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Honest and uncensored - this is not your father’s boring finance show. This show brings much needed ACTIONABLE advice to a people who hate being lectured about personal finance from the out-of-touch one percent. Andrew and Matt are relatable, funny, and brash. Their down-to-earth discussions about money are entertaining whether you’re a financial whiz or just starting out. To be a part of the show and get your financial questions answered, send an email to [email protected]

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A Simple Strategy for Renta...

05.11.2020

Today we’re talking about our simple strategy for owning and managing rental properties. We have a course called Rental Properties for Passive Investors and we got some feedback that we think it’s important to address. Show Notes Investable Rental Properties ...

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05.11.2020 A Simple Strategy for Rental Properties Today we’re talking about our simple strategy for owning and managing rental properties. We have a course called Rental Properties for Passive Investors and we got some feedback that we think it’s important to address. Show Notes Investable Rental Properties ...
05.04.2020 That Will Never Work with Netflix Co-Founder Marc Randolph Today we have a guest on the show - the Co-Founder and first CEO of Netflix. Marc Randolph to talk about his new book That Will Never work. The real-life, totally improbable story of Netflix’s early days, told in Marc ...
04.13.2020 The Great Index Fund Takeover Is there’s an index fund bubble? Today we’re talking about how index funds are taking over and how the state of index funds should affect how you invest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
04.06.2020 Golden Butterfly Update - Will It Weather The Storm Today we’re taking a look at how the Golden Butterfly has performed in the recent market correction compared to other investment strategies. We will be looking at The Golden Butterfly, The All Weather Portfolio; and Vanguard’s Total Stock Index and ...
03.30.2020 5 Questions: Foreclosures, Bootcamps and Timing The Market Today is 5 questions episode and we will be talking about foreclosures as a real estate investment, coding bootcamps, timing the market, Fundrise IPO and managing financial goals in your relationship. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
03.23.2020 How to Buy Income-Producing Websites It is no secret that Andrew and I each own multiple online businesses that earn us passive income. Before we started we had no idea what we were doing. It’s not easy to start a website from scratch and if ...
03.16.2020 The Modern Payday Loan Today we are talking about payday loans or what some new fin-tech companies are now calling “early wage access”. These companies seem to be disguising predatory lending with shiny new apps geared towards millennials making it even easier to get ...
03.02.2020 5 Questions: Dividend Stocks, The Fisher Effect and Employee Stock Options Today is 5 questions episode and we will be talking about dividend stocks, The Fisher Effect, employees stock options. non-taxable accounts and what to do if history repeats itself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
02.17.2020 The Rule of 55, Explained Today is we are talking about the Rule of 55. We’ve gotten quite a few listeners who have asked us to cover this so today we wanted to explain exactly what it is and how it works. The Rule of ...
02.10.2020 To Franchise Or Not To Franchise Today we are answering a question from a listener, Andres about buying into a franchise and how they look as business opportunity. We get into actual franchise profitability, compare two popular franchises and explain how one franchisee makes over $2 ...
02.03.2020 How Female Breadwinners (Really) Make It Work Outdated gender roles persist both at home and in the office, here’s how one woman makes it work. Our guest today the Director of Global Partnerships and founder of Breadwinning Women at Google, and the host of her own podcast ...
01.27.2020 5 Questions: Inverse ETF’s, Saving For a House and REIT Investing Today is 5 questions episode and we will be talking about REIT investing, inverse ETF’s, Gold, saving for a house and IRA’s. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
01.20.2020 The World Has Gone Mad and the System Is Broken Ray Dalio recently published an essay called “The World Has Gone Mad and the System is Broken”. When looking at the current state of the global economy he said: “This set of circumstances is unsustainable and certainly can no longer ...
01.13.2020 Why Rich People are Cheap Accordingly to the Fidelity Millionaire Outlook Survey, 86% of millionaires are self-made. Even more remarkable, 78% of them started out as middle class or poor. Only 22% grew up in the upper class. That means that the vast majority of ...
01.06.2020 How We're Investing Our Money This Year We’re often asked where we are putting our money and, that question has never been more important to us personally. Especially considering the direction the winds are blowing and our feelings with what is happening in the world. We'll be ...
