
Rocket Your Dollar
99% of Americans with IRAs aren’t using the most powerful investment vehicle available to them — The Self-Directed IRA. The finance gurus who started Rocket Dollar, the Self-Directed IRA SaaS, shed light on this lesser known retirement account and give actionable advice on how to use it to achieve financial independence.
Latest episodes

Jan 22, 2020 • 27min
Ep. 24: Real Estate Investing for Social Good
What does social good mean? For Elizabeth Quintanilla, it means asking herself how she can lift generations and especially aspiring business people. That is the responsibility she takes on as a self-directed real estate investor.

Jan 16, 2020 • 17min
BONUS: Crowdfunding with a Self-Directed Account
Surprise! Rocket Dollar has launched a crowdfunding campaign on Republic.co, join us as we give you an inside look into our startup's growth. Our guest, Brooke Borden, Rocket Dollar's VP of Finance and Strategy, will also be discussing the benefits of crowdfunding and how to do it with a Self-Directed IRA or Solo 401(k).

Jan 15, 2020 • 34min
Ep. 23: The Human Side of Money and Investing
Money is personal, and technology is a compliment to the role a human can play when it comes to finances. Brian Thorp started wealthtender, an online platform with the mission to help people achieve their financial goals in a community environment with a personal touch.

Jan 8, 2020 • 30min
Ep. 22: Understanding Decentralized Finance
Decentralized finance (DeFi) can be complicated to understand for the everyday investor and seems to be growing in popularity in financial discussions. That's why we brought on Adam Blumberg, CFP® and Co-founder of Interaxis.io, to compare traditional finance to decentralized finance and explain how DeFi can affect your wallet, your economy, and your financial plans.

Dec 18, 2019 • 41min
Ep 21: Both Sides of the Table, From Entrepreneur to Investor
Matt Silk lived the entrepreneur's dream: he hustled and built his startup in San Francisco, scaled it, and sold it. He moved to Austin and took his entrepreneur experience and used it to start angel investing and real estate investing locally. Here's how he did it and what he looks for in his investments.

Dec 11, 2019 • 32min
Ep. 20: How to Choose the Best Equity Crowdfunding Deal
What if there was a platform that aggregated all the crowdfunding deals that are available to you and that you can filter out the noise and find the deals that matter the most to you. Meet Chris Lustrino, Founder and CEO of KingsCrowd, equity crowdfunding's #1 independent rating service.

Dec 4, 2019 • 24min
Ep. 19: How to Make an Innovative FinTech Product
Technological innovation is popular when it comes to financial products. But it only works if the tech is solving the right pain point. Michael Panzarella is a senior fintech leader, a passionate believer in financial inclusion through modern banking services, and a Rocket Dollar customer. He weighs in on how innovators can ask the right questions and answer with a tech product that eases their customers' pain points

Nov 27, 2019 • 20min
Ep. 18: Female Founders and Fundraising
Women get less than 2% of all financing, whether it be from the VC community or whether it be traditional financing. Dr.Roshawnna Novellus, Co-founder and CEO of EnrichHer, decided she must do something about this especially because women build new companies in the US at a rate of over 1,800 per day. Now with EnrichHer, the FINRA approved debt-based crowdfunding platform, she's making a difference in female founders' lives everywhere.

Nov 20, 2019 • 35min
Ep. 17: Living Wealthy with a Safe Money Strategy
Retiring soon? Just getting out of college? Regardless of who you are, you need the money that you can count on being there when you need it. Teresa Kuhn, Founder and CEO of Living Wealthy Financial Group, lives and works by the philosophy of a safe money strategy and shares how she applies it to herself and her clients' lives.

Nov 13, 2019 • 17min
Ep. 16: Real Estate Investing with a Generation Z Mindset
A younger generation is starting to invest, Alec Chapman, Owner of Blockchain Capital, shares his perspective and successes when it comes to real estate investing.