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Feb. 23, 2023

387: Finance Friday: Is Staying At Your Job Costing You More Than You…

Most people assume that buying rental properties is only for those making six-figure salaries. How can the average American afford the sizeable down payment and high interest rates of today’s housing market? Let us introduce ...

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Feb. 19, 2023

386: How to Build Wealth While Working for Tips

Look up any “ how to retire early ” guide online, and you’ll see some basic information: invest in your 401(k), take advantage of your employer match, buy real estate, and invest the rest in index funds. While this type of ad...

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Feb. 16, 2023

385: How to Use Equity in Your Home to Reach Financial Freedom Faster

Your home equity could be the secret sauce to earlier retirement . With so many homeowners and rental property investors across the nation sitting on hundreds of thousands in home equity , one asks, “what if you used this tra...

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Feb. 12, 2023

384: How Red Robin’s Waiter of the Year Built MULTIPLE 9-Figure Busin…

Every entrepreneur wants to build a nine-figure business . Even a million dollars in revenue seems like a dream to the everyday American. So how did a Red Robin waiter , making five-dollar tips, leave college to start one of ...

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Feb. 9, 2023

383: The Hidden World of Credit Hacks That Leads to 0% Interest Loans

Knowing how to build business credit could be the difference between starting your dream business or waiting on the sidelines. And while most people think that building business credit requires years of income, million-dollar...

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Feb. 5, 2023

382: HGTV Dream Home or Financial Headache? The Truth About Winning

What if you won the HGTV Dream Home ? If you’ve heard of the sweepstakes before, you know what it feels like to watch the walkthroughs, read about the top-tier renovations , and imagine yourself soaking in the bliss of winnin...

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Feb. 2, 2023

381: Is Financial Fear Stopping You from Living the Life You Dream Of?

Knowing how to build wealth may come as a given for most investors. Buy assets, hold on to them, profit, and repeat. While this formula may seem simplistic at first glance, the emotional side behind investing is something rar...

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Jan. 29, 2023

380: Surviving a Layoff: What HR Wants You to Know?

The 2023 tech layoffs have already begun to make the 2022 tech layoffs look like small-scale firings. What started as a few large companies firing unneeded hires quickly ramped up to an industry-wide cost-cutting exercise as ...

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Jan. 26, 2023

379: Finance Friday: Stock-Based Compensation Explained and Tax Traps…

For the entry-level worker, employee stock options may seem completely foreign. But for most tech workers, this is commonplace and can be highly lucrative if understood correctly . In short, employee stock options, employee s...

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Jan. 24, 2023

378: Billion-Dollar Jackpots and the Bright Side of Buying a Lottery …

“ What to do if you win the lottery ." This question is getting more online searches than ever before. But what would you do? The wheels start turning as soon as those lucky numbers get picked. You stare down at your ticket i...

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Jan. 22, 2023

377: Mr. Money Mustache on Life After FI: The Truth About Retiring Ea…

Mr. Money Mustache is the internet’s poster child for early retirement. At age thirty, Pete Adeney was able to leave a lucrative job as a software engineer to focus on building a financially free life. He brought the FIRE mov...

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Jan. 19, 2023

376: Margin Loans: Low-Interest Lending or Risky Rates?

Margin loans could be the sneakiest way to snag a low-interest rate loan in today’s Fed-influenced environment. What most investors don’t know is that you can use your stock portfolio as collateral to get massively discounted...

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Jan. 17, 2023

375: FTX, Fraud, and the Case for Cryptocurrency in 2023

Cryptocurrency is dead in the mind of most investors. What started as an awe-inspiring investment reaching massive multiples in just months , quickly became a subject of contention within the investing community. Some more tr...

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Jan. 15, 2023

374: Private Equity: Passive, Profitable Investments You’ve Probably …

Private equity is a term often left undefined. Ask most people if they’ve heard of private equity, and they’ll say yes. But ask them to explain what it is or how it works, and most Americans will struggle to come up with even...

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Jan. 12, 2023

373: The Money Show’s Guide to Personal Finance for Beginners

Mastering personal finance is one of the most important things anyone can do. If you know where your money is coming from, where it’s going, and how to make more of it, you can retire comfortably , retire early , or have less...

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Jan. 10, 2023

372: Franchises 101: How to Find, Fund, and Profit from Owning a Fran…

Want to buy a business ? If so, you’ll need franchises explained . At first, franchises seem like something only for fast food, gas stations, or hotel chains. But, in reality, a whole world of businesses are up for sale that ...

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Jan. 8, 2023

371: Bitcoin: Investing Fad or Final Bullet to Fiat Currency?

Asking for Bitcoin explained is like asking how a rocket works; it's a little complex. A digital currency is valued at a certain amount of dollars (or euros, yen, etc.) and is used to pay for goods or exchange for other curre...

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Jan. 5, 2023

370: Finance Friday: How to Build a Six-Figure Business (in Your 20s!)

How can a simple pressure washing business make you six figures of income a year? With a startup cost of only a couple hundred dollars , today’s guest Chris expanded his pressure washing, Christmas light-hanging, gutter-clean...

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Jan. 3, 2023

369: The Capitalist Cult: How MLMs and Pyramid Schemes Trap Average A…

Multi-level marketing companies ( MLMs ) operate in secrecy . They don’t want you to know where the products are coming from, how they’re being sold, who’s making a profit, and how the business works. They only want you to bu...

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Jan. 1, 2023

368: Lynne Twist’s “Want Less, Obtain More” Philosophy All FI-Chasers…

Lynne Twist ’s The Soul of Money sparked a conversation we needed to have. It didn’t make people think “how do I make more money,” instead it asked, “ what world am I making with the money I have? ” For decades, Lynne has bee...

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Dec. 29, 2022

367: Finance Friday: Tips to Build a House Hack STACK in Your 20s

Couch flipping may be the best side hustle you’ve never heard of. It’s so lucrative that today’s guest Parker used couch flipping to save up his down payment for his first house hack! Of course, who could have assumed otherwi...

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Dec. 25, 2022

366: The Repeatable Steps to Financial Freedom in 4 Years w/TheFICoup…

Financial independence means something different to everyone. For some, it means having enough to not worry about being laid off. For others, it could mean making more money to buy a yacht, but for Ali and Josh (TheFICouple) ...

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Dec. 22, 2022

365: Finance Friday: How to Become Real Estate Ready in 2023

Don’t know how to become a millionaire ? There’s a pretty simple formula for seven-figure wealth that the average American doesn’t know about. It isn’t complicated, but it does take a fair amount of time to come to fruition. ...

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Dec. 18, 2022

364: Divorce: The Biggest Marriage and Money Mistakes to Avoid

Everyone makes financial mistakes , even those that we trust with money the most. Rachel “Money Honey” Richards to many people online is the epitome of someone who has their finances locked down. She grew a massive real estat...

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