The Stacking Benjamins Show

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Joe Saul-Sehy & OG discuss current finance trends, interview personalities and share the microphone with finance and non-finance people from across the nation...all from the comfort of Joe's parent's basement.

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12.05.2021

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12.05.2021 LIVE From EconoMe 2021 It's a special Saturday episode! Community plays a big role in our lives and the community you surround yourself with can make all the difference on the path you are on. We are lucky to be part of a pretty ...
12.03.2021 Our Best 2021 Holiday Wallet-Saving Tips It’s peak shopping season and many of us are also getting ready to attend or host holiday parties, which means money may be quickly shuffling out of your wallet. Since money doesn’t grow on trees, today we’ll share our best ...
12.01.2021 Holiday Networking Strategies for Introverts (with Nick Shelton) The holidays can be overwhelming for lots of reasons (family, too many parties, not enough time) and that stress can run even deeper for introverts. Have you ever RSVP'd to something then immediately regretted it, preferring to stay cozy under ...
11.29.2021 Maximize Your 401K With These 10 Easy Tips Not sure how to best use your 401k plan to stack some B's? Today the man many call the "father of the 401k," Ted Benna, joins us to share not just how he created the first 401k plan, but he'll ...
11.26.2021 Our Top 5 Board Games for Families + Franklin's Fortune What's your favorite game to play with family and friends? If you don't have a favorite, or if you're looking for a new game, we have good news for you. It's our annual board game episode and we talk to ...
11.24.2021 2021’s Hottest Holiday Tech Deals On Monday we gave you a list of top Black Friday deals and today we are continuing the deals with all things tech! Bridget Carey from CNET joins us again this year to share the hottest tech items and deals ...
11.22.2021 Our Annual Black Friday Savings Episode (plus FSA rules changes AND a TikTok to remember) What's on your holiday wish list this year? Are you planning on running out on Black Friday to snag some deals? Lucky for you, we are making your holiday shopping a little easier. Regina Conway is back to share insights ...
11.19.2021 The Money Myth Buster Episode Have you ever received money advice that made you scratch your head in confusion? I was once told that I should buy a new car every few years because it would save on maintenance costs....I think the person giving me ...
11.17.2021 Restaurants, Your Health, and Your Wallet (with Corey Mintz) How much thought do you put into where your food comes from and how the employees at your favorite restaurant are treated? If you're like most of us, probably not much. Corey Mintz is a former cook turned food writer ...
11.15.2021 Our Best Tips to Navigate Change Change. It's something most of us struggle with, but when it comes to money and building your plan, change will always be necessary. James Conklin is an author and consultant in organizational change and joins us today to share some ...
11.12.2021 Our 12 Best Holiday Survival Tips (plus the Evil HR Lady) - REWIND Today we're packing the show full of holiday survival tips! From shopping to family gatherings, our roundtable shares their favorite tips and tricks for not just surviving, but surviving without completely emptying your wallet. This episode originally aired in 2019 ...
11.10.2021 A Better Way To Buy Investment Real Estate (with David Greene) - REWIND Zillow is in the headlines recently, because they're real estate purchase program hasn't worked as expected and they're dumping properties purchased only months ago. Many of these properties are selling for less than the purchase price. Is this a sign ...
11.08.2021 Curing Your Time Poverty Problem (w/Ashley Whillans) - REWIND Man, that time change is always hard. It's getting dark earlier and starting to feel more and more like winter. There's nothing the time change blues can't fix like an episode on managing time and how to make our days ...
11.05.2021 What Life Lessons Would You Share With a Younger You? If you could go back and give your younger self one piece of advice, what would it be? Maybe it's to take more chances or say adios to the boss that treats you horrible or maybe it's just to live ...
11.03.2021 Want To Save More? Use Tricks From Video Games Our brains are complex and in charge of our emotions, memories and behaviors but just how connected are our brains and decisions about money? Maybe more than you realize. Dr. Paul Zak joins us to talk about our brains and ...
11.01.2021 The Fight Over Dungeons & Dragons Board games date back almost 5,000 years to the Egyptians but our games today look very different. Modern board games and video games have exploded in popularity and one of the most popular games in history is Dungeons & Dragons. ...
10.29.2021 Real-Life Money Horror Stories That Will Make Your Skin Crawl Most of us have made mistakes with money in our lives. What's your money horror story? Ever gotten caught up in a Venmo scam or been asked to pay the IRS in gift cards for taxes due? Sounds fishy but ...
