BiggerPockets Money Podcast

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For those who have money… or want more of it!
Join Mindy Jensen and Scott Trench (from BiggerPockets.com) weekly for the BiggerPockets Money Podcast. Each week, financial experts Mindy and Scott interview unique and powerful thought leaders about how to earn more, keep more, spend smarter, and grow wealth.

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418: Replacing His Wife’s $...

06.05.2023

An online side hustle that replaces your $100K salary in year one!? It sounds like an impossible feat, but today’s guest was able to achieve this by launching an unusual ecommerce business—allowing his wife to quit her job and stay ...

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06.05.2023 418: Replacing His Wife’s $100K Salary in Year ONE with THIS Online Side Hustle An online side hustle that replaces your $100K salary in year one!? It sounds like an impossible feat, but today’s guest was able to achieve this by launching an unusual ecommerce business—allowing his wife to quit her job and stay ...
06.02.2023 417: Finance Friday: Why I Spent $100K+ on My Four-Legged Friend Pet insurance probably isn’t a top priority for you right now. Your budget might have health, car, and home insurance, but pet insurance? Is it really worth the cost? Today we talk to David, an engineer and part-time wilderness trip ...
05.29.2023 416: Codie Sanchez: These “Boring Businesses” Will Make You Rich Want to replace your nine-to-five? You'll need to know how to buy a business. And while you may think that you need to be some high-level executive or business-building savant, the reality is that TONS of profitable businesses are selling ...
05.26.2023 415: Finance Friday: How to Achieve Your “Dream Life” Decades Before Retirement Retirement is always some far-off goal. When you’re older and much more wealthy, you can live the golden years of your life without a care in the world. The problem? None of us know how much time we have left, ...
05.22.2023 414: Nicole Lapin's Money Hacks to Rehab Your Finances & Say Goodbye to Bad Debt Wish you had a few money hacks to help with things like getting out of debt, finding the right assets to invest in, and growing your nest egg? The average person may not even know where to start! Today’s guest ...
05.19.2023 413: Finance Friday: How to Use Your Home to Retire YEARS Earlier Early retirement is possible for almost anyone, no matter where you start or how much you make. If you can sacrifice and save more than you spend, there’s a good chance you could retire years or even decades earlier than ...
05.17.2023 412: The Beginner's Blueprint to Buying $0 Down Real Estate w/ “Creative Finance” Pace Morby built an 1,800-unit real estate portfolio using none of his own money. Unbelievable right? Well, it’s 100% true, and he’s here today to tell you why most of what you know about real estate investing is entirely wrong. ...
05.15.2023 411: How to “Quiet Quit” Your 9-5 Job and Become a Full-Time Boss While the job of a full-time content creator might seem glamorous from the outside looking in, make no mistake—there’s plenty of work involved, and it’s not always easy to get your business off the ground. Our next guest spent years ...
05.12.2023 410: From Homeless at 14 to Debt-Free Homeowner AFTER Prison Time A debt-free homeowner with an emergency fund and a keen eye for personal finance? A few years ago, Jazmyn Gray wouldn’t have dreamed that’s how her life turned out. From a young age, Jazmyn was thrown into drug addiction, homelessness, ...
05.08.2023 409: How to Use Your First Home to Fast-Track Wealth As a first-time home buyer, you may be struggling to make a move. And who can blame you? In 2023, with high mortgage rates and stiff competition, more and more would-be home buyers are staying put as renters—but this could ...
05.05.2023 408: Finance Friday: Why Retiring Early Isn’t As Simple As You Think Early retirement is the holy grail of financial freedom. With a large enough nest egg, you no longer have to work, giving you the time to spend with your family and friends or do whatever you want. The problem? Hitting ...
05.01.2023 407: 8 Rentals in 8 Years and Unlocking MASSIVE Tax Breaks with One Career Move Think it might be too late for you to enjoy the spoils of real estate investing? Well, you’d be wrong! Regardless of age, background, or financial circumstances, it’s never too late to switch careers and become a real estate investor. ...
04.28.2023 406: Finance Friday: Why FORCING Your Way to FIRE Isn’t The Way The road to early retirement isn’t easy. Once you become dead-set on finding financial freedom, your entire world turns upside down. For many of us, this means spending as little as possible, ditching takeout, saying goodbye to expensive events, and ...
04.26.2023 405: Slash Your Food Budget by $150+ Per Week with EASY, Healthy, and Tasty Meals Healthy meals that taste great AND save you money? Surely, you can’t have all three! Today’s guest would beg to differ. After deciding roughly six years ago to embrace a healthy lifestyle, she made it her personal mission to find ...
04.24.2023 404: How to Build Wealth in Three Simple Steps The formula to build wealth isn’t complicated. Most American millionaires have figured it out, and you might have as well. It’s safe to say that almost every wealthy American has followed these three steps that lead to a life of ...
04.21.2023 403: Finance Friday: Stay at Home with Kids or Work to Hit FI Faster? Financial freedom vs. family time. If done correctly, you can have both; but living the best of both worlds is impossible without sacrifice. For new parents, switching from a dual-income household to a single full-time income overnight can be a ...
04.17.2023 402: Tax Day Q&A: Live CPAs Help YOU Owe Less To the IRS Tax season is a nerve-racking time for many, especially for those who don’t have simple tax returns. If you’re a real estate investor, you need top-notch tax advice if you hope to reap the best tax savings when filing—legally, of ...
04.14.2023 401: The Post-Passing Plan: 3 Steps to Protect Your Family’s Financial Future How important are beneficiary designations? What happens if you die without a will? What are intestate succession laws? Death is a subject that most people want to avoid, especially when it intersects with finances. Unfortunately, these are necessary questions to ...
