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You can DIY a lot of your financial life, but sometimes you need some help. But you only want to choose the best people when it comes to your money. Today we’re discussing how to interview and hire a financial team. Shannon McLay from Financial Gym is our guest today. Financial Gym provides one on one personal training to help people achieve their financial goals. Full Article HereShow NotesSimple Wealth: Research and evaluate rental properties.Tool Box: All the best stuff to manage your money.Financial Gym: Get financial personal training Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Data breaches have been in the news recently, and the headlines are scary. Today Farnoosh Torabi joins us to discuss protecting yourself from credit card fraud and identity theft. Farnoosh Torabi of the So Money podcast is the Chase Slate Financial Ambassador. She can give us the insider’s scoop on how to protect our data and our credit scores from fraudsters and even ourselves. Full Article Here Show NotesGrimm Artisanal Ales: A dry hopped sour ale.Tool Box: All the best stuff to manage your money.Simple Wealth: Research and evaluate rental properties. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Most of us spend too much on food. You can still eat well or maybe better than you currently are, and spend less money. Looking for a way to make cheap meals that hit the spot? The shopping trolley is one of the easiest places to cut spending. Here is our ultimate guide to saving money on groceries and making good food on a tight budget.Full Article HereShow NotesThe Science of CookingCooked on NetflixKitchen Confidential  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There are a lot of personal finance terms thrown around that many of us don’t understand so when we hear them, we just nod and smile. But LMM is all about education, so we’re going to devote this episode to understanding economic bubbles. Bubbles are nothing new. The first bubble may have happened nearly 400 years ago. Our episode a few weeks back on cryptocurrencies got us thinking about economic bubbles. It’s an interesting subject so we wanted to delve further into bubbles.Full Article HereShow NotesSuper Going: A dry-hopped ale with orange zest.Woodchuck Cider: An amber cider.Tool Box: All the best stuff to manage your money.Simple Wealth: Research and evaluate rental properties. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We spent years accumulating money for retirement, but when we finally get there, it’s all about decumulation, counting down your money. Learn how to retire and what to do with your time and money. We talk a lot about early retirement, but today we’re talking to someone who’s living it. J. David Stein retired at 46 and had since launched his successful podcast, Money for the Rest of Us. Full Article HereShow NotesMoney for the Rest of Us: People like us, invest like this.Simple Wealth: Research and evaluate rental properties. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rental property is LMM’s favorite form of passive income. But if you want to maximize your real estate investments, you’ll have to get a little less passive. We’ve covered many of the basics about rental property, and now we’re going to go deeper. We will explain the BRRR strategy and how cash out deals work.Full Article HereShow NotesMy Name is Citrus Maximus:An IPA with a hint of grapefruit.Roofstock: Turn key rental property.Simple Wealth: Research and evaluate rental properties. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today we’re joined by Wes Chapman, founder of A Human Project. Wes shares his story and tells us how getting rid of the victim mentality can bring us greater success. Wes is the founder of A Human Project, an organization that incubates creative, scalable solutions to systemic problems and gathers together the greatest minds to solve global issues in education, health, and society.Full Article HereShow NotesCappuccino Stout:A heady mix of beer and caffeine.Sour Monkey Victory Brewing: An American wild ale.Wes Chapman: Wes's site.Building a World of Worth: Wes's TedX talk.Tool Box: All the best stuff to manage your money.Simple Wealth: Research and evaluate rental properties. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We get a lot of great questions from listeners and readers. And if one of you asks a question, dozens of other people have the same question. In order to reach you all, we like to do five questions episodes. So here they are, five awesome questions from you! Is there such a thing as being too frugal, Betterment or Vanguard, how can you save money in college, what should you do with an IRA, where should your emergency fund live? We’re going to find out. Full Article HereShow NotesTool Box: All the best stuff to manage your money.Simple Wealth: Research and evaluate rental properties. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Small talk only gets you so far. If you want to improve your career, your relationships, and your life, you have to move past small talk to something deeper. Today we interview two experts on the art of meaningful conversation. Mollie Kinsman Khine and Taylor Buonocore are the inventors of  Convers(ate), a game designed to spark conversation.Full Article HereShow NotesTruck Stop: A honey brown ale.Conversate Kickstarter: The campaign is live until November 10, 2017.Convers(ate)'s Website: Check out the details of the game.Tool Box: All the best stuff to manage your money.Simple Wealth: Research and evaluate rental properties. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Money has been around for thousands of years and now there is a new form of money on the scene. A cryptocurrency is a form of digital money. It uses cryptography to create secure, digital transactions that are in theory, anonymous. That’s why it’s the preferred medium of payment when buying illegal things like drugs on the dark web. BitCoin was the first cryptocurrency, created in 2009 and is the most well-known. But, what even is cryptocurrency? This episode is the newbie’s guide to the cryptocurrency market.Full Article HereShow NotesTool Box: All the best stuff to manage your money.Simple Wealth: Research and evaluate rental properties.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices