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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Happy Birthday, Mr. Roth! (...

07.22.2019

We have two exciting announcements that mom wanted us to share with you about today's show: One - We're answering your letters, including a BUNCH of them about the Roth IRA, named after a Congressman whose birthday happens to be ...

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07.22.2019 Happy Birthday, Mr. Roth! (Your Letters) We have two exciting announcements that mom wanted us to share with you about today's show: One - We're answering your letters, including a BUNCH of them about the Roth IRA, named after a Congressman whose birthday happens to be ...
07.19.2019 One Redditor's Guide to Cleaning Up $16,000 of Debt (plus an intro to Bumped) With debt piling up, savings gone, and your credit cards maxed out, how do you pull yourself out of the hole and get on the right financial path? The first step, of course, is to stop digging, which is what ...
07.17.2019 Stumbling Your Way Toward Your Financial Goals (with Carl Richards) What if life weren't so complicated? What if you could stop worrying about lower expense ratios, cheaper insurances, bigger spreadsheets, or trying to perfectly plan out your retirement account so things are perfect decades down the road? On today's show, ...
07.15.2019 Decluttering Your Life - Financial and Otherwise (with Tracy McCubbin Clutter is everywhere. We buy more stuff to make us happy and all it does is makes us miserable and broke. How do we get out of the cycle? On today's show we'll talk to Tracy McCubbin, founder of cleaning ...
07.12.2019 Navigating Life's Awkward Money Situations (plus an intro to Token) Picture this: You and your friends are taking a road trip. You get off the highway and pull up to the third gas station of the day. You cut the ignition, take a look around the car and everyone avoids ...
07.10.2019 The 4 Secrets to Communicating About Money Worried about fighting with the people in your life about money? Here's the way to end it. Even if you're just struggling to talk to other people in your life about money...maybe it's not you. People don't talk in one ...
07.08.2019 Working Harder AND Smarter (with Shaan Patel) Shaan Patel is one of the best examples you'll find of a person who started with some big disadvantages but who never made excuses about his situation. Growing up in a budget motel in Las Vegas, Shaan still found a ...
07.05.2019 9 Retirement Savings Lies (plus an intro to Fee Belly) SB RWD 95 What are some of the biggest lies of retirement planning? Today we'll finish off our rewind week with one of our old school roundtable episodes. Back in 2017, we discussed 9 lies we're told about retirement planning. Going through the ...
07.03.2019 Sell a Home Fast (with Mindy Jensen) SB RWD 94 If anyone knows how to sell a house, it's Mindy Jensen. Not only is she a house flipper extraordinaire, but she also works at BiggerPockets, the home of one of the largest forums (if not the largest) for real estate ...
07.01.2019 Mastering The New Rules of Work (with Kathryn Minshew and Alex Cavoulacos) SB RWD 93 The rules of work have changed over the last several years. You need to stay up to date on what's relevant so you aren't left behind and miss the next career opportunity. We were surprise when we went back and ...
06.28.2019 The Downside of an Early Retirement (plus lessons from Roush Fenway Racing) Less stress, easy overhead, and being debt-free... those are three fantastic reasons to chase financial independence. For a growing number of investors the top reason to save and live frugally has become a chance at early retirement. But, what type ...
06.26.2019 What Can We Learn From Day Traders? (Your Letters) We're barring the doors, closing the shades, and not answering any house calls because today we're answering YOUR letters. From paying down a mortgage principle or investing, to allocations, backdoor conversions, and even the best strategies on giving kids an ...
06.24.2019 Volcanos, Annuities and an Unconventional Retirement (with Dr. Rosaly Lopes) What does a volcano have to do with your retirement? We won't use any crazy analogies here, like "things might erupt," or "danger could be bubbling below the surface," mostly because we wouldn't do something like that. But we don't ...
06.21.2019 Steps To Avoid To Become The Walking Dead (plus the Evil HR Lady!) How do avoid becoming a zombie? No, not the Walking Dead zombie, but the type who works their whole life, just pounding away, realizing too late that it was all for nothing? On today's episode, Deb Meyer helps the team ...
06.19.2019 Mom and Dad, We Need To Talk (with Cameron Huddleston) Cameron Huddleston joins us to tell the story of her aging mother, and the time she nearly missed the chance to have an incredibly important conversation: how her financial assets were managed and what arrangements she'd made for the future. ...
06.17.2019 How To Rock An 800+ Credit Score (Your Letters) You pay your bills on time. You're not in debt, and you have a great credit history. Yet, no matter what you do, you still find yourself stopping just below the mythical 800+ credit score threshold. What are you supposed ...
