Modern financial planning focuses on flexible, resilient strategies rooted in core fundamentals—not market predictions or product picks. Recently, I overheard two teenagers talking at a coffee shop. One was helping the other with homework, phone in hand, when I heard it: “Just chat it.” Not “Google it”. Not “look it up.” Just chat it. That phrase stopped me in my tracks. It was subtle, almost nothing. But it marked the passing of something significant. For nearly two decades, “Google it” was the default response to life’s unknowns. It became synonymous with learning and truth…please click here.
‘Chat it’ is the new ‘Google it’: A wake-up call for financial planning