Everyone waits until January to set goals, fix their finances, and finally get their act together. But why wait? Fall has a natural reset built into it. Vacations are winding down, routines are coming back, and there’s still plenty of year left to make real progress. Forget the New Year’s resolution. Your fresh start might be right now.

Personal information is being passed around like a bag of popcorn, and you may have no idea who has it or what they’re doing with it. Companies are using data to influence what you see, what you buy, and potentially what you pay. Today we’re digging into Flock cameras, AI grocery pricing, the DELETE Act, and what it can mean for your money. Most importantly, how do you become a smarter consumer when the other side may know more about you than you think?

Dave Ramsey says 8% can work in retirement. So we tested it against historical markets, compared it to the traditional 4% approach, and looked at what actually happens when markets go up, down, and sideways. Spoiler alert: the answer isn’t as simple as picking one number and sticking with it.

Run. Jump. Swim. Yellow. Penguins. Hot dogs. Somehow, it all connects to your money. You’ll just have to listen to find out how.

Some investing ideas get repeated so often that they become accepted as fact, even when the market is far more complicated. In this episode, we challenge the assumptions investors rarely stop to examine, look at what may really be driving today’s market, and explain why the biggest risks and opportunities are often found beneath the obvious story.

We all have an invisible financial scoreboard. Today we’re asking who built it, and whether you’re playing the right game.

“Almost bought it. Almost sold it. Almost started it.”

Feeling behind financially? You might be doing better than you realize. In this episode, we look at the overlooked signs that you are quietly building wealth. Are you paying down debt, owning appreciating assets, improving cash flow, gaining stability, and making choices that compound over time? Sometimes wealth does not feel like luxury, so what are the signs things might be going better than you thought?

“This time is different.” It’s one of the most common, and potentially dangerous phrases in investing. Every generation believes the rules have changed as new technology emerges and yesterday’s impossible becomes today’s normal. In this episode, we explore why history keeps rhyming, how our definition of “normal” quietly shifts over time, and why recognizing those changes may be far more valuable than trying to predict the future.

History is full of confident predictions that never happened. From market crashes to economic booms, the future has a way of surprising everyone.