Up Your Average

Gimbal Financial
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Up Your Average is the “no nonsense” podcast made for interesting people who think differently. Learn to navigate your life with unconventional wisdom by tuning in to Keith Tyner and Doug Shrieve every week.

  1. 6d ago

    102: This Top Salesman Took an 86% Pay Cut to Pastor a Church

    What would you give up for the work you were made to do? In this episode, Keith Tyner and Doug Shrieve sit down with Curt Edmondson, pastor of Emerge Church in Fortville, Indiana, who also runs Kona Ice of Indy. Curt traded a sales career for a pulpit and is happier for it. This episode covers:• How Curt beat his sales region by $6 million and still got fired• What he prayed when he could not tell which door to take• When an 86% pay cut arrived two days before his fourth child• Where he launched a church with $4,000 in the middle of lockdown• Why more money would have stopped the whole story If a job pays but doesn't fit what you want to do, listen for Curt's one-word answer near the end. ⛪️ Find Curt at Emerge Church: https://www.emerge317.church 👉 Work with us: https://www.gimbalfinancial.com 00:00 Cold open02:37 How Doug and Curt met at a Christmas program04:52 One coffee, an invitation to Ukraine and a $1,500 bonus07:18 Zhytomyr, and the pastor Curt decided to become09:42 Fired at the top, and the resume that would not send10:41 The campus pastor call, an 86% pay cut and a fleece15:49 India, a bridge job and a church launched with $4,00020:47 Makeup, pickles and olives: every product is a widget21:48 A turn in the road versus a straight line23:13 How Kona Ice of Indy became the family business27:15 One word for anyone stuck in their forties28:24 When more money would have gotten in the way

  2. Sep 21

    101: The Giants Behind Gimbal: A Mom, a Mentor and a Trig Teacher

    "None of us got to where we are today on our own accord."  Who paved the way for your success? In this episode, Keith Tyner, Doug Shrieve and Keith's son Caleb Tyner name the parents, mentors, teachers and clients who came before them. And they make the case that gratitude opens doors for your future. This episode covers:• How Keith's mom came up with $10,000 when he was $10 short on rent• What humility tells you about whose shoulders to stand on• Who tutored Doug in trig at 6 AM every Friday• Why a retiring mentor's gift has Keith and Doug thinking five years out• When retirement should look like more than the golf course Listen with a pen handy, because a few names of your own mentors will come to mind. 👉 Work with us: https://www.gimbalfinancial.com

  3. Sep 14

    100: He Wrote Every Student a Birthday Letter Every Year Since 1984

    Dan Stroup's handwritten birthday letters have followed his students from eighth grade into their fifties, and some of them have kept every one. Dan spent 41 years at Heritage Christian School in Indianapolis, most of them teaching eighth grade Bible. When CBS News sent Steve Hartman to Indianapolis in 2013, the count stood at 2,800 birthdays and the writing ran up to three hours a night. Keith Tyner and Doug Shrieve call him living proof that you can change someone's world ten minutes at a time. This episode covers: How Dan keeps every letter from reading like a form letterWho kept him in stamps for thirty yearsWhether a text or an email can do what paper doesWhen a stranger told Keith his late mother had changed her worldWhat Dan tells young teachers who never hear how it turned outDoug ends with a challenge: look up the address of a teacher who changed you and write the letter today. 👉 Work with us: https://www.gimbalfinancial.com

  4. Sep 7

    99: Call It a House, Not a Home: Keith's Rule for Buying and Selling

    Buying and selling, mortgage interest, and the case for calling where you live a house, not a home. Keith Tyner and his son Caleb Tyner compare 40 years of moving from place to place. Caleb's first house is a new build beside a cornfield, with a bed, a desk, and not much else inside. Keith and his wife have listed the house they raised their kids in and are hauling a load a day to Goodwill. Keith grew up with 220 square feet per person and has 2,250 today, and the house he most enjoys visiting raised six kids in under 1,000 square feet. This episode covers:• Where 70% of Caleb's first mortgage payment went• How Keith paid next month's principal with this month's payment• What a campground office in Malibu asked about a box back in Indiana• Who told a friend in assisted living that she was already home• Why 50 DVDs in the back of a Suburban made Keith count his working weeks Keith's parting word to his son comes from Proverbs 24: whatever you fill the rooms with, those are the riches, and he does not mean furniture. 👉 Work with us: https://www.gimbalfinancial.com

