The Stacking Benjamins Show

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According to FastCompany, "the Stacking Benjamins podcast...strikes a great balance of fun and functional." Created live from Joe's mom's half-finished basement....you'll hear a parade of financial headlines, personal finance experts, creatives, and people with stories that inspire us. Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, hosts Joe Saul-Sehy & OG meet at the card table and bring you guests, trivia, your letters about saving, investing, and risk management, and much more. Academy of Podcast winner for "best business podcast of the year," 2017 Plutus award winner for "best personal finance podcast," and Kiplinger magazine's only recommended personal finance podcast. You'll like this podcast if: you enjoy chatty, laid back money talk at a relaxed pace with lots of humor attached. You won't like this show if: you're looking for hard-core, genius money-nuggets presented at a fast pace.

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Passion & Business: Match M...

09.23.2022

How many times have you said the words, “You should sell these?” to someone after experiencing their creativity? We all have. Let’s admit it. We’re built to think about selling things that we’re good at. From our handiwork to our ...

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09.23.2022 Passion & Business: Match Made in Heaven or Hell? How many times have you said the words, “You should sell these?” to someone after experiencing their creativity? We all have. Let’s admit it. We’re built to think about selling things that we’re good at. From our handiwork to our ...
09.21.2022 Dump Your Time Management System! What if your time management system was actually holding you back? Richie Norton learned the hard way that most time management systems help you complete more tasks but do nothing to help you improve your life. He created the anti-time ...
09.19.2022 Choosing To Prosper During Huge Life Changes (with Bola Sokunbi) Does your professional, personal, or financial life sometimes feel out of control? Us too, which is why we wanted to chat with Bola Sokunbi, creator of Clever Girl Finance and author of a new book, Choosing To Prosper. To improve ...
09.16.2022 Your Biggest Financial Topics (Live from Podcast Movement) What's your biggest money concern right now? Rising prices are putting strain on people's wallets. Others have transitioned away from the corporate world and are trying to navigate a new way to earn an income. Whatever stage you are in, ...
09.14.2022 Strategies To Build a Richer Life (with Ramit Sethi) Why do so many people focus on managing time, and yet so few achieve a rich life? What exactly does a rich life mean to you, and are you building a bridge toward it? Ramit Sethi's book, I Will Teach ...
09.12.2022 Make Better Decisions (with Sam Dogen: Financial Samurai) Everyone is on their own path toward their financial goals. Your job, income, lifestyle, and values all play a role in that. Where are you on your journey? In a job you dislike or looking for ways to make big ...
09.09.2022 Financial Decisions: Does Faster Equal Better? (Rewind) Life can come at you fast. Sometimes quick decisions are necessary but when it comes to your finances, is faster better? Impulse purchases, trading on short-term news, and making decisions without thinking about tomorrow can hurt in the long run. ...
09.07.2022 Top 5 Dumbest Rules of Thumb in Planning (Rewind) Do rules of thumb and finance "rules" leave you confused? Even better, some contradict others. We've got a great throwback for you today to help you avoid bad advice around rules of thumb. Joe and OG share their top 5 ...
09.05.2022 Retirement Myths BUSTED! (Rewind from 2015) (See our note on sound quality below...this is below par but an EXCELLENT episode). Happy Labor Day, Stackers! We're kicking off fall with fantasy football, pumpkin spice lattes, and some good ol' retirement planning. There's no time like today to ...
09.02.2022 Our Favorite (and proven) Ways To Save More Money Trying to cut back on spending? Now that vacation season is coming to a close and it's back to school for many people, lots of us are thinking of ways to tighten the belt. Today, our roundtable discusses proven ways ...
08.31.2022 A Berry Punny Episode (with Chef Marie Saba) What's cooking this holiday weekend? Labor Day picnics are just around the corner and tons of people like you are planning festive weekend fun. Not sure what food to prep? Not great with the grill? We've got you covered. Chef ...
08.29.2022 From Nothing to Greatness: Lessons from a Top Entrepreneur When life gets you down, it's easy to fall into a death spiral of negativity. The harder choice? Figuring out how adversity makes you stronger and picking yourself back up for another round. Twila True was born into the Lakota ...
08.28.2022 SPECIAL: 2022 Plutus Awards Finalists and Commentary Every year the personal finance community comes together for the Plutus Awards, an annual ceremony that shines a light on some of the best and brightest brands in our space. If you're looking for new podcasts to listen to, new ...
