The Prosperity Podcast

Welcome to the ninety third episode of the prosperity podcast! Today our hosts Kim Butler and Todd Strobel talk about the idea of buying gold as an investment. They discuss the problem with labeling gold an “investment” and ask gold buyers to consider - what exactly do you want your money to do for you, and how does gold fit into that? Tune in to find out what investments can replace gold and what investments are actually effective hedges against inflation.

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Summary

Today on the Prosperity Podcast, our host Todd Strobel and co-host best-selling author Kim Butler sit down with a very special guest! Curtis May talks to us about his company, Practical Wealth Advisors, and his five step money organizer plan to putting you in a position to be prosperous and to live prosperously. Tune in to learn more about managing your money and find a way to live the life you want to live, now and later.

If you would like the opportunity for us to answer your question on the show or to be a guest on our show, be sure to keep sending us questions and reach out to us!

Show Notes

00:00 Intro

00:37 Introducing Curtis May

• Practical Wealth Advisors

01:22 The Money Organizer Plan

• email [email protected] for free report for all listeners on good debt vs. bad debt

02:07 How the Money Organizer Plan Came About

03:17 Step One: Creating ATM Money: Establishing a Short Term Liquid Fund

10:11 Step Two: Debt Elimination

14:21 Step Three: Building Cash Reserves

16:24 Where to Go to Learn More?

• 601-622-3121

20:34 Outro

Today on the Prosperity Podcast, our host Todd Strobel and co-host best-selling author Kim Butler sit down with a very special guest! Curtis May talks to us about his company, Practical Wealth Advisors, and his five step money organizer plan to putting you in a position to be prosperous and to live prosperously. Tune in to learn more about managing your money and find a way to live the life you want to live, now and later.

If you would like the opportunity for us to answer your question on the show or to be a guest on our show, be sure to keep sending us questions and reach out to us!

Summary:

Join our host Todd Strobel and best selling author Kim Butler, today on the ninety first episode of the prosperity article as they discussed the absurdity of an article entitled "The Turning Forty Checklist in Planning for Retirement". They talk about some of the problems with trying to save for retirement (when do you plan on start saving for?) and the importance of not putting things off till retirement (why not do it now?). They also discuss how being educated, and having a realy growth mindset and mentality, is better than a checklist where you rotely cross off boxes which is better than well...nothing.

If you have any questions or comments, please reach out to us! We'll be happy to do a podcast answering your questions and will get back to you on any comments or feedback you might have!

Show Notes:

[00:00] Intro

[00:43] "The Turning Forty Checklist in Planning for Retirement"

[01:28] What is the Checklist?

[04:20] What's Your Opinion About Equities?

[06:21] How to Protect Yourself & Your Loved Ones

[09:11] Whole Life Insurance & Savings

[11:58] Keeping Your Money Safe & Productive

[14:18] Up to the Match Level Only

[14:37] Just Save More Money

[16:23] Outro

Summary:

Welcome to the ninetieth episode of the Prosperity Podcast! Join our host Todd Strobel and best selling Kim Butler as they talk about the best way to share prosperity economics with your friends, family, and co-workers. More important than any one product is the mindset and strategy of prosperity economics, and alternative financial strategy that allows people to keep their money save and build wealth. Most people would want to share those ideas with their loved ones - but they might not know how. If you're looking to share the principles of prosperity economics with the people close to you, but aren't sure how, this podcast is for you!

If you have any questions or comments, please reach out to us! We'll be happy to do a podcast answering your questions and will get back to you on any comments or feedback you might have!

Show Notes:

[00:00] Intro

[01:18] How to Share the Information of Prosperity Economics

[02:19] Rule Number 1: You Don't Need to Know their Personal Finances

[03:53] Question Number 1: Where do you store your cash?

[05:24] Question Number 2: Who do you know who wants to learn?

[07:12] Rule Number 2: Refer them to Our Podcast

[09:07] Helping Both Listeners & Readers

[11:00] The Most Important Thing is Education

[11:59] Outro

Summary

Best-selling author Kim Butler and co-host Todd Strobel welcome you the eighty ninth episode of the Prosperity Podcast! Today, they get together to talk about how to spend your (whole life insurance) death benefit while living! A lot of people don't need or don't want money after they die, they need it as they retire and as they grow older. Conversely, some people do not have heirs or close family they want to pass their money. Tune in to find out how to spend your death benefit while you're still alive!

If you would like the opportunity for us to answer your question on the show or to be a guest on our show, be sure to keep sending us questions and reach out to us!

Show Notes:

00:00 Intro

00:30 How to Spend Your Death Strategy While Living

• For a PDF of strategies email: [email protected]

03:42 Strategy 1: The Pay Down

06:11 Strategy 2: A Reverse Mortgage

10:47 Strategy 3: Selling Your Death Benefit

11:17 Strategy 4: Charitable Remainder Trust

14:44 Outro

Summary

Welcome to the eighty eighth episode of the Prosperity Podcast! Today, best-selling author Kim Butler and host Todd Strobel "do the dividend thing" and go in depth with dividends! They explain the important difference between stock dividends and whole life insurance dividends - namely, that whole life insurance dividends are risk free (unlike stock) and virtually guaranteed (also unlike stocks). We hope you tune in today to learn more about how to guarantee your money, your savings, and your retirement, without being dependent on the random fluctuations of the stock market.

If you would like the opportunity for us to answer your question on the show or to be a guest on our show, be sure to keep sending us questions and reach out to us!

Show Notes

00:00 Intro

00:44 Doing the Dividend Thing

00:50 Comparing Whole Life Insurance & Stock Dividends

04:30 Example of Stock Versus Whole Insurance Dividends

06:43 How Are Whole Life Insurance Dividends Paid Out?

08:40 Interest Rates & Dividends

13:35 Whole Life Insurance is Not an Investment

14:54 Whole Life Insurance is a Place to Store Cash

15:53 Where to Find More Resources

• Financial Planning Has Failed by Kim D.H. Butler

17:52 Outro

Summary:

Welcome to the 87th episode of the Prosperity Podcast! Today, best selling author Kim Butler and host Todd Strobel sit down to talk about their favorite financial books. They take care to differentiate between well written financial books and well informed financial books. Finally, Kim Butler talks about her own books that she has published, how they were written, and her soon to be published book Busting the Life Insurance Lies.

Thank you for listening to the Prosperity Podcast! As always, don't hesitate to reach out to us at [email protected], with any and all of your questions, comments, and concerns. We'd love to hear from you!

Show notes:

00:00 Intro

00:53 The Best Financial Books (to Kim Butler)

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

05:28 The Mystery of Capital: Why Capitalism Triumphs in the West & Fails Everywhere Else by Hernando De Soto

07:02 Pirates of Manhattan by Barry Dyke

11:51 Busting the Retirement Lies by Kim Butler

12:37 Financial Planning Has Failed by Kim Butler

12:59 The Prosperity Paradigm by Steve D'annuncio

14:28 Outro

Summary:

Welcome to the 86th episode of the Prosperity Podcast! Today, host Todd Strobel and best-selling author Kim Butler sit down to discuss the relationship between life insurance and savings. They answer the question of the one of the listeners "Do premiums paid to whole life insurance count as savings?". They also discuss the same question for term life insurance. Finally, they explain insurance dividends in terms that everyone can understand.

If you have any questions or comments, please reach out to us! We'll be happy to do a podcast asking your questions and will get back to you on any comments or feedback you might have for us!

Show Notes:

00:00 Intro

00:37 The Facts of Life

02:02 Do I Count My Whole Life Insurance Premiums as "Savings"?

05:25 Does Term Insurance Also Count as Savings?

07:07 Understanding Dividends

12:25 The Advantages and Stability of Whole Life Insurance

Financial Planning has Failed free audio & ebook by Kim Butler

Summary

Tune in to the eighty-fifth episode of the Prosperity Podcast! Today, our host Todd Strobel and best-selling author Kim Strobel talk about "unbelievable thinking" and the difference between Prosperity Thinkers and Poverty Thinkers. They explain how poverty thinkers reduce involvement, whereas prosperity thinkers work on self improvement - poverty thinkers stop dreaming, and prosperity thinkers set attainable goals. We hope this episode can help you improve your personal thinking so that you can enjoy more prosperity in your life!

If you would like the opportunity for us to answer your question on the show or to be a guest on our show, be sure to keep sending us questions and reach out to us!

Show Notes

00:00 Intro

00:24 Unbelievable Thinking

02:03 Poverty Thinkers versus Prosperity Thinking

06:27 Setting Attainable Goals

09:05 Financial Problems with Poverty Based Thinking

11:31 Seeking out Opportunity Especially in Crisis

12:46 Holding Back Constantly vs. Moving Forward in Some Form

14:28 Poverty Thinkers and Complaining versus Gratitude

16:57 Seeks Outside Approval vs. Building Internal Confidence

21:35 Outro