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More Than Commas — 369 episodes

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366 - Building the Career Without Losing the Life

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365 - How Great Leaders Build Teams That Make Them Better

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364 - The Disneyland Cheat Code

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363 - Super Bowl Player Reveals the One Word Winners Live By

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362 - MicroStrategy's STRC: Is That 11% Return Too Good to Be True?

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361 - Why Smart Leaders Share Before They're Ready

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360 - From Financial Teacher to Doom Prophet: The Hidden Cost of Fear-Based Investing

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359 - Financial Guru Predictions Gone Wrong and CyberTruck Sinks

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358 - Why Fear Goes Viral in Investing

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357 - Oil, War Fears & Market Swings: What Happens Next?

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356 - Why Your Brain Struggles With Time (And How Visual Timers Fix It)

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355 - How the QBI Deduction Works & Smart Tax Strategies for Business Owners

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353 - How to Future-Proof Your Wealth: Essential Estate Planning for Every Life Stage

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354 - Influence, Persuasion, and Reality with Scott Adams (Re-release)

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352- The AI Money Loop Explained: Are Investors Missing the Risk?

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351 - What Will Your Life Look Like in 2026?

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350 - Financial Advisors React: What This $5 Million Roth Story Gets Wrong About Retirement Planning

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349 - Financial Advisors React to ChatGPT's Retirement Plan!

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348 - Why Financial Samurai Says He's No Longer Financially Independent

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347 - Why Start Financial Planning Early

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346 - The Truth About 529 Plans | Smarter Ways to Fund College and Your Child's Future

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346 - The Truth About 529 Plans | Full Spreadsheet Demo

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345 - Is This the Most Powerful Speech About Money Ever?

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344 - The Hidden Cost of Chasing More

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343 - Financial Advisors Explained: Beyond Investments to Real Peace of Mind

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342 - Dave Ramsey vs Real Financial Advice

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341 - Why most people don't save for retirement

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340 - Can You Really Protect Your Property Investments?

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339 - Living the Dream in Hawaii

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338 - Should I Sell My Rental?

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337 - The One Big Beautiful Bill Explained

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336 - Money Reveals Who You Are, So What Is Yours Saying?

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335 - Is Money Evil or Moral? You've Never Heard Money Described Like This

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334 - Is This the Most Powerful Speech About Money Ever?

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333 - Why a Bigger Paycheck Isn't Making You Happier

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332 - What Your Habits Say About You

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331 - 7 Truths Every Business Owner Wishes They Knew Sooner

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330 - Why Rest Builds Real Wealth

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329 - Evidence-Based Investing with Dimensional Fund Advisors

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328 - What Financial Advisors Do That Apps Never Will

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327 - Can You Really Retire Before 40?

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326 - Why Do We Make Bad Money Choices?

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325 - Will AI Replace Your Financial Advisor?

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324 - Christian Finance Myths: Is Debt a Sin or Just Bad Stewardship?

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323 - Why Going All-In on the S&P 500 Might Be a Big Mistake

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322 - 72-Hour Preparedness: Simple Steps for Real Emergencies

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321 - Should you Die with Zero?

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320 - Retirement Isn't Short-Term: Why Your Money Needs to Last Decades

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319 - From Great Depression to Today: What Market Trends Don't Tell You

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318 - White Coat Investor Disagrees with Ernst & Young (Part 4)

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317 – White Coat Investor Disagrees with Ernst & Young (Part 3)

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316 - White Coat Investor Disagrees with Ernst & Young (Part 2)

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315 - White Coat Investor Disagrees with Ernst & Young (Part 1)

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314 - Ernst & Young's Guide to Life Insurance & Annuities

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313 - Why We Ignore a Powerful Retirement Tool

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312 - Why Active Management Doesn't Work

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311 - Disciplined Investing

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310 - Savings Rate or Investment Rate

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309 – Buying Real Estate with Your IRA

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308 - Starting a Business with your 401k

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307 - Assuming a 3% mortgage

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306 - Simple vs Compound Interest

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Bonus Episode - Mortgage Payoff

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305 - How much does it take to Retire the 4% rule

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304 - The difference between 401(k)s and IRAs

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303 - Traditional vs ROTH 401k

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302 - Backdoor ROTH

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301 - Roth IRA vs. Traditional IRA

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300 - Introducing More Than Commas

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299 - Dave Ramsey can bankrupt you with this advice

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298 - Maximizing Your Retirement Income with Whole Life Insurance

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297 - How Much Life Insurance Should You Own?