06.14.2019 Retirement: You Made It. Now What? (plus an intro to PayActiv) We LOVE talking about investing, savings, and of course, stacking Benjamins, but what about when you actually make it to retirement? Do you have a plan for your first day after your last day of work? How about that next ...
06.12.2019 9 Lies About Work (with Ashley Goodall) You've always known it: most of what people tell you about great work is a lie. Ideas such as company culture, work-life balance, and other truisms are all challenged today by bestselling business thinker, researcher and author Ashley Goodall. Today ...
06.10.2019 Winning In The Long Run (with Sanjay Rawal) Establishing your BEST financial habits means realizing that it isn't about being great today or tomorrow; it's about doing the right things over and over again for the long run. Today we talk to the creator of a documentary specifically ...
06.07.2019 Your Guide to the WORST Wedding Gifts (plus an intro to SteadiPay) What are the absolutely worst wedding gifts you could give this wedding season? One recent article from Kiplinger had us nodding our heads, so Mom said we should challenge our Friday roundtable, including special guest Beau Henderson from the Retirement ...
06.05.2019 Manifesting "Happy Money" (with Ken Honda) How do you make all of your financial transactions happy ones? How do you introduce the idea of abundance into your life? Ken Honda believes that while money can't make you happy, we DO attach lots of emotions to those ...
06.03.2019 An Economist Walks Into a Brothel (with Allison Schrager) Allison Schrager is an economist who's studied negotiation, diversification, and also, the topic we'll discuss in today's episode, risk. She'll explain risk using a lens that we haven't seen someone use before...the eyes and actions of legal sex workers. To ...
05.31.2019 When's The Right Time To Quit Your Job? (plus an intro to a pet-centric ETF) Is there ever a right time to quit your job? At what point do you give up on the current job and take a pay cut to climb a better ladder? On today's show we'll talk career prospects, life planning, ...
05.29.2019 The Importance of a (Real) Bucket List (with Karen Cordaway) What's on your bucket list? Do you talk about your list or have you actually sat down and drawn one up. If not, why not? Today's guest, Karen Cordaway, discusses bucket lists in detail with us. Why you should have ...
05.27.2019 One of the World’s Greatest Investors: T. Rowe Price (with Cornelius Bond) On today's holiday episode we'll remember a great member of the investment community, T. Rowe Price. Cornelius Bond recently wrote a biography on the investing giant, and we'll dive in on the man, the investment philosophy, and how he built ...
05.24.2019 7 Quotes That Will Make You Rethink Personal Finance (plus Bethany Bayless' Top Disney Tips) What keeps you motivated when you don't feel like thinking about saving more, spending less, or investing better? Do you have words you live by to help guide you through life? On today's show we're calling our friends Brandon Opre ...
05.22.2019 Your Guide To Summer Fun (with Robert Niles) Each year here in the basement, it isn't officially summer until we present this episode, which is why we're so happy to bring you Robert Niles, Mr. Theme Park Insider. He's coming down for his annual trip to the basement ...
05.20.2019 A Better Way to Buy Investment Real Estate (with David Greene) Bigger Pockets' David Greene joins us to tackle a more efficient way to buy real estate, especially if you're interested in building a large portfolio of passive income-generating properties. It's called the BRRRR method, and we'll walk through each of ...
05.17.2019 What's the True Cost of Subscriptions? (plus details on Trim's purchase of Debitize) We all know that subscription costs add up: Amazon, Hulu, Netflix, maybe a lawn service or wine-of-the-month club. But how do you make the decisions which to keep and which to heave-ho? Today our roundtable team, including author Frankie Calkins ...
05.15.2019 Secrets of Wealthy Women (with Veronica Dagher) We can learn a ton from the wealthiest among us, and Veronica Dagher from the Wall Street Journal, and host of the Secrets of Wealthy Women podcast, has a front row seat with some of the smartest and wealthiest people ...
05.13.2019 Playing With Financial Independence (with Scott Rieckens and Travis Shakespeare) Scott Rieckens felt something wasn't right in his life. While he lived in a beautiful corner of the world, and despite he and his wife having fantastic jobs, life just wasn't what he'd expected. So, he did something that few ...
05.10.2019 Let's Talk About Credit and Debt (with Gerri Detweiler) Have you checked your credit lately? How does credit even work? Why do I have a low credit score? Today, Len Penzo, OG, and our special guest Gerri Detweiler tackle credit, credit cards, and hwo to best make your credit ...
05.08.2019 Making the Leap to Successful Investing (with Erin Lowry) Erin Lowry from Broke Millennial learned early on about investing. As someone who's VERY conservative and not excited about losses, she didn't want much to do with investing. But, she'll tell us the story today about how she got started ...
