Financial Planning

Will You Leave A Mess When You Die?

Mariko O. Gordon, CFA
2 min readMay 11, 2021

I had a friend who dropped dead on his way to work.

He was walking to his office in midtown from Penn Station when he had a heart attack and collapsed on the sidewalk. He was a securities lawyer in his 40s, a great guy, and a pillar in the Japanese American community. He’d gotten married late in life and was a new father. His daughter was still a…

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Mariko O. Gordon, CFA

Built $2.5B money mgmt biz from scratch. Coaching badass women to build & love their businesses, manage their finances, and make sure the thrill is never gone.