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The Grow Your Wealthy Mindset Podcast — 208 episodes

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Episode 207: The W-2 Physician’s Tax Reality

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Episode 206: Inside Medscape's Physician Compensation Report 2026

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Episode 205: The Annual Financial Deep Clean: A 5-Point Financial Audit

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Episode 204: Don’t Overthink This: How to Choose Your Brokerage Account

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Episode 203: Charitable Giving Tax Changes in 2026 Explained

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Episode 202: Will Your Retirement Go As Planned?

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Episode 201: Taking Money Out of Retirement Accounts Early Without the 10% Penalty

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Episode 200: Being Rich vs. Being Wealthy

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Episode 199: Common Backdoor Roth IRA Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

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Episode 198: Trump Accounts Explained: What Parents Need to Know

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Episode 197: Your Money or Your Life: A Physician’s Life Energy

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Episode 196: Planning for Long-Term Care: Insurance vs Self-Insuring

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Episode 195: How Much Do Physicians Need for Retirement?

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Episode 194: Why High-Income Doctors Still Feel Broke

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Episode 193: Vesting: What You Actually Get to Keep in Your Employer Retirement Plan

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Episode 192: Solo 401k vs SEP IRA - Which Is the Better Choice?

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Episode 191: W-2 vs 1099 for Physicians: Pros, Cons, and the Money Impact

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Episode 190: How to Know How Much House You Can Really Afford

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Episode 189: The Truth About 50-Year Mortgages and Housing Affordability

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Episode 188: Designing Your Wealthy Year Ahead

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Episode 187: The Myth of More Time

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Episode 186: The How of Happiness Taking Care of Your Body with Meditation and Physical Activity

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Episode 185: What’s Your Money Type? Understanding How You Relate to Money

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Episode 184: Smart Money Moves After a Financial Windfall

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Episode 183: What Thanksgiving Teaches Us About Money and Mindset

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Episode 182: Your Year-End Financial Checklist

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Episode 181: The How of Happiness Practicing Religion and Spirituality

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Episode 180: Sunk Costs, Opportunity Costs, and Thinking in Terms of Expected Value

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Episode 179: Spend with Intention and Discerning a Need from a Want

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Episode 178: A Practical Guide to Dividing Your Income: Needs, Wants, and Savings

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Episode 177: The How of Happiness Committing to Your Goals

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Episode 176: Changes Coming to Catch-up Contributions to Retirement Accounts

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Episode 175: Redesigning Work to Fit Your Life

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Episode 174: Donor-Advised Funds: A Smart Way to Give to Charity?

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Episode 173: APR vs APY Explained: How Compounding Affects Interest

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Episode 172: Savoring Life's Joys

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Episode 171: Our Two Week Irish Adventure: What We Did, What We Spent - Part 2

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Episode 170: Our Two Week Irish Adventure: What We Did, What We Spent - Part 1

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Episode 169: “I Love You” Insurance: Protecting Your Loved Ones with Term Life

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Episode 168: The How of Happiness Increasing Flow Experiences

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Episode 167: Options Trading 101: An Introduction to Derivatives

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Episode 166: Why Dave Ramsey’s Advice Doesn’t Work for Physicians

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Episode 165: How the One Big Beautiful Bill Act Affects Physicians

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Episode 164: The How of Happiness Learning to Forgive

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Episode 163: Maximize Tax Savings with a Dependent Care FSA

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Episode 162: Investing for Cashflow with Debt and Lending Funds

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Episode 161: Passive Income or Long-Term Growth? Investing for Cashflow vs. Appreciation

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Episode 160: A conversation on Money and Happiness with Dr. Disha Spath, The Frugal Physician

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Episode 159: The How of Happiness Developing Strategies for Coping

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Episode 158: Real Numbers, Real Life: Tracking Spending with Our Annual Spending Revealed

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Episode 157: Do You Really Need Travel Insurance? What to Know Before Your Next Trip

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Episode 156: Insurance is a Tool to Protect Wealth

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Episode 155: The How of Happiness Nurturing Social Relationships

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Episode 154: Roth Conversions, Backdoor Roth IRA, and the Mega Backdoor Roth Strategy

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Episode 153: How to Choose a Good Index Fund

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Episode 152: Saving (and Investing) Rate for Retirement

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Episode 151: The How of Happiness Practicing Acts of Kindness

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Episode 150: Staying Invested Even When the Market is Falling

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Episode 149: The 401(a): A Lesser Known Employer Sponsored Retirement Account

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Episode 148: The Alternative Min Tax

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Episode 147: Creating Stories to Raise Money-Smart Kids with Dr. Michele Cho-Dorado

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Episode 146: The How of Happiness Avoid Overthinking and Social Comparison

