All episodes

448 - Stop Fighting About Clothes: The Sneaky and Silly Budget Category Causing So Much Tension

447 - Barking Up the Wrong Tree: Why We Often Confuse Standard of Living With Quality of Life

446 - When Budgeting Means Spending More: Never About Less, Always About Better

445 - Interest Rates or Grandkids: The Role of Meaning Over Money in Everyday Life

444 - Wanting It vs. Doing It: Why Some People Thrive While Others Sit Idly (With Jealousy)

443 - So Much Noise: Why Ignoring the News (and Social Media) Is the Secret to Investing

442 - American Dream or American Nightmare? Why the World’s Way Might Not Be Your Best Way

441 - We’re Back! An Ode To Seasons

440 - The Chicken and Egg of Wealth and Fame: Maybe It’s Opposite of What You Think

439 - Managing the Puzzle Pieces: Everything Can Work….If It Works Together

438 - Creating a Life We Don’t Want to Retire From: A Better Path Than the Race Toward Retirement

437 - Memories Don’t Discriminate: Don’t Let a Lack of Resources Rob You From Creating Beautiful Memories

436 - Closer Than You Think: Why You’ve Probably Made More Investing Progress Than You Believe

435 - Reverse Engineering Our Obituary: Starting With the Desired End in Mind

434 - What Would You Pay For Meaning? When Meaningful Work (Initially) Requires a Pay Cut

433- More Is Never Enough: How the Curse of More Can (and Will) Hunt Us Down

432 - Recent Does Not Mean Real: The Risk of Recency Bias When Making Decisions

431 - It’s Gotta Come From Somewhere: The Art & Science of Budgeting in the Real World

430 - Live By the Sword, Die By the Sword: The Dangers of Businesses Polarizing Their Customers

429 - The Unfixable Mistake: The Harsh Lessons of Trying to Time the Market

428 - It’s Just Money: Why We Can (and Should) Make Some Decisions That Hinder Our Finances

427 - The Bar Has Never Been Lower: Your Opportunity to Make An Impact Has Never Been Greater

426 - Sometimes, the Only Prescription Is More Income

425 - Quality Over Quantity: Why Less Is More

424 - Give An Inch, Take a Mile: Why We Self-Sabotage Our Own Best Interests

423 - Too Many Flourless Cakes: The Value of Work In a Society That Glorifies Leisure

422 - It’s Pretty Great to Be Young: Investing, and the Power of Time

421 - Simple is Not Easy

420 - Know the Downside: What You Don’t Know Might Kill You

419 - History is Your Friend: What 23 U.S. Stock Market Crashes Have In Common

418 - How to Have a Midlife Crisis That’s Not a Midlife Crisis

417 - The Ten Dollar Challenge: Spending $10 Per Day On Things You Don’t Need

416 - It’s Okay to Buy Fun Things, But You Can’t Buy ALL the Fun Things

415 - Taking Timing Off the Table: Why and How to Stop Worrying About When Your Bills Are Due

414 - How to Stop Being Jealous: The Power of Factoring in Consequences

413 - Please Stop: With the Stock Market Declining, We’re Begging You to Not React. Here’s Why

412 - Stepping On Landmines: How One Bad Decision Can Create a Decades-Long Spiral….Or Not

411 - Taxes 101: You Wouldn't Change the Transmission In Your Own Car Just to Save a Few Bucks, Would You?

410 - Life Insurance 101: A Little Morbid But a Lot Important

409 - Taxable Investing 101: Giving Yourself the Gift of Freedom, Flexibility, and Options

408 - Income Fund 101: Do You Have an Inconsistent Monthly Income? We Got You!

407 - Personal Spending 101: A Powerful Release Valve When Combining Money In Marriage

406 - Sinking Funds 101: Saving Intentionally While Combatting Damaging Psychological Forces

405 - Budgeting 101: A Simple and Clear Overview of How to Execute a Monthly Budget

404 - Are You Accidentally Losing 25% of Your Life Savings? The Sneaky Undercurrent of Investment Fees

403 - Just Buy the Shoes: A Guilt-Free Blueprint to Overcome Financial Hoarding

402 - What Gets Measured Gets Done: The Sneaky Hack to Propel Your Momentum

401 - Just Start. Right Now. Today. Not Later.

400 - Less Talk, More Doing: The Power of Action In a World Obsessed With Talking

399 - Everything is Repurposed: Why You Shouldn’t Be Afraid to “Throw Away” One Career For Another

398 - The Costs Behind the Cost: Why the Initial Purchase Price is Just Part of the Story

397 - Riding the Beautiful Rollercoaster: A Look Back on 10 Years of Stock Market Craziness

396 - Is This the Year? A Case For (Finally) Stepping Into the Better You Deserve

395 - Choosing Meaning, Even at the Expense of Security

394 - Wanting What You Have, Not Having What You Want

393 - Best of Both Worlds: Investing In Other Things, But With Boundaries

392 - 4 Simple Tips to Stop Overspending

391 - Lifestyle Creep: A Cautionary Tale

390 - Choosing the Right Anchors: Why We Accidentally Sabotage Ourselves, and How to Fix It

389 - Time to Check Your Statements Again: Why Your Investments Aren’t Doing As Well As You Think

388 - It's Okay to Hate Your Job, But You Deserve Better

387 - Those Little Tells: How to Know If You’re On the Right Career Track

386 - The Next 40 Years, Not the Next 4: The Importance of Seeing the Big Picture

385 - Normalizing Normal: Just Because Something Is “Normal,” It Doesn’t Mean It’s Right

384 - Death Binders For the Win: It’s Never Too Early to Prepare For the Inevitable

383 - The Deadly Hat Trick, According to Cole: Three Forces Robbing You From Living a Meaningful Life

382 - Christmas, Without the Guilt: Simple Steps to Soak in the Holiday Spirit Without the Financial Stress

381 - Businesses, We Can Do Better: The Case For Businesses NOT Weaponizing the Owner’s Values

380 - A Recession is Still Coming, and That’s OK

379 - One Madness End, Another Begins: Don't Wait For Life to Feel "Normal"

378 - We Will Justify Any Purchase: The Importance of Being Honest With Ourselves

377 - Pushing Through WHEN Life Happens, Not IF Life Happens

376 - Living With Margin: The Intentional Act of Giving Yourself Freedom

375 - Ignore the Noise: Your Investing Patience is ALWAYS Rewarded

374 - More Begets More: Why a Materialistic Lifestyle is a Slippery Slope

373 - How Saying "Yes" is the Gateway to Better

372 - Asking ChatGPT to Review Our Podcast (with Cole Netten)

371 - Get Creative With Your Big Rocks: How to Optimize the Expenses that Matter Most

370 - Don’t Blindly Trust Experts: The Cost of Misplaced Faith

369 - But What Will You Give Up?: Why No Decision is Free

368 - Sometimes, We Need a Reset: Why Pushing Pause Can Propel Us Forward

367 - Survivorship Bias and FOMO, a Dangerous Combination

366 - Don’t Use a Known Need to Justify Irresponsible (and Impulsive) Wants

365 - A Different Kind of Inheritance: Something Far Richer Than Money

364 - Simplify, Simplify, Simplify: The Beauty of Automation

363 - Struggling to Manage a Variable Income? We Got You!

362 - Cole and Travis Talk Life and Money: Lifting the Lid on What’s Really Happening Under Roofs

361 - Don’t Get Burned by Half-Truths: The Importance of Having Proper Context

360 - Using Your Pain For Impact: Using Your Worst to Inspire Others' Best

359 - There’s No Such Thing As Normal, So Let’s Plan Accordingly

358 - Everyone Wins When You Keep Growing

357 - The Importance of Cash…..Especially When Times Are Weird

356 - You Can Only Give What You Have, And YOU Have Something to Give

355 - How to Execute the Travel Sinking Fund: And Yes, It’s Awesome!

354 - Business Owners, Your Appeal to “Support Small Business” is Actually Hurting You

353 - Not Every Decision Has To Be About Money: Why We Need to Prioritize Meaning

352 - Investing So Boring That the Finance Bros Mock You

351 - A Crash Course On Teaching Kids How to (Healthily) Handle Money

350 - Young Adults Need to Slow Their Roll: The Power of Delaying Major Financial Decisions

349 - Meaningful Work is Still Work: Why “Fun” Isn’t the Definition of Work That Matters