The Financial Samurai Podcast

By Sam Dogen: Financial Samurai founder, personal finance blogger

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06.06.2023

A conversation with Harry Campbell, founder of TheRideshareGuy.com. Harry left his job at Boeing in his late 20s to focus on his site full-time. Today, Harry enjoys being a lifestyle entrepreneur and a father to two kids. For those of ...

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06.06.2023 Giving Up Your Day Job To Be A Rideshare Entrepreneur With Harry Campbell A conversation with Harry Campbell, founder of TheRideshareGuy.com. Harry left his job at Boeing in his late 20s to focus on his site full-time. Today, Harry enjoys being a lifestyle entrepreneur and a father to two kids. For those of ...
06.02.2023 Car Mileage Versus Ownership Time When It Comes To Maintenance Expenses Car mileage is the main determinant of how often you'll have to spend fixing issues, even more so than the length of time you own the car. Here's a discussion on my blindspot on why I find Range Rovers to ...
05.30.2023 Accepting The Trauma Of Remodeling A Home To invest in real estate. take a look at Fundrise, my favorite private real estate platform. Fundrise has funds that invest primarily in single-family and multi-family properties in the Sunbelt. For more nuanced personal finance content, join 60,000+ others and ...
05.23.2023 The Active Investing versus Passive Investing Debate Join 60,000+ others and sign up for my free weekly newsletter so you never miss a thing. You can also get every post I publish immediately in your inbox by signing up here. If you enjoy this podcast, I'd appreciate ...
05.18.2023 How To Invest In Top Venture Capital And Venture Debt Funds Join 60,000+ others and sign up for my free weekly newsletter so you never miss a thing. You can also get every post I publish immediately in your inbox by signing up here. If you enjoy this podcast, I'd appreciate ...
05.16.2023 Becoming An E-Commerce Entrepreneur with Steve Chou from My Wife Quit Her Job In this epsiode, I interview Steve Chou, founder of the blog My Wife Quit Her Job and author of The Family First Entrepreneur. If you're interested in hearing thoughts about building an e-commerce business, raising a family in an expensive ...
05.12.2023 Regrets And Wins Now That The Pandemic Is Over If the pandemic taught us anything, it's that life is not guaranteed. If you have debt and/or dependents, get life insurance. You can receive custom competitive quotes through PolicyGenius. Once my wife locked down affordable 20-year term policies through PolicyGenius, ...
05.09.2023 The Median Income For Ivy League Gradates And Where They End Up Working For employees who plan to move on to a different job, try and negotiate a severance package so you can leave with money in your pocket. To learn how, check out my book, How To Engineer Your Layoff: Make A ...
05.04.2023 The Fed Hikes Rates To The Highest Level Since 2007, Now What? For more nuanced personal finance content, join 60,000+ others and sign up for the free Financial Samurai newsletter and posts via e-mail. Financial Samurai is one of the largest independently-owned personal finance sites that started in 2009. Stay on top ...
05.02.2023 Higher Mortgage Fees For Those With Higher Credit Scores And Vice Versa Shop around online for a better mortgage rate with Credible. You can get multiple real quotes in one place so lenders can compete for your business. For more nuanced personal finance content, join 60,000+ others and sign up for the ...
04.25.2023 Why Employees Need To Negotiate A Severance And Continuously Fight For Themselves For employees who plan to move on to a different job, try and negotiate a severance package so you can leave with money in your pocket. To learn how, check out my book, How To Engineer Your Layoff: Make A ...
04.21.2023 Buying A House In 2023 Is Looking More Attractive: Positive Reasons Why And Some Negatives To invest in real estate. take a look at Fundrise, my favorite private real estate platform. Fundrise has funds that invest primarily in single-family and multi-family properties in the Sunbelt. For more nuanced personal finance content, join 60,000+ others and ...
04.15.2023 Generational Wealth And Two More Solutions For Anxious Parents Please take a moment to rate and review this podcast! It helps keep us going. This podcast is ad-free and a labor of love. To build generational wealth, pick up a copy of Buy This, Not That, my instant Wall ...
04.05.2023 Beating FAFSA And The College Financial Aid System To Get Free Money For 99.99% less than the cost of college, pick up a copy of Buy This, Not That, my instant Wall Street Journal bestseller. The book helps you make more optimal investment decisions so you can live a better, more fulfilling ...
03.29.2023 The Many Ways To Pay For College So You Don't Go Broke Join 60,000+ others and sign up for my free weekly newsletter. I dissect all the most important financial topics of the week so you don't miss a thing. You can also get my posts in your inbox immediately after they ...
03.24.2023 Being A Venture Capitalist, Investing In Venture Capital, And Navigating Capital Calls With mortgage rates dropping, the demand for real estate is picking up. Further, the desire to own real assets is also increasing with all this funny money. Take a look at Fundrise, a leading private real estate investment platform that ...
