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The Anti-Financial Advisor - Chris Miles

Have you worked hard to plan out your financial plan through traditional investing such as 401ks and mutual funds, but still wonder if you are doing enough to prepare? If so, this episode is for you.
Chris Miles, the Cash Flow Expert and Anti-Financial Advisor, is a leading authority teaching entrepreneurs and professionals how to get their money working for them TODAY! He’s an author, podcast host of the Chris Miles Money Show, has been featured in US News, CNN Money, EOFire, and has a proven reputation with his company, Money Ripples (http://www.moneyripples.com/) getting his clients fast, life-altering financial results. In fact, his personal clients have increased their cash flow by over $200 Million in the last 10 years!
In this episode Chris shares sage advice for how and why we should track our money, how to re-frame your views on debt, to understand the power of cash, and more.
 
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Thank you to our April Sponsor: Entrepreneur’s Guide to Financial Well-Being or Wayne Titus
Imagine starting a long journey without a map…or even a clear idea of the obstacles ahead. That’s exactly what it’s like for entrepreneurs who start companies with a lot of passion, but without the financial expertise to grow and scale their businesses and create long-term wealth for their families.
Wayne Titus shows you how to find a financial adviser who can help you map a better journey. In his book, The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Financial Well-Being. With the right adviser at your side, you’ll have the freedom to focus on what really matters to you.
Get The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Financial Well-Being at Amazon.com and in the virtual bookstore on the Shock Your Potential app.

Peace of Mind Wealth Management - Murs Tariq

Are you truly ready for a financially fit retirement? Have you taken the critical steps to manage your investments, cash, tax liabilities and estate planning? If you aren’t sure, our next guest can help.
Murs Tariq is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ and a Partner at Peace of Mind Wealth Management. With over a decade of expertise in retirement planning, Murs is dedicated to helping clients pursue their ideal retirement. As an author and co-host of the ‘Secure Your Retirement’ show, Murs speaks on investing with risk management, income planning and tax planning for and during retirement.
In this episode he tells us why his ideal client is 10-15 years away from retirement, because there is still much to do, plenty of time to do it, and opportunities to review and adapt along the way. In addition, he talks about the importance of a written retirement income and spending plan, an investment strategy that fits your comfort level, having beneficiaries in order, and more.
 
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Thank you to our April Sponsor: Entrepreneur’s Guide to Financial Well-Being or Wayne Titus
Imagine starting a long journey without a map…or even a clear idea of the obstacles ahead. That’s exactly what it’s like for entrepreneurs who start companies with a lot of passion, but without the financial expertise to grow and scale their businesses and create long-term wealth for their families.
Wayne Titus shows you how to find a financial adviser who can help you map a better journey. In his book, The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Financial Well-Being.  With the right adviser at your side, you’ll have the freedom to focus on what really matters to you.
Get The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Financial Well-Being at Amazon.com and in the virtual bookstore on the Shock Your Potential app.
 

Budgeting = Empowerment - Karen Beth Ford

Did anyone ever teach you to budget? If so, do you do it? If not, what has that meant for your financial fitness? Our guest today can help you navigate through the debt/wealth journey.
Karen Ford is a Master Financial Coach, Public Speaker, Entrepreneur, and Author who has coached people with a variety of money issues: from just $500 in debt to $800,000 in debt. She has coached folks with up to 86 credit cards and taught them how to pay down and pay off those credit cards in record time. Her mission is to inspire others to rid themselves of debt and build wealth. She encourages others to break the shackles of debt and gives valuable insight into building wealth so they can experience financial freedom! 
In this episode we discuss how 7 out of 10 people are living paycheck to paycheck, how a budget can create harmony, how spenders are attracted to savers (and vice versa) and more. Budgeting can be your very best friend. You just have to accept the fact that it doesn’t have to be your #1 enemy first.
 
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Karen Ford’s #1 Amazon Best Selling Book Money Matters – Motivation, Methods and Manners for Increase! (https://amzn.to/3rUhDTr) is not only motivational, but practical.
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Thank you to our April Sponsor: Entrepreneur’s Guide to Financial Well-Being or Wayne Titus
Imagine starting a long journey without a map…or even a clear idea of the obstacles ahead. That’s exactly what it’s like for entrepreneurs who start companies with a lot of passion, but without the financial expertise to grow and scale their businesses and create long-term wealth for their families.
Wayne Titus shows you how to find a financial adviser who can help you map a better journey. In his book, The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Financial Well-Being.  With the right adviser at your side, you’ll have the freedom to focus on what really matters to you.
Get The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Financial Well-Being at Amazon.com and in the virtual bookstore on the Shock Your Potential app.
 

