For show notes and more information visit www.investedpodcast.com.This week Phil and Danielle continue their From the Vault series and reintroduce Justin’s Nut Butter. In this episode, they go through a brief history of Justin’s Nut Butter, discuss how to evaluate a company for investing, and explain how to “dig your canyon.” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For show notes and more information, visit www.investedpodcast.com. This week, Phil and Danielle continue their discussion of Tesla. They jump into the definition of short selling a stock and why people are shorting Tesla right now. Phil explains what a short sell is and when someone might think about shorting a stock. Phil talks about why it’s very difficult to be a short seller because, not only do you have to be right about the stock, but you have to be right and get the timing perfectly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For show notes and more information, visit investedpodcast.com. This week we talk about what’s going on with Tesla and Elon Musk right now. Phil talks about a big problem for Tesla. Competition, disruption, and innovation. By the year 2022, there are expected to be over 200 electric cars on the market. That’s just 3 years from now. It’s a little scary that Tesla is running hard into the teeth of competition that’s been built on it’s back.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, we're continuing our From the Vault series here with one from the beginning of 2019, when we talked about the risky market that we're in. Things really haven't changed much in the past 6 months. Check it out and see what you think. Happy Fourth of July. For show notes and more information, visit investedpodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Almost two years ago, Phil and Danielle talked about Tesla, its inner workings and the ups and downs in the stock price. They also talked about whether or not its stock price has anything to do with its actual value as a company. Now Tesla is back in the news for having been again, up and down, and the same questions are still out there. Let’s play this one from the vault.For show notes and more info visit investedpodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, InvestED welcomes John Assaraf to the show. John is one of the leading mindset and behavioral experts in the entire world. He's been on Larry King Live and Anderson Cooper, the Ellen Show. He's built five multimillion dollar companies, written multiple New York Times best-selling books and, he's been in eight movies including the Secret. He's the founder and CEO of Neurogym, which is a company that uses the most advanced technologies and brain training methods to help people unlock and ignite their fullest potential. In today’s episode, they discuss John’s new book, Innercise, and how brain training relates to investing and money.John talks about how fear often times holds people back from investing. Fear is associated with risk, potential pain and suffering, and going backward. The opposite side of that is, all of the rewards that come with making money, doing the right things, and seeing the gains and benefits. It's almost like a brake and gas system of a car, you need both, and you can use both. Once you learn how to use both you can get moving.John talks about how to turn your fear into fuel and harness your full potential. He talks about how you can do ‘innercises’ to strengthen your core neuro muscles and goes over a few techniques to stay calm and increase your awareness of your thoughts, feelings, and emotions. Especially when it comes to being scared of losing money.To learn more about Innercise and John Assaraf visit IgniteMyBrain.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Phil and Danielle continue their discussion of Warren Buffett quotes.Warren Buffett Quotes from this Episode“A great investment opportunity occurs when a marvelous business encounters a one time huge, but solvable problem.”A marvelous business has a very specific definition, it's one, that you can look into the future with a pretty high degree of certainty about this company being more productive and bigger than it is today. And by the future, I mean, five to 10 years out. These types of businesses don’t go on sale often.It's a very specific kind of problem that Buffett is talking about here. It is, number one, one time, it's going to happen one time. And number two, they are going to solve it, no question about it. Those two things have to go together.“We believe that a policy of portfolio concentration may well decrease risk, if it raises as it should both the intensity with which the investor thinks about a business and the comfort level he must feel with his economic characteristics before buying into.”Here, Buffett is saying, if you focus on a few things, where you have a very high comfort level or very high level of certainty, that's what takes your risk down.“Overall, we've done better by avoiding dragons than by slaying them.”If you're looking to reduce risk, you're not going to go out there and acquire huge companies with problems just because they’re cheap.“It is optimism, that is the enemy of the rational buyer.”“The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior. But simple behaviors more effective.”“Be fearful when others are greedy and be greedy when others are fearful.”For show notes and more information, visit www.investedpodcast.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This week, Phil and Danielle talk about a book called My Warren Buffett Bible written by Robert L. Bloch. Robert Bloch’s father was Henry Bloch who started H&R Block. Phil talks about the “practice” of investing as something that you can really love. Investing doesn’t have to be hard or stressful. You can enjoy the practice of research and find joy in what you’re doing. They also talk about the gigantic brand Moat that Disney has built as well as the problem with large companies with a lot of debt.Warren Buffett Quotes from this Episode“Someone sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.”“To swim a fast hundred meters, it's better to swim with the tide than to work on your stroke.”Next Week: “A great investment opportunity occurs when a marvelous business encounters a one time huge, but solvable problem.”If you want to hear some great quotes from the Oracle himself, visit www.investedpodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For show notes and more info visit www.investedpodcast.com.“The advice, buy and hold, is very good advice, as long as hold means 40 to 60 years.” - Phil TownThis week, Phil and Danielle talk about parents buying stocks for children. She has a couple of choices. The first choice is to do what Buffett says to do and buy the US stock index, SPY. Or you can buy individual companies. What would you do for your child?They also talk about the differences between indexes like the S&P 500 or the Russel 2000. The S&P 500 tend to be a little more steady than other indexes. Phil also discusses the Shiller PE ratio and what it means when the ratio is 25 and above for your returns. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Phil and Danielle continue their talk about their experiences at the Berkshire Annual Meeting. Phil talks about the “3F’s” of starting a fund. Friends, Family, and Fools.They also talk about what Berkshire’s core competencies are. Buffett answered this question by saying, “We really don’t have one. We don’t expect to know anything particularly except how to pick people that have a core competency.”They also discuss ESG companies. ESG companies is a new way of talking about “conscious companies”. ESG stands for environmental, social, and governance. They also talk about board members of a company and how they can really make companies act in a horrible way to pad their pockets in the short term. For show notes and more info visit www.investedpodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices