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#BLUFFbooks 📚 "How to Avoid Trouble with the IRS" by Kristine Stevenson (2022) 💡Big Ideas Below ⬇️
Subtitle: "10 Best Tax Tips for the Self-Employed, Gig Worker, & Indie Contractor"
💡1. Don’t Spend Uncle Sam’s Money! (Set aside $ to pay your taxes)
💡2. Don’t Cross The Streams (Don’t Comingle Personal & Business Funds)
💡3. No Such Thing as “Off The Books” (Protect Your Paper Trail!)
💡4. DIY Tax Filing = More Expensive? (You Wouldn’t Take Out Your Own Appendix!)
💡5. He’s Making a List… (File Your Taxes & Ensure the IRS Accepts!)
#BLUFFbooks 📚 "The Inheritance Playbook" by Chad Holmes, CFP (2023) 💡Big Ideas Below ⬇️
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💡1. Is Your Estate's Fate Probate? (Help Mom & Dad get their wills & trusts knocked out ASAP!)
💡2. The Executrix Unloaded (Being the executor of an estate is a BIG job - make it easy on your adult kids!)
💡3. Arrr...Where Me Buried Treasure?? (Leave a detailed "map" to all your assets)
💡4. Amateurs Give the Most Expensive Advice (Don't take your buddy's financial Rx - Talk to your own CFP).
💡5. The First Step to Recovery (Is realizing there's a problem!)
*This post is for general EDUCATIONAL purposes only. This is NOT financial, tax, or legal advice, & is not tailored to anyone’s unique personal situation. All investing involves risk, including potential loss of principle***
#BLUFFbooks 📚The Richest Man [Person] in Babylon, by George S. Clason (p. 1926), Edited/Revised by Clifton & Kaleb Corbin (2022)💡Big Ideas Below ⬇️
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💡1. Modernize ≠ Bowdlerize 📜📲 (Literature must adapt or die 🦖🦕…but how do you keep a book’s “soul” 🫥 from getting lost in translation?)
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💡2. The Borrower is WHAT to the Lender??⛓️😢 (Confronting slavery with tact💔)
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💡3. Many, Many, Shekel…🤑🥊(Financial karma is PAINFUL, but mentorship is precious)
#BLUFFbooks 📚 “The Golden Quest” 🗺 Written ✍ by David Delisle, Illustrated 🎨by Travis Hanson (p. 2021)
Subtitle: Your Journey to a Rich Life 💕 💪 🧠
💡Big Ideas (Aside from the 4 Primary Lessons in the Book – No Spoilers!): 💡
1. One Good Referral Begets Another 🤝 👨🏫
2. Raising "Free-Range" Children 🏃♂️ 🧗♂️ 🚸
3. Generational Vs. Situational Wealth 👨👩👧👦>🎰
📘 #BLUFFbooks : “The Bogle Effect: How John Bogle & Vanguard Turned Wall Street Inside Out & Saved Investors Trillions” by Eric Balchunas (p. 2022)>>>Big💡IDEAS Below ⬇️
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1. Who’s Your Daddy? 👴 🧗♀️ 🐕 📣
2. Costs Matter! 🗑️ 🪙 ⛽️ 💦 🪣 🐜
3. By The People… 👵 👷 🧑🏫 👮♂️ 👨🚒 👨⚖️ 👩🎨 —
4. Don’t Just Do Something — Stand There!! 🦥 💂 🤖 😴
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*This show is for general educational purposes only. This is not business or financial advice, & is not tailored to anyone’s unique personal situation. All investing involves risk, including potential loss of principle***
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Welcome to #BLUFFbooks 📚💵🧗♀️ -- The podcast 🎤where we summarize & discuss new & classic books on the topic of personal finance. 💹
I’m your host, Ian J. Gates: a…
Bottom Line Up Front (“BLUF”) is a military acronym 🪖stating the expectation that one will present the most ⚠️📊important info:
1) At the very start 🎬
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2) In the clearest manner🪞possible.
Likewise, this is a forum 🏛️🎤for kindred spirits 👯♀️to distill & present ⚗️:
Big Ideas 🧠💡
from Good Books ✍🏽📚
for Responsible Citizens👨🏾💼👩🏭
seeking Financial Freedom. 💵🏡💪🕊️👨👩👦👦
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#BLUFFbooks Rules:👩🏾⚖️
Cite sources. 📗
Be brief. ⏱️
Treat others with dignity & respect. 🧐🤝
Use humor. 🤭
Promote personal freedom. 🗽
Don’t bury the lead 😉