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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05.24.2019

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 ...

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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 ...
03.27.2019 Making the Millionaire Choice (with Tony Bradshaw) Tony Bradshaw believes that we all can become millionaires. Growing up in a low income household, Tony learned the hard way how difficult it was to make and keep a dollar. But, using some of the strategies he talks about ...
03.25.2019 How To Find and Profit From Your Money Story (with Jean Chatzky) What's your money story? What the heck IS a money story? Jean Chatzky from Her Money (and the Today Show money editor) joins us to talk about her money story, why it's important, and how to use it to avoid ...
03.22.2019 Lessons from the Tooth Fairy (plus an intro to alternative investment IRAs with Alto) In true Stacking Benjamins fashion today we're all about the Tooth Fairy. A new Delta Dental study shows that the Tooth Fairy is leaving less money for children's teeth. Does this mean the economy is weakening? Does it mean that ...
03.20.2019 The Case Against Rolling Your Workplace Plan to an IRA We're answering your letters today, but first, we'll tackle a headline about the case against rolling over your 401(k) plan to an IRA. Most of us have heard why you should roll it over. Let's now hear the flip side. ...
03.18.2019 How to Hire The Perfect Advisor (for you), with Nicholas Stuller Finding the right person to help you make your best financial moves is a giant exercise in trust. How do you know an advisor is perfect for you? On that note, how do you know the advisor is right for ...
03.15.2019 How Do the Wealthy Manage THEIR Money? (plus FinTech to come with Ryan Falvey) What do rich people do with all their Benjamins? Yachts? Helicopters? Trips to the Alps? Helping us through one MarketWatch piece that seems to have the answer to our burning questions about wealth, is the founder of Reisup, Tara Falcone. ...
03.13.2019 How Do I Pay Off My College Debt? Plus, FIRST No-Fee ETF (with David Carlson) Does it feel like it'll be an eternity until you've finally finished off your student loans? Maybe you're one of the nearly two-thirds of Americans who wonder how they'll ever pay off their loans. Student loans can be a burden ...
03.11.2019 Earning More By Doing Less (with David Hause) Are you aggressively striving for your financial goals? Putting in the time to make your dreams come true? Are you sure you're NOT going to let anything stand in your way when it comes to securing a nice retirement and ...
03.08.2019 What Financial Terms Should You Know? (with an intro to the Destiny app) 401k? Roth? Dollar cost averaging? Market timing? Target-date funds? Choosing to take responsibility for your financial well-being is often a difficult choice, and it's not made any easier by the long list of jargon that comes attached to being money ...
03.06.2019 Saving For a House, Real Stock Returns, Social Security, and more (Your Letters) Should you take on debt to buy real estate? Does the stock market really return as much as we're told it after a life of saving and investing? And on the topic of stocks... how should a portfolio be split ...
03.04.2019 Mortgages 101 (plus: your subscriptions are killing you) Whether you've never purchased a home before or just don't know much about the process, we've got a treat for you today. We're going to dive into everything mortgages 101 today, like PMI, the negotiability of fees, and the lie ...
03.01.2019 Money Moves For the MINUTE You Decide to Retire with Harlan Landes AND Buzz Indexes (SB RWD 89) What should be the number one priority on your retirement planning list? That answer is going to be different for everyone, and on this roundtable episode our contributors gave their take on one list's "most' urgent items. You can find ...
02.27.2019 Check Your Financial Diagnostic with Jean Chatzky (RWD 88) When's the last time you gave you financial life a good inspection? It's been a bit since we talked about having a good look at our financial processes and routines, so the Fintern decided to spin up Joe's interview with ...
02.25.2019 What Do We Think About Market Timing? (RWD 087) We haven't talked about market timing at all on the show lately, so the Fintern thought it was about time to reach back in the archives and find an old episode on the topic. This eshow is from a Wednesday ...
02.22.2019 Lies Money Gurus Tell (plus an intro to NuMoola) It's easy to find financial advice on the internet. But finding GOOD financial advice? You'll find that's a bit more difficult. With so many money "gurus" pushing their sage wisdom, how do you sort through all the noise and find ...
02.20.2019 When Should I Fire My Financial Advisor? (Your Letters) Today we'll throw out our regular playbook to focus on what's really important: your burning financial questions! From Ginny, who wants to become interested in finance (plus a husband who has a BIG man-crush on OG), to Craig and his ...
02.18.2019 Starting a Business, Cardi B, and the Problem with Afterpay Nearly everyone has had a "great" business idea. However, as mom says, "the devil is in the details," and great businesses aren't built on ideas, they're built on successful implementation and follow through. To help you set up either your ...
02.15.2019 How to NOT Blow Your Tax Refund (Plus an intro to CareerPurpose from TIAA) Whether it's big check time from the IRS or not, it's always important to know ahead of time what to do with a large sum of money. Do you have a plan for your tax refund cash? Today, whether you ...
02.13.2019 We Heart Better Money Communication (with Walter Wisniewski and Allison Vanaski) We're celebrating Valentine's Day in true money podcast fashion, talking all things romantic, like wine, spreadsheets, money dates, and open communication about money. We know...total romance. Joining us to discuss all of these things and more are a father-daughter financial ...
02.11.2019 The Art and Science of Making Work Optional (with Tanja Hester) Tanja Hester realized at a young age that even though she loved her career, she was still helping an organization chase THEIR goals instead of her own, and that's when her plan to make work optional was hatched. On today's ...
02.08.2019 5 Reasons People Never Have Enough Money (with an intro to U-Nest) Ever ask yourself why you never seem to have enough money? Maybe the answer is that you need to make more at work, or maybe you just eat out a little bit too much during the week? On today's roundtable, ...
02.06.2019 Slashing Expenses To Save More Money (with Grant Sabatier) If you're hoping for financial freedom, Grant Sabatier is maybe the perfect man to hear speak. At one point he was down to less than ten dollars in his accounts, and within a short time went from broke to a ...
02.04.2019 Dumb Things Smart People Do With Money (with Jill Schlesinger) THE Jill Schlesinger returns to the basement to talk about three horrible investments people buy: gold, reverse mortgages, and hedge funds. We'll also discuss annuities, permanent life insurance, and other frequent offenders. If you're using any of these products, don't ...
02.01.2019 Developing Your Big Game Plan For Your Money (plus an intro to Vimvest) This is the weekend we'll nearly all see (whether we're a fan of sports or not) people at the "top of their game" showing off their ability to excel at their craft. Here's our question: how do you excel with ...
01.30.2019 Why Are We Bad With Money? (with Gaby Dunn) Are you horrible with money? Turns out you're not alone (big surprise)! While most of us have been bad with money at some point in our lives, we don't usually write a book about it. Today we're joined by Gaby ...

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