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Episode 145: Decoding Tax Forms: W-2, 1099s, K-1, and What They Mean for You

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Episode 144: Financial Leverage: A Double Edged Sword

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Episode 143: REITS: The Simplest Way to Invest in Real Estate

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Episode 142: The How of Happiness: Cultivating Optimism

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Episode 141: Pump and Dump Schemes and Short Squeezes: The Hidden Dangers of Individual Stock Investing

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Episode 140: The Costs of Buying and Owning a Home (Why You May Want to Keep Renting)

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Episode 139: New IRS Updates for 2025

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Episode 138: The How of Happiness Expressing Gratitude

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Episode 137: Flexible Spending and Heathcare Savings Accounts

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Episode 136: New Year Resolutions, Goal Setting, and Reaching Those Goals

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Episode 135: When it Feels Hard to Spend Money

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Episode 134: Overcoming Money Scarcity With Income Fluctuation with Dr Amy Vertrees

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Episode 133: What To Do With Your Retirement Accounts When You Leave a Job

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Episode 132: End of the year tax tips that you must complete by Dec 31

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Episode 131: Escaping the Hedonic Treadmill

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Episode 130: The Power of Saying No and Making a Decision

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Episode 129: Investing in Individual Real Estate Syndications vs Real Estate Funds

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Episode 128: Keeping Your Investing Simple: The One Fund or Three Fund Portfolio

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Episode 127: Mindful Spending: Rethinking Needs, Wants, and Money Choices

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Episode 126: A Closer Look at the 403b

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Episode 125: The Gender Pay Gap

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Episode 124: Your Second Job: Taking Ownership of Your Financial Future

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Episode 123: Financial Freedom through Entrepreneurship with Dr. Una

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Episode 122: Withdrawal Methods For Retirement Beyond the 4% Rule

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Episode 121: Testing Your Retirement Portfolio with Monte Carlo Simulations

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Episode 120: Free Online Retirement Calculators

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Episode 119: The 4% Rule and How 4% Became the Safe Withdrawal Rate for Retirement

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Episode 118: Retirement is Not an Endless Vacation

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Episode 117: Investing vs Paying Down Debt

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Episode 116: Qualified vs Non-Qualified Dividends and How They Are Taxed

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Episode 115: Capital Gain Taxes

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Episode 114: How much can you really save by adjusting your thermostat?

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Episode 113: Transitioning from Guaranteed Salary to Compensation Based on Productivity

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Episode 112: The Journey to Financial Independence

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Episode 111: Changes In Realtor Commissions with Samantha Chin

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Episode 110: Are Physician Medical Surveys a Potential Additional Income Stream?

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Episode 109: A Look into the US Social Security Program

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Episode 108: Check Your Contract for Three Items When You Start Thinking of Changing Jobs

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Episode 107: High-Cost Medications and the Co-Pay Accumulator Policy with Dr. Celine Lee

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Episode 106: Be the Bank: Investing Through Private Lending and Lending Funds

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Episode 105: Gift Tax and How to Gift More Than the Annual Exclusion Limit

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Episode 104: Where to Put Cash and Short Term Investments

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Episode 103: What to know about 457 plans

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Episode 102: Stagnation Inflation Stagflation: What it means and what to do about it

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Episode 101: Choosing Autonomy Over Money with Dr Shanika Esparaz

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Episode 100: Defining Wealth

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Episode 99: Employer Sponsored Retirement Accounts: 401(k) and 403(b) Plans

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Episode 98: Has the time come for using Robo-Advisors for investing?

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Episode 97: Getting More High Fixed Interest Rate I-bonds

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Episode 96: Self Directed Retirement Accounts

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Episode 95: My Own Personal Money Scarcity

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Episode 94: Adding International Index Funds to Diversify Your Investment Portfolio

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Episode 93: 2023 Tax Update

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Episode 92: More Differences Between Tradtional and Roth Retirement Accounts

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Episode 91: Choosing Between Traditional or Roth Retirement Accounts

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Episode 90: Optimizing Your Banking

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Episode 89: The Rise of Capital Calls in Real Estate Syndication Investments

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Episode 88: Shifting from Scarcity to Abundance with Dr. Liz Aguirre

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Episode 87: New Filing Requirement for All Corporations and LLCs

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Episode 86: Setting Goals and Getting to Antarctica

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Episode 85: A Practical Guide to Treasury Investments

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Episode 84: The Life Planning Approach to a Wealthy Life with Dr. Weili Gray

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Episode 83: Strategies for Building a Strong Credit Score

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Episode 82: Getting out of Credit Card or Consumer Debt

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Episode 81: Gift Giving and Spending with Elisa and husband Nathan

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Episode 80: Growing a $330M Mindset with Dr. Elaine Stageberg

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Episode 79: Demystifying Hedge Funds and How They Differ From Mutual Funds

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Episode 78 : Automating Your Finances

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Episode 77: Is now the right time to invest in real esate?

