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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06.03.2020

Are you just beginning your journey toward investing or know someone graduating from high school or college? On today's show we'll field a letter from Jonathan with some help from our friend Christine Benz at Morningstar. What things should graduates ...

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06.03.2020 Our Best Advice For New Savers and Graduates (Your Letters) Are you just beginning your journey toward investing or know someone graduating from high school or college? On today's show we'll field a letter from Jonathan with some help from our friend Christine Benz at Morningstar. What things should graduates ...
06.01.2020 How To Make Your Own Luck (with Gay Hendricks) Can you actually manufacture "luck"? Have you been hoping for your fortune to change? Do you feel like you've failed often lately? What if we told you that you COULD change your luck? , Today we tackle the recipe on ...
05.29.2020 Is Goal Setting Overrated? Has goal setting helped your quality-of-life? Today we review a recent blog post where the author decides that goals have possibly ruined much of his life. Today our round table contributors will dive into this post from blogger Alex West, ...
05.27.2020 Are Stocks Headed Back Down? (with Phil Town) We all wonder...this big stock market run-up lately...can it continue? Who should you listen to? What should you believe? Today we ring up a man WE believe, Phil Town, author of New York Times bestseller Rule #1, to provide some ...
05.25.2020 They Paid Off Their Mortgage in FOUR Years (with Andy Hill) How would you like to pay off your mortgage in four years? Heck, many of us would love to pay off a mortgage in 29 years! Four years sounds like the stuff of dreams and make-believe, right? We might not ...
05.22.2020 68 Pieces of Unsolicited Advice (plus an intro to BusyKid) Don't talk to strangers. Make your savings automatic. Don't buy so many lattes. How many pieces of unsolicited advice have helped you become a better version of yourself? Today our contributors are helping us walk through a recent blog post ...
05.20.2020 A Geeky Chef's Guide To Memorial Day (with Cassandra Reeder) Who wants to waste money cooking up food on a holiday weekend that doesn't taste good? Not us. That's why, if you are like the rest of us, hanging out at home or with only a small gathering of people...it's ...
05.18.2020 Riding the Money-Saving Roller Coaster: Literally (with Robert Niles) It's time for summer fun and theme parks are all closed! Will they open in time for there to be a season? Will there be any virtual fun coming from these entertainment companies? If we choose to head to a ...
05.15.2020 Shifting Your Life and Money into "Drive" (plus an intro to Blueprint Income's AARP Annuity Hub) Ever feel stuck? Here's a question: How do you stop thinking about doing something important in your life/career/money and actually get started with the hard tasks? This week our roundtable regulars share how they motivate themselves to press "go" more ...
05.13.2020 Your Dream Job Toolkit (with Kevin Kiley) If you’re either one of the millions of unemployed Americans (heck, or in the WORLD), or you’re stuck in a job you don’t really want, now is a great time to look for better work. Companies are poised to begin ...
05.11.2020 Live and Thrive Like a Drug Addict (with Michael Brody-Waite) While the first person to tell you that nothing good happens while you're using drugs will be today's guest Michael Brody-Waite, he WILL insist that the skills he learned in recovery are the same skills we all need for success ...
05.08.2020 Lessons From a Real Estate Rookie (with Felipe Mejia) The host of the new Real Estate Rookie podcast, Felipe Mejia, joins Paula Pant (Afford Anything) and Len Penzo (Len Penzo dot com) to talk about real estate for newbies. A recent blog post at Coach Carson dot com discusses ...
05.06.2020 Making Being Underestimated Your Superpower (with Arlan Hamilton) Have you ever thought about what it takes to break into life? Maybe, like us back in the day, you've thought, "How do I come close to this dream of getting to financial security?" Forget financial security...what about just making ...
05.04.2020 The Soulful Art of Persuasion (with Jason Harris) When you think of a discussion, negotiation, or collaboration you don't usually think "soulful." That's where most of us differ from advertising mogul Jason Harris. Today we'll talk a bout putting more of your own soul into your work and ...
05.01.2020 8 Smart Things To Do With $1,000 Right Now (SB RWD 107) We're finishing this week off with a timely rewind episode handpicked by the Fintern: eight smart things to do with $1,000 right now. You can check out our original show notes below: What should you do with a small windfall? ...
04.29.2020 Freelance Your Way To Freedom with Vincent Pugliese (SB RWD 106) Welcome to our Wednesday rewind show! With so much job uncertainty going around right now, the Fintern decided now would be a good time to revisit a great interview we had with freelance extraordinaire Vincent Pugliese. Vincent took himself from ...
