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, the show you need to listen to if you have money or want more of it! 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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147: Pursuing Financial Ind...

10.19.2020

Cathleen Hutchins grew up in Hawaii. She come over to the mainland for college, but Hawaii kept calling her name, so she moved back home. Hawaii is an expensive place to live, and Cathleen knew she'd need a plan in ...

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10.19.2020 147: Pursuing Financial Independence on Her Own Terms with Cathleen Hutchins Cathleen Hutchins grew up in Hawaii. She come over to the mainland for college, but Hawaii kept calling her name, so she moved back home. Hawaii is an expensive place to live, and Cathleen knew she'd need a plan in ...
10.12.2020 146: Saying Goodbye to Gambling & Finding Financial Freedom with Ambus Hunter Ambus Hunter grew up with a fair understanding of how money works. He received a partial scholarship to play drums in college, and graduated with a small amount of student loan debt. His first job was with the Department of ...
10.05.2020 145: From Hedge Fund Manager to Smart Money Mama with Chelsea Brennan Chelsea Brennan was a hedge fund manager for several years - until her second pregnancy when she ended up in the hospital with sever complications brought on by the stress and emotional toll her job took on her. She and ...
09.28.2020 144: Alternative Investments: How to Determine Which Option(s) Are Right For You with Kirk Chisholm Kirk Chisholm is a fee-only investment advisor with a secret passion - finding new and different ways to invest money. Kirk shares his Big List of 75 Alternative Investments with us today - and more importantly, how to vet the ...
09.21.2020 143: How to Pay Off $160k in Debt in 3 Years While Making $90k Shannon Gauthier discovered the debt she and her husband had gotten themselves into when a debt collector caller her at work and she started asking questions. Shocked to discover $30,000 in unpaid debts, she quickly found herself a single mom ...
09.14.2020 142: Ask Us Anything: Questions From the Audience with Scott & Mindy Scott & Mindy sit down today to answer questions sent in by listeners. They address topics all over the board - from student loan repayment and early retirement account withdrawal under the CARES act, to the best high-yield savings accounts, ...
09.07.2020 141: How to Graduate College Debt-Free and Pursue FI Before 40 with 4 kids! Blake Nielson is a college professor whose wife stays home to raise their four children. Despite having only one income - and six mouths to feed - they have paid off their home and are on the path to early ...
08.31.2020 140: How to Get Financial Freedom So You Can Do What You’re Meant to Do with Belinda Rosenblum Belinda Rosenblum is a CPA, a certified coach and her clients include Harvard Business School, Harvard University and the SEC. She’s worked for Arthur Andersen and L3 Enterprises. She’s got money all figured out, right? Well, she does now… On ...
08.24.2020 139: Everything You Never Wanted to Know About Life Insurance (But Absolutely Need To) with Joe Saul-Sehy Life Insurance is the most exciting topic on the planet! Just kidding. But just because it isn’t a super exciting topic doesn’t mean you don’t need to know about it. Today, Joe Saul-Sehy, host of the Stacking Benjamins podcast, joins ...
08.17.2020 138: Financial Blunders to Financial Buff: How Farnoosh Torabi's Money History Grew Her Career Farnoosh Torabi grew up talking about money. Her parents are from the Middle East, and in her culture, they “never miss a moment to talk about money.” As the go-to girl for finance advice among her friends, imagine her surprise ...
08.10.2020 137: Engineering a Path to Financial Independence with Felicity Freedom Felicity’s story to financial independence is going to be similar to listeners of The BiggerPockets Money Podcast. She got a good paying job, spent less than she earned, intelligently invested in Index Funds and is now financially independent at the ...
08.03.2020 136: Secrets of a Money Savvy Family with Doug Nordman and Carol Pittner Doug Nordman wanted to teach his daughter about money. But he knew that to get it right, he’d have to start when she was very very small. So he did. First, he taught her how to count, then he taught ...
07.27.2020 135: Building Wealth through Real Estate... without Tenants or Toilets! with Seth Williams Seth Williams invests in real estate in a way you may have never heard of before. He buys and sells land. And no, he’s not a developer. He literally buys a piece of blank dirt, and then sells it—frequently within ...
07.20.2020 134: Paying Off Debt - And Avoiding Debt Relapse with Chris Browning from Popcorn Finance Chris Browning had dreams of creating movies for Pixar - until he started art classes in college and realized that wasn’t his calling. He was also taking a personal finance class and thoroughly enjoyed it, so he changed his major ...
07.13.2020 133: Retiring Early Doesn't Have to Be All-or-Nothing: "The Art of Subtraction" with Doc G Doc G wanted to be a doctor since he was eight years old. He went to medical school, started his career and quickly realized he actually didn’t like all the parts about being a doc - and didn’t know how ...
07.06.2020 132: Financial Independence Without a College Degree with Marquez Griffin Marquez Griffin graduated from high school but did not feel that college was his path. His uncle worked in a sheet metal shop, and was able to get him a job there. He quickly learned that taking a bit of ...
