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The FI Show
by Cody Berman and Justin Taylor
Cody and Justin believe in the concept of "Financial Independence For All". The Fi Show focuses on REAL stories of individuals on their journey to financial independence. Each episode aims to include actionable insights and takeaways for listeners to implement into their own financial situation.Podcast topics include, but are not limited to building wealth, investing, money mindset, small business, frugality, side hustles, real estate, productivity, travel tips, and so much more.Sit back, tune in, and join a community of like-minded people who are changing their lives through financial independence.
Episodes
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Investing in Water | Riggs Eckelberry
Today's episode features Riggs Eckelberry, the CEO of Origin Clear. Riggs grew up the son of an international businessman. He also had a natural draw towards making the world a better place and joined a Non-profit right out of high school. Then in the early 80s, he followed his passion for...
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Wealth on The Beach | Daniel Alonzo
Today's episode features Daniel Alonzo who is a coach, entrepreneur, podcaster, speaker, and author of Wealth on the Beach. He brings his messaging of creating a better life and financial independence to 50,000 organic social media followers and speaks in front of hundreds and thousands of people…
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Passive Income through Real Estate & Digital Products | Sharon Tseung and Sean Pan
Today's episode features Sharon Tseung and Sean Pan. Sharon Tseung runs Digtial Nomad Quest. She went from $30k/year to millionaire by 30, and owns 32 rental units and several passive income businesses. Sharon quit her job, has been traveling the world for 2 years, and all this while building...
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Building a 7+ Figure Coaching Business | Emily Williams
Today's episode features Emily Williams from I Heart My Life. Emily was going down a path that so many others do -- following a typical career path and heading to graduate school. She was on her way but never made it. Literally. Emily just turned the car around with no real plan. It took a few...
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Over $100K a Day Teaching Microsoft Excel | Kat Norton
Today's episode features Kat Norton aka Miss Excel. Kat is taking the world by storm with her 800k+ Tik Tok followers, 600k+ Instagram followers, and LinkedIn learning viewers. It doesn't just stop with the freebies though, Kat has earned over $100k in a single day (not a typo!) She does this all...
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Maximizing Relationships by Playing Well with Others | Eric Barker
Today's episode features Eric Barker, author of "Barking Up the Wrong Tree" and "Plays Well with Others" In Eric's first book, he scientifically stress-tests the maxims we’ve all been told about success to uncover the surprising answers we need to live a meaningful life. Now in the follow-up to...
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Leaving Your Career to Start a Personal Brand (Budgetdog) | Brennan Schlagbaum
Today's episode features Brennan from Budgetdog. Brennan found himself married at 24 with a combined debt of $300k. He had a great career as a CPA but felt smothered by the weight of their debt. In just a few short years Brennan had paid off all that debt, paid off his house, and even had a kid...
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How to Level Up in Your Career
In this episode, Cody interviews Justin on how he has navigated corporate moves both internally and externally. We'll talk about how you can find those better opportunities from an inbound and outbound method. These can be within your current company or swapping companies altogether. A big piece…
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How Will Crypto Shape the Future? | Eric Rosenberg
Today's episode features Eric Rosenburg from Personal Profitability (again!). Eric is a prolific writer and speaker across all finance topics, but today our main focus is solely on cryptocurrency. We already covered the intro to crypto with Eric back in episode 163, so now it's time to go deeper!...
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Why Does the Stock Market Go Up? | Brian Feroldi
Today's episode features Brian Feroldi, author of Why Does the Stock Market Go Up? In this episode, we get a chance to dig into the basics of stocks and investing. Why do companies split their shares? What are shares really? What happens when a company buys back stock? And the most important...
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An App for Tracking Financial Independence? | Logan Leckie from Topia
Today's episode features Logan Leckie, creator of Topia, The Financial Independence App. Logan saw a void in the app marketplace when it came to an all-encompassing app that could guide you through your entire journey to FI. It includes stats such as the amount you'd need to save to take just one...
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The Wealth of Connection | Vincent Pugliese
Today's episode features Vincent Pugliese, author of The Wealth of Connection. But really when I think of Vincent, I think of a master networker and amazing storyteller. Vincent walks us through how he went from a guy with a camera standing outside of a stadium to taking some of the most iconic...
