Wealth Formula Podcast

By Buck JoffreyBusiness Investing

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August 29, 2021 279: Should You Buy a Franchise?
Henry Ford once said, "Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right". The older I get, the more I am convinced that he was right! I believe that mindset is the single most important element to success in life—be it financial or otherwise. Mindset is a broad term but the way I think about it is as a thermostat for your expectations of the world. In my experience, there certainly is a wealth thermostat. You are highly unlikely to make a lot more money than you think you can. You are also highly unlikely to make a lot less. Part of thinking you can involves what you visualize for yourself everyday. What do I mean by visualize? I'm not talking about meditating or doing anything else other than what we do everyday on autopilot that results in various images of who we are in our mind's eye. If you are around a bunch of people who make a lot more money than you do on a daily basis, you are more likely to see yourself in that position. If you know people personally who have accomplished various exceptional milestones your subconscious will be more likely to allow you to accept that you, too, can achieve such things. A wealth mindset is a prerequisite to actual financial wealth. That doesn't mean that you will get there for sure if you can see it. But if you don't, you can be pretty sure you will never get there. If the world around you isn't pushing you, you need to find other stimuli that do. That's where a lot of people who actively manifest their futures use image boards and other tools to train their subconscious. I don't actually do that myself but I certainly understand how it might help. I'm not an expert on mindset nor am I a coach of any kind. I'm just an armchair quarterback with some observations. My guest on this week's podcast is Kim Daly—and she is sort of an expert at this mindset stuff. Kim is also known best as an expert on franchises. That's a pretty good combination because, if you want to succeed as a business owner, you have to really focus on the mental part as well. Kim's enthusiasm is infectious. If you want to learn about franchises or just how to be a more fulfilled person, make sure to listen to my interview with her on this week's Wealth Formula Podcast. P.S. Don't forget to sign up for our Wealth Formula Meetup in Dallas on Oct 1-2. Click HERE to learn more!
35 min
August 22, 2021 278: Asset Protection: Everything You Need to Know!
Once you realize how much you don't know, you always feel like you're playing catch up. At least that's how I feel when it comes to personal finance. Wealthy families often implement family offices to help keep things straight. Theoretically, that's a great solution. However, from what I've seen, family office structures often leave clients with a false sense of security. No matter what your level of wealth, YOU need to be the CEO of your own finances. No one else cares as much about your money and your legacy. What that means is that you need to be educated on personal finance one way or another if you are going to be successful in this realm. For most high-paid professionals that means not only surrounding yourself with competent CPAs, lawyers, and investment advisors. It also means being active in designing strategies and making sure they get implemented. I have one of the best CPAs in the world but I am far from passive in my interactions with him. I'm constantly challenging him and providing him with new ideas. After all, I know my finances better than he does. And every time I acquire a new asset or make a new investment, I have to be the one who understands how it fits into my portfolio. It can be exhausting at times but at least I can be confident in the decisions I make. That's why so many people find Wealth Formula Podcast to be a useful resource. This is a platform for me to learn about things and share them with you in real time. Nothing about the show is theoretical. It's the information I use every day in my own financial affairs. Because of that, you often hear from my advisors. After all, what better way for me to communicate these concepts to you than having you listen in to the conversations that guide my own decisions? This week's episode features one of those discussions as I chat with my own asset protection attorney, Doug Lodmell. I highly encourage you to listen. This might be the most comprehensive but understandable podcast on the topic of asset protection you've ever heard and, hopefully, will leave you with a clear understanding of what you need to do in this area right now.
