frederick Philipse, by choosing an “usus” marriage under Dutch law. That meant she rejected marital guardianship of her husband and communal property, retaining all that was hers prior to marriage. When Hardenbroeck died in 1691, she was the wealthiest woman in New York.
Today, we are going to feature a home-town entrepreneur, David Tobias Howard. He rose from slavery at his birth in Crawford County, Georgia in 1849, to being called “Atlanta’s most beloved citizen and the city’s pioneer businessman” in the Atlanta Daily World’s obituary of him in 1935.
Howard, who took the name of his slave master after the Civil War, worked as a railroad porter in Atlanta before becoming an undertaker, with his mortuary business eventually making him one of the city's first black millionaires. He was also a founder of the city’s first, black-owned bank, Atlanta State Savings Bank.
Howard was a noted philanthropist and civic activist and his efforts and contributions included support of the Butler Street YMCA, Big Bethel AME Church and education on behalf of Booker T. Washington High School and the Atlanta University Center, according to the Daily World.
Perhaps the most lasting example of his legacy was his donation of the property at 551 John Wesley Dobbs Ave., which from 1923 to it’s closing in 1976 was the site of the David T. Howard School. Among the notable students at the school given by a former slave to educate black Atlantans were Martin Luther King Jr., Maynard Jackson, Vernon Jordan, Herman J. Russell, Eldrin Bell, and Walt Frazier. Howard died at his granddaughter’s house in Atlanta at age 85. His body was taken to the David T. Howard Mortuary.
On a personal note, the school that he helped establish has very recently been renovated and re-opened as an Atlanta middle school. My son is proud to be a student at the David T. Howard Middle School. The building has been empty since 1976 and the renovation, which took over two years, has left a thoughtful and stunning tribute to Mr. Howard’s legacy in Atlanta. Read about the renovation and see pictures at the link below.
URBANIZE.CITY
Photos: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Atlanta elementary school was spared from ruin
Today, our very own, Sherry Preslar McFarland, celebrates 20 years in the finance industry!! 20 years of knowledge, helping clients reach their life goals and a lot of smiles along the way. Thank you, Sherry, for everything that you are and everything that you do for Element Wealth Advisors!! Congratulations! 🎈🍾🎉
Today and every day,/we celebrate the achievements of women and support the fight for gender equality. #ChooseToChallenge #IWD2021 #AmeripriseWomen
Spring has sprung! What are you hoping to accomplish this season?
🎂🎉 Happy Birthday, Todd!! 🎈🥳
We want to recognize and celebrate Todd Mitman’s birthday today!! Todd cares deeply for his family, his clients and his team at Element Wealth Advisors. Thank you for being a great example and enjoy your day!! Roll Tide!
~You’re Invited! Virtual Women’s Event!
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In Honor of Women’s History Month 2021, The ladies of Element Wealth Advisors are hosting a special, virtual event! We are having a ladies only, “Girlfriends’ Gathering” on March 25th at 6:15 PM EDT and we want you to join us! We have two women, who are experts in health and finance, lined up to give us some great information, answer questions and help us think about positive habits for the months ahead.
To reserve your spot, please email Meg at Margaret.Cocroft@ampf.com. Invite the other women in your life to join us! We will make room for everyone! See you there!
The new stimulus package is intended to help alleviate the financial impacts of the pandemic. If you have questions, we are here to help.
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Pandemic relief recap
Social Security solvency is an ongoing question. Chief Economist Russell Price discusses the program’s financial status and pandemic impacts.
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Will the pandemic affect Social Security reserves?
This week, we are learning about a giant in the beauty world, Elizabeth Arden. She brought makeup from the stage to everyday life and slowly developed a global empire. Elizabeth Arden, born Florence Nightingale Graham in Woodbridge, Ontario, moved to New York at the age of 30 to pursue her dream of building a cosmetics corporation. There she began working with a chemist to create a beauty cream, something new for the cosmetics industry at that time.
After traveling to Paris in 1912, Arden became the first person to introduce the concept of eye makeup to American women and offered the first makeovers in her 5th Avenue salon. Arden died in 1966, but her brand became as well-known across the U.S. as Singer sewing machines and Coca-Cola. At the end of its fiscal year in June 2007, the company reported $1.1 billion in net sales, up more than 18 percent from $955 million in 2006.
Spring has sprung! What are you hoping to accomplish this season?
🎂🎉 Happy Birthday, Todd!! 🎈🥳
We want to recognize and celebrate Todd Mitman’s birthday today!! Todd cares deeply for his family, his clients and his team at Element Wealth Advisors. Thank you for being a great example and enjoy your day!! Roll Tide!
~You’re Invited! Virtual Women’s Event!
👩🏻🍳🧕👩🏽💻
In Honor of Women’s History Month 2021, The ladies of Element Wealth Advisors are hosting a special, virtual event! We are having a ladies only, “Girlfriends’ Gathering” on March 25th at 6:15 PM EDT and we want you to join us! We have two women, who are experts in health and finance, lined up to give us some great information, answer questions and help us think about positive habits for the months ahead.
To reserve your spot, please email Meg at Margaret.Cocroft@ampf.com. Invite the other women in your life to join us! We will make room for everyone! See you there!
