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Five Minute Finance — 200 episodes

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The Real Lesson After 200 Conversations About Money

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Tax Planning vs. Tax Preparation - They Are NOT the Same Thing

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Why High Earners Still Feel Broke (And How to Fix It Without Cutting Everything)

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Equity Compensation, Stock Options and RSUs: How to Make Smarter Decisions With Company Stock

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Private Markets: Should You Go Beyond the Stock Market?

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Navigating Tax Season: Top 10 Smart Saving Tips for 2026

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Are Index Funds Still Safe? S&P 500 Concentration Risk Explained

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How to Track Your Net Worth (and Why It Matters)

9

Five Simple Moves to Set Up Your Best Financial Year

10

The Juggling Act: A Financial Guide for High-Achieving Parents

11

Boost Family Values: Smart Charity Strategies using a Donor Advised Fund

12

Parenting and Portfolios: Are Your Folks Making Costly Mistakes?

13

Worried about the Stock Market? Don't Forget about Your College Savings!

14

Can Money Buy Happiness? Yes—But Not the Way You Think

15

From Windfall to Wealth: Building a Lasting Financial Future

16

Learn the Secrets of Inherited IRAs: What are Smart Strategies?

17

More Money in Your Pocket: The Impact of the One Big Bill

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Navigating Cash Crunches: Should You Press Pause on Retirement Savings?

19

Maximize Your Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP): Should I Hold or Sell?

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Why Successful People Automate Their Money: 5 Life-Changing Steps

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Feeling Burnt Out at Your Job? How to Design and Take a Gap Year

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What Every Parent Needs to Teach about Money Before Freshman Year

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Alternative Investments: Worthy of Your Dollars?

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The Hidden Risk in Your Portfolio

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What Will YOU Pay for College?

26

How Much Should You Have in Bonds?

27

Market Volatility - Panic Methodically

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How to Choose Investments: A 4-part Framework 4 Choosing the Best 4 Your Portfolio

29

Taxes: A Guide to Filing with Confidence

30

College / Retirement Savings & Spending ⚖️

31

Inheriting Money from Parents

32

Planning for a Career Change with Jennifer Fink

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Permission to Spend

34

Traditional or Roth: Choose the Right 401(k)

35

Will the Stock Market Go Up or Down in 2025?

36

2024 Year-End Financial Checklist

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Grandparent 529 Education Savings

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Is there Cash sitting in your Rollover IRA or Inherited IRA?

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Employee Benefits Can Save You Thousands of Dollars

40

Top Five Scariest Financial Planning Topics

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How Much Should You Save for College?

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How (In)Sure(d) Are You?

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Boost Teenager Credit Score

44

Don’t Invest in Election Results

45

SPIVA: It’s Not Another Artificial Sweetener

46

Securities Lending: Is it For You?

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The Sun May be Setting on Your Tax Benefits 🌅

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No Free Lunch - Know Your Fees

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Back-to-Basics: Roth Conversions

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Don’t Go with the Flow

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The Elephant in the Room

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Never Pay Taxes: Circumvent Uncle Sam with an HSA

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Don Your Crown - Your Dynasty Awaits

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10 Financial Hot Topics for 2024: Boring and Painful

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Is the Social Security Sky Falling?

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Capital Pains

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To-Do or Not To-Do? Take a Calendar Approach

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Inherited IRAs

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Home Hack: Live with your Mom (in-law)

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Don’t Fall for Flashy Headlines: Shiller PE Ratio

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Don’t be Daft, use a DAF: Donor Advised Fund

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The Joker Fund

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IRA Beneficiaries: It’s all about the Benjamins

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Don’t Panic: Overcoming Financial Avoidance

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Dude, Where's My Money?

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Top Secret Asset Locations

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Anne Lester on Personal Finance

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Risk: Why Timeframe Matters

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Bitcoin ETF

70

Financial Portfolio Yearly Review Checklist

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How to use your After-Tax 401k Contributions

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Year End Review: What you did well and what to improve?

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They can make you want to rollover

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How to Hire a Financial Advisor

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I’ve made the list, you check it twice

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Not Your Father’s Personality Test

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Set and Forget

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Cut the Cords

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Ongoing Costs

80

Beneficiaries

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Three Account Types and Why You Need to Know About Them

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Traditional 401k vs. Roth 401k – Which is truly better?

83

529 Masterclass: Three strategies to maximize the benefits of education savings plans

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The 411 on 529’s

85

Attention

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Should I Pay Down my Mortgage?

87

The icy grip of death awaits you ☠️

88

Be More Aggressive

89

Inflation is a Drag

90

The Logistics Matter

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Read the Ingredients – Even on your investment funds

92

Your Life Doesn’t Matter

93

Rich vs. Wealthy

94

Choosing an Estate Trustee

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Financial Misunderstandings

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How to Beat the Stock Market

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HSA’s: Healthy Retirement Saving

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Clean Back Door Roth IRA

99

Get Your Parents to Pay

100

Portfolio for Kids

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Ep. 100: Top 5 Brilliant Money Hacks to Save you Thousands

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Silicon Valley Bank

103

5-Minute Savings for Kids

104

Should I Finance a New (or used) Car?

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Secure Act 2.0

106

One Thing

107

Feel Good About Investing

108

End of Year Portfolio

109

Private Schools

110

Interest Rates

111

Kids and Money (Part 2)

112

Kids and Money

113

Taxes: How Much Do You Really Know?

114

Student Loan Forgiveness

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You Can’t Beat the Market

116

Why I paid off my HELOC

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Education Savings: All About 529’s

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Education Savings

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Invest Early and Wisely

120

Be Alert to Spend Less

121

The Value of a Financial Advisor

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Unhurried Time

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Good to the Last Drop

124

Mortgage Payoffs

125

Retirement Savings: How much?!?

126

Official Bear Market: What To Do

127

Intentional Attention (Part 2)

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Attention: Don’t Make Your Family Compete With Your Phone

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Protect Your Loved Ones: Estate Planning 101

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How to Spend: Wait a Week

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(Part 2) Set up Automatic Savings – Your Future Self with Thank You

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(Part 1) Set up Automatic Savings – Your Future Self will Thank You

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What is Your Plan for a Bear Market?

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Teaching Kids About Money

135

Healthy Spending: Avoid Advertising

136

What is Human Capital and Why Does it Matter?

137

How To Spend: Focus on Healthy Spending

138

How to Handle Having Many 401k, IRA, and Other Bank Accounts

139

What Apps Do You Use? (Part 2)

140

What Apps Do You Use? (Part 1)

141

Wars and Investing

142

SEP-IRA vs. Solo 401k?

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Masterclass: ETF vs. Mutual Funds (Part 2)

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Masterclass: ETF vs. Mutual Funds

145

You Might be Losing $100k in Fees

146

How to Pay for Education Expenses

147

How to Invest in the Current Market Environment

148

Interest Rates Rising

149

I’m 18 Years Old. How Should I Think About Investing?

150

Target Date Funds

151

Why Figure Out Your Net Worth?

152

Which Account Do I Use First?

153

2021 In Review

154

Use a Donor Advised Fund to Save on Taxes

155

Portfolio Rebalancing: Keep Risk in Check

156

What is Freedom Investing?

157

8 Tips to Pay Less Tax Continued

158

8 Tips to Maximize Tax Savings

159

Tax Strategies when donating 100% of your Income to Charity

160

Treasury Bonds at 7%? Yes please.

161

Financial Planning for the Great Resignation

162

How Do You Tax Unrealized Capital Gains for Billionaires?

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Save Money With Smart Year-End Tax Planning

164

Should you Invest in this Hot investment?

165

How to use your HSA as a Retirement Account

166

What do your Investments Cost?

167

The Lesson I Learned in March 2020

168

Has Risk Changed?

169

How you should think about Risk

170

How Billionaires Avoid Taxes

171

Why Hire a CFP?

172

BONUS: Stock Market Bubbles

173

Are we in a Stock Bubble?

174

BONUS: Index Funds, Robos and Markets

175

Why I No Longer Recommend Using Robo-Advisors

176

How to Maximize Employer Benefits such as After-Tax 401k and ESPP

177

Are you Investing or Speculating?

178

How to Invest Your Emergency Fund

179

Investing: Active Vs. Passive

180

Why a 60/40 Portfolio is Not for You

181

Independence Day: Are you Financially Free?

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Should you invest in Bitcoin?

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How to Prepare for Inflation

184

Financial Planning Done Right

185

How to create a paycheck in Retirement

186

Ep15 – Roth IRA for Minors

187

Ep 14: How to turn $3,000 into $50,000,000!

188

Ep 13: Should you invest in individual stocks?

189

Ep 12: How to invest extra cash into the Stock Market

190

Ep 11: How to think about Insurance to protect you and your family

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Ep 10: After-Tax 401(k) Contributions

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Ep 9: How to use your HSA as a Retirement Account

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Ep 8: How to use a Backdoor Roth

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Ep 7: Which account should I save money next?

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Ep 6: My company just went through an IPO. Now what!?

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Ep 5: What is a Donor Advised Fund and why have one?

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Ep 4: Individual Retirement Accounts: Traditional vs. Roth

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Ep 3: Health Savings Account (HSA) - What is it and how to use it?

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Ep 2: Portfolio Allocation - How to think about your investments

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Ep 1: Stimulus Package - What it means for You