56 min
August 15, 2021 277: Investor Roundtable on Wealth Formula Banking
Over the last three weeks, you have heard actual members of our Wealth Formula Community talk about their financial journeys. A recurrent theme through these interviews was the concept of Wealth Formula Banking. In case you didn't notice, all three of these individual investors are essentially using Wealth Formula Banking as the cornerstone of their investor strategies. You might, therefore, be wondering what exactly Wealth Formula Banking is. Well, it's actually an investing strategy that utilizes permanent life insurance. Now you might be thinking: "My financial advisor told me to buy term and invest the rest". Believe me, I've heard that one a million times. In fact, I used to believe it. But then, during my own financial journey, I noticed that pretty much all of the high net worth individuals that I met were utilizing some kind of permanent life insurance in their own portfolios. If permanent life insurance was not a good strategy, then why were all of these smart people who made a lot more money than most doctors doing it? After some digging, I had the answer. Permanent life insurance, the way it is presented to most people, is not a good strategy at all. However, the devil is in the details. Structured appropriately—-maximizing cash value and minimizing fees, these policies are extraordinarily powerful in amplifying wealth creation. Perhaps the best book on this concept is written by Nelson Nash called Become Your Own Banker. This is an older book but drives home the fundamentals of this wealth-building concept in an easy to understand format. Nash's concept is further optimized for active investors by the Wealth Formula Banking concept. In short, Wealth Formula Banking involves an asset protected, tax efficient vehicle that allows you to invest the same money in two places at the same time. We call that double-dipping. And while it may sound too good to be true, I can tell you from my own personal experience that it's not. That's why, at the very least, you need to learn about it and decide if it's right for you. There is no better way to do that than to hear fellow Wealth Formula community members like you discuss the concept and how they are using it in their own portfolios. So… that's what we are going to do on this week's episode of Wealth Formula Podcast. LISTEN NOW!
1 hr 12 min
August 08, 2021 276: The Purple Pill
In June of 2008, I had just completed my surgical residency and gotten married the day after graduation. There was already quite a bit of change in my life. On the way back from my honeymoon, I looked for something to read in at the Puerto Vallarta airport—not many choices as you can imagine. Most people heading back stateside are too hung over to read on the plane. There on the shelf, I grabbed one of the three available books and the only one that did not have a picture of buff dude with long hair appealing to romance novel enthusiasts. It was called Cash Flow Quadrant and the author was, of course, Robert Kiyosaki. I read that book on the plane and my life has never been the same. I've heard lots of stories like this over the years. Something about Kiyosaki's way of explaining concepts really inspires people. To this day, I am quite sure that he has been the impetus behind more millionaires around the world than any other individual in history. The funny thing is that some of those concepts that resonated with me like "cash flow" were nothing new. My dad used to call himself a cash flow investor long before Kiyosaki wrote Rich Dad Poor Dad. The point is that sometimes it's not about what is said but how it's said that matters. Guys like Kiyosaki know how to communicate important concepts. When that happens, you can get quite an aha moment that sends you down a rabbit hole. After reading Rich Dad Poor Dad, Ryan Stieg set out on his journey to figure out how to make sense of his own purple book experience. Part of that journey led him to the Wealth Formula Community. On this week's Wealth Formula Podcast, he takes us down his path from W2 wage earner towards his trajectory as a full-time investor. Ryan's story could sound a lot like your own if you want it to! LISTEN NOW!
39 min
August 01, 2021275: What’s a Left Field Investor?
“Coming out of left field” is a slang derived from baseball which basically references something unexpected. What does that equate to in personal finance?
Well, the opposite of something unexpected would be something expected or… conventional. Conventional financial wisdom includes stocks, bonds, and mutual funds as the foundation of a solid, responsible portfolio.
Conventional finance has even labeled investments out of this core set of products as alternative. I wonder why?
Well, when you think alternative, what kinds of images pop up in your mind? Purple hair? Nose rings? Well, that’s not by accident.
The conventional financial apparatus would like investors to think of investing in real estate and other non-paper assets the same way you might think of those alternative images: unstable, unsafe?
It’s a rather clever use of language for marketing purposes I must say. But it’s disingenuous all the same. After all, how could real estate be an alternative investment?
The ownership of real estate and other real assets far outdate the more modern phenomenon of paper assets and certainly any kind of public equity market. Owning stuff is the only way investing existed just a few hundred years ago!
Nevertheless, I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve witnessed genuine anxiety from investors first realizing that they ought to be investing another way other than the way they had been conditioned their whole life.
I get it. That’s what our alternative investing communities, like Wealth Formula Network are for. We are kind of like support groups for recovering paper asset investors and we provide each other the support and courage to do what is in our own financial interests.
Of course, ours isn’t the only support group (or cult) out there. Jim Pfeifer’s Left Field Investors is another one. It just so happens that he’s part of our community as well.
Listen to this week’s episode Wealth Formula Podcast to learn how Jim’s journey from high school teacher to financial advisor ended up leading him into podcasting and a career as a full-time investor.
These intra-community shows are a great chance to reflect on your own financial journey. Make sure to listen NOW.
Jim Pfeifer is one of the founders of Left Field Investors and the host of the Passive Investing from Left Field podcast. Left Field Investors is a group dedicated to educating and assisting like-minded investors negotiate the nuances of the passive investing landscape and world of syndications. Jim is a former financial advisor who became frustrated with the one-path-fits-all approach of the standard financial services industry. Jim now concentrates on investing in real assets that produce cash flow and is committed to sharing his knowledge with others who are interested in learning a different way to grow wealth. Jim not only advises and helps people get started in passive real estate syndications, he also invests alongside them in small groups to allow for diversification among multiple investments and syndication sponsors. Jim believes the most important factor in a successful syndication is finding a sponsor that he knows, likes and trusts. He has invested in over 45 passive syndications including apartments, mobile homes, self-storage, private lending and notes, ATMs, commercial and industrial triple net leases, assisted living facilities and international coffee farms and cacao producers. Jim is constantly looking for new investment ideas that match his philosophy of real assets producing cash flow as well as looking for new sponsors with whom he can build quality, long-term relationships.
Jim earned a degree in Finance & Marketing from the University of Oregon and a Master’s in Business Education from The Ohio State University. He has worked as a reinsurance underwriter, high school finance teacher, financial advisor and now works exclusively as a full-time passive investor. Jim lives in Dublin, Ohio with his wife, three kids and two dogs. In his free time, he loves to ski, play Ultimate frisbee and cheer on the Buckeyes.
Shownotes:
What Jim thinks about “Alternative Investments”
Managing property managers
Are Alternative Investments safe?
Left Field Investors
43 min
August 01, 2021 275: What's a Left Field Investor?
"Coming out of left field" is a slang derived from baseball which basically references something unexpected. What does that equate to in personal finance? Well, the opposite of something unexpected would be something expected or… conventional. Conventional financial wisdom includes stocks, bonds, and mutual funds as the foundation of a solid, responsible portfolio. Conventional finance has even labeled investments out of this core set of products as alternative. I wonder why? Well, when you think alternative, what kinds of images pop up in your mind? Purple hair? Nose rings? Well, that's not by accident. The conventional financial apparatus would like investors to think of investing in real estate and other non-paper assets the same way you might think of those alternative images: unstable, unsafe? It's a rather clever use of language for marketing purposes I must say. But it's disingenuous all the same. After all, how could real estate be an alternative investment? The ownership of real estate and other real assets far outdate the more modern phenomenon of paper assets and certainly any kind of public equity market. Owning stuff is the only way investing existed just a few hundred years ago! Nevertheless, I can't tell you the number of times I've witnessed genuine anxiety from investors first realizing that they ought to be investing another way other than the way they had been conditioned their whole life. I get it. That's what our alternative investing communities, like Wealth Formula Network are for. We are kind of like support groups for recovering paper asset investors and we provide each other the support and courage to do what is in our own financial interests. Of course, ours isn't the only support group (or cult) out there. Jim Pfeifer's Left Field Investors is another one. It just so happens that he's part of our community as well. Listen to this week's episode Wealth Formula Podcast to learn how Jim's journey from high school teacher to financial advisor ended up leading him into podcasting and a career as a full-time investor. These intra-community shows are a great chance to reflect on your own financial journey. Make sure to listen NOW.
40 min
July 25, 2021 274: How to Become a Prolific Investor!
In the last few episodes of Wealth Formula Podcast, we have had some serious specialists in the area of Real Estate and Natural Resources. These shows are important because you, as an investor, need to know what's going on out there so you can make educated decisions about where to deploy your capital. Solid information from experts is important, but the actual implementation of personal finance strategies is often daunting for individual investors in the alternative space. If you follow the conventional financial path, it's easy. You just keep dumping your hard-earned money into stocks, bonds, and mutual funds and help your financial advisor retire comfortably. However, easy does not mean wise. Blind faith in conventional financial wisdom can be hazardous to your financial health and catastrophic for your retirement plans. In my 47 years of life, I have come to realize that nothing worth doing is ever easy. Taking charge of your own finances requires some work. The good news is that, if you are a listener of Wealth Formula Podcast, you are probably already a high-paid professional doing something that requires a great deal more brain power than personal finance. Yes. Managing your own money takes work but it's not that difficult. In fact, the hardest part is overcoming the fear of making the wrong decisions. That said, letting someone else make those decisions for you doesn't guarantee success either. The reality is that if you are managing your own money, at least you know for sure that the decisions you make are in your own interest and they are decisions you made. So how do you become confident about making your own financial decisions? Well, for one thing, it takes some time. The only way I know how to speed up the process is by learning from others. And it's not just the good stuff you need to learn either. It is true that the best way to learn is through mistakes. However, they don't need to be your mistakes. Learning through your peers is priceless. That's why the next few episodes of Wealth Formula Podcast will feature interviews with real investors just like you. This week I interview a guy who worked for Boeing for three decades and went through a divorce before his personal finance journey really took off. That's real stuff. So if you're curious about the financial journeys of your Wealth Formula peers, make sure to listen to this interview and learn why Chris Odegard now feels more confident than ever in his financial future!
51 min
July 18, 2021 273: The Rise of America with Marin Katusa
The real estate podcast ecosystem is full of contrarians. Somehow we got mixed up in a crowd full of Austrian economic dogmatics and we constantly hear that the sky is falling. They tell us that the Zombie Apocalypse is near and that you should load up on precious metals (because everyone knows zombies only accept silver coins). Usually this group is at odds with mainstream economists. They rarely agree on anything—except when it comes to one thing: The Demise of America. Why? Ultimately it all comes down to a fact that no one can ignore. US sovereign debt is skyrocketing. We are spending at an unparalleled pace and that should result in the weakening of the dollar that will render it useless. Makes sense right? As you may know from past podcasts, I don't believe that America is going anywhere. I'm as bullish on our economy as I have ever been. We still have the largest economy in the world. American ingenuity is still unrivaled globally. And, as far as the dollar? It's still by far and away the least ugly currency in the room. I'm not denying we have problems. We do. But we are the 900-pound gorilla in the world arena. Our adversaries don't like that but we have the gravitas to keep it that way by exerting our geopolitical and economic weight at will. This week on Wealth Formula Podcast, I interview a guy who will explain why. His name is Marin Katusa and he is the author of The Rise of America: Remaking the World Order. This is a MUST READ for anyone interested in the future of the American economy. And to be clear, this is not coming from another talking head academic. While Marin is an ex-calculus teacher, he is also a self-made millionaire that has relied on significant research and clear-headed thinking to get him where he is. Do yourself a favor and listen to this podcast AND read his book.
1 hr 16 min
July 11, 2021 272: Dave Steele on Why NOW is the Time to Buy Real Estate!