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Episode 76: Diversifying Your Investment Portfolio

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Episode 75: Dare to Dream Abundance is Not a Number

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Episode 74: Dare to Dream Grow Your Wealthy Mindset

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Episode 73: Dare to Dream Change Your Mind Before Changing Your Job

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Episode 72: Financial Freedom with One Door with Dr. Kristi Klee

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Episode 71: What Can Physicians Learn from The Millionaire Next Door

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Episode 70: Feeling Insecure Around Money

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Episode 69: The Basics of Estate Planning

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Episode 68: Increasing Your Physician Income

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Episode 67: Marriage is a Financial Decision, But Divorce Shouldn’t Be

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Episode 66: An Examination on the Culture of Tipping

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Episode 65: Location Freedom with Dr. Kristine Goins

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Episode 64: Tax Lost Harvesting

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Episode 63: Being Cheap vs Being Frugal

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Episode 62: Childhood Memories Shaping My Money Mindset

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Episode 61: The Myth of a Safe Investment

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Episode 60: Redefining Success with Dr. Johanna Moore

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Episode 59: Deferring Paying Taxes with 1031 Exchanges

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Episode 58: Advantages and Disadvantages of Real Estate Investing

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Episode 57: What I learned from author Elizabeth Gilbert

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Episode 56: Creating Your Spending Plan

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Episode 55: Investing in your Private Practice with Dr. Sarah Neitzel

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Episode 54: Shifting Between the Employee Mindset to the Entrepreneurial Mindset

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Episode 53: Benefits of 529 Plans for Educational Expenses

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Episode 52: Land Investing with Dr. Mamta Kumar

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Episode 51: Financial Terms with Investing

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Episode 50: Building Wealth By Acquiring Assets

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Episode 49: Mindset with Dr. Karen Leitner

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Episode 48: Money Considerations With Buying Your Home

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Episode 47: Done with Broke with Guest Dr. Latifait Akintade

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Episode 46: Accredited Investor and Other Investor Classifications

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Episode 45: Burnout vs. Moral Injury

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Episode 44: Medicine, Marriage and Money with Dr. Kate Mangona

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Episode 43: What Happened with Silicon Valley Bank

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Episode 42: Make Your Thrive List

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Episode 41: What's Really Stopping You From Having What You Want

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Episode 40: Lump Sum vs Dollar Cost Averaging Investing Strategies

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Episode 39: Life Changing Events

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Episode 38: The Backdoor Roth IRA Explained

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Episode 37: Choosing the Right Asset Allocation for You

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Episode 36: What you need to know about Target Date (Retirement) Funds

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Episode 35: Negotiating to Get Paid What You’re Worth with Dr Linda Street

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Episode 34: Certificates of Deposit

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Episode 33: Traditional Mutual Funds vs. Exchange Traded Funds

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Episode 32: Student Loan Forgiveness with Megan McGuire

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Episode 31: Growth vs Fixed Mindset

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Episode 30: The Impact of Costs on Investing

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Episode 29: Setting Financial Boundaries

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Episode 28: Finding the Right Work Situation with Dr. Lara Hochman

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Episode 27: Multiple Streams of Income and Active vs Passive Income

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Episode 26: The Practice of Gratitude

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Episode 25: Tools to Help Track Your Net Worth and Spending

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Episode 24: Preparing for the Next Recession

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Episode 23: Examining Risks and Overcoming Fear

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Episode 22: My Short-Term Rental Story

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Episode 21: Saving on Taxes with Real Estate Investing

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Episode 20: Introduction to Real Estate Investing

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Episode 19: Your Largest Lifetime Expense

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Episode 18: Money Thoughts Around Financial Independence and FIRE

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Episode 17: Choosing Investments in your Employer Sponsored Retirement Plan

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Episode 16: Index Fund Investing

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Episode 15: Financial Advisors

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Episode 14: Getting Long-Term Disability Insurance with Dr. Stephanie Pearson

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Episode 13: Protecting Your Greatest Asset with Disability Insurance

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Episode 12: Emergency Funds

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Episode 11: Can money buy you happiness?

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Episode 10: What's with all the hype around I-bonds?

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Episode 9: Socially Responsible and Impact Investing with Dr. Recha Bergstrom

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Episode 8: Tax Advantaged Accounts for Investing

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Episode 7: Introduction into Investing

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Episode 6: What does it mean to be rich or wealthy?

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Episode 5: Financial Mistakes Physicians Make

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Episode 4: Understanding Debt

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Episode 3: Your Financial Net Worth

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Episode 2: Arrival Fallacy

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Episode 1: Growing a Wealthy Mindset

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