03.17.2023 Why The Ideal Number Of Banking Relationships Is Three With bank runs everywhere, I hope everybody is conducting an internal review of your existing banking relationships! I've done mine and I've decided three banking relationships is ideal for most people. Posts mentioned: The Ideal Number Of Banking Relationships Recommendations ...
03.13.2023 Treasury Bond Yields And Regional Banks Are Collapsing And A Refocus On Real Assets If you enjoy the Financial Samurai podcast and this episode, please leave a great 5-star review! It keeps me motivated to keep recording. Thank you. Join 55,000+ others and sign up for my free weekly newsletter and get my posts ...
03.11.2023 Why Would Silicon Valley Bank Buy 10-Year Treasury Bonds Near The Top Of The Market? Join 55,000+ others and sign up for my free weekly newsletter and get my posts delivered to your e-mail by subscribing here. To gain more financial wisdom than 99% of the population, pick up a copy of Buy This, Not ...
03.09.2023 The Right Marginal Income Tax Bracket To Contributing Or Converting To A Roth IRA To explore whether to convert funds to a Roth IRA, check out NewRetirement. It's Roth Conversion Explorer tool enables you to test out your Roth IRA conversion plan under various tax and wealth scenarios. I recommend you check it out ...
03.02.2023 How To Permanently Defeat Inflation And Save Your Budget Give yourself or others the gift of financial education by picking up a copy of Buy This, Not That. It is your unfair competitive advantage to building greater wealth. Join 55,000+ others and sign up for my free weekly newsletter ...
02.24.2023 Stocks versus Treasury Bonds versus Cash In 2023 For more nuanced personal finance content, join 55,000+ others and sign up for the free Financial Samurai newsletter and posts via e-mail. Financial Samurai is one of the largest independently-owned personal finance sites that started in 2009. Episode Overview With ...
02.16.2023 Why Early Retirement / FIRE Is Becoming Obsolete For more nuanced personal finance content, join 55,000+ others and sign up for the free Financial Samurai newsletter and posts via e-mail. Financial Samurai is one of the largest independently-owned personal finance sites that started in 2009. As one of ...
02.09.2023 The Ideal Amount Of Passive Income To Make And Invested Capital To Accumulate Based On Tax Rates Join 55,000+ others and sign up for the free Financial Samurai newsletter and posts via e-mail. Financial Samurai is one of the largest independently-owned personal finance sites that started in 2009. Check out Personal Capital and NewRetirement, the two best ...
02.02.2023 The Best Reason To Retire Early For more nuanced personal finance content, join 55,000+ others and sign up for the free Financial Samurai newsletter and posts via e-mail. Financial Samurai is one of the largest independently-owned personal finance sites that started in 2009. **** Click here ...
01.24.2023 Why FEAR Will Make You Rich, Fit, Happy, And Free For more nuanced personal finance content, join 55,000+ others and sign up for the free Financial Samurai newsletter and posts via e-mail. Financial Samurai is one of the largest independently-owned personal finance sites that started in 2009. If you don't ...
01.17.2023 Why Working Hard Might No Longer Be Necessary To Get Ahead Due To A De-emphasis In Merit Perhaps working hard to make money and get ahead is overrated. With the decline in merit-based compensation and rewards, it may be strategically better to kick back and relax more. It's a risky proposition to do so, but it might ...
01.10.2023 The Danger Of Buying Stocks On Margin Buying stocks on margin is a terrible idea. You could lose all your money. What's worse, you could lose a lot of time and the respect of your peers. Posts mentioned: Losing All Your Money On Margin Might Not Be ...
01.03.2023 Financial Samurai 2022 Year In Review And 2023 Goals Happy New Year! Here's a recap of 2022 and our goals for 2023. We'd love to hear about how 2022 went for you and what are your plans for 2023! Posts mentioned: 2023 Financial Samurai Goals 2022 Financial Samurai Year ...
12.27.2022 Find Outlets For Your Outlets, Pickleball, And Community I hope everyone is having a wonderful winter holiday! In this episode, I wanted to share my love for pickleball, why you should play it, and the importance of finding outlets for your outlets. The Financial Samurai podcast is an ...
12.25.2022 Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! Dear Financail Samurai listeners, Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! Thanks for listening to my podcast all year and also sharing my work. Financially, it's been a hard year for most of us. However, we're still here! Which means we still ...
12.22.2022 Surprising Solutions To The Loneliness Epidemic: You Don't Have To Stay Alone If You Don't Want To The loneliness epidemic has grown since the pandemic began. I fear most for our children who seem like they've taken the biggest hit. Here are some surprising solutions to combat loneliness. Check out this post, Solutions To The Loneliness Epidemic, ...
12.19.2022 2023 Housing Price Forecasts: Reversion To The Mean Here's a look at the various 2023 housing price forecasts from some of the top economists, real estate companies, and think tanks. I also offer my 2023 housing price forecasts. Click this post to see the relevant charts: 2023 Housing ...
