Twenty-five years ago this week, I dropped my son off at school and drove past Blount Memorial Hospital to my office at PaineWebber in Maryville. I was an old-fashioned stockbroker in those days. The Internet was still in its infancy. Social media didn’t exist. My morning routine was scanning a few investment message boards and...

The last weekend of August, the Little River in Townsend is wall to wall inner tubes. You can’t find a place to park at the Wye. The rental line runs out into the gravel, and 321 backs up past the fire hall. Ten days later it’s over. The tubes are stacked and chained. The water...

Every time a new financial account or tax strategy makes headlines, the same cycle begins. Excitement builds. Marketing ramps up. And before long, people are asking the same question: “Should I get one?” It’s a fair question. But it’s rarely the first one we should ask. At LeConte Wealth, we don’t believe in collecting financial...

“Don’t let the fear of failing keep you from trying. If you do fail, use what you learned to do better next time.” Those were the words the announcer shouted over the microphone as we stood at the starting line of the Spartan Race in Asheville, North Carolina. He was trying to prepare us for...