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296 - Should I Buy Life Insurance for My Kids?

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295 - The Three Stooges, Jimmy Carr, Whale Oil, and Playgirl...

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294 - Dave Ramsey Doesn't Understand Life Insurance (Part 2)

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293 - Dave Ramsey Doesn't Understand Life Insurance (Part 1)

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292 - How Much Insurance Should You Have? Auto, Home, Umbrella, Disability & Life

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291 - Avoiding Investment Scams

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290 - How much do you need to retire?

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289 - UPDATE: Jim Cramer's 2023 Predictions

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288 - What do Michael Burry and THE GUY who called the 1929 crash have in common?

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287 - Young + 401(k) = IRS Wins

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286 - Dave Ramsey's PPP Advice Worse than Fraud?

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Does Your Bank Offer a Wealth Coordination Account?

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How Annuities Work...Or Don't

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401(k) vs. Roth 401(k) What's The Difference?

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IRA vs. Roth What's The Difference?

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Did Elon Musk Really Do This?

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280 - Thinking Accurately About Money - Part 2

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Thinking Accurately About Money

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How to Lose Money in Real Estate

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Vanguard Competes Against Itself and Loses

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Active Management Underperforms...Again

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Financial Literacy – habits of the rich vs. poor

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The Dangers of Tax Deferral

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3 Retirement Failures, 1 Hail Mary and 1 Success

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Grandpa said "Invest in Gold" Re-Release

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Paul to The Wall

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Is ESG Investing a Losing Strategy?

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Should They Invest More in Real Estate?

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268 - The Average 401(k) Fell by 20%+ in 2022

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267 - Will AI Replace Your Financial Advisor?

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266 - Ochocinco's Financial Advice for You!

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265 - Jim Cramer's picks for 2023

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264 - Are You Rich?

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263 - Secure Act 2.0 and your Retirement Plan

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262 - Cathie Wood and the Arc of the Ark

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261 - Happy Chrisma-Hanu-Kwanza-kah

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260 - "Short-Term Agnostic, Long-Term Optimistic

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259 - Talking Beyond Finance

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258 - Reacting to Dave Ramsey Losing His Mind

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257 - What do you Want to be Thankful for Next Thanksgiving?

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256 - Seeing Through Media Falsehoods

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255 - FOMO Can Ruin Your Finances

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254 - Can Millennials Retire Early?

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253 - Should You Sell Now?

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252 - Mortgage Rates are Not What They Seem

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251 - Real Estate Rent or Sell? Tips on Getting Started

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250 - Investing In a Recession

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249 - Self Insurance is a Scam

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247 - Hidden Costs of IRA Rollovers

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244 - Equations for Happiness

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248 - Is Your Mutual Fund Manager Doing This?

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246 - College Funding & a Swimming Pool Full of Spaghetti

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245 - I Bonds, Inherited IRA Rules & surviving the lottery.

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243 - Medicare – Unscrambling the Alphabet Soup

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242 - Market Debacle or Market Maintenance?

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240 -The Best Performing Tech Fund You Never Knew You Owned

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239 - Income Investing in Retirement

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238 - Crypto and Principles for Investing

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237 - Why Spouses Should Plan Together

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236 - "Big Changes" Small Differences

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235 - The Debt We Owe To Our Future Selves

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234 - Countering What Your Kids Are Learning In School

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233 - Does the Headline Match the Data?