12.17.2022 The Fed Is Determined To Crush The Economy: What Now? Join 55,000+ subscribers and sign up for my free weekly newsletter. This way, you'll never miss a thing, and learn to build more wealth in a risk-appropriate manner. You can also sign up for getting all my posts via e-mail. ...
12.15.2022 The Second Biggest Financial Mistake Of Your Life Join 55,000+ subscribers and sign up for my free weekly newsletter. This way, you'll never miss a thing, and learn to build more wealth in a risk-appropriate manner. Let's explore the second biggest financial mistake I see people make. It ...
12.13.2022 Why Owning Rental Properties Is Both Bad And Good For Your Health I have a love hate relationship with owning rental property real estate. On the one hand, my rental properties are one of the main reason why I had the confidence to leave work behind. On the other hand, my rental ...
12.12.2022 Minimalism Is The Way If You Want To Retire Early, Stay Retired, And Live A Happier Life Our lives get naturally more complicated as we get older. Therefore, it takes active effort to keep everything from getting out of hand. Here's a series of unfortunate events that makes me want to get back to minimalism. Minimalism and ...
12.09.2022 The Elites Don't Have It Better Than Us! What We Learn From The New York Times Strike The New York Times strike demonstrates the elites have issues too. Despite having all the money, power, and access in the world, there's always a desire for MORE. The reality is, none of us should want to be viewed as ...
12.06.2022 2023 Wall Street S&P 500 Forecasts: Nobody Knows What's Going On! Let's discuss the 2023 Wall Street S&P; 500 forecasts. The range is from 3,625 to 4,500, which means there is no consensus as to where the stock market is going. You can see more details about the various 16 forecasts ...
12.04.2022 The Best Age To Get Life Insurance And Quantifying Your Anxiety Of Death We are currently experiencing a tridemic: flu, RSV, and COVID-19. Many children are sick this winter and it reminds me of the importance of life insurance. Life insurance applications increased to record highs during the pandemic. But more concering is ...
11.14.2022 The Best Age Range To Retire And Live Your Best Life Thinking about retiring? Contrary to popular belief, the ideal age to retire is not ASAP! After 10 years of early retirement, or fake retirement as I like to call it, let me share the best age range to retire to ...
11.11.2022 How To Become A Better Investment Forecaster And Make More Money Recently, I came up with a thesis on November 1, 2022 that the 2.7% decline in the Series I Bond rate was the most bullish economic indicator I've seen all year. See: The Most Bullish Indicator Yet Nine days later, ...
11.09.2022 Lessons From The FTX Cryptocurrency Exchange Collapse FTX, the second largest cryptocurrency exchange collapse overnight from over $16 billion to $0. A discussion on what happened and what we can learn as financial freedom seekers and small business owners to preserve our wealth. The developments are still ...
11.01.2022 The Most Bullish Economic Indicator Of The Year This week, the Treasury department announced Series I bonds will pay an annualized interest from November 1, 2022 through April 2023 of 6.89%, down from the 9.62% rate offered since May 2022. A 2.73% decline is massive. Learn what it ...
10.26.2022 Silver Lining Of A Bear Market: Easier To Generate More Passive Income Although going through another bear market is a bummer, the positive is we can all generate more passive income! And given we can now generate more passive income we can also get that much closer to financial freedom! Mentioned posts: ...
10.18.2022 How To Quantify Your Risk Tolerance, Invest More Appropriately, And Reduce Emotion When Investing Investing during a bear market can be a very emotional experience. Learn how to quantify your risk tolerance, have a more risk-appropriate asset allocation, and feel more calm in any market. Mentioned posts: How To Have A Risk-Appropriate Asset Allocation ...
10.03.2022 How I'm Investing My Cash In This Bear Market Here's a deep dive into how I'm investing my cash stash in this bear market to make money, stay liquid, and take advantage of the current situation. Post mentioned: How I'm Investing $250,000 In Today's Bear Market.This became a viral ...
09.28.2022 How To Buy Treasury Bonds And Bond Buying Strategies To Consider This may be the most important episode you will listen to this month. With interest rates zooming higher, the interest in treasury bonds has also skyrocketed. Learn how to buy treasury bonds directly and on the secondary market. I'll also ...
09.20.2022 One-Year Treasury Bills Look Very Attractive At 4% Although the Fed still plans to aggressively hike the Fed Funds rate as inflation and the economy is slowing down, look at the positive. Short-term treasury bills are yielding 4%! Even though the yield curve is inverted, portending to a ...
09.13.2022 Inflation, Safe Havens, And Housing Price Predictions Unfortunately, August 2022 inflation data came in above expectations, resulting in rising bond yields and a collapse in the S&P; 500. In this episode, I discuss three ways to perserve capital given stocks will likely struggle for the rest of ...

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