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Episode 114: The 8 Rules for Bank on Yourself® with Jim Conrad


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In this episode, we ask:

  • Who is Jim Conrad?
  • Would you like a FREE copy of Pamela Yellen’s new book, Rescue Your Retirement?
  • Send us a screenshot of your new iTunes review to [email protected], and we’ll send you a copy of the book!
  • What can you do with a dollar?
  • What are the 8 rules for Bank on Yourself® type Whole Life policy?
    • 1. A Bank on Yourself® type Whole Life policy gets better every year, and there is nothing you can do about it.
    • 2. There is no such thing as paying too much premium.
    • 3. Pay as much premium as you can, for as long as you can.
    • 4. Always use your own capital… did I say always?
    • 5. Never save up money in somebody else’s bank.
    • 6. Pay back your policy loans in a reasonable amount of time.
    • 7. Favor paying premium over paying back loans quickly.
    • 8. If you bank on yourself, you can forget about interest rates and rate of return.
    •  Have you heard Episode 6?
    • Does something becoming more efficient every year violate the laws of physics?
    • Do you know anything else that gets better every year?
    • Is there such a thing as paying as paying too much premium?
    • Would you like to watch Jim’s Dollar Diagram video?
    • How many policies does Jim own?
    • How can you make major purchases over and over again?
    • Why would you want to put money into a risk investment?
    • Why is this so powerful?
    • What is the math on PUA premium growth from age 21?
    • Should you do this if you’re younger?
    • How is Jim living proof that it works?
    • How long can you keep paying premium?
    • Why is paying premium a privilege?
    • Why wouldn’t you want to keep putting money into that money machine?
    • Isn’t the look of a curve beautiful?
    • If you have a money machine in your living room, and you put one dollar in and four dollars come out, how many dollars would you put in the money machine?
    • Why should I borrow against my own policy if I can get a lower interest rate a credit union?
    • What is the flaw in this thinking?
    • Can you enrich yourself and the bankers?
    • How might you enrich yourself?
    • Why would you like to build up the wealth of others, when you can build your own wealth?
    • Are you in the habit of keeping tens of thousands in the closet?
    • Do you own a properly structured Bank on Yourself® type Whole Life policy?
    • Why would you want to enrich those who profit from fractional reserve banking?
    • How might you pay back your policy loans in a reasonable period of time?
    • What is a reasonable period of time?
    • How does one determine what is reasonable?
    • Why do people pay off loans quickly?
    • Can you afford to buy that thing?
    • Are you “stealing the peas”? (As Nelson Nash would say…)
    • Can you favor paying premium over paying back loans quickly?
    • How much of your available cash flow should be used for paying back loans?
    • How much of your available cash flow should be used for premium?
    • Should you put your dollar into PUAs or toward a policy loan?
    • Should you always favor paying premium?
    • What happens when you’re no longer earning active income?
    • Should you pay off your loans before retirement?
    • How have we been trained?
    • How can you think differently than the way the rest of the world thinks?
    • What? Jim? Did I hear you right?
    • Shouldn’t you get the lowest interest rate you can get?
    • Where will your death benefit go?
    • What is the rate of return on guaranteed growth over unknown growth?
    • What about interest rates?
    • Are higher interest rates great?
    • How does the volume of interest go down over the growth of the loan?
    • What about dividends?
    • What has to happen for Jim to throw a party?
    • Would you like to watch Jim’s Dollar Diagram video?
    • Would you like to talk with Jim? Email him at [email protected]
    • What did you take away from today’s episode?
    • Jim Conrad, the President of Conrad Financial Services, resides with his wife, Deb, in Concord, North Carolina.  Jim started working for his clients in financial services 20 years ago, after a 25-year career in management with a Fortune Top 10 company.  He grew up in the Chicago suburbs, and he hold a B.S. in chemical engineering from Purdue University and an MBA from Lewis University.

      Jim has been a Bank On Yourself Authorized Advisor for the past 13 years.  His passion is  helping people achieve financial peace of mind by owning a strategy they can count on for life.

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