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#019: This episode is about how my journey through weight loss helped me synthesize my steps to overcoming many other challenges. It's about committing to something, and pushing past the obstacles that get us stuck in the mud. It's about making big problems small, and the power of incremental change. [Recorded 8/04/2020]

Featured Recording - "BASKETBALL MOTIVATION: The Empty Gym with Kobe Bryant" on YouTube (Audio track is courtesy and credited to Kobe Bryant's Muse. Link)

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#QA-2: I received several texts and DM's as Kodak's [NYSE:KODK] stock price was surging last week. Full disclosure, I do not own any Kodak stock directly. I attempt to answer this question by not answering it at all. You'll see what I mean if you listen to the episode. This episode is about investing versus gambling, and why stock picking should be the least of your concerns.  [Recorded 8/03/2020]

Helpful Links:

CNN Business - https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/29/investing/kodak-stock-rally-defense-protection-act/index.html

Betterment - betterment.com/?referral_key=justinbridges

Vanguard - https://investor.vanguard.com/home

Vanguard also offers robo-advising, it's called Digital Advisor: https://investor.vanguard.com/financial-advisor/compare-financial-advice

Charles Schwab Intelligent Portfolios - https://intelligent.schwab.com/

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#018: Your Money Journey returns with a conversation with my friend and fellow photographer Justin Chung.  Over the years, Justin has photographed different types of people, but in all of his images, you’ll find respect, appreciation, and a kind of warmth. This is especially true in his personal project, Faculty Department, a series of books and online media that focus on the lives, spaces, and stories of creative individuals worldwide. 

Justin is based in Los Angeles, CA., so we had our chat via Zoom. We covered a lot of good ground from avoiding money talks with parents as a first generation Asian American to the thought process behind making his first art book. [Recorded 5/26/2020]

Get to know more about this episode's guest - Justin Chung (@justinchung).  You can also check out and pick up a copy of Faculty Department vol 2 (@facultydept) by visiting FacultyDepartment.com. The book is beautifully designed, shot and written; worthy of a spot on your coffee table or book shelf.

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#QA-1: Quick announcement: I'm still doing the Wednesday episodes but I'm also going to answer your questions in this short "minisodes." It's the same principle as the "Snackable" shows - give you quick and dirty answers more often so everyone can benefit! I was trying to do this with video, but to be completely honest, it's too early in this show's evolution. Also known as, I don't have enough time. Hopefully, this is a great way to still get you useful and valuable information and you can get it in short and more frequent episodes. [Recorded 7/25/2020]

Helpful Links:

New Choice Health - https://www.newchoicehealth.com/

Healthcare Bluebook - https://www.healthcarebluebook.com/

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#017: This episode is about the keys to a rich and fulfilling life. Not on some guru, goopy level of spirituality. It's just about acknowledging that everything in life is connected. Moving through life with less encumbrances, less stress, and less self-deception is a big piece of that. If you've never heard about metaphorical masks, this is the focus of the episode. I'm going to explain them and then provide some real life examples of why ripping them off is fundamental to your growth. This episode is why Freelance Kills is drastically different from any other podcast about personal finance and freelance. It's because succeeding in both these areas requires you to focus your efforts through the lens of personal wellness, and that's how I'm going to teach.  [Recorded 7/20/2020]

Featured Recording - "We Wear the Mask" by Maya Angelou (An adaptation of the original poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar)

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#016: A little clickbait-y, my bad! I'm borrowing a quote from Mike Tyson to talk about pivoting financial behaviors. How do we change directions for the better when it's clear our current plans don't work. And I wrap the episode diving into the importance of self-alignment for your career and your happiness. [Recorded 7/13/2020] 

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#015: Your Money Journey is back with two special guests.  Kathleen Tso and Vicki Ho are the co-founders of Banana Magazine. Kathleen and Vicki founded Banana after noticing the lack of a platform that brought the growing Asian creative community together to collaborate and discuss their ever-changing collective identity. Our conversation spanned many different topics included handling finances in a relationship, using the support of family for a first home purchase, and infinite money splurges. [Recorded 5/24/2020]

Listener Note: Apologies for any audio quality issues. Like you, I'm getting used to the whole Zoom routine and eventually I'll get it tightened up.

Get to know more about this episode's guests - Kathleen Tso (@kathleentso) & Vicki Ho (@_vickivibe).  You can also check out and pick up a copy of Banana Magazine (@bananamag) by visiting their site. The magazine is beautiful, I'd say collectible!

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#014: In Part 4 of Race in America, I try to find the courage to push back against the extremes of societal belief. This is an episode from and of the heart. It's about looking at America today, trying to see its potential and move past the noise, the viral disagreements, and try to form my own opinion about what's needed to find common ground again. It's about nuance. It's a call to action for Americans to once again find deep thinking after the anger. It's a call to move towards rational political action instead of the intense focus on the more performative and lazy versions of activism that just require an Instagram account. It's me trying to get my arms around the now, and communicate in the simplest of ways. And jokingly, it's about ending the "Woke-Off," or "Woke Olympics" and getting to work.  It's me saying loudly, we aren't that different from each other, we're not that far apart.

Recording - "Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt reads from the Declaration of Human Rights" from The United Nations

Music - "Alabama" by John Coltrane

[Recorded 6/23/2020]

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#013: Snackable episodes are a new mini-series dedicated to financial literacy. This is an opportunity to learn about the financial vocabulary you hear everyday in the amount of time it takes you to ride to work, or make a meal in the kitchen. Short and digestible episodes that slowly get you more comfortable with all the jargon that gets tossed around in the news, the interwebs or other podcasts.

Today's episode is about credit scores. It features a listener's question about increasing his score. I answered it previously on Instagram stories and YouTube, but I decided to go a bit further. I talk about the major components they use to calculate your score and I dive into some popular myths about credit scores. [Recorded 5/26/2020]

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#012: In Part 3 of Race in America, I come up for some metaphorical air and switch gears to think about how the human mind works. I'm experiencing the rage, the anger, the disappointment and a slew of emotions that so many people are as well. But, I've also felt one of my special contributions to the fight would be to get under the hood a little - read between the lines and look towards the bigger picture from a healed perspective. Anger is such a useful tool, and it is important that it gets expressed. The question for me is how to I use that momentum, how to I convert all that energy into something actionable? How can I use my knowledge and understanding of human behavior to give people actionable steps for the tough conversations they're bound to have, hopefully, for the rest of their lives until we stamp out racism? 

I'm doing that with the help of psychologists Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman. Two men that contributed so much to the field of psychology and behavior. Today's episode will cover a couple different heuristics and cognitive biases and attempt to provide a couple suggestions for how to push against their effects to be a more effective communicator to someone not on the side of racial equality and justice. This episode also features some recordings of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X. I'm using their voices as a way for you to connect with this fight the last time the fight was so explosive, but also to paint a picture. That picture is that even our greatest leaders had disagreement with how we would achieve our collective ends. Secretly, I'm also trying to prime you one way or another. You'll understand what that means if you listen all the way through.

If you're looking to purchase any of the books I mention or learn more about these civil rights leaders, consider using one of my links to purchase:

[Recorded 6/09/2020]

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