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Tipped Finance | Barbara Sloan
Today's episode features Barbara Sloan, Author of Tipped. Tipped focuses on personal finance for anyone in the Tipped industry. The tipped industry includes waitresses, bartenders, hairdressers, cosmetologists, dancers, etc. Barbara spent a lengthy career in the tipped industry. After she became...
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How Far We've Come
In this episode, Justin & Cody take a look back on what all has changed in their lives since the show started back in October 2018. It's hard to believe that the show has been going for so long but there's no sign of slowing down. In 2018: Justin was still in the Air Force Cody was working a...
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Building a Personal Brand While Working Full Time | Marcus Garrett
Today's episode features Marcus Garrett, Author of D.E.B.T. Free or Die Trying. Marcus found himself under a mound of debt and living paycheck to paycheck for years. After hitting rock bottom, he embraced budgeting and rebuilt his credit score on the way to financial freedom. Now, Marcus is both...
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The Basics of Cryptocurrency | Eric Rosenberg
Today's episode features Eric Rosenburg from Personal Profitability. Eric is a prolific writer and speaker across all finance topics, but today our main focus is solely on cryptocurrency. What is the real potential of Cryptocurrency? Is it just a risky investment with no utility? Which coins…
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All the Hacks | Chris Hutchins
Today's episode features Chris Hutchins from the hit new podcast All The Hacks. Chris has always been obsessed with making life as optimal and enjoyable as possible without excessively spending money to do so. But how did he get here? Well, he's had typical employment, been laid off, started a...
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Q&A | HELOCs, Credit Cards, Taxes, Side Hustles, PMI, and VPNs
In this episode, The FI Show Guys take on questions submitted by the audience. Our audience is certainly an educated and savvy bunch, but we can all keep learning. So we opened up the hotlines and took on listener questions. Here are the topics we tackle in order: HELOCs vs. high-interest debt...
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Stacked | Joe Saul-Sehy & Emily Guy Birken
Today's episode features Joe-Saul-Sehy and Emily Guy Birken, authors of the new book Stacked: Your Super-Serious Guide to Modern Money Management. Joe is a former financial advisor the hilarious mastermind behind the iconic Stacking Benjamins podcast. Emily wasn't classically trained in finance…
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Financially Independent by age 20 with Real Estate | Jabbar Adesada
Today's episode features Jabbar Adesada, a 20-year-old Marine who is targeting this year for financial independence! Jabbar was obsessed with basketball and poured all of his attention there, the only problem was he wasn't even getting to play. That, combined with his disobedience to do some work...
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Instagram Growth, Real Estate, and Couple's Finance | The FI Couple
Today's episode features Ali and Josh from The FI Couple. They found themselves in over $100k in debt and knew something had to change. Once they started tackling debt and real estate, they knew they had to share that with the world. So, from a middle-of-the-night idea, they built an Instagram in...
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First to a Million | Dan Sheeks
Today's episode features Dan Sheeks author of First to a Million and founder of Sheeks Freaks. Dan is a teacher in Colorado and is really changing the lives of young people and giving them a space where they can feel normal sharing their financial interests. He recently authored his first book…
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Understanding the AND Asset | Caleb Guilliams
Today's episode features Caleb Guilliams, creator of BetterWealth and author of The And Asset. Caleb Guilliams' life would be forever changed by taking a simple job at a local bank. There, he would see what wealthy people did, but also see what people were doing that struggled to make ends meet....
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From Food Blogging to Serving the Latinx Community | Jannese Torres-Rodriguez
Today's episode features Jannese Torres-Rodriguez who walked away from a successful career to focus on entrepreneurship full time. It wasn't an overnight success though, and it wasn't without some trial and error. After niching down and putting in a ton of work, her food blog, Delish D'Lites,...
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Buying & Running a Grocery Store at Age 21 | Reetu Maz
Today's episode features Reetu Maz who invested in one of the oldest traditional physical businesses at just 21 years old. Reetu saw an opportunity that meant taking on 60k of debt and decided to take the leap. She would take over a struggling grocery store and breathe new life into it including...