10.27.2021 How Do You Retire Happy? (plus an economic Halloween game!) You might retire, but how do you retire happy? How do you imagine spending your time in retirement and does pre-planning make you happier? The host of the nation's longest-running financial radio call-in show, Wes Moss joins us to share ...
10.25.2021 Light a Fire Under Your Chance of Success How do you find success? Today, we'll help..."shine a light" on the path to a better work life (we're so, so clever!). Chesapeake Bay Candle has seen tremendous success and today founder Mei Xu joins us to share her secrets. ...
10.22.2021 What Is The Cost of “Cool”? Mummies, pineapples, and board games (Joe's favorite!). What do these all have in common? They've all been seen as status symbols at some point in time. Today's status symbols might be fancy strollers, nice cars, or how many followers you ...
10.20.2021 Big Debt, Late Start, World Travel: No Problem We went campin' (well, Joe and Doc G did) and dug up some inspiring and amazing money stories from fellow campers. We are live today from Camp FI (financial independence) and Joe and special guest co-host Doc G (Earn and ...
10.18.2021 Unbelievable Stories from Bitcoin's Wild Wild West If you thought the days of crazy lawless activity left when the wild west was won, think again. The spirit of the Wild West continues in cryptocurrency. From the early investors, new coins and even some legal trouble, there's still ...
10.15.2021 Should You Be More Worried About Retirement? When did you start really thinking about, and maybe even stressing over, retirement? In your 50s, or 40s, or maybe even your 20s? Our discussion piece today, written by our friend Eric Brotman, talks about the increasing number of people ...
10.13.2021 Guess Who Created The Index Fund? (hint: you'll probably be surprised) There's a chance you've heard the words "passive investing", "index funds" or "ETF (exchange-traded fund)" but the history behind these is much longer (and more interesting!) than you probably imagined. Passive investing is extremely popular with investors today but that ...
10.11.2021 How A Shark Can Help You Run A Successful Business (with Barbara Corcoran) Have you wanted to start a business but something is holding you back? Not enough time, resources or money? And maybe some fear as well. Today we talk to Shark Tank shark and real estate and business mogul, Barbara Corcoran ...
10.08.2021 Can Rattlesnake Wranglers Give Good Financial Advice? Investing can feel like a rattlesnake hunt if you don't know what you are doing. Scary, surprising, and sometimes painful if you aren't careful. Our roundtable today discusses a piece comparing the world of investing and our emotions to a ...
10.06.2021 Lean Into Sadness and Away From Your Timeshare (with Helen Russell) Human emotion makes us, well, human. While it's much more fun to feel happy, excited, or optimistic, there's no denying that we also feel sad, confused and frustrated at times. Helen Russell joins us today to talk about why feeling ...
10.04.2021 Questions To Ask Before You Donate + How To Double Your Salary! Want to find more happiness? Think bigger than your own goals. We've said this a TON lately on the podcast, so today we look at how to make it happen. Sadly, as Lisa Greer has experienced, charitable giving can be ...
10.01.2021 Is That Light At The End Of The Tunnel Your Retirement Or A Train? What does retirement mean to you? Is it traveling, sitting on the beach or playing golf? Or maybe taking on a volunteer project? Or something completely different? Our roundtable today talks about what retirement means to them and what we ...
09.29.2021 What Are You Worried About? (Live from #FinCon21) Between the stock market, soaring housing prices, and the strive for financial independence, what's been top-of-mind for you lately? Maybe you are getting ready to retire and thinking about how you will spend your days or planning your jet-setting adventure ...
09.27.2021 Get Out Of Your Own Way With One Simple Tool (with Mel Robbins) Ever look at yourself in the mirror? Of course you have! How many times have you had to tell that person looking back at you to get out of the way? If you're like us, A TON. Mel Robbins discovered ...
09.24.2021 Tired of Spending Less? How to Beat "Frugality Fatigue" Have you ever felt burnt out by trying too hard to save money or squeeze your budget too thin? That's what's known as "frugal fatigue". Sometimes we try so hard to cut expenses and save every penny that we end ...
09.22.2021 Upgrade Your Career, Compete with Avis, and Brew Your Own Beer How does a trip to Ireland with a private car rental service and a beer-making class sound? Today we have all three of those for you, but presented as three awesome and financially sound separate stories. Today we feature three ...
09.20.2021 What's The Future of Money? Will you bank in the future the way you did in the past? What role will emerging financial systems like crypto and FinTech have in the future? Senior Brookings Fellow Eswar Prasad joins us today to talk about the future ...
