For people who are ready to buy a house, David Hawkins covers the types of home loans to consider and shares a couple of stories based on his own experience.

Thinking of buying a home? David Hawkins, author of Ask the Mailman: A Simple Plan of High Yield Stock Investing for Uncommon Wealth, has a suggestion: Make sure that homeownership aligns with your personal goals because it's not necessarily the best and ultimate goal for everyone.  Find out more in this episode of At Home Radio.

Adrian S. Mcneal is an elder of The Word of God Community Church in Canton, Ohio. He's also a husband, father and fiber internet salesman whose passion for history stretches back to childhood. In eighth grade, for example, he borrowed Adolph Hitler's Mein Kampf from the local library and read the entire book. “I didn’t know any other African American eighth-graders who were reading that,” he says with a chuckle. 

In this episode, Adrian covers many topics, including how history initially had a big influence on his belief in Christianity and how, in time, his faith became stronger. 

Photographer Inga Smith was 8 years old when she and her family walked out the door of their home in Augsburg, Germany, and boarded a train in the dark of night. They would end up in America, but Inga didn't know that at the time. Nor did she know, until much later, how fortunate her family was to get out of Germany when they did.  They left in December 1939. Her father was Jewish. 

Now 89, Inga tells captivating stories — about coming to America and her travels back to Germany as an adult, and through her photography, which became a huge part of her life starting at age 10.

Michael Weber, leader of the rock band The Michael Weber Show, is a guitarist and so much more — studio co-owner, musical director, film composer, touring sideman, and buyer and seller of musical instruments. Actually, he's a "self-employed entrepreneur," he says, because that description encompasses his many facets including his ability to promote himself as a musician (thanks in part to his degree in advertising from Kent State University).

At only 23, Michael is pretty much a veteran of the music business, having done his first professional gig while still in elementary school. At that point, he already had a band with three of his friends, and they decided to rent a venue to put on a concert. Michael, with his parents' help, served as the promoter, and after expenses, each band member took home about $100.  Not bad for a bunch of kids.

Around that time, he also had the chance to play onstage with Counting Crows and learned a valuable lesson in being a more engaging performer. He took that lesson to heart and, to this day, his aim with every performance is to be the kind of entertainer who steps up on stage and sets fire to it with his energy and flash. By the way, the next time he played with Counting Crows — at the ripe old age of 12 — he was taking solos and arranging on the fly.

In this episode, Michael talks about his career, his influences (Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimi Hendrix, B.B. King, Buddy Guy), his work with The Shadows of Knight (best known for their mid-1960s hit "Gloria"), hanging out with the Gin Blossoms at a recent gig in Wisconsin, and how he's the Love Machine. And, of course, so much more!

Follow Michael's career on his website, on Facebook under his name or under The Michael Weber Show, and on Instagram.



 

Artist Theresa Wells Stifel is the proprietor of Stifel & Capra, an online shop that sells art and vintage accessories, jewelry and home items. The name of the business is a nod to It's a Wonderful Life director Frank Capra. Theresa's tagline is "art & ornament for  your wonderful life," which speaks to her twofold mission: to assist other artists in selling their beautiful work and to help her customers lead wonderful lives by selling them delightful things. 

How does borrowing to invest differ from borrowing to buy things? Find out from David Hawkins as he takes listeners step by step through his method of borrowing to grow money  in a safe and  profitable way.

David Hawkins, author of Ask the Mailman: A Simple Plan of High Yield Stock Investing for Uncommon Wealth, further explains the concept of borrowing to invest by laying out the strategies that he uses.

A few years ago, Katie Andrews was living in Brooklyn and working as a producer in post production. In her early 30s, she had reached a stage in her life when things just weren’t going well. She needed something to pull her out of her funk, and skateboarding turned out to be just what she needed. Today, as she moves back to New York City for another job producing color correction on commercials and movies, she feels inspired to build on what she learned from skateboarding and help others find community and self-confidence. 

When you put as much money as you can into your dividend-paying stocks, eventually the cash dividends will be large enough so that some can be used to pay bills. It’s like getting an extra paycheck, says David Hawkins, who speaks from experience. Learn more in this episode.