Stacked: Super Serious Stories About Careers, Crypto, and Getting Rich Quick with Joe Saul-Sehy

Feb 10, 2022

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Welcome back to Don’t Retire... Graduate! Today’s guest is podcast royalty: the host of the Stacking Benjamins podcast Joe Saul-Sehy! Joe is here to talk about his latest book, Stacked, his take on the real estate and cryptocurrency crazes, and share his top tip for stacking your wealth.

In this episode we’ll talk about:

Joe’s journey from financial advisor to teacher to writer to podcaster
Building financial careers without financial backgrounds
How, despite the massive amounts of financial resources available, people are still being left behind
How many people end up crying over money, even if they’re making six figures
The disconnect between our values and what we do with our money
Social media’s effect on the popularity of real estate investing, cryptocurrency
The idea of getting rich quick with cryptocurrency that can be dangerous for a lot of investors
The evolution of the Stacking Benjamins podcast
The important role that automation plays in growing wealth

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Link to Joe's book: https://www.stackingbenjamins.com/stacked/

About Joe Saul-Sehy:

Joe is the creator and co-host of the Stacking Benjamins podcast and co-author of STACKED: Your Super-Serious Guide To Modern Money. Current board member at large of The Plutus Foundation. Former board president and Board Member of Partnership For The Pathway.

While Joe’s “money expert story” includes being a former financial advisor (16 years) and representing American Express and Ameriprise in the media. His real story is how he was a money disaster in his early life, pulled his financial house into order, and left his business at age 40 to pursue an entirely different path.

Joe was the “Money Man” at Detroit television WXYZ-TV, appearing twice weekly. His advice has appeared in Bride, Best Life, and Child magazines, the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Sun-Times, Detroit News and Baltimore Sun newspapers. He’s also appeared online in more than 200 different places, including CNBC.com and WSJ.com.

The Stacking Benjamins Show was called the “Best Personal Finance Podcast” by Kiplinger. Lifehacker listed the show as one of the top 10 of 2021. Joe and the SB team have won five Plutus Awards and the Academy of Podcasters “Best Business Podcast” award (beating well-known shows like The Tim Ferriss Show, How I Built This, and Gimlet’s StartUp).

The Stacking Benjamins Show is created in Joe’s mom’s basement in Texarkana, Texas, where Joe lives with his spouse Cheryl and their cat Cooper.

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