24 min
AIE 173: Passive Income with Andrew from The Personal Finance Podcast Adulting Is Easy: Making Personal Finance & Real Estate Easy
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Lauren opens by asking Andrew why he started The Personal Finance Podcast. He started it in 2020 to share his passion with others. He loves hearing about people’s “lightbulb moments” when they unlock an ability to build wealth and therefore unlock some time freedom. Then, Lauren and Andrew transition to discussing ways to grow your income passively. There’s a spectrum of income from active to passive, and they two discuss items along that spectrum: dividend investing, stocks, bonds, REITs being the most passive and digital products being less passive, but still more passive than a job. Real estate can be passive. Then, Lauren asks about the difference between side hustles and passive income. When it comes to passive income streams, you should be targeting cash flow versus quantity. Andrew tells us how to come up with our desired cash flow number to target. Hint: cover your expenses. Andrew believes that in a lot of cases you should focus on increasing income at your W2 first. He also goes into detail about the difference between financial freedom and retirement. Speaking of retirement, this begs the question of how much we should plan for Medicare and social security. Andrew likes HSAs, retirement accounts, brokerage accounts, and real estate for retirement planning. Lauren asks about using these accounts for retiring early, and he prefers the flexibility of the brokerage account. The best thing about being in this space is when people get excited and START investing. Time is your friend when it comes to investing and compound interest. Patience when starting matters. Andrew emphasizes that investing is for the long term, so it doesn’t matter what the stock market is doing right now. Lauren suggests becoming best friends with your future self, and helping them by investing now.
If you liked this episode, you’ll also like episode 122: Finding Passionate Income with Brian Luebben.
About Andrew:
Andrew Giancola is the creator of MasterMoney.co and The Personal Finance Podcast. Like Lauren, Andrew is also a Tampa Bay area native. He loves playing pickleball and raising his two kids with his wife, Irene.
Connect with Andrew:
https://mastermoney.co/
https://twitter.com/mastermoneyco
Connect with Lauren:
https://twitter.com/AdultingIsEasy
https://www.instagram.com/@adultingiseasyreal
https://www.housemoneymedia.com/
Lauren opens by asking Andrew why he started The Personal Finance Podcast. He started it in 2020 to share his passion with others. He loves hearing about people’s “lightbulb moments” when they unlock an ability to build wealth and therefore unlock some time freedom. Then, Lauren and Andrew transition to discussing ways to grow your income passively. There’s a spectrum of income from active to passive, and they two discuss items along that spectrum: dividend investing, stocks, bonds, REITs being the most passive and digital products being less passive, but still more passive than a job. Real estate can be passive. Then, Lauren asks about the difference between side hustles and passive income. When it comes to passive income streams, you should be targeting cash flow versus quantity. Andrew tells us how to come up with our desired cash flow number to target. Hint: cover your expenses. Andrew believes that in a lot of cases you should focus on increasing income at your W2 first. He also goes into detail about the difference between financial freedom and retirement. Speaking of retirement, this begs the question of how much we should plan for Medicare and social security. Andrew likes HSAs, retirement accounts, brokerage accounts, and real estate for retirement planning. Lauren asks about using these accounts for retiring early, and he prefers the flexibility of the brokerage account. The best thing about being in this space is when people get excited and START investing. Time is your friend when it comes to investing and compound interest. Patience when starting matters. Andrew emphasizes that investing is for the long term, so it doesn’t matter what the stock market is doing right now. Lauren suggests becoming best friends with your future self, and helping them by investing now.
If you liked this episode, you’ll also like episode 122: Finding Passionate Income with Brian Luebben.
About Andrew:
Andrew Giancola is the creator of MasterMoney.co and The Personal Finance Podcast. Like Lauren, Andrew is also a Tampa Bay area native. He loves playing pickleball and raising his two kids with his wife, Irene.
Connect with Andrew:
https://mastermoney.co/
https://twitter.com/mastermoneyco
Connect with Lauren:
https://twitter.com/AdultingIsEasy
https://www.instagram.com/@adultingiseasyreal
https://www.housemoneymedia.com/
24 min