11.25.2019 How To Retire Early with Mr. Money Mustache (Rebroadcast) Mr Money Mustache didn't retire because he was making so much money from his blog. He had actually been retired for six years before he started writing. The blog was born when he looked around at his friends who had ...
11.18.2019 How to Reduce Taxable Income With Advanced IRA Strategies The biggest expenses in life are taxes and interest. If we can minimize those two things, we will put much more money in our own pockets and add many more years to our retirements. Our guest, the Mad Fientist delves ...
11.11.2019 Go Fire Yourself With Laurel Staples (Rebroadcast) Laurel Staples joins us to teach us how to forget the American dream and talk about her journey becoming an entrepreneur. Start living our own dreams on our own terms. In 2007 Laurel quit her job as a mechanical engineer ...
11.04.2019 Are We Loving Our Kids Too Much with Adam Carroll (Rebroadcast) What a weird concept. Loving your kids too much. But it can be true. By giving them too much, by coddling them from every possible disappointment, we turn them into ineffectual adults. From ensuring that everyone gets a trophy to ...
10.28.2019 Personal Money Horror Stories (Rebroadcast) It’s almost Halloween and nothing is more frightening than money horror stories. Close the blinds, turn off the lights, light a candle and prepare to be scared. Matt and Andrew haven’t always been smart with money, well Andrew mostly has. ...
10.21.2019 The Yield Curve Is Inverted and It's Ok We tend to talk about stocks much more often than bonds. Why? Because since LMM began, our audience has skewed young, most of our listeners are in their twenties and thirties. But the show has been around for seven years ...
10.14.2019 5 Questions: Time Shares, Fuck You Money and Peer to Peer Lending We get dozens of emails from listeners each week asking really thoughtful financial questions. When a question needs a detailed answer or might be helpful to others, we turn it into part of a 5 questions episode. Today we have ...
10.07.2019 Socially Responsible Investing: Invest In The World You Want to Live In There are a lot of bad things happening around us: climate change, weekly mass shootings, rampant opioid addiction, income inequality. Rather than feeling helpless and frustrated, let’s take matters into our own hands. That’s where socially responsible investing comes in. ...
09.30.2019 Grow Your Wealth With Passive Investments In Farming Agriculture is the one industry that touches every person on the planet. Agriculture produces the food we eat, the liquids we drink, the clothes we wear, and the furniture we sit on. There are nearly 7.5 billion people on earth, ...
09.23.2019 Rewired Not Retired: How to Engineer The Life You Love The FIRE movement has carved out a big niche in the personal finance space. FIRE stands for Financial Independence, Retire Early but if you quit traditional work in your 30s or 40s, what will the rest of your life look ...
09.16.2019 5 Questions: Debt Consolidation, Combining Finances and Long Distance Move We get dozens of emails from listeners each week asking really thoughtful financial questions. When a question needs a detailed answer or is of interest to a lot of people, we turn it into part of a 5 questions episode. ...
09.09.2019 Diversifying Your Retirement With Alternative Assets We talk a lot about making sure your portfolio is diverse enough to insulate your investments from risk. But if you want to ramp up returns, consider diversifying your retirement with alternative assets. How can you do that? A Self ...
09.02.2019 The Business of Babies The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) estimates that it costs nearly a quarter of a million dollars to raise a child from birth to age 18. That tally does not include the cost of a college education. The largest ...
08.26.2019 Financial Vital Signs: Net Worth By Age and How to Get There Without Flatlining Knowing your personal net worth is one of the most important aspects of personal finance. It's one of the best indicators we have to know if we are on target to meet our goals. Whether you want to be debt-free, ...
08.19.2019 The Lowdown on Libra: Facebooks New Cryptocurrency In its ongoing quest for world domination, Facebook is set to launch a cryptocurrency called Libra. And a digital wallet to store those Libra called Calibra. Given the company's somewhat shady privacy practices, would you trust Facebook with your money? ...
08.12.2019 5 Questions: Weed, Buying an Engagement Ring, and Bull Markets We get dozens of emails from listeners each week asking really insightful financial questions. When a question needs a detailed answer or is of interest to a lot of people, we turn it into part of a 5 questions episode. ...
08.05.2019 How to Start and Monetize a Blog Quickly Andrew and Matt share their stories and the lessons they learned creating a blog that makes passive income but more importantly, they are going to spell out the exact steps they took to achieve financial independence. They will cover: How ...