We talk about a lot of concepts on Wealth Formula Podcast related to personal finance and sometimes it can be overwhelming: especially for the newbies in our community. So let me summarize the basics. First, make sure you are protecting your family against the economic fall out of unexpected death. Estate planning, including life insurance, is critical. I am a firm advocate of cash value life insurance such as Wealth Formula Banking to also allow your defensive moves like insurance to help you amplify your wealth. Next you need asset protection. You don't want to be a lawsuit or creditor away from bankruptcy. Cover your assets as they say. Get in touch with someone like my attorney, Doug Lodmell, sooner rather than later. Finally, the Wealth Formula ethos is to invest in real assets that not only make you money but also mitigate your tax burden. In my humble opinion, the ideal investment for this purpose is to invest in apartment buildings. I have searched high and low for investments that offer comparable yield with the same risk/benefit profile as investing in value-add working class apartment buildings in fast growing markets. I can't find anything that comes even close. Even real estate development doesn't really make sense to me right now. The yields are no better than what I'm getting on value-add apartment buildings with a fraction of the risk. We have also seen the resilience of apartment building investments in the hands of competent operators. Pandemics, deep recessions, and eviction moratoriums aside, we have fared quite well and investors are seeing that first hand. And now, we are out of immediate danger and the economy is growing at an incredible rate. Fiscal and monetary policy combined with pent-up demand for goods and services is creating an economic boom that, in my opinion, will be the second coming of the roaring 20s. I believe we are just at the beginning of one of the best times to make money in decades. I also believe that people who invest as much money now into real estate will be very happy in a few years if those properties are improved and managed competently. Sitting on the sidelines is a guaranteed way to lose money. Why? Well, along with that real economic growth, we are also going to see some significant inflation. Your money in the bank is, therefore, guaranteed to lose value. If you are in our accredited investor club, you are going to start seeing our rate of acquisition pick up quite a bit for all of the reasons cited above. It's GO TIME! To help you understand why that is, I interviewed Dave Steele, co-founder and principal of Western Wealth Capital. Dave has been in real estate for three decades and has been extraordinarily prescient in his forecasts. If you want to know why I think it's "go time", make sure to listen to this week's episode of Wealth Formula Podcast!
46 min
July 04, 2021 271: Is the Government Going to Inherit Your Wealth?
Everyone loves talking about how to make money. Those who are already making money love talking about how they can pay less taxes. But you know what almost no one likes to talk about?...what happens to that amassed fortune when you die. Of course, there are some like me who are ultra paranoid about controlling their legacy. The moment my first daughter was born, I made sure that I bought as much term life insurance as I could. It's the only way I knew to protect her in the event that something happened to me. That was 12 years ago and I was only a year out of surgical training. Since then, my personal wealth has grown substantially. It happened because of a lot of hard work and a few good breaks. God willing, I still have decades of life and wealth creation ahead of me. I'm creating this wealth for my family and for me. When I die, I want my hard-earned money to go to my children and perhaps to causes that I care about. I'm not doing this so that the government can take half of what I leave behind. If you don't start planning now, there is a reasonably good chance that's going to happen to you. I am talking, of course, about estate taxes. And if you think that you don't make enough money or have enough wealth to worry about this, you (or your family) could be in for an unfortunate surprise. Estate exemptions are as high as they have ever been and are very likely to be reduced to the point where the majority of individuals in our accredited investor group will be affected by the end of their life. In fact, current legislation has those exemptions as low as $3.5 million. If you listen to my podcast, there's probably a pretty good chance that you expect to have at least this much wealth accumulated by the end of your life. Just imagine for a moment that you have accumulated a decent portfolio of real estate that you would like to pass on to your heirs. If you don't plan correctly, your heirs will not get to enjoy the fruits of your labor. Instead, they will have to sell that real estate off just to pay the taxes on your estate. Unfortunately, very few people think about this stuff. I really think it's because people don't like to think about their own mortality. Some are even superstitious. I get it. However, If you're going to make the money anyway, don't you think it would be smart to structure your Wealth in such a way that your kids can continue to enjoy it when you're gone? Current legislation proposed by the Biden administration is trying very hard to make it virtually impossible for you to plan around estate taxes. Whether they are able to accomplish what they are trying to do or not remains uncertain. However, you do have a window of time right now in which you might be able to grandfather into current law. Believe me, this is something you ought to be thinking about NOW. To help you understand the issues at hand, I interviewed my own estate planning attorney, Joe Longo for this week's Wealth Formula Podcast. This is important. Please listen!
43 min