Employees

My homeowner clients often have a wish list of home improvement projects. Embarking on a major renovation for the first time can feel daunting. I collected my clients’ FAQs and interviewed Alice [...]

All adults, including young adults, singles, and the child-free, should have an estate plan. Estate planning is about ensuring your wishes are honored upon your death or incapacitation. Although [...]

Escaping the Bay Area or California altogether has been a hot topic in the news. In 2020, many people left the expensive Bay Area, which led to massive drops in SF rents. I was interviewed on [...]

RSUs (Restricted Stock Units) are company stock that will be paid according to a vesting schedule. The taxation of RSUs isn’t straightforward. And what’s even more difficult is [...]

Incentive Stock Options are complicated. If you’re an early employee of Affirm, Snowflake, or soon-to-IPO companies like Coinbase, you likely are facing a windfall. Before you go down the [...]

Congratulations on your company’s IPO! Now comes the hard part as you wait for the lockup period to end. Traditionally, companies enforced a 180-day lockup period. Recent IPOs from Affirm, [...]

Transitions, even positive ones like a financial windfall from an IPO, can be overwhelming. You may be uncertain about what to do with your upcoming windfall from your company’s IPO. [...]

In part one of the Open Enrollment series, I discussed the three most valuable benefits offered by most companies: health insurance, Flex Spending Accounts (FSA), and Health Savings Accounts [...]

Open enrollment season approaches. The acronyms and jargon are overwhelming: PPO, EPO, HMO, FSA, HSA, deductible, co-pay, co-insurance…You could give up and choose the same benefits for [...]

COVID-19 continues to rage around the world. A young product manager and MIT graduate shared her sad story of being unable to work since recovering from a viral infection like COVID-19 in 2009. [...]