05.06.2019 Is a Latte Ruining Your Financial Independence? (with David Bach) On today's show, we'll sit down with David Bach, the nine-time bestselling author. What's keeping you from achieving your financial goals? Is it a latte a day? While it doesn't necessarily have to be a latte, our discussion with David ...
05.03.2019 Our Best Money Advice For Beginning Savers No Matter Your Age SB RWD 92 To end our rewind week we present one of our favorite roundtable topics. How do you start saving, when you feel like you can't? I think most people are in this boat, based on statistics about how much money the ...
05.01.2019 Want to Change? Start Here (with Cortney McDermott) SB RWD 91 I'm personally excited for you to hear this episode. When this first aired I personally was going through some really dark stuff...and as always happens, I found a book that spoke to me and helped me through it. I needed ...
04.29.2019 Money Not Handed To You? Here's The Memo - with John Hope Bryant (SB RWD 90) The "system" isn't fair. Names from Ray Dalio to Bill Gates talk about income inequality. Poverty is often swept under the rug by people who want to easily dismiss it as "not pulling yourself up," yet most know it isn't ...
04.26.2019 Here's Why You Aren't Rich Why aren't you rolling in the dough? Maybe it's because you aren't focusing on the right parts of your budget. Studies have consistently shown that ONE area of savings beats all others. What is it? Tori Dunlap from HerFirst100k joins ...
04.24.2019 Transitions, Sudden Money, and Negotiating Contracts (with Andrew "Hawk" Hawkins) Andrew Hawkins was an NFL football player with the Cincinnati Bengals and Cleveland Browns. He also won two Grey Cups in the Canadian Football League, worked in the Detroit Lions front office, starred in a reality television show with Michael ...
04.22.2019 From Monk to Money Manager Doug Lynam grew up in a wealthy family but rejected looking wealthy at an early age and began hanging out with counter-culture kids while trying hard to find himself. From that lifestyle to the Marines and finally to becoming a ...
04.19.2019 Financial Lessons from a Wedding Gone Wrong What happens when a bride and her mom spend $70,000 on a wedding and everything goes wrong? Here's a bigger question: What happens when you spend more to get a bigger, better experience and it completely goes awry? Is it ...
04.17.2019 Quitting Your Job at 31 to Achieve a Life Goal (Your Letters) Today we're all about your letters. We'll start with a question about moving funds around to avoid some taxes, jump into helping a 25-year-old decide whether to max out his retirement accounts, answer a question about robo advisors, and then ...
04.15.2019 Tax Day 2019 (Plus Parenting Beyond the Rules with Connie Albers) Connie Albers joins us today to talk about communication. Specifically, we'll talk about communicating with teenagers, but if you've ever struggled to communicate with anyone, Connie will share great tips on how to build bridges. We'll talk about how to ...
04.12.2019 We Make $500k a Year and Struggle With Our Budget (plus the Retirement Budget Calculator) Why is a couple making $500,000 a year feel like they're just getting by? Shouldn't they feel better off than most people? On today's roundtable we'll examine the budget of the couple who feel just "average" and discuss why lifestyle ...
04.10.2019 The Genius of Living Like It's Groundhog Day (with Austin Kleon) How do you keep going when every day seems like a repeat of the last? What do you do to stay focused when either you're always asked to jump higher or may even just perform the same tasks again and ...
04.08.2019 How To Fire Your Financial Advisor Ever wonder about firing your advisor? One woman wrote to Joe about firing her advisor, and we realized that's a question that many people have. How does the process work? Do you tell them? How do you move your money ...
04.05.2019 What Retirement Terms Should You Know? (plus an intro to the Penge app) Do you think you could pass a quiz covering basic questions about retirement? While you MIGHT be confident that you know the basics, a recent TD Ameritrade survey suggests that most Americans would actually fail a simple retirement quiz. To ...
04.03.2019 One Woman's Shark Tank Journey (with Tanya VanCourt) Ever wonder what it'd be like to square off against the sharks? Tanya VanCourt from Goalsetter.co just did that and we'll share the exciting story from start to finish on today's show. Whether you're a fan of Shark Tank, Goalsetter, ...
04.01.2019 Whose Priorities Are You Working On? (with Laura Vanderkam) We aren't foolin' around on April Fools Day, because bestselling author, TED speaker, and top researcher of successful people Laura Vanderkam joins us. Laura and Joe tackle time management and priorities. When you have more tasks to do than time ...
03.29.2019 Outdated Money Advice You Should Probably Ditch (plus an intro to MetPro) On today's show, we'll cover all the (once) great financial strategies that have floated around the financial community. What outdated rules-of-thumb are you holding? We'll talk about which financial rules you should probably chuck out the window, and which ones ...

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