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EP072: When She Makes More than Her Husband - with Jennifer Barrett Dec 07, 2017

Show notes

Jennifer Barrett is the Chief Education Officer for Acorns and the Editor in Chief for Grow.

Jennifer is incredibly smart, knows how to move up the ranks in business, and is a high-income earner. In fact, for the past 8 years she has been the primary breadwinner of their family of four.

And it's been a struggle.

I asked Jennifer to come on the show to share her struggles with being a full-time working mom and how she had to make that pivot in life to start thinking like a breadwinner.

On the show we discuss:

• What it feels like being a working mom in today's world

• How she manages work vs mom vs wife vs life

• The risks she had to take to make it all work

• Not being with her kids as much as she would like

• What she has learned along the way

• The takeaway of becoming the female breadwinner

All the show notes, links, and anything Jennifer and I mentioned can be found at https://www.moneypeach.com/session72

EP071: Getting Jiggy with Your 401(k) - with Chris Costello Nov 30, 2017

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Co-founder and CEO of Blooom, Chris Costello, on the show today to talk about your 401(k).

Chris spent his entire life in the financial advising world and now he's blowing the whistle on the crap that he says has been going on for way too long.

He's talking about the outrageous fees, the terms no one understands (or is supposed to understand), and the ridiculous amount of greed the folks from Wall Street posses when handling your retirement funds.

In 2013, he founded Blooom which he coins as the new way to 401(k).

Chris is extremely passionate about investing and saving for your future and he doesn't disappoint. We may have had to "BLEEEP" him out a few times during the show, but I completely get it - he's seen these maniacs ripping people off for way too long and it's time for a change.

On the show we discuss:

The terminology "they" don't want you to understand
We break down dollar-cost averaging
We discuss the one thing you MUST be doing that results in thousands (and thousands) of dollars more in YOUR retirement
Moving the needle financially for the middle-class, not the 1%
How Blooom connects to your 401(k), 403(b), 457, 401(a), or your TSP
Fees, fees, and more fees - how much are you really paying?
The Blooom model - $10/month flat fee. Period.

The link Chris mentions in the show is for the first month FREE is: www.blooom.com/moneypeach

All the show notes, links, and anything Chris and I mentioned can be found at www.moneypeach.com/session71

EP070: We Paid Off Our Mortgage In Our 20s - with Kim & Cressel Anderson Nov 23, 2017

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Kim and Cressel Anderson have an incredible story.

Like many of us, they were just going through the motions and asking themselves if there was more to life than driving hours each way to their corporate America job, only to wake up and do it all over again every single day.

That's when they decided to make a change and do something absolutely crazy….make it their mission to go completely debt free inside their 20s!

I asked both of them:

How do you pay off a mortgage inside your 20s?
What is life like when you don't have ANY debt at all?
Now that they have both left their corporate America jobs, what are they doing now for income?
What is the one piece of advice they would give to someone thinking about paying down their mortgage as fast as possible?

All the show notes, links, and anything Kim, Cressel, and I mentioned can be found at https://www.moneypeach.com/session70

EP069: Keep the Rewards, Get Rid of the Credit Card Balance - with Liran Amrany Nov 16, 2017

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I asked Liran Amrany, the CEO of the NYC-based company Debitize to come on the show to share how he as officially solved the problem of grabbing all the credit card rewards without worrying about carrying a credit card balance.

Debitize is now the company turning your credit card into a debit card for FREE. He will explain exactly how it all works, the security behind it, and the benefits of automating the process, but I wanted to much more than just the product he created.

During the interview, I asked Liran:

How he got started
What were some of the biggest challenges getting Debitize off the ground (there were many)
Why hasn't anyone developed this before
Why he finally left the banking industry
Why he believes everyone should have a credit card (I actually disagree with him)
How to optimize your credit score using Debitize

BONUS: What is he willing to give Money Peach listeners (hint: $10 for FREE)

All the show notes, links, and anything Liran and I mentioned can be found at https://www.moneypeach.com/session69

EP068: Building a Tribe of Loyal Followers via Your Own Conference - with PT Money Nov 09, 2017

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Phillip Taylor, AKA PT Money, and I sit down at FINCON 2017 from Dallas, TX. Fincon is the conference PT actually started in 2011 as a way for people inside the world of financial blogging to come together and create a community that had never been created until then.

Fast forward just a few years later, and FINCON started to take on it's own identity. Lifelong friendships have formed, small blogs have turned into multi-million dollar media empires, and the people who attend now label themselves FINCONNERS.

Which is why the conference continues to grow each year, with over 1,700 people flying into Dallas to be part of what FINCON 2017.