04.27.2020 Stop Fighting About Money with Elle Martinez (SB RWD 105) Communicating with your partner about money can be difficult in the best of situations, let alone staying inside for weeks on end. That's why to kick off our rewind week the Fintern picked a topic that will hopefully keep you ...
04.24.2020 3 Big Ideas for Your Financial and Mental Health (plus an intro to BlueChxp) People (and that includes us!) tend to react emotionally to big change. For us, that's running out of pizza rolls, but when it comes to money, that often means investors can make a bad situation worse by thinking with their ...
04.22.2020 Start Ugly (with Chris Krimitsos) If you're anything like us, you probably have a business idea or two that has been floating around in your head since the quarantine began. After all, what else is there to do between Netflix, snacks, taking a nap, eating ...
04.20.2020 Bring Yourself To Succeed At Your Next Negotiation (with Mori Taheripour) Maybe you're looking for the perfect new job, or you're hoping to be able to at least HOLD the remote the next time the family watches Netflix. In either case, do you wish you could be a better negotiator? Whether ...
04.17.2020 Doing More With Less and Loving It (plus: under the FinTech hood with Diebold Nixdorf's Devon Watson)) Being able to stack Benjamins has as much to do with stacking less stuff as it does with accumulating more money. It takes far less money to reach your goals if you're mindful of your spending. However, there are other ...
04.15.2020 The Money Hackers: An Unlikely FinTech Origin Story (with Daniel Simon) How has that phone in your pocket changed the course of finance? It turns out, a TON. Today we talk to Dan Simon, who chronicles the birth and growth of FinTech for us on today's show. We'll discuss the early ...
04.13.2020 The Most Powerful Person Is You (with Lydia Fenet) Lydia Fenet has a job where she commands attention for a living. As lead benefit auctioneer at Christie’s auction house, she has to quickly and effectively command a room. Today she'll show YOU how to sell your abilities to any ...
04.10.2020 Financial Experiments! (plus an update on the PPP) Experiments aren't just for the laboratory; they can also help with your budget, or your investments. By continually experimenting you're learning a TON about how to manage money, and which techniques work uniquely for you! Joining us today from Balance ...
04.08.2020 Beware Charts, Graphs and Financial Companies Wielding Them (with John Johnson) A mentor of Joe's once said to "beware charts and graphs," and with us all huddled at home staring at screens, we're consuming more data daily than ever. It's important to be able to process what we read from financial ...
04.06.2020 How to Juggle Family, Work and Money (with the How To Money guys!) Juggling all the facets of life became a lot harder for many of us the last few weeks (well, in some ways easier...no more commute!). If you're lucky enough to be healthy, you're now just trying to figure out how ...
04.03.2020 Your COVID-19 Grocery Savings List (plus HUGE help for businesses) Who's shopping? You shopping? None of us are doing more than shopping for groceries...even if it's on the internet. Today we'll talk about getting in and out of the grocery store without catching anything by focusing on the 20 signs ...
04.01.2020 Our All-Star Cast Answers Your Questions It's been awhile since we've answered the mailbag, so we thought there's no better day to tackle some questions! So, our long-time hosts, Farnoosh & OG are kicking off April by answering a TON of your questions! We received many ...
03.30.2020 She Paid Off LOTS of Debt With Little Income (with Chonce Maddox Rhea) If you have debt you're going to love today's episode. We'll talk to a woman who decided that it was time to take charge and change her course for the better. Choncé Maddox Ray (of the My Debt Epiphany blog) ...
03.27.2020 Adulting During The Age of Coronavirus (plus an intro to Ortus Academy) Sometimes trying to be an adult just plain stinks. But when do you "adult" and when do you "wing it"? A recent post on popular blogging site Budgets Are Sexy asks that question and today we put that in front ...
03.25.2020 Should I Sell Or Should I Go? (and other Covid-19 money questions) The market's down a bazillion percent (mom's not great at math), your neighbors won't answer the door (and for the first time ever, that's a good thing), and the world seems upside down. Time to stop throwing good money after ...
03.23.2020 Needs, Wants, or Both? Plus 24/7 Coronavirus Coverage (with Jean Chatzky) First, we're joking about the coronavirus coverage. While we'll discuss the key fundamentals you need to know, we'll spend more time today talking about the basics. Between focusing on your money mindset with Jean Chatzky from The Today Show and ...
03.20.2020 Spring Cleaning Your Finances (plus Ally & Dr. Ted Klontz) Since you're most probably stuck at home and "social distancing" yourself, now's a great time for a lighthearted discussion about spring cleaning your financial picture. Everything else in life right now seems pretty heavy, so today we'll keep it light ...