06.29.2020 131: Investing Made Simple with Kevin Matthews II Kevin Matthews II started paying attention to finance way back in 6th grade - because his parents said they wouldn’t buy him any more video games, he’d have to buy them himself. Kevin’s parents telling him no propelled him into ...
06.22.2020 130: Refusing to Retire at 65: How a Couple in their 40s Managed to Hit FI in 12 Years with Susan and Norm Susan and Norm got married a little later in life. They started off basically flat, with debts equalling assets. Neither wanted to have the debt, and focused on paying it off and building an emergency fund. Then they discovered that ...
06.15.2020 129: How to Teach Your Children About Money with The Budgetnista Tiffany Aliche Today, we welcome back the Budgetnista, Tiffany Aliche. When we spoke to her way back in episode 8, we heard her story of an investment gone wrong and how 2008 really threw a monkey wrench into her life plans. But ...
06.08.2020 128: Pay Off Debt Fast With These Smart Money Moves From Whitney Hansen Whitney Hanson is one of six children. Growing up she watched her father start a business, watched it fail, and watched him turn destructive, eventually leaving her mother to raise six kids on her own - all while making $7.25 ...
06.01.2020 127: Planning for the Unexpected: Being Financially Ready to Take Advantage of Opportunities with Ramit Sethi Ramit Sethi from I Will Teach You To Be Rich is back again to chat with Scott & Mindy about money, unexpected events, and taking advantage of opportunities by being prepared. Ramit does not hold back with his advice that ...
05.25.2020 126: 16 Money Skills They Didn't Teach You In High School with Scott & Mindy Financial Education is so important - but so many people are graduating high school without the basic skills to make informed decisions. Today, Scott & Mindy sit down to share some of the big money moves you should make - ...
05.18.2020 125: Ready to Retire: The Ultimate Pre-Retirement Checklist with The Retirement Manifesto In today’s episode, we speak with Fritz Gilbert from The Retirement Manifesto and go through his checklist to ensure a smooth transition into your new life. Fritz speaks from experience and wrote the checklist during his own transition, starting five ...
05.11.2020 124: Starting from $0 at Age 35 as a Teacher and Becoming "The Millionaire Educator" Gerry Born is a teacher who is married to a teacher. He started his financial independence journey when he was 33—with a wife, $45,000 in college debt, and a job in Saudi Arabia teaching English as a second language (ESL). ...
05.04.2020 123: Carefully Crafting Financial Independence Through Passive Income with Avery Heilbron Joining us today is Avery Heilbron, a listener on his way to financial independence through real estate investing. But Avery isn’t going all out and buying up every property as fast as he can. He’s making calculated purchases that allow ...
04.27.2020 122: Getting Back to Financial Independence Basics - Using Lockdown to Reset Your Finances Scott and Mindy have focused on Coronavirus for the last few episodes - talking to experts about how the virus has affected the stock market, the 4% rule, and even early retirees. They’ve interviewed Financial Planners to get tips for ...
04.20.2020 121: Should I Refinance Or Wait For Better Rates? How Coronavirus Is Impacting The Mortgage Market with Seth Jones In this episode, Mortgage Broker Seth Jones talks about the current mortgage market. We discuss mortgage forbearance - how it affects your credit and why it's NOT a good idea to go into forbearance if you can still make your ...
04.13.2020 120: Are FIRE Naysayers Bad at Math? Yes. with Michael Kitces Michael Kitces joins us today to talk about Early Retirement - and how the recent stock market movement affects the FIRE Community and the 4% rule. We spend a lot of time on the 4% rule - including this graph ...
04.06.2020 119: Coronavirus: Is it Time To Give Up On Financial Independence? In this week’s episode, Scott & Mindy bring back four previous guests (and introduce a brand new–and future–guest) to talk about retirement, the stock market, and how this current environment is affecting their spending, saving and investing. Andy Hill last ...
04.02.2020 CARES Act: Everything You NEED to Know About the Coronavirus Stimulus Package This Bonus Episode of the BiggerPockets Money Podcast is to help keep you informed of the Stimulus act that Congress is putting into place to help Americans with the Coronavirus and unprecedented shutdown of most of the economy. Joining Mindy ...
03.30.2020 118: Retirement Planning During (and After) The Coronavirus with Kyle Mast Kyle Mast is a Certified Financial Planner, back for his third episode to answer YOUR questions about our current market conditions. We ask him the questions YOU had on your mind, including rebalancing your portfolio, staying the course, and trying ...
03.23.2020 117: Coronavirus Q&A with Scott & Mindy Today, Scott and Mindy discuss the biggest news story of the century: Coronavirus or COVID-19. This episode covers a wide range of topics both money and real estate -- with a guest spot from Brandon Turner, who answers the number ...
03.16.2020 116: Long-Term Investing: Coronavirus Changes Nothing with JL Collins The stock market is up, then down, then down, then up. What is an investor to do? Today we bring JLCollins from JLCollinsNH.com back to the show to calm our fears and help us understand what is happening with the ...