09.17.2021 One Powerful (and simple) Tool to Reach Your Goals How would you rate the different aspects of your life: fun & relaxation, personal & spiritual growth, business, money, health, family & friends, love & romance, and personal development? Then how much time and money do you invest in each ...
09.15.2021 You Have More Than You Think (plus: drunk traded lately?) Studies show that our biggest enemy is often the one between our own ears. It can be hard to get out of your own head at times. Joyce Marter joins us today to talk about limiting beliefs and how we ...
09.13.2021 Nice People Finish Last But Bad People Don't Win Either Why is it that nice guys always seem to finish last? There's something that doesn't seem fair about the jerks in the world winning in business and life. Does a middle ground exist, and is that the secret spot for ...
09.10.2021 The Pros and (Mostly) Cons of Retirement (plus Kathryn Minshew from TheMuse.com) - REWIND We have a great roundtable discussion for you and an interview with Kathryn Minshew, CEO of Themuse.com today. The roundtable starts off our episode by discussing the pros and cons of early retirement. Are there more cons than pros? According ...
09.08.2021 My Journey to Huge Success in Real Estate (with Ryan Serhant) The amazing real estate pro from Million Dollar Listing New York, Ryan Serhant, joined us to walk us through highlights and lessons from his journey to success in real estate. He never expected to be a salesman, let alone a ...
09.06.2021 You Can Be a Badass With Money How are you with cash? Credit? Putting money in investments? All of that begins with your mindset, and Jen Sincero joins us today to help you get your head in the right place.
09.03.2021 Does Your Astrological Sign Affect Your Ability to Build Wealth? Do libra's really have a better chance of becoming billionaires than other zodiac signs? You'd think not, but according to one blog post, Libra's are only 9% of the population but make up 20% of billionaire. If you aren't lucky ...
09.01.2021 How To Avoid Getting Scammed on Life Insurance How well do you understand life insurance? If you don't know as much as you should, an unscrupulous agent who meets with you might convince you to purchase a product that could cost you hundreds or even thousands of wasted ...
08.30.2021 El Salvador is Crypto Curious + Reading to Lead with Jeff Brown & Jesse Wisnewski Want to move ahead faster in your career? Feeling uncreative and like you aren't moving? Stop waiting for others to design a curriculum for you and create your own. Today we'll talk to two men who've done exactly that for ...
08.28.2021 Special Episode: Plutus Awards 2021 Finalists and Roundtable It's that time! The 2021 Plutus Awards (co-hosted by Joe Saul-Sehy and Natalie Torres-Haddad) will take place during FinCon in Austin, Texas on September 23rd. Today we announce the finalists with our friend Miranda Marquit (Planting Money Seeds). Then we ...
08.27.2021 Our End of Summer Economic & Portfolio Guide: The STACK Live Event (featuring Dr. Apollo Lupescu) How's your portfolio performing? Are your funds not performing as you'd hoped? Today we'll help you figure out how recent economic conditions, investing trends, and different asset classes affect your success! A few weeks ago, we held an awesome live ...
08.25.2021 What Should We Focus on First? (with Eric Brotman) + Why Your Advisor Doesn’t Text It's back-to-school season and with as much joy as that brings for parents (free babysitting, anyone? Just kidding. Okay, not really.), we are also bringing you back to school with your finances. Certified Financial Planner Eric Brotman joins us to ...
08.23.2021 How a Bad Estate Plan Can Wreck You (even if you have nothing) We hear a ton about "intergenerational wealth" lately, and a cornerstone of building a dynasty of Benjamin-stackers is knowing how to pass on your assets. But even if you don't have any assets yet, not having a good plan can ...
08.20.2021 Our Best "Secret" Money-Saving Travel Hacks There are two types of people who travel: those who meticulously plan every detail and spend hours strategizing so they can save every last penny, and on the other hand, there are those who buy whatever last-minute plane ticket they ...
08.18.2021 Fighting Fear, Buying Real Estate, and Shaving Taxes (Live from PM21) You don't have to be wealthy to build wealth. That's the theme that kicks off today with our amazing panel, live from Podcast Movement in Nashville! Joe meets up with Mindy Jensen from BiggerPockets Money, Ben Brandt from Retirement Starts ...
08.16.2021 Communicate Like a Boss (with Rachel Pacheco) How well do you share feedback, ask for what you want, or set expectations? Do you find that people aren't where you expect, doing what you'd hoped, or disappointing your expectations? If you need help with any of these, today's ...

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