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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163: Taxes, Backdoor Roths,...

01.18.2021

Have tax questions for your upcoming 2020 taxes? Stick around then! We have a mind-blowing episode with enrolled agent Steven Hamilton from Hamilton Tax and Accounting. Mindy and Scott throw a lot of high-level, hard-hitting questions at Steven, so seriously, ...

BiggerPockets Money Podcast episodes:

01.18.2021 163: Taxes, Backdoor Roths, Options, and How to Max Out Your Childrens’ Roths with Steven Hamilton Have tax questions for your upcoming 2020 taxes? Stick around then! We have a mind-blowing episode with enrolled agent Steven Hamilton from Hamilton Tax and Accounting. Mindy and Scott throw a lot of high-level, hard-hitting questions at Steven, so seriously, ...
01.15.2021 162: Finance Friday: High Salary - But Nothing to Show For It. Cutting Unnecessary Expenses with Engineer Tracy As you go further along in your career, you should (hopefully) make more and more money, but does that justify spending more money? Most times, it doesn’t. We’re joined by Tracy, experienced engineer and retirement super saver to go through ...
01.11.2021 161: Backdoor Roths, Mega Backdoor Roths, and Roth Conversion Ladders with The Mad Fientist He’s back! Today we’re joined by a friend of the BiggerPockets podcast network, Brandon “The Mad Fientist”. Brandon walks us through advanced retirement account strategies you may have heard of, such as the Backdoor Roth, Roth Conversion Ladder, and the ...
01.08.2021 160: 6 Income Streams with a W2 Job and 4 Kids: Finance Friday with Cort Johnson Many listeners of the BiggerPockets Podcast network are resourceful when saving and earning money, but maybe not quite as resourceful as Cort Johnson. Not only does he have a full-time engineering job, which he uses to support his family, he ...
01.04.2021 159: How to Financially Thrive in Marriage (Even if You or Your Partner is In Debt!) with Talaat and Tai from His and Her Money What happens when you get married and find out your partner has debt? A lot of debt...That’s a question many young couples have, shortly after finding out their significant other’s full financial picture. While it may seem scary at first, ...
01.01.2021 158: Are You Under Leveraging? Finance Friday with Investor and Agent Wayne Loux Happy New Year! With the first 2021 episode of Finance Fridays, we take a look at Wayne Loux’s investments, income streams, and overall finances. Wayne is like many of our listeners: working a W2 job, but also supporting himself and ...
12.28.2020 157: The Money Date: What You Should (And Definitely Should Not) Do to Align Your Finances as a Couple Calling all couples! You and your partner may be on the same page financially, or off in two different directions, regardless of where you’re at, it’s a great time to start having money dates! In this episode, Mindy and Scott ...
12.21.2020 156: The Conservative Money Cool Kid: Buying 20+ Houses in Cash with Richard Carey from Rich On Money Most real estate investors get into real estate to get rich quick. If you’re looking to make a million dollars within your first year of real estate, this is the wrong podcast! But, if you’re looking to build a sustainable ...
12.14.2020 155: Retired at 35: How Robert from Stop Ironing Shirts Achieved FI Even During The Great Recession Robert from Stop Ironing Shirts has had quite a lucrative career path. Starting out as a bank teller in college, he learnt that he really enjoyed math that had dollar signs attached to the numbers. From there, he launched his ...
12.07.2020 154: Confessions of a Former Spender: How Allison Baggerly Paid off $110K in Loans on a Teacher’s Salary Ever had a card declined when trying to buy the basics? That was the start of Allison Baggerly’s journey into budgeting and saving. As a big spender in college, Allison didn’t see a real reason to save instead of spend. ...
11.30.2020 153: Bill Bengen (The Inventor of the 4% Rule) Talks Retirement, Past Crashes, and How You Can Withdraw Even More! He really is the man who needs no introduction (but here’s one anyways). Bill Bengen, the inventor of the 4% rule (and personal finance hero of Mindy & Scott) stops by the Money Podcast to talk about how he calculated ...
11.23.2020 152: Reaching Financial Independence Despite a Very Late Start with Baby Boomer Super Saver To say that Kathy from Baby Boomer Super Saver had a difficult journey ahead of her is an understatement. She was $70,000 in credit card debt, with a big mortgage, and a spouse that had a medical emergency. So how ...
11.16.2020 151: From Single Dad w/ $61K in Student Loans to Financially Savvy Real Estate Investor with Tony J Robinson You may know Tony J Robinson as the co-host of the Real Estate Rookie podcast, but you probably don’t know his backstory. As a single dad working his way through college and student debt, Tony knew that he needed to ...
11.09.2020 150: From Childhood Homelessness to Financially Confident with Cristina Livadary Cristina Livadary immigrated to the US when she was 6, and less than a year later, her father left, leaving her stranded with her mother and sister. She didn't speak the language, had no money, and lived in hotels until ...
11.02.2020 149: Listener Finance Review: Knocking Out Debt to Start Investing Nick Groover is 25, with a young daughter and a fiance, looking to make changes to his finances so he can start married life off on the right foot. He has some debts he'd like to knock out so he ...
10.26.2020 148: How to Become an Everyday Millionaire with Chris Hogan Chris Hogan joins Scott and Mindy today to chat about becoming an everyday millionaire. Chris and his team interviewed more than 10,000 millionaires to hear how they did it. Hard work, determination, spending less than you make, investing wisely, and ...
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 ...

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