03.09.2020 115: Growing an Empire From Nothing with Felipe Mejia Felipe Mejia’s relationship with money started at an early age - when his parents divorced and his world turned upside down. His mother introduced him to the power of real estate by fixing up the basement and renting it out ...
03.02.2020 114: Paying Off Debt Through Conscious Spending and Real Estate Investing with Ashley Kehr Ashley Kehr married a dairy farmer. With a dairy farm comes farm equipment. And with farm equipment comes farm equipment loans—to the tune of around $169,000. Three years ago, she read Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey, and it CHANGED. ...
02.24.2020 113: Single Hourly Employee with No College Degree and STILL FI by 40 with Bianca DiValerio This week we sit down with Bianca DiValerio, a flight attendant who makes an hourly wage, has no college degree, experienced THREE short sales during the economic downturn, and yet is STILL financially independent—all before turning 40. How did she ...
02.17.2020 112: Choosing the Right Tax Professional for YOUR Specific Needs with Natalie Kolodij Natalie Kolodij is a tax strategist. (You’ve probably seen her in the forums!) With April 15 looming around the corner, we’re going to chat about ways to choose the RIGHT tax professional who can best serve YOUR specific needs. Natalie ...
02.10.2020 111: Starting Late? Early Retirement Is STILL Possible with A Purple Mom On episode 110, we interviewed A Purple Life. As she was sharing her story of financial independence, she casually mentioned that her mother didn’t start investing until later in life, and STILL managed to retire at age 55! So this ...
02.03.2020 110: Systematically Increasing Income and Intentionally Decreasing Spending with A Purple Life Purple graduated from college and got a job in New York City making $35,000 a year. And spending $35,000 a year. Her net worth was a whopping $5,000. Her partner shared the concept of financial independence with her, but she ...
01.27.2020 109: Attacking Debt and Tenaciously Pursuing Financial Freedom with Airman Mildollar from Military Dollar This week, we sit down and talk with Airman Mildollar, from Military Dollar. (Spoiler Alert: Despite the name, Airman Mildollar is a woman!) Airman Mildollar shares her story of college debt, car loans and rapid payoff to start building her ...
01.20.2020 108: Starting Early & Finishing Strong with Real Estate with Kristi Tanner Smith Kristi Tanner Smith considers herself privileged—she was an only child in a big house with lots of toys. But Kristi’s mom was diagnosed with a fatal disease and given six months to live when Kristi was five. While her mom ...
01.13.2020 107: Choosing Side Hustles (& Happiness!) Over Full-Time Employment with Financial Panther Financial Panther (Kevin) went to law school, graduated from law school, and took a job as an attorney. Attorneys make a lot of money, right? So, with all this income potential, why is he doing side hustles that pay him ...
01.06.2020 106: Planning For Your Future Wealth with Megan Gorman from The Wealth Intersection Megan Gorman started learning about money very early – at age 5 she begged her parents for a Little House on the Prairie Dress. Her parents said we’re not buying it for you, but you can save up for it ...
12.30.2019 105: Budgeting Yourself OUT of Debt and Into a Fantastic Life with Jen Hemphill Jen Hemphill was born in Colombia and lived there for the first eight years of her life. The economy was really bad, and her earliest memories were of a scary time when her educated father did whatever he had to ...
12.23.2019 104: Cash-Flowing a Series of Mini-Retirements with Steven & Lauren from Trip of a Lifestyle Lauren and Steven met in high school and attended the same college. After undergrad, Steven was accepted into the Ph.D. program at UC Irvine. During the first year, he decided he didn’t really want a Ph.D. in Physics, but he ...
12.16.2019 103: Budgets Really ARE Sexy! with J. Money J Money wasn’t necessarily BAD with money, but his first home purchase - made because everyone else was doing it - prompted him to seek out advice about money. He stumbled upon the blogging world and was enthralled with the ...
12.09.2019 102: Understanding How Your Personal Money Story Shapes Your Financial Future with Jean Chatzky Jean grew up in a family where money wasn’t a big issue. Her parents saved for big purchases like vacations, but frugality was part of her everyday life. She graduated from college without any debt, and soon found a job ...
12.02.2019 101: Building a Life of Financial Independence, Starting From Less Than Zero with Sunitha Rao Sunitha Rao remembers a childhood of scarcity. Born to immigrant parents, some of her first memories are of her home being broken into, and her things being stolen. The only money lessons she was taught as a child were frugality ...
11.25.2019 100: From Financial Disaster to Real Estate Master with Brandon Turner You probably know Brandon Turner from the BiggerPockets Real Estate Investing podcast. On that show, he sounds like he’s got his life all together. But before he discovered the RIGHT way to do real estate, he made mistakes. LOTS of ...
11.18.2019 99: Life After FIRE - Four Case Studies with Scott, Whitney Hansen, and Doc G. On today’s episode of the BiggerPockets Money Podcast, Co-Host Scott Trench teams up with two personal finance superstars in Whitney Hansen and Doc G of Diversefi.com. Together, they hear four “life after FIRE” stories, each completely different, each extremely powerful. ...

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