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232 - Ugly Retirement Decisions in a Wild Market!

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231 - Holding Strategy in the Midst of Crisis

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230 - Re-assess, Re-balance and Re-trench

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229 - Our Thoughts on Vanguard's Value Proposition

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228 - Real People Getting Real Advice

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227 - Could a Car Accident Cost You Everything

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226 - Stop Trying to Catch a Falling Knife

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225 - Treasure Hunting, Bond Investing, and Unexpected Taxes.

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224 - BONUS EPISODE: A Look Behind the Curtain at Sound Financial Group

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223 - Leaning in on Financial Faux Pas

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222 - What Elon Wants to Teach Kids Can Help You!

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221 - Asset Allocation in Early Retirement, Backdoor Roth Back On and Debunking High-Yield Funds

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220 - Financial Independence at age 52, earning less than $100k

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219 - Planning for YOUR Personal Aims, Not Anyone Else's

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218 - When Your Parents Didn't Save Enough, Are Active Fund Managers Worth Their Cost?

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217- Is the 4% Rule in Retirement Dead? Tips on 529 Plans

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216 - Gratitude vs. Cultivating Contentment - Thanksgiving Special Episode

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215 - Risky Zillow, Risky Crypto and Why do they hate ROTH?

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214 - 401(k) Stolen, Family Tries to Kill Father

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213 - Are you taking Social Security at the right time?

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212 - Celebrity Attorney Shares Estate Planning Horror Stories

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211 - The 2021 Reconciliation Spending Bill & Its Impact on Your Retirement

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210 - Beyond Meat Stock Prices, Retirement Questions & Tax Traps

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209 - We Think They Should Build a Vacation Home, The Wall Street Journal Doesn't

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208 - Day Trading to High Tax Bills & Suze Orman's 5 Best Pieces of Financial Advice

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207 - Houses, Truckloads Of Crypto, And James Brown's 100 Million Dollar Estate

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206 - Shocking retirement stats, how long you will live and TIPs funds may not be as good as they look.

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205 - How Target Date Funds Are Being Misused And What Millionaires Do Different

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204 - Why Pausing Can Bring You Value

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203 - Getting Vaccinated Against Lifestyle Addiction

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202 - The White Coat Window

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201 - Warren Buffets (Not So Secret) Secret Sauce

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200 - Learning to Invest in Real Estate - With Robert Slattery (Blackwell Real Estate)

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199 - A Cure For Retirement: The Wealth Coordination Account

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198 - HSA The Triple Tax-Free Account

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197 - Grandpa Said Invest In Gold

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196 - Fun With The CPI… The Christmas Price Index

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195 - Solutions To The Illusions Of Investing

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194 - Illusions of Investing (Condensed)

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193 - What Last Week Taught Us About Market Timing & Other Ways the Media Steers Us Wrong

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192 - Your Financial Sacred Cows Could Be Milking You

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191 - Where We Actually Have the Most Control, But Think We Have the Least

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190 - COVID CARES Act Roth Conversation + What We Learned From Trump's Tax Returns

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189 - Brock Blake CEO of Lendio - Saving The American Dream

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188 - The Whole life Timeline (pt.2)

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187 - The Market Crashed, Now What? (Time Machine Episode)

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186 - The Whole Life Timeline (pt. 1)

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185 - Three Big Accounting Mistakes That Can Take Your Business Down

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184 - The Trick Question of 30YR v 15YR Mortgages

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183 - What Is Your ROR On Home Equity?

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182 - If You Want To Build Wealth, You Have To Talk About Money

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181 - Should You Stop Investing in "The Market"? A conversation with Joe Riggio of Dimensional Fund Advisors

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180 - What Investor Mindset Will You Choose?

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179 - Where are Tactics Overtaking Strategy in Your Financial Plan?

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178 - The Best Performing Tech Fund You Never Knew You Owned

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177 - Speed Dating Sound Financial Group

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*BONUS EPISODE* Coronavirus Opportunities

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176 - Freshbooks CEO Mike McDerment on Leadership, Partners and Coronavirus

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175 - IS THE CORONA VIRUS INFECTING YOUR BRAIN?