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Dave Ramsey's Baby Steps | An Honest Look at All 7
In this episode, The FI Show Guys take an honest look at Dave Ramsey's 7 Baby Steps. While we believe Dave Ramsey has been a great gateway for a lot of people, there's a ton we just can't agree with. "Save 15%, never use credit cards, pay off all debt before investing"....these are just too...
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From Debt to Deals | Sarah King
Today's episode features Sarah King from Nerds Guide to FI. Sarah gives us an in-depth honest review of her journey. She started as a Dave Ramsey follower, but quickly realized there was more to personal finance than just getting out of debt. Sarah would go on to build up a nice portfolio of…
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Scaling to 7 Figures While Giving Back Aggressively | Jeremy Schneider
Today's episode features Jeremy Schneider from Personal Finance Club. Jeremy started his journey as a young, scrappy entrepreneur. In 2004, in founded Rentlinx out of his bedroom with nothing but grit and determination. He slowly scaled the business while keeping his salary under $36k throughout...
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The Debt Lasso Method and LGBTQ Financial Challenges | Debt Free Guys
Today's episode features John and David from Debt Free Guys and the Queer Money Podcast. David and John were going on a vacation and thought to themselves, "Let's buy a vacation home here". Only to soon realize that they could barely afford to rent a home for a weekend getaway. They had let their...
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Turning Budgeting into a Business | Kelly Anne Smith
Today's episode features Kelly Anne Smith from Freedom in a Budget. Kelly finds herself struggling and living paycheck to paycheck. Then, as many do, she turns to Dave Ramsey. After learning about budgeting, Kelly found even more personal finance content through YouTube. Fast forward a few years...
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Should You Be Worried About Inflation? Maybe Not
In this episode, Justin and Cody give their take on inflation. If you've been on social media or watched the news recently, you might have seen the 6.2% inflation rate over the past year. Everyone in this space loves formulas and hard math, but we'll tell you why patience and flexibility might be...
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100K+ Per Month & Leaving a Legacy | Todd Baldwin
Today's episode features the amazing story of Todd Baldwin. Todd grew up poor and dropped out of college, but he had one huge goal. Simply to be rich. He dropped out of college and took a high-commission sales job selling commercial insurance. Before long, he was making multiple six figures while...
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Buying and Managing Real Estate as a Digital Nomad | Sarah Weaver
Today's episode features the amazing world traveler, digital nomad, and real estate investor Sarah Weaver. Sarah took a one-way trip to Europe in college and caught the travel bug for life. Since then, she's worked most of her adult life as a digital nomad -- sometimes working insane hours…
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How to Travel Cheap Like a Pro
In this episode, Cody & Justin spill the beans on all the tips, tricks, and hacks they use to travel the world for a fraction of the cost. Of course, you'll hear about credit card hacks, but it doesn't stop there. Where to stay, how to decide, when to leave, how to pay... it's all covered in this...
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The Multiple Paths to Early Retirement and Passive Income | Earn & Invest
This week, we're re-airing an episode from the Earn & Invest podcast where Cody & Justin were interviewed along with Rachel Richards. Doc G delves into how passive income has evolved in this post-COVID era in addition to examining the many different paths to financial independence. Tune in to…
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Blogging as a Business | Kelan Kline
Today's episode features Kelan Kline, one half of The Savvy Couple. Kelan and his wife Brittany have built a multi-six-figure online brand that now completely provides for their family, but it wasn't always this way... Originally, Kellan had plans of building a career in law enforcement but after...
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Intentional Living & Cohousing Communities | Lauren Tang
Today's episode features Lauren Tang, a member of the Sunnyside Village Couhousing Group. Cohousing is when a group of people come together to intentionally create a physical neighborhood of people with common values and shared resources. Lauren came from living in a trailer to attending medical...
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New Purchases, Business Goals, and FinCon 2021
In this episode, The FI Show Guys reflect on FinCon 2021 along with some big personal updates. We've been going to FinCon for over 4 years now and we love it. It's the one time of year we get to hang out with all of our favorite personal finance people in real life! It's also super motivating...
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Brand Building and Passive Income Streams | Rachel Richards
Today's episode features "Money Honey" author Rachel Richards. Rachel is passionate about passive income and making financial education more accessible. She was able to walk away from her job at age 27 through real estate, online courses, and book royalties. If you're interested in building a...