03.18.2020 Want More Money? Manage Your Energy (with Angelo Poli) During this crisis, it's important to focus on the big picture...but what is it? Our guest today says (and we agree), that managing your energy, and not your time is the key to success. Angelo Poli, the founder of MetPro ...
03.16.2020 Creating Your Cash Machine (with Dave Mason) How does YOUR financial future look? Probably the first lesson anyone successful with money will tell you is that you can't look at life the same way anymore. While some expenses others may see as a given, you now see ...
03.13.2020 4 Topics Finance Experts Can't Agree On (plus an intro to Peak Money) It's time to get down and dirty! Did you think financial experts agree on everything? OG has his boxing gloves on for this episode because today we're wrestling with topics financial experts can't agree upon. Fighting with him today from ...
03.11.2020 Forget Hustle, Focus on Alignment (with Heather Chauvin) Are you a "go-go-go" person? You live on phrases like, "I can sleep when I'm dead," or "hustle and grind." Today's guest Heather Chauvin from the Mom In Control podcast used to live that lifestyle, until a serious health issue ...
03.09.2020 The 4 Cornerstones of a Successful Financial Strategy (with CFP Brian Ursu) What's your financial plan? Is it built on bedrock or are you "winging it", aka building on sand? On today's show, Certified Financial Planner Brian Ursu joins us to dive into four strategies that will help anyone trying to build ...
03.06.2020 The Biggest Lie In Personal Finance (plus and intro to the Retirement Budget Calculator) If you believe telling a white lie is okay, do you believe that about money topics? What about white lies that are told by big-time bloggers or (gasp) podcasters about the path to riches? We'll dive into the world of ...
03.04.2020 Want to Increase Your Earning Power? Learn To Speak Better (with Grant Baldwin) It's your big moment. You're talking to the boss or giving a presentation at work. Maybe you're finally in front of your dream customer. And you blow it. Today we'll help you earn more money by focusing (well, as much ...
03.02.2020 Cracking The Whip On Your Financial Goals (with Lindsay Goldwert) Do you have trouble staying in charge of your money? Maybe you let your priorities get away from you and want to make a change? Today we'll talk about communication, being direct, and asking for what you really want with ...
02.28.2020 What To Do When the Bull Market Finally Ends (SB RWD 104) There's been a lot of market fears going around this past week, but regardless of its origin people have been asking the same question for years: what should we do when the bull market finally ends? We're finishing out the ...
02.26.2020 The #1 Key To Get Someone Excited About Saving Money - SB RWD 103 Are you committed to saving, but can't seem to get other people around you on board? It can be frustrating once investing for the future has clicked in your head, but not for the people you care about. Gene Natali, ...
02.24.2020 The HIGHS and lows of Real Estate Investing - RWD 102 Have you ever thought about jumping into real estate? It isn't all roses, rainbows and money. On today's rewind episode, the FinTern takes us back to 2018 and Dana Bull's appearance in the basement, talking about all of the good ...
02.21.2020 Now THAT'S A Waste Of Money (plus an intro to Harvest) What big money wasters exist in your life? Unless you're like us, Benjamins seem to slip out of your pockets WAY too easily. Today, we'll test our guests' game show skills to see if they can guess 16 fantastic examples ...
02.19.2020 Kicking $215,000 of Debt to the Curb (with Cindy Zuniga) Are you struggling with debt? How about a little inspiration? Cindy Zuniga paid off a LOT of debt in just four years. Like you, she finally realized she'd had enough and something had to change...so change she did. Today she'll ...
02.17.2020 No Mud, No Lotus (with Tamara Jacobi) When was the last time you planned to make some of your big dreams a reality? What's holding you back? Time? Money? Fear of the unknown? Today we're talking to Tamara Jacobi, who created a retreat in the Mexican jungle ...
02.14.2020 Really, You Find THAT Romantic? (plus an intro to AgeUp) Buying running shoes for your partner who you know loves to run, you find THAT romantic? Taking a walk in the park holding hands, is that still romantic? Watching TV or a Movie and not saying a word to each ...
02.12.2020 The Roth 401K: The Cinderella Of Your Financial Plan (and Your Letters) Why are some of the coolest financial tools rarely used? For example, people by-and-large avoid HSA accounts, when they're the Swiss-army knife of a healthcare plan. Today we'll shine a light on another type of plan that's not often used: ...
02.10.2020 Your Frugal Valentine's Day Dining Guide (plus Shannon Dougherty's latest issue) Don't look now but Friday is Valentine's Day! You're probably wondering what a "chocolates and roses" holiday has to do with finances... and the answer is...A lot. As we'll find out today, many people don't hesitate about turning their wallets ...

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