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174 - The Hidden Costs of Investing: An Interview with Dr. Stefan Sharkansky

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173 - Investing In You from the Influence Ecology Annual Member Conference

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172 - Want to Heat Up Your Bedroom this Valentine's Day? Talk About Money!

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171 - Are Your 2020 Plans Going to Create the Life You Want?

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170 - Does the Presidential Election Cycle Hold the Secret to Beating the Market?

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169 - Are You Grounding Your Assessments with Kari Granger

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168 - Are You Taking Your CEO Brain Food with Michael Langhout

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167 - What Can You Do Now That You Are Aware Of The Illusions?: Illusions of Investing, Part 5

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166 - Do You Know Your Fees and Costs?: Illusions of Investing, Part 4

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165 - How Do I Know When to Get Out?: Illusions of Investing, Part 3

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164 - Does 20/20 Hindsight Help?: Illusions of Investing, Part 2

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163 - Stock Picking & Survivorship Bias Illusions of Investing, Part 1

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162 - Should You Protect Sufficiency First?

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161 - Zip Codes and 401(k)s

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160 - Equity Indexed Products

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159 - Not Your Grandma's Budget with Doug Peterson

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158 - Stop Should-ing All Over Yourself

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157 - Basics of Investing Actual vs. Average Return

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156 - Remembering Sean Stephenson

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155 - Financial Wellness for Women...and Men...and Couples with Rhonda Noordyk

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154 - Lloyd's of London, Where Income is King with Robert Clark

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153 - Roth At Any Income

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152 - Is the Sky Falling? The Market Reaches a New High, Part 2

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151 - Is the Sky Falling? The Market Reaches Another New High, Part 1

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150 - The Autobiography of Your Money

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149 - Stop Wasting Your Kids' College Money

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148 - Top 100 Mistakes, Part 4

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147 - Influence, Persuasion and Reality with Scott Adams

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146 - The Excitement Trap with Drew Knowles

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145 - Top 100 Mistakes, Part 3

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144 - Top 100 Mistakes, Part 2

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143 - Top 100 Mistakes, Part 1

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142 - The 4-Factor Model

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141 - Market, What Market?

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140 - Entrepreneur vs. Fiduciary

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139 - Is Your Cash Going Stale?

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138 - Meet a Millionaire Next Door with Jeff Miller

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137 - The 5 Pillars of Tax Planning with Shahar Plinner

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136 - Spending the Death Benefit of Your Life Insurance While You're Still Alive

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135 - Life Insurance as an Asset Class with Dick Weber

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134 - Whole Life Is a Bad Investment - Debunkisode

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133 - Beyond Tax Deferred: The TEFRA TAMRA Corridor

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132 - Your Business is Not YOUR Wealth

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131 - Wealth Coordination Account: Big Wealth, Small Business

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130 - Consuming Financial Media: A How to Guide

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129 - Diagnosing the Broken Healthcare System with Dr. Paul Thomas

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128 - Near Misses, Actual Tragedies, and Disciplined Strategies, Part 3

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127 - The Financial Storm and What Not to Do About It

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126 - What You Can Expect From Us in 2019

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125 - The Shutdown and What We Can Learn From It

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124 - Near Misses, Actual Tragedies, & Disciplined Strategies, Part 2

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123 - Near Misses, Actual Tragedies, & Disciplined Strategies, Part 1

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122 - Basics of Debt, Part 2: Dealing with Mortgages

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121 - Inbetweenisode: The Sky is Falling

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120 - Basics of Debt

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119 - Invest Like a Nobel-Nerd

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118 - What You Don't Know... Is Hurting You

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117 - Stop Saving Money & Start Building Assets, Part 2

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116 - Stop Saving Money & Start Building Assets, Part 1

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115 - Protecting Your Window, Part 2

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114 - Protecting Your Window, Part 1

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113 - What is the White Coat Window?