  5. Aug 31

    98: Living Courageously with Keith's Daughter Kristen Hakalmazian

    Living courageously is a choice. Keith's daughter has made it in a war zone, facing brain surgery at 24, and alone in cities where she knew no one. Keith Tyner and Doug Shrieve sit across from Kristen Hakalmazian, Keith's daughter, who details the anxiety and perfectionism she has struggled against and the motto that reframed her setbacks: rejection is spiritual protection. • How fear loses its grip when you move toward the thing you dread• Why failure at 18 in San Diego turned into redirection• What a brain tumor diagnosis at 24 changed about ordinary days• When a mission trip to Ukraine met the Crimea crisis in real time• Whether comparison on social media is stealing your nerve The safety net you can't see is usually there, and sometimes it looks like your dad. 👉 Work with us: https://www.gimbalfinancial.com

  6. Aug 24

    97: He Sold Everything and Moved to Costa Rica with Tony O'Neill

    The road to someday leads to a town called Never. That warning moved Tony from Indianapolis to a surf town in Costa Rica. Tony O'Neill, founder of Highline Outdoor Group, runs executive search for the outdoor and sporting goods industry and once built Yeti's leadership team during its biggest growth run. He tells Keith Tyner and Doug Shrieve why he and his wife Marla were not trying to escape Indianapolis, and what finally made leaving practical. This episode covers:• Why paying off a mortgage created the capital for land abroad• What selling a house by owner looks like with one showing window• How location independence and time zones shaped the business model• When a winter rental became a land purchase and an architect• Whether a lifetime of belongings deserves one shipping container Tony's one piece of guidance for anyone circling a move this big: do it immediately, don't wait. 👉 Work with us at https://www.gimbalfinancial.com

  7. Aug 17

    96: Why the Crowd Is Always Wrong About Money with Don Murphy

    The crowd follows the same biases into the same losses. Don names every one and shows how to catch yourself before the next mistake. Keith Tyner and Doug Shrieve sit down with Don Murphy, a former Marine and longtime friend of the show who has spent decades around markets and the people who invest in them. He starts with the behavioral gap: investments that performed fine while their owners earned less. This episode covers:- What a breadmaker that wouldn't sell reveals about restaurant wine lists- How one question about your news network predicts your vote- Why missing the market's 50 best days turns 13% into negative 4- Whether AI is 1995's browser war all over again- Who wins when your twenty dollars bets against a professional gambler The best market advice in the conversation came from a park ranger: when you meet the bear, resist the urge to run. 👉 Work with us: https://www.gimbalfinancial.com

  8. Aug 10

    95: How 10 Minutes a Day Can Change Your World

    10 minutes is the one block of time nobody is too busy for. Doug set a stopwatch at a coffee shop table and beat it with 36 seconds to spare. Keith argues that our world shrinks with time. And investing only 10 minutes a day in the right activities can keep it open. Doug warns that even 10 careless minutes close it just as fast. The old line about handing a job to a busy person turns out to be about valuing the 10 minutes rather than the hustle. This episode covers:• How you can buy wisdom with 10 minutes a day by reading the book of Proverbs• How one page at a time becomes a book for a kid's 16th birthday• Whether an AI counts as a friend once you have thanked it• Why Keith rolls his eyes when someone says the phone goes both ways If you want to change your world, take 10 minutes (or more) and listen to this episode. 👉 Work with us: https://www.gimbalfinancial.com

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Up Your Average is the “no nonsense” podcast made for interesting people who think differently. Learn to navigate your life with unconventional wisdom by tuning in to Keith Tyner and Doug Shrieve every week.

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  • Creator
    Gimbal Financial
  • Years Active
    2024 - 2026
  • Episodes
    102
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    © 2025 Up Your Average
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    Up Your Average

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