07.29.2019 The Smart Way to Buy Property Buying a house is a long-held tenet of the American Dream, one of the milestone markers of adulthood. But there are a lot of misconceptions about homeownership. And there is a lot of misleading information about the process of how ...
07.22.2019 The Three P’s of Success Everyone wants to find success both in their personal lives and their professional lives. Because success is an almost universal desire, there are thousands of books, podcasts, articles, TV shows, and seminars that claim they can teach us how to ...
07.15.2019 5 Questions: The 4% Rule, Staying Financially Motivated and Passive Income We get dozens of emails a week asking financial questions. Sometimes we get a question so good, we want as many people as possible to hear it and the answer. That's how 5 questions episodes were born. We have questions ...
07.08.2019 A Dollar Today Or A Dollar Tomorrow: Leveraging The Time Value of Money A dollar today isn't the same as a dollar tomorrow, that's the time value of money. Risk and return are expecting a dollar risked to earn more than a dollar. The time value of money and risk and return are ...
07.01.2019 Paying Off Your Mortgage Strategically For most people, their mortgage is their biggest debt. And we all know that debt is bad. Debt is an emergency that we must pay off as soon as possible. But is all debt bad? Is paying off your mortgage ...
06.24.2019 How To Get Rich (Without Getting Lucky) We all want to get rich or rather wealthy. Being wealthy is much different and much better than being rich. If you want to know how to get rich without getting lucky, Twitter can teach you. A Twitter thread from ...
06.17.2019 Zero to FIRE With Airbnb Most people are familiar with Airbnb, the site that lets owners rent out a room or an entire home to travelers. Airbnb has become such a hit that many people use it exclusively when traveling for pleasure, work, or any ...
06.10.2019 Five Questions: Raising Rich Kids, Hiring Help and A $2 Million Inheritance We get some interesting questions from our listeners, and we like to address them on the podcast so the answers can help anyone who might have similar questions. Today we’re answering questions about raising rich kids, hiring help, and a ...
06.03.2019 Increasing A Property's Value With Home Improvements For most people, their home is their most significant investment. As such, you not only want to protect your investment but increasing a property's value is important too. The right home improvements can do it. Doubling your property’s value might ...
05.27.2019 You Can Get Free Financial Help The whole reason LMM started was to give as many people as we could reach free financial help. And in the past seven years, we’ve done that. We know because we get emails daily from people telling us that the ...
05.20.2019 You Can't Time The Market - But Can You? If you are interested in personal finance, you’ve probably heard the term timing the market. There is some debate about whether market timing is a good investment strategy or something impossible, or nearly impossible to do. You probably can't time ...
05.13.2019 How to Become A Profitable Person If you run your own business, you go to great lengths to make sure that your business is a profitable one. Both Andrew and Matt run their own businesses. They regularly go over their accounting to see if the businesses ...
05.06.2019 All Things Gold Some people who are hesitant to invest in the stock market are willing to invest in gold. Why? Gold is tangible, you can see it, hold it, and keep it right in your own house (or bunker). You can buy ...
04.29.2019 How Wills and Trusts Work, and Where to Start We know that none of you likes to think about death, but it’s inevitable, and you have no idea when. For the majority of us, the most important thing in our life is the well being of our family. We ...
04.22.2019 5 Questions: Bond ETF’s, Books and Liquidating Stocks We love getting listener questions and we’ve had a lot recently so it’s time for 5 awesome questions from you. We’ll cover bond ETFs, the books we love, transitioning investments, long term investing, and retirement planning. Thanks, Everyone! We really ...
04.15.2019 Investing In The Age Of Anxiety With The Broke Millennial Fear and anxiety are two different things. Some of us fear investing because we don’t know how to invest and that’s understandable. Investing can be intimidating. It has a language all its own which seems foreign to beginners. There are ...
04.08.2019 Marie Kondo Your Finances So They Spark Joy Too Marie Kondo and her brand of decluttering and organizing are everywhere right now so we thought we’d hop on the bandwagon. And it’s not really much of a stretch. Our finances can become as cluttered and chaotic as our homes. ...
04.01.2019 The Infinite Banking Concept If you’ve ever heard of using your whole life insurance policy (whole life as opposed to term life insurance) like a savings account to borrow against for personal use, then you’ve heard of the Infinite Banking Concept (IBC) - whether ...

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