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$0 to $100K+ with Short-Term Rentals | Diya Liu
Today's episode features Short Term Rental (think Air BnB) extraordinaire Diya Liu. Diya's strategy is all about real-estate investing without compromise. With her short-term rental (STR) business, she's built a system that she manage from anywhere and now has dozens of short-term rentals…
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Real Estate as a Business & Sourcing Deals | Paul David Thompson
Today's episode features real estate expert Paul David Thompson from the Ready Investor One podcast and PaulDavidThompson.com Paul found his proficiency for building teams in the corporate world but knew that he was meant to run his own business. What started as a single investor in Little Rock,...
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Financial Feminism and Fighting the Investing Gap
Today's episode features Tori Dunlap from Her First 100k & Financial Feminist Podcast. Tori was brought up in a family where money was a regular topic. She founded her first business at age 9. Learning about personal finance from an early age gave her power confidence. Tori would later realize…
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Mega Backdoor Roth & Solo 401k Explained
In this episode, the FI Show Guys give you a step-by-step guide to utilizing the Mega Backdoor Roth and Solo 401k. That means instead of limiting yourself to $19.5k into your 401k, you'll be looking at $58k. And that's true whether you work for a company (Mega Backdoor) or run your own business...
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Mastering Real Estate Renovations | Van Sturgeon
Today's episode features Van Sturgeon who is an expert in real estate renovations with 30+ years of experience. He learned his trade the hard. Growing up, his parents purchased an apartment building but real estate was in deep trouble thanks to sky-high interest and unemployment rates. This…
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Building Businesses for Financial Freedom | Brooke Packard
Today's episode features Brooke Packard, the teacher, realtor, real estate investor, cleaning business owner, physical product creator... what doesn't she do? Brooke was always interested in making more money from a young age. Her first entrepreneurial venture was her cleaning business, BP's Easy...
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The Shred Method (How to Maximize Your HELOC) | Adam Carroll
Today's episode features author, speaker, and mentor Adam Carroll. Adam shares with us his favorite finance technique that he calls "The Shred Method" which looks to utilize your HELOC (home equity line of credit) loan to its full potential. He also covers some of the powerful mindsets that he...
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Resiliency, Networking, and Creating Your Own Path - July 2021 Roundup
In this roundup episode, the FI Show Guys talk about resiliency, creating your own unique path, and the power of networking. Our last three guests -- Allegra Paris, Jennifer Magley, and Ryan Helms -- all taught us that success doesn't happen overnight. It's through repeated hard work, embracing…
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Building a Multi Six-Figure Marketing Agency from Scratch | Ryan Helms
Today's episode features Ryan Helms from Legacy Podcasting. Ryan actually liked his position earning 6-figures in the supply chain industry, but he knew that there was something more out there for him. He initially started a podcast to learn from and talk with a collection of people. That quickly...
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Being Unstoppable, Forming Connections, and Competitive Edge
Today's episode features former professional Tennis player and NCAA Div 1 head coach Jennifer Magley. Jennifer started her life as a professional athlete but was forced to reinvent herself like so many athletes often do. She had to learn to be likeable and shed her unwavering competitiveness.…
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Going Virtual, Sourcing Clients & Crushing Social Media | Allegra Paris
Today's episode features Allegra Paris from AllegraParis.com and the AP Fit program. If you look today, Allegra has created a successful and rewarding personal training business. She's helping others while also building a brand that provides her a life she loves. But things weren't always that...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Cody and Justin believe in the concept of "Financial Independence For All". The Fi Show focuses on REAL stories of individuals on their journey to financial independence. Each episode aims to include actionable insights and takeaways for listeners to implement into their own financial situation.Podcast topics include, but are not limited to building wealth, investing, money mindset, small business, frugality, side hustles, real estate, productivity, travel tips, and so much more.Sit back, tune in, and join a community of like-minded people who are changing their lives through financial independence.
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Cody Berman and Justin Taylor
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The FI Show currently has 189 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
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Cody and Justin believe in the concept of "Financial Independence For All". The Fi Show focuses on REAL stories of individuals on their journey to financial independence. Each episode aims to include actionable insights and takeaways for listeners to implement into their own financial...
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