FOR WOMEN AT THE THRESHOLD
The transitions rarely arrive alone.
Financial guidance for women navigating more than one at the same time.
A diagnosis. A job ending.
A child who needs more than anyone planned for.
A parent whose care shifts overnight.
These rarely happen in sequence.
They arrive together, and they change what your money is being asked to do.
WHEN SEVERAL CHAPTERS OPEN AT ONCE
A single transition is already demanding. Concurrent ones reshape everything.
Converging transitions change cash flow, timelines, decision capacity, and long horizon plans at the same time. The usual advice to take your time and revisit things later stops being useful when later is already here. This is the terrain Threshold Compass was built for.
WHY THIS WORK EXISTS
I built Threshold Compass out of a season I lived through, not one I read about.
An infant with complex medical needs. A reduction in force after twelve years with the same employer. A mother moving through breast cancer. A senior dog in his last chapter. All at the same time.
When I say I understand the weight of converging transitions, and what they ask of a financial life in the day to day and over the long horizon, I mean it. I have been inside it.
Teresa McAlpine, Founder
HOW WE BEGIN
The first conversation is not about products or plans.
It is about understanding what is actually happening in your life right now.
What is steady. What is shifting. What needs to hold.
From there, we work at a pace that respects both the urgency and the fatigue.
