Episodes

What do you think of when you think about retirement ? Are you on a tropical island drinking fruity cocktails out of a coconut? If you dream about that sort of retirement, Steve Adcock may have some revealing words for you. R...

Sometimes having a lot of cash can be dangerous. Would you rather be sitting on months (or even years) worth of emergency reserves or have your money be challenging inflation by sitting in investments like index funds or real...

A lot of people in the financial independence community successfully get out of debt, but not many of them get out of debt and then start a monthly six-figure side business . One person who has done that is Deacon Hayes. Deac...

Making too much money is a good problem to have, and it’s one that many people in the Bay Area experience. Today we talk to Laurin, a mother of two, making $281,000 a year when combining her salary with her husband’s. They’re...

Dee Olateru doesn’t have the traditional FI story, but it didn’t take her long to catch onto the concepts that now allow her to live a life exactly how she sees fit. Dee immigrated to the United States from Nigeria when she w...

Investments galore! This week, we talk to Jeana and Scott, a couple with a hefty amount of investments under their belt. We know what you’re thinking, “what type of stocks and real estate are they investing in?” This is where...

Darius Smith always knew how to make money, but wasn’t very good at saving it. Growing up, he had jobs ranging from delivering phone books, to running paper routes, to even putting up eviction notices on homes. He opened his ...

Entrepreneurs work long, stressful hours, and as a result, they get paid the big bucks. This is the position that Stephanie, a freelance Salesforce consultant is in. She makes a respectable income, bringing in $14,000 after t...

You may have heard the term “ real estate syndication ” thrown out quite a lot over the past few years. It seems like almost every real estate investor is either starting a real estate syndication or investing in one. So what...

Combining finances can be complicated, but what’s even more complicated is combining one salary with two inconsistent business accounts. How do you manage the household’s budget when you don’t know what will be coming in ever...

Rahkim Sabree “aspired to be poor” when he was growing up. He saw his parents collecting section 8 housing vouchers, getting food stamps, and thought that this was the way life was. He didn’t grow up around many homeowners. A...

Amanda is making a teacher’s salary and spending her weekends working a part-time job at a grocery store. She contributes to her retirement accounts, but she could be sitting on a passive income gold mine that she doesn’t rea...

After years and years of working in licensing, Diania Merriam opened up her credit report and saw that she was (collectively) $30,000 in debt . This forced her to ask the question, “what am I working for?” It made sense at th...

It’s hard to imagine what someone is going through once they’re given a cancer diagnosis . The last thing many people want to think about during such a troubling time is finances. This was true for Zachary , who’s combined ne...

Growing up in Mexico, Saul Tijerina didn’t fully understand the concept of financing. It wasn’t that he couldn’t conceptualize financing, it was more that he wasn’t around it enough to think of it as an option. In Mexico, ev...

Starting a strong financial position in your youth is probably the most important thing you can do to hit financial independence . Sometimes that strong position includes maxing out retirement accounts, like Roth IRAs, 401(k)...

It’s nice to hear a fan of the BiggerPockets Money Show talk about how they are on the path to financial freedom . It’s even nicer when we hear that the fan, Melissa Yi, went from a negative net worth to now $100k+ due to som...

Teachers do a lot more than we give them credit for (as shown throughout the past year and a half), but sadly, they don’t get paid terribly high salaries. Today’s guest, Stephanie, is a music teacher for young children and is...

Growing up, Bola Sokunbi had some serious financial influence from her parents. Her father would tell her “Don’t be penny wise and pound foolish” while her mom showed her the importance of being an independent woman who could...

We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: it’s never too early to start your journey to financial independence . Today we talk to Mackenzie , a 23-year-old college graduate, working a government job and paying for only min...

Part of the reason we started the BiggerPockets Money Show was to share financial stories from all different backgrounds, giving you, the listener, confidence to reach your financial goals regardless of the stage you’re at in...

For most people, there tends to be a specific point in your life when you think, “I want to travel” or “I want to spend time pursuing my passions”. For today’s guest Ainsley, this happened about two years ago. She has spent t...

There are lots of twists and turns throughout every investor's journey, but maybe not as many as Zeona McIntyre ’s. Growing up with the words of Suze Orman in her ear, Zeona knew that there were a few things she had to do, li...

We all know someone who hustles. Maybe it’s your sibling or your friend, or maybe you’re the hustler in your group . Those who hustle to make more money seem to always find new ways to bring in more cash, and that’s exactly w...