04.10.2023 400: Mindy and Scott’s Money Stories and Why They WON’T Retire Early Being able to retire early is a blessing and a curse. When you first start working a job, all you can think of is escaping your everyday responsibilities. The mind-numbing tasks, the early mornings, late nights, horrible bosses—it all adds ...
04.07.2023 399: Financially Free in 10 Years by Using Real Estate the Right Way Want to retire early in your 30s? Early retirement may be closer than you think. With smart money moves, intelligent investments, and the ability to save more than you spend, you could trade forty-hour work weeks for full days with ...
04.03.2023 398: How to Change Your Financial Life with a Money “Reset” For so long, early retirement has been THE goal of those chasing financial independence. Can you imagine waking up with unlimited time, not having to work, and reporting to no one but yourself? Now imagine that day in and day ...
03.31.2023 397: Estate Planning, Wills, and What to Do NOW to Protect Your Heirs Financial freedom allows you to do what you want, when you want, and with who you want. But it’s not just for lounging in hammocks or jet-setting around the world. When tragedy strikes, a sudden loss occurs, and you need ...
03.27.2023 396: The Investments That Will Give You COMPLETE Time Freedom You want to retire early, but odds are, you think that you can’t. Whether it’s a high-stress job, a business that requires your full attention, or just the belief that you MUST be working, most Americans don’t think they can ...
03.24.2023 395: Finance Friday: House Hacking, Side Hustles, and the Path to FI by 45 Want to hit FIRE? You’ll need a smart side hustle. We’re talking about income-doubling, cash-printing, serious side businesses that will allow you to leave your job and grow a substantial income stream, so you can invest the rest andreach the ...
03.20.2023 394: Ask the Money Experts: Backdoor Roths, Bad Debt, & When to Fire Your Financial Advisor Retirement investing, bad debt, backdoor Roth IRAs, bonds, and starting a business. If you’re just beginning your personal finance journey, this can all seem a bit complicated. Where do you invest first? What should you do with extra cash? And ...
03.17.2023 393: SVB's Risky Bailout and The Bank Run “Domino Effect” Both SVB (Silicon Valley Bank) and Signature Bank have crashed and burned dramatically over the past week. What once was a few large customers making withdrawals quickly turned into a bank run of epic proportions. Within just a few days, ...
03.13.2023 392: Kevin O'Leary: Ultimate Investing Advice from Mr. Wonderful Kevin O’Leary (AKA Mr. Wonderful) might be the world’s favorite (and most outspoken) investor. You’ve probably seen him on Shark Tank, where he’s doing deals with startups, putting overconfident entrepreneurs in their place, and often making boring products into billion-dollar ...
03.10.2023 391: Finance Friday: Why “Doing Everything Yourself” is Costing You THOUSANDS Your small business could be the key to financial independence, early retirement, and more income than your W2 is paying you. But, most small business owners don’t understand the best way to grow their income stream. With a DIY mentality, ...
03.06.2023 390: Why Your Whole Life Insurance (Probably) Won’t Ever Profit Is whole life insurance a scam or a worthwhile investment? You may have heard us talk about whole life insurance before, but we’d bet we’re not the only ones mentioning it to you. Your financial advisor, business partner, parents, or ...
03.03.2023 389: Finance Friday: How to DOUBLE Your Net Worth in 1 Year (or Less!) Doubling your net worth in only a year? Seems impossible, right? Is making such massive money moves during a down market even realistic? If you think it can’t be done, tune in, and you’ll hear exactly how repeat guest Yourri ...
02.27.2023 388: Twitter’s “Warning Shot” and What to Look for When Investing in Tech Twitter’s massive layoffs affected the tech industry more than people think. For years, tech stocks ran with enormous valuations, with over-inflated workforces of employees getting paid six-figure salaries with even more impressive bonus packages. This wasn’t sustainable by any means, ...
02.24.2023 387: Finance Friday: Is Staying At Your Job Costing You More Than You Think? 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 you to Tiffany, a twenty-three-year-old ...
02.20.2023 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 advice ...
02.17.2023 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 trapped equity to ...
02.13.2023 384: How Red Robin’s Waiter of the Year Built MULTIPLE 9-Figure Businesses 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 the fastest-growing ...
02.10.2023 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 revenue, or a personal connection with ...
02.06.2023 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 winning a ...
02.03.2023 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 rarely ever ...
01.30.2023 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 hundreds of thousands of ...
01.27.2023 379: Finance Friday: Stock-Based Compensation Explained and Tax Traps to Avoid 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 stock purchase plans (ESPPs), and restricted stock ...
01.25.2023 378: Billion-Dollar Jackpots and the Bright Side of Buying a Lottery Ticket “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 ...
01.23.2023 377: Mr. Money Mustache on Life After FI: The Truth About Retiring Early in Your 30s 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 movement ...
01.20.2023 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 lending, but it comes ...
01.18.2023 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 moretraditional investors called cryptocurrency an outright fraud, while ...
01.16.2023 374: Private Equity: Passive, Profitable Investments You’ve Probably Never Heard Of 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 ...
01.13.2023 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 ...
01.11.2023 372: Franchises 101: How to Find, Fund, and Profit from Owning a Franchise 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 have ...
01.09.2023 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 ...
01.06.2023 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-cleaning operation into a profitable business ...
01.04.2023 369: The Capitalist Cult: How MLMs and Pyramid Schemes Trap Average Americans 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 buy. Buy this ...

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