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112 - Orchestrating Short, Mid, & Long-Term Buckets

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111 - The Worst Case Scenario

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110 - Web Search vs. Research

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109 - Be Your Own Fiduciary

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108 - The Market Dropped!!!!!

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107 - Don't Just Save - Build a Wealth Coordination Account

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106 - Profit First, Part 2 with Michael Michalowicz

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105 - Profit First, Part 1 with Michael Michalowicz

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104 - The Siren's Song of More

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103 - Entrepreneurs Save the World, Just Not Themselves

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102 - Common Mistakes We Help Clients Avoid, Part 2

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101- Common Mistakes We Help Clients Avoid, Part 1

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100 Cory Shepherd - The Fallacy of Following Financial Entertainers

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099 Cory Shepherd - The Basics of Disability Insurance Part 2: Maximizing Your Benefits

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098 Cory Shepherd - The Basics of Disability Insurance Part 1: How Much Do You Really Need Disability Insurance?

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097 Cory Shepherd - Why We Should Talk, Part 4 - I Hit the White Coat Window

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096 Cory Shepherd - Why We Should Talk, Part 3 - I Just Went Through a Job Change

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095 Cory Shepherd - Why We Should Talk, Part 2 - Should I Invest in Bitcoin?

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094 Cory Shepherd - Why We Should Talk, Part 1 - Do You Know How Much Capital is Required?

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091 Jake DeKinder - Academics of Investing with Special Guest from Dimensional Fund Advisors, Jake DeKinder

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093 Summer Anderson - Executives Burning Out on Entry

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092 Michael Fennessy - Confessions of a 401(k) Freak

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090 Edmund Moy - Making A Lot of Money with the Last Director of the US Mint, Edmund Moy

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089 Jean Thompson - Building an Indulging Career

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088 Dr. John Medina - Will Your Brain Age Well

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087 Cory Shepherd - Basics of Life Insurance Part 7 - Recap the Series

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086 Cory Shepherd - Basics of Life Insurance Part 6 - Spending Your Death Benefit While You Are Alive

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085 Cory Shepherd - Basics of Life Insurance Part 5 - Whole Life

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084 Cory Shepherd - Basics of Life Insurance, Part 4 - What Kind of Company Should You Choose?

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083 Cory Shepherd - Basics of Life Insurance, Part 3 - How Much Should You Own, What Should You Apply For?

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082 Cory Shepherd - Basics of Life Insurance, Part 2 - Universal Life Explained

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081 Cory Shepherd - Basics of Life Insurance, Part 1 - Types of Life Insurance

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080 John Patterson - Transact or Die Part 2 with John Patterson of Influence Ecology

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079 John Patterson - Transact or Die Part 1 with John Patterson of Influence Ecology

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078 Chris Flugstad - Living Lean with Chris Flugstad

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077 Bella Vasta - Building Your Life that Works For You

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076 Dr. Paul Conti - Stop Should-ing on Your Money

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075 Marek Omilian - Building and Assessing Value While Creating Autonomy Part 2

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074 Marek Omilian - Building and Assessing Value While Creating Autonomy Part 1

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073 Kari Granger - Bombings, Leadership, and Cultural Capability

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072 Cory Shepherd - Getting it Right Before it All Goes Wrong

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071 Benson Porter - Culture, Values, and Leadership

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070 David Nilssen - Making the Jump into Small Business Ownership

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069 Sean Stephenson - What a 3 Foot Tall Man Can Teach You About Walking Tall

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068 Aviv Shahar Part 2 - Questions from Aviv's New Book, Create New Futures

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067 Aviv Shahar - Questions from Aviv's New Book, Create New Futures

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066 - What the 401(k) Part 3 - Optimizing Your 401(k)

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065 - What the 401(k)? Part 2 — Who Has An Interest In Your Participating

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064 - Your 401(k) and What It Means to Your Employer