Inside the episode we break down:

How PT started his first conference and how he found people to attend
How he has been able to grow a tribe of "FinConners"
What were some of the biggest challenges getting started
How he has had to pivot the initial conference idea to what it is today
Why FINCON doesn't feel like a conference, but rather a vacation

All the show notes, links, and anything PT and I mentioned can be found at https://www.moneypeach.com/session68

EP067: Saving For Kids College Should Be This Easy - with Abby Chao Nov 02, 2017

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Saving for kids college can seem impossible when you're living paycheck-to-paycheck, trying to pay off debt, thinking about planning for retirement, and wondering how you're going to make it until next payday.

Abby Chao saw these pain points we all face and decided to do something about it. She is the co-founder of CollegeBacker.com, a very unique platform helping you save for your kids college without having to save every dollar on your own.

Inside the episode we break down:

The 529 Plan (the best way to save for kids college)
Tax deductions you must be taking with college savings
Who can save for kids college and get the tax savings
How you can you get started with as little as $1
Who can help you fund your children's college savings
How the money can be used once college is here

All the show notes, links, and anything Abby and I mentioned can be found at https://www.moneypeach.com/session67

EP066: An Overnight Success (7 Years in the Making) - with Deacon Hayes Oct 26, 2017

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Deacon Hayes from WellKeptWallet.com on the show today and I could not be more excited!

Why?

Well, I often tell people Deacon is the "Dad" of Money Peach because it was a meeting with Deacon over a cup of coffee in the corner of Starbucks where the idea for Money Peach was born.

Fast forward over the past few years and Deacon and I are great friends AND now we are also in the same niche within our businesses. However, what makes our relationship so unique is we have never viewed each other as competition, but rather as allies who are consistently trying to help one another out.

Deacon started his blog (Well Kept Wallet) in 2010 and since then has grown his blog into a healthy 6-figure business, multiple streams of income, and now the release of his new book, "You Can Retire Early".

Deacon is my favorite kind of entrepreneur - the kind who has consistently worked his butt off for years, has gone through a ton of ups and downs, and is now seen as an overnight success….seven years in the making.

Deacon shares how he has done it all and holds nothing back for you to learn and get you to take that next step in whatever it may be.

All the show notes, links, and anything Deacon and I mentioned can be found at https://www.moneypeach.com/session66

EP065: No More Money B.S.! - with Whitney Hansen Oct 19, 2017

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Whitney Hansen from the Money Nerds Podcast comes on the show to share her no B.S. debt-free story which led her into starting her own business in the personal finance world.

Right out of college, Whitney decided to do the unpopular thing - sacrifice a lot early on in life to live the life she had always dreamed of.

I ask Whitney to come on the show to talk about:

Her aha moment (cutting through the B.S. of money)
What she did to pay off $30,000 in just 10 months out of college
How she maintains her debt-free lifestyle today
What she now can do since she is debt-free
Who she is helping today in her business

All the show notes, links, and anything Whitney and I mentioned can be found at https://moneypeach.com/session65

EP064: How To Save Thousands Of Dollars And Avoid Overpaying For Your Mortgage - with Jason Van Den Brand Oct 12, 2017

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The founder and CEO of Lenda comes on the show to share how his company is fixing the broken mortgage system.

If you have gone through the process of getting a loan or going through a re-fi, you know first-hand the process is absolutely ridiculous, takes way too long, and is about as confusing as possible.

The truth is: it's designed this way. The less you understand, the more you will pay.

Jason comes on the show and explains how he started off inside the mortgage industry and quickly realized how great it was for the banks and lenders, and how horrible it was for us - the consumer.

Over the past five years, Jason has continued to improve and change the way homeowners are going through the most expensive financial decisions of their lives - the mortgage process.

On the show we talk about:

• How Jason started his entrepreneurship journey • How Lenda speeds up the process of getting a loan • Getting instant approval versus giving all of your information only to be told you weren't approved • What's next for Lenda over the next year (this is cool)

All the show notes, links, and anything Jason and I mentioned can be found at https://www.moneypeach.com/session64

EP062: 27 Year Old Blogger Makes $1,000,000 Per Year - with Michelle Schroeder-Gardner Sep 28, 2017

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Michelle Schroeder-Gardner is one in a million. In 2011 she had started her blog Making Sense of Cents as a hobby to share her ideas of how she was managing the money in her early 20s. It wasn't until after six months of blogging for fun, she was told by a friend she could actually make a few bucks through her blog.

Six months later she made her first $100 and began to realize there was room for growth. Fast forward to 2017 and she is consistently earning over $100,000 every single month from her blog! Not only is she generating an incredible income from her laptop, she is also doing all of this while living in an RV full-time with her husband so they can travel all over the United States.

I wanted Michelle to come on the show to share how she is as normal as normal can be, yet she also has such an incredible accomplishment - financial freedom and the ability to live the life many only dream about.

During the interview, I ask...

What sets Michelle apart from the thousands of bloggers who are trying to do the same thing she is?
How many hours per week does she really work?
What does a normal day look like for Michelle?
How does she generate income from her blog?
How does one really live full-time in an RV?

All the show notes, links, and anything Michelle and I mentioned can be found at https://www.moneypeach.com/session62

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