08.26.2022 I Didn't Realize THAT Would Happen In Retirement! What does your dream retirement look like? One popular blogger had high expectations for retirement, and now, four years in, reviews some WOW unexpected changes in his life. If you've ever fantasized about how you'll spend your retirement days, today's ...
08.24.2022 Should You Listen To Financial Guru Dave Ramsey? ON a recent Money Rehab podcast episode, financial commentator Nicole Lapin brought up some pretty explosive reactions to words said by talk show host Dave Ramsey. On today's show, we ask the basic question, "Do commentators attacking each other hinder ...
08.22.2022 Which is Better, Investing a Little at a Time or Chucking It All In The Market? (Your Questions) Today, Joe and OG are answering YOUR questions, and man do we have some good ones. They explain deflation in more detail, dive into dollar cost averaging, talk about shifting your investment allocation, and talk about the importance of keeping ...
08.19.2022 Need Moolah? Here's How to Side Hustle Are the grocery store and gas pump killing your Stacked vibe? While tightening the budget belt is one way to control your finances, you can't shrink your way to greatness. Today we'll present another option: increasing your income! Today we'll ...
08.17.2022 A Better Way To Teach Money Skills (& Cashing In On The New Energy Incentives!) Where do your best money habits come from? As a kid, did you have chores and earn an allowance? Were you told all debt is bad? Or maybe your family never talked about money growing up? Our guest today grew ...
08.15.2022 Hope, Riches, and the Titanic Do you have a dream that hasn't yet been achieved? Are you fascinated with the sinking of the Titanic? If so on either account, you aren't alone. The Titanic's demise is one of the most famous shipwreck stories that has ...
08.12.2022 Refocus, Email Box Zero, and Back on Track Game of Thrones tells us that "Winter is coming." While we're not sure about that, we DO know that fall is just around the corner, vacation time is over, and it's time to get serious again about work. So how ...
08.10.2022 How to Look and Feel Like a Stacker Have you looked through your closet lately? Have you closely examined the people around you? Today's guest's father married the two once, when he told her, "Your friends are like the clothes in your closet." Jen Principe is a stylist ...
08.08.2022 Groceries, Inflation, and Your Sandwich (Len's Annual Sandwich Survey) Tired of the constant talk about inflation? Don't tune out yet because we are back with the MOST interesting and fun look at the cost of rising prices....Len Penzo's annual sandwich survey. He's on the 14th year of his iconic ...
08.05.2022 Streamlining Your Financial Life How organized is your financial life? Is it a jumble in your head? How much complexity is a good thing...diversification, accounts at different institutions... and how much complexity is truly just disorganization? To help attack the complexity problem and create ...
08.03.2022 Lessons For Better Living (from the dying) Are you truly living? Following your passions, doing what you love and finding purpose in life? The balance between living for today and saving for the future can be hard. How do you fulfill both sides of the equation? Jordan ...
08.01.2022 Conquer Your "Mount Everest" Ever feel stuck? Are you sometimes suspicious that maybe what's in standing in between you and goals goals is...you? Today's guest knows that our brain does a great job of tricking us into thinking we can't accomplish something. Colin O'Brady ...
07.29.2022 Great Hacks to Fight the Rising Price of Living Is your wallet feeling the HUGE pressure of rising prices? Groceries, autos, travel...nearly everything costs more today than it did a year ago. If you're feeling the budget crunch, we've got you covered with hacks and tips to keep costs ...
07.27.2022 Saving 78% of Your Income, Moving to a New City, and 11 Rental Properties by Age 27 We all have a money story, and today we're sharing some of YOUR most inspiring ones. What makes personal finance really awesome is when we can come together and share stories to inspire and motivate others. Today we talk to ...
07.25.2022 Mr. Money Mustache on Early Life Lessons, Real Estate vs Stocks, and What’s Up With This Stock Market Being part of a cult isn't something you'd normally want to flaunt, but today's guest leads a "cult" in the FIRE community that you'd love to be in, because you value saving money, finding your "why" in life, and seeking ...
07.22.2022 Slashing the Cost of Travel If you planned for late summer or early fall travel at the beginning of the year (or heck, even the beginning of summer), your budget now looks ugly. Although gas prices have retreated, they're still significantly higher than only a ...
07.20.2022 The Future of Investing (is now!) In the 1940's mutual funds helped the average investor achieve what rich people had known for a long time: that diversification can save your net worth from ruined. In the 1990s exchange traded funds began to trade in serious volumes, ...
07.18.2022 Fighting the Seduction of "Success" When you're "winning" at work it's easy to double down and think, "I'm going to work even harder and the results will multiply." This is the first move in a long, painful set of lessons for most people who learn ...
07.15.2022 When Emotions Threaten To Wreck Your Decisions How many times have you told yourself that you really, really needed to buy something and acted on emotion? If you bought, did it wreck your credit, your savings, or your budget? Did you feel huge regret after the purchase? ...
07.13.2022 How We DIY Remodel, Flip, AND Buy-and-Hold Real Estate (Carl & Mindy Jensen) Ever wondered what an "authentic" real estate fix-up story sounds like, instead of the magical rehab stories that make things look way-too-easy on television? Good news, Carl and Mindy Jensen have done everything from house hacking, fix-and-flip, and buy-and-hold real ...
07.11.2022 Lessons from an 11-Year-Old Panhandler Have you ever wondered how your life might be different if you'd decided to take that gap year instead of attending college? Or maybe you decided at the last minute to change the course of your life by talking to ...
07.08.2022 Here's How To Talk Money With Your Family (Rewind Episode) How's your summer going with the family? Had a money discussion yet? We know that it's hard. Talking about money can be awkward and difficult when trying to explain concepts to kids. We're helping out today by sharing tips and ...
07.06.2022 When Credit Was REALLY Messed Up You think your credit score is a jumbled mess now? Luckily, the three major credit bureaus just stopped counting most medical debt into your score. But it used to be that credit was based on so much more (and less), ...
07.04.2022 How Was The American Revolution Funded? We know how the war began. You may know many of the battles. Of course, you know how it ended because you're celebrating the end today if you live in the USA. But how was the war paid for? Today ...
07.01.2022 What If You Retire At The Worst Possible Time? Is this the worst possible time to retire (or to make ANY big financial move)? Inflation is SLIGHTLY up. The stock market is SLIGHTLY down. This could feel less like retirement and more like falling into a deep, dark chasm. ...
06.29.2022 Time Management For Humans Instead of focusing on what you're going to do today, how about deciding "what am I NOT going to do?" That's one of many pieces of productivity advice that Oliver Burkeman brings to the basement table today. He's studied productivity ...
06.27.2022 Upgrade Your Life By Adding Friction It's a popular refrain: evaluate your life to reduce time pressure and the resulting stress. But what if this approach wasn't as useful as you'd initially thought? We went from driving to a store to purchase closing to "one-click" ordering ...
06.24.2022 How Not To Regret Your Career In 10 Years How much do you love your current job? Some studies show that more than half of people are unhappy with their job in some way. Finding your calling and a career you don't regret can be tough but our roundtable ...
06.22.2022 Need a Better Plan? Add Some Soul You've probably heard of having skin in the game, but what about having soul in the game? Having soul, in whatever game you choose, brings purpose and meaning to life. Our guest today learned about putting his soul into his ...
06.20.2022 The Power of Used Cars and Big Lifestyles (with Buffie Purselle) Buffie Purselle is a tour-de-force. She started her own business at 19. She's been featured on not ONE but TWO reality television shows. She's helped hundreds of budding entrepreneurs begin businesses. So to celebrate Juneteenth we're helping empower YOU with ...
06.17.2022 Learn These Money Manners For Success! Did you know that when at a fine dining restaurant, you should never lift your menu from the table? ...or that you should sip your drink from the exact same spot on the glass each time? On top of that, ...
06.15.2022 Top 5 Ways To Stop Messing Up Your 401k You start that amazing new job and the boss hands you a giant stack of paperwork. Does that sound familiar? One of those forms is most likely a crucial piece of your financial picture: your 401k enrollment. How much should ...
06.13.2022 Your Credit, Leveraging Community, and a 15 Year Career (or less) Remember the phrase 30-and-out? That was what people said when they'd sign up to work for the same company for their entire working lives. Since the days of single-job employment, working thirty years has become a standard idea. But why? ...
06.10.2022 Can Doing Nothing Get You Ahead? Can you be idle and do nothing to get ahead in the game of life? The contributors on the roundtable today will discuss if doing nothing can benefit you in life and with your money. We hope you can get ...
06.08.2022 Can You Be The Next Great Leader? It only takes a moment watching the news to learn what David Gergen already knows: our current leaders have failed us. In some ways, it isn't their fault; growing up during the Vietnam conflict, many of our leaders grew up ...
06.06.2022 Are Workplace Clashes Ever Worth It? Know those horrible situations where everyone's fighting at work -- or worse, at home? Talk about a horrible investment: being invested in a rotten environment can overshadow even the best portfolio returns. Good news, though. It turns out, there are ...
06.03.2022 Here’s How We Open Up About Money It's time to get vulnerable and break down the barriers. As we always say, 'personal finance is personal' which makes money talk hard (and embarrassing) at times. Our roundtable is getting vulnerable about their money and career and sharing ways ...

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