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063 Gary Ward - High Performance and Celebrity Health with Dr. Gary Ward

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062 Marcus Bell - Fame, Fortune, and Broke Part 2 with Marcus Bell of Bellringer Productions

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061 Marcus Bell - Fame, Fortune, and Broke with Marcus Bell of Bellringer Productions

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060 - Outrageously Priced by Design Part 2

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059 - Outrageously Priced by Design Part 1

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058 - What's New on Sound Financial Bites

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057 - Design and Build Your Life In Order — Sufficiency Surplus Superfluence

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056 - Why Fees, Why Now

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055 - The Media May be Misguided on Market

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054 Al Davis & Bill Lawrence - Speaking Bankanese with Al Davis & Bill Lawrence

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053 Charlotte Whitmore - Firing yourself as CEO with Charlotte Whitmore of Analytics Pros

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052 - Why All Your Advisors Should be Virtual

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051 Todd Matthews - Todd Matthews Turns the Tables on Paul Adams - Part 2

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050 Todd Matthews - Todd Matthews Turns the Tables on Paul Adams - Part 1

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049 - Sending Your Money to College

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048 - Where Can Your Human Capital Make You Money

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047 - Build Your Aims for 2017

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046 Aviv Shahar - Conversation Is the Currency of Leadership

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045 - The Market Will Crash Again

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044 - Why a Wealth Coordination Account

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043 Maggie Richter - Mortgage Myths for Entrepreneurs

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042 - Three Numbers You Must Know to Build Your Finances

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041 - What Does It Take To Sell A Business with Andrew Cross and Damon Pistulka

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040 - Illusion of Investing Part 6 - Passive Structure Investing Theory

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039 - Investing Illusions Part 5 – Letting Them Handle Your Money

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038 - Illusions of Investing Part 4 - The cost of Investing

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037 - Illusions of Investing Part 3 - Timing is Everything.... NOT!

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036 - Investing Illusions Part 2 - When Track Records Don't Matter

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035 - Investing Illusions Part 1 - What Your Mutual Fund Won't Tell You

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034 - Stop Acting Rich Part 2

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033 - Stop Acting Rich Part 1

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032 - Watch What You Say, It Could Cost You Millions

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031 - Entrepreneurs Are Endangering Themselves

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030 Paul Menig - Why Paul Menig Doesn't Want to Buy Your Business!

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029 Dennis Brislawn - Passing On Legacy Assets

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028 - How to Cultivate Contentment Today Part 2

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027 - How to Cultivate Contentment Today

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026 - Why Cashflow Trumps Rate of Return

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025 - The Fallacy of the 4%

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024 - The Differences Between Loss Tolerance and Risk Tolerance

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023 Common Problems Tech Executives Face When Trying to Secure Their Financial Future

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022 How Thinking You're Smart About Finances Is Unwise

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021 Protect Your Income with Disability Insurance

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020 Build Wealth with Community Event

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019 SealFit 20X: What Are you Really Capable Of?

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018 How to Implement a Clear Strategic Vision for Business Owners

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017 How to Stop Wealth Erosion from Generation to Generation Through Family Legacy Planning

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016 Maxwell 21 Laws

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015 Your Body is the Most Important Asset in Designing and Building a Good Life (Part 2)

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014 Your Body is the Most Important Asset in Designing and Building a Good Life (Part 1)

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013 How to Recruit C-Suite Executive Superstars

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012 Planning For Your Future and Beyond

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011 Building an Intention Statement

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010 Legacy Planning with Steve Waltar

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009 Chief of Staff: The Strategic Partner Who Will Revolutionize Your Organization

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008 The Market Crashed, Now What?

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007 Savings is the Key

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006 Life Insurance Basics Part 2

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005 Life Insurance Basics Part 1

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004 What Is SROVT?

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003 Why You Don't Want to Plan for Your Needs

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002 - Balancing your Short, Mid and Long-Term Buckets

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001 - Wealth Coordination Account

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000 - Welcome to Sound Financial Bites