Financial Freedom Podcast Steven J. Richardson, Esq.
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A semi-monthly podcast that brings you advice and interviews with experts on various important topics to help you make better and smarter financial decisions in order to improve or maintain your financial situation.
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A Look Back on Another 100 Episodes!
For my 100th episode, I did a look back on 9 of those guests and highlighted some of the great information they had for listeners. Now that I have reached the milestone of 200 episodes I wanted to do that again with guests from Episodes 101 forward.
I will leave links in the show notes to the full episodes if you haven’t already listened to them and want to hear more. In addition, due to the length of this episode, I will also be leaving chapter markings (so you can skip ahead if you wish) and time codes in the show notes.
In this episode you will learn:
- How to Deal with Financial Stress
- About Budgeting and Reducing Spending
- Alternative Ways to Pay Down Debt
- How to Look for a Better Job to Increase Income
- About Getting Started in the Stock Market
- About Forming a Millionaire Mindset
- How to Define Retirement for Yourself
- How to Talk to Your Kids About Money
- Strategies for an Affordable College Education for Your Kids
Chapter Markings
02:11 Dealing with Financial Stress (Dr. David Weiman)
08:32 Budgeting & Reducing Spending (Tightwad Todd)
14:29 Alternative Ways to Pay Down Debt (Jerry Fetta)
20:17 How to Look for a Better Job (Bonnie Negron)
28:58 Getting Started in the Stock Market (Markay Latimer)
36:11 Forming a Millionaire Mindset (Tony Bradshaw)
42:04 Defining Retirement for Yourself (Eric Brotman)
47:03 Talking to Your Kids About Money (Derrick Kinney)
55:02 Strategies for an Affordable College Education for Your Kids (Brad Baldridge) -
Getting Out of Debt with the Debt Free Dad
Eliminating debt is one of the first steps on the path to financial freedom. Controlling your living expenses and spending within your means allows you to work towards short and longterm savings goals.
But that's not always easy while raising a family. That's why in this episode of the podcast I talk with Brad Nelson, the Debt-Free Dad, to talk about how it can be done!
In this episode you will learn:
- Budgeting Tips for Beginners
- How to Improve Your Financial Habits
- How to Reduce Impulsive & Wasteful Spending
- How to Talk About Money in a Relationship
- The Best Method to Pay Off Debt -
Saving Your Home from Foreclosure with DJ Olojo
As a bankruptcy attorney, I help lots of people to save their homes from foreclosure by filing a chapter 13 bankruptcy to make catch-up payments on their mortgage. But there are other ways to do it.
That's why in this episode of the podcast I talk to DJ Olojo about how he helps people to save their homes without filing bankruptcy.
In this episode you will learn:
- Telling Foreclosure Myth from Fact
- About the Mortgage Bank's Foreclosure Playbook
- Foreclosure Prevention Tactics
- The 12 Step Program to Save Your Home -
A Discussion with Anti-Financial Advisor Chris Miles
There are many ways to save and invest for retirement (or just to build wealth) and most are recommended by traditional financial advisers. But sometimes it's a good idea to explore some non-traditional ways to do it that might be better suited to your situation.
That's why in this episode of the podcast I talk to Chris Miles, a self-described anti-financial advisor who walks that road less traveled with his clients to help them reach their own financial freedom.
In this episode you will learn:
- What an Anti-Financial Advisor Is
- Why You Need to "Get Your Money Out of Prison"
- How Passive Income Can Help Build Wealth
- How to Come Up with Money to Invest -
Episode 196: Graduating College Debt Free with Jeannie Burlowski
The student loan crisis has made parents and students more cautious when it comes to taking out student loans. But even then, the average student debt is $30,000, which is a lot to owe fresh out of college with no job.
But what if you could graduate debt free and into a job you love? To answer that question I talked with academic strategist Jeannie Burlowski on how it can be done!
In this episode you will learn:
- Strategies for when you're not in a position to save money
- How to leverage more need-based aid from schools
- How private schools can be a better deal than state ones
- Talking to teens about career goals before they apply -
Achieving Practical Wealth with Curtis May
Achieving financial freedom means getting your personal finances in order, so that you are living within your means and have money at the end of the month. But to have true financial freedom long term, with long term goals like retirement, you have to have a financial plan.
That's why in this episode of the podcast I talk with fellow personal finance podcaster Curtis May on attaining what he calls Practical Wealth.
In this episode you will learn about:
- Practical Wealth
- Cash Flow Mapping
- Accumulation Theory
- Velocity of Money Strategy
- Privatized Banking