Highlights from this episode include:

• This insidious mentality can ruin your financial AND emotional life (1:54)
• Making decisions based on this is one of the worst ways people allow money to ruin their life (8:22)
• Using this system for your finances will destroy your marriage (9:48)
• No matter how successful you are, these people can pull you back down if you keep them around (14:38)
• These two emotions are the most likely to drag you down into poverty (15:30)
• This is the only way to keep money from ruining your life (15:47)

Highlights from this episode include:

• The most common, but most financially destructive reason people turn to the internet for advice (2:30)
• Why the fiduciary standard can prevent the draining of your retirement account and how to make it work for you (5:55)
• The sneaky way lazy advisors use 1% as an excuse to ignore or mismanage your retirement plan (6:43)
• How the “wonder twins” of financial decision making sabotage your retirement goals (8:10)
• Why the desire for anonymity is destabilizing your financial future (10:20)

Highlights from this episode include:

• You should be checking on your retirement accounts at least this often to ensure you’re on track (4:48)
• The importance of an “income floor” for retirement (7:09)
• How to ensure you have the best cash-flow plan for your retirement (7:20)
• How to avoid a crash that can derail your retirement (10:49)
• Mainstream financial advice could be collapsing your accounts (13:00)
• This is the only reason to have an annuity in your retirement plan (15:20)
• No matter how much you love your work, you MUST be ready to retire by this age (17:18)

Highlights from this episode include:

• Lack of this crucial resource is the main reason people suffer (2:19)
• Why the difference between giving and stewardship can ruin your financial life (3:15)
• Never, EVER give money to an organization for this reason (3:47)
• How your religious beliefs can steer you wrong when it comes to stewardship (5:17)
• The one key tenet you need to guide your charitable donations (8:28)
• These 3 rules will make you an effective steward without bankrupting your family (12:10)

Highlights from this episode include:

• The surprising way your parents may have influenced the debt crisis (3:16)
• The most avoidable type of debt, that still sucks the brightest people into financial ruin (5:28)
• These are the ONLY conditions when you should consider student loans (6:20)
• How to avoid following blind faith financial beliefs into bankruptcy (8:10)
• Ignoring this commonly misunderstood financial calculation is a sure way to ruin your future (9:15)
• A surefire sign that you should abandon certain financial beliefs (16:50)

Highlights from this episode include:

• 10 career-destroying topics you should never share with your co-workers (5:00)
• Comparing this with your co-workers could lead your emotional and financial downfall (6:51)
• 3 red flags that a financial advisor is trying to scam you out of your money (9:22)
• If you get financial advice that doesn’t include this essential element, you can be sure that advisor is taking you for a sucker (11:16)
• Why pinching pennies on your financial advisor’s fees is keeping you broke (12:37)
• How to avoid the “crabs in a bucket” mentality of co-workers who want you to fail (15:43)
• The insidious reason that “water cooler advisors” may be intentionally screwing with your retirement (19:32)

Highlights from this episode include:

• Why the current economic situation represents the biggest opportunity of your lifetime (2:17)
• Getting a stimulus check? Don’t waste it by making this common mistake (5:31)
• Practice this habit to stop being broke and propel yourself to financial freedom (6:00)
• These are the investments that you need to be looking at immediately (10:26)
• These 3 components make up your ideal retirement plan (11:10)
• Why retirement is the WORST time to stop working with your advisor (18:20)

Highlights from this episode include:

• The political fluke that accidentally created the entire 401k plan and the $5 trillion industry that surrounds it (2:25)
• What professional investors do, and how to avoid losing it all when the next “dot-com bubble” rolls around (5:05)
• The difference between “smart money” and “dumb money” and how not to go broke figuring it out (5:32)
• These three foundational building blocks make up the world’s most secure retirement plans. How many do you have? (6:34)
• This part of the 401k code could legally suppress the balance in your retirement account, forcing you to work until you die (7:49)
• The insidious lie you’ve been told about employer-matching contributions and why they aren’t really “free money” (8:54)
• These options can make your company’s 401k plan a goldmine… or a money pit. Make sure you get it right. (12:01)
• These hidden penalties are increasing the cost of college for parents who are just trying to do the best for their children (16:30)
• How your 401k steals control of your finances from you (21:31)

Highlights from this episode include:

• Why having too many credit cards is destroying your financial future (2:00)
• This is the only way to work for an employer who truly cares for you (2:45)
• The 100% legal way to create additional tax breaks for yourself and force the government to pay YOU (3:14)
• The “Freedom Bank” method for growing wealth and liberating yourself from the daily grind (4:25)
• 3 secrets to reducing debt so you are no longer a slave to the banks (4:53)

Highlights from this episode include:

• The first step to planning your foreign retirement and how to not destroy your plans before you even get started (6:40)
• How to ensure you pick a country that is both safe and affordable (so you don’t go broke or get killed by the locals) (7:20)
• The cost-conscious way to live in more than one country, preserving your savings and preventing mind-numbing boredom in retirement (9:04)
• Ending the judgment and stress of “keeping up with the Joneses” is simple when you choose a retirement location by these standards (11:09)
• Avoid an early death and give your retirement a purpose by doing this (12:18)