Kristi Andersen, CFP

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Principal, Kristi L. Andersen Financial Partners, LLC

For over twenty five years Kristi has been helping women, their families and their businesses navigate their most important financial decisions. Kristi considers it a privilege to help women learn that good stewardship and financial planning can be one of the best, most rewarding things they have ever done for themselves. Kristi speaks to numerous women's groups about taking charge of their financial stewardship. She is single and lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota with her dog "Rizzo".

Favorite Resources

www.masteryourmoney.com; Family Means Credit Counseling (www.familymeans.org) What's My Score? (www.whatsmyscore.org); BankRate.com (www.bankrate.com); www.kristilandersen.com

Content Kristi wrote

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Confessions from a Zombie
03/14/13

Are you like the "walking dead" when it comes to your money?

I confess I use to be a zombie. Not the kind where I was dead and then came back to life by some supernatural power. I was someone who, when it came to spending and credit cards, was just like the walking dead: Marching through the malls, I would buy whatever I “needed,” not thinking about how much things cost and how I was going to pay it all back.

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The "Lance Armstrong" of Your Money
01/31/13

Are you on the path that God intends or setting yourself up for the big collapse?

Recently Lance Armstrong, the seven time winner of the Tour de France cycling road race, confessed to doping through his career as a cyclist.

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If You Had A Crystal Ball To See the Future, What Would You See?
01/3/13

Where would you like to see yourself and your family in 10, 15, or 20 years from now?

I have a passion for volunteering and have spent most of my free time working for organizations that help women in some way. It is my hobby and my calling.  A number of years ago one of my volunteer gigs was being a mentor to a single mother I will call Mary. Mary had applied to a program through the Salvation Army called Project Breakthrough.

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INVEST LIKE A GIRL
12/13/12

God has uniquely gifted women to manage money and use it to make the world a better place for His purposes.

Investing like a girl may sound like a derogatory comment about women. For example, if you throw like a girl, it usually means you can’t throw a ball! But it is different for investing. Studies have shown that women have a better temperament for making investments.

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You Always Have a Choice
11/29/12

When God looks at my checkbook, what does He think?

When God looks at my checkbook, what does He think? The first thing I think about when I think about this question is a budget. How do I know if I am being a good steward in how I spend my money if I don’t know where it is going? So a budget is a perfect solution to the question where is all my money going?

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How Your Personality Affects Your Financial Decision-making
09/27/12

Your Checkbook Reflects your Unique Personality!

The recent volatility in the stock market has everyone a little jumpy – even folks who have worked with a trusted financial planner for years. But if you’ve never worked with a planner before, one of the first things he or she will do is make you fill out a risk analysis questionnaire.

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A Husband is Not a Financial Plan!
06/14/12

Are you waiting to take charge, hoping someone else will take care of it, or delegating your stewardship?

A 25-year-old college-educated woman earns $523,000 less over her lifetime than her male counterpart according to Americans for a Secure Retirement, "The Female Factor," September 2005.

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Being a Good Steward, It's not Just about Money!
05/24/12

Stewardship not only involves money, but our time and talents. What does God say about "work" and stewardship?

The question this month is “Am I being a good steward of the gifts and abilities God has given me?”

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There is an App for that!
03/15/12

Does your financial situation seem overwhelming, confusing, or too boring a topic to even look at? Well, there is an App for that!

I work with numerous women and their families on their financial planning goals.  Many come to me with no idea where to start.  So here is the secret to life-long financial planning – Know how much money is coming in and where the money goes.

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What Does God have to Say about Debt?
02/2/12

What does God have to Say about Debt? And are you listening?

The short answer to this question is right out of Proverbs.  Proverbs 22:7 states, “The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower becomes the lender’s slave.”  There are no exceptions to this rule; no one borrows their way to wealth.  This piece of wisdom was hard to convince many people of just a few short years ago.  We now have the wisdom of hindsight as to what happens

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