An Orienteering Approach to Finances - Wayne Titus

Do you have a fully integrated financial planning team, or are you working with people in silos? If you don’t know, or if your answer is the latter, then you need to listen to our next guest.
Wayne B. Titus III, CPA/PFS, AIFA founded AMDG Financial and AMDG Business Advisory Services in 2002 based on his fifteen years’ experience at two large accounting firms, where he worked with Fortune 50 clients. He dove into entrepreneurship to make a bigger impact on people's lives. As a fee-only fiduciary adviser, his loyalty is to his clients: he places their interests ahead of his own or those of his firms.
Although his primary focus in on the entrepreneur, in this episode we discuss financial issues that impact individuals as well. By referencing the sport of orienteering, which requires “navigational skills using a map and compass to navigate from point to point in diverse and usually unfamiliar terrain whilst moving at speed,” Wayne helps us to understand why it is so critical that our financial planning teamwork in tandem.
With assets of more than $150 million, AMDG Financial integrates tax, financial and investment strategies to help clients make financial and life transitions successful on purpose. The company's credo is, "From financial wisdom, better stewardship.” His latest book is The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Financial Well-Being (https://amzn.to/3q5g70e).
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Thank you to our April Sponsor: Entrepreneur’s Guide to Financial Well-Being or Wayne Titus
Imagine starting a long journey without a map…or even a clear idea of the obstacles ahead. That’s exactly what it’s like for entrepreneurs who start companies with a lot of passion, but without the financial expertise to grow and scale their businesses and create long-term wealth for their families.
Wayne Titus shows you how to find a financial adviser who can help you map a better journey. In his book, The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Financial Well-Being.  With the right adviser at your side, you’ll have the freedom to focus on what really matters to you.
Get The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Financial Well-Being at Amazon.com and in the virtual bookstore on the Shock Your Potential app.
 
 

Ease the Stress of Cash Flow - Derick Van Ness

Have you ever wondered whether your pursuit of or fear of lack of money was getting in the way of what you really want to do? If so, you don’t want to miss our guest today.
Derick Van Ness is a Wealth Strategist who is passionate about helping people reach their full potential. His company, Big Life Financial is focused on removing the mystery and misinformation surrounding money and financial strategy so people can live their BIGGEST LIFE!
In this episode we talk about the value structure can bring to your financial plan, the history behind retirement (bet you never thought about that before!), easing the stress of cash flow, and investing in the things that you know about, care about and have some degree of control over.
Derick believes that each person has something unique and valuable to contribute to the world, but that most people are never able to express that gift due to fear, doubt, or worry related to money. His mission is to eradicate that fear and fundamentally change the way that people think about and utilize money within the next generation.
 
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Thank you to our April Sponsor: Entrepreneur’s Guide to Financial Well-Being or Wayne Titus
Imagine starting a long journey without a map…or even a clear idea of the obstacles ahead. That’s exactly what it’s like for entrepreneurs who start companies with a lot of passion, but without the financial expertise to grow and scale their businesses and create long-term wealth for their families.
Wayne Titus shows you how to find a financial adviser who can help you map a better journey. In his book, The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Financial Well-Being.  With the right adviser at your side, you’ll have the freedom to focus on what really matters to you.
Get The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Financial Well-Being at Amazon.com and in the virtual bookstore on the Shock Your Potential app.
 

Future Freedom Account - Damion Lupo

Damion Lupo’s mission is simple: to free a million people from financial bondage.
His unique tool is a fusion of financial literacy and a little-known strategy called the eQRP® that allows investors to control their retirement money and get off the wall street roller coaster.
He’s the Best-Selling Author of 12 books on personal finance, investment, and retirement planning. He hosts the Financial Underdogs podcast, has owned more than 50 companies, and is the founder of his own martial art, Yokido®.
In this episode we learn that a driving force behind Damion’s passion is his complete distaste for being told what to do. From deciding to fight the monopoly of his college campus bookstore by setting up his own bookstore in his dorm room (a move that got him kicked out) to creating eQRP® to help people control their financial futures, Damion is all about disruption. This episode will make you rethink your money plans.
Damion is the Chief Honey Badger at the eQRP Company and the lead architect of the eQRP® -- the Ferrari of 401(k)s®. The eQRP® is a unique and powerful system to put individuals in command of their own investments and breaking that money out of Wall Street Jail.
Text EQRP to 72000 for more information.
 
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Thank you to our April Sponsor: Entrepreneur’s Guide to Financial Well-Being or Wayne Titus
Imagine starting a long journey without a map…or even a clear idea of the obstacles ahead. That’s exactly what it’s like for entrepreneurs who start companies with a lot of passion, but without the financial expertise to grow and scale their businesses and create long-term wealth for their families.
Wayne Titus shows you how to find a financial adviser who can help you map a better journey. In his book, The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Financial Well-Being.  With the right adviser at your side, you’ll have the freedom to focus on what really matters to you.
Get The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Financial Well-Being at Amazon.com and in the virtual bookstore on the Shock Your Potential app.
 

Be Smarter Every Day - Steve Goodman

Have you prepared your exit strategy yet, either for retirement, sale, or succession of your business, or both? If not, our guest today has important advice that will help you.
For more than 30 years, Steven Goodman, President and CEO of SHG Planning, has provided insightful solutions to the challenges of business succession, wealth preservation, retirement, and charitable planning. He currently services hundreds of clients focusing on the needs of owners of closely-held businesses and high net worth individuals. Steven Goodman is the author of Business Succession Planning: A Guide to Transfers, Sales, Family Harmony, and Minimizing Litigation, and has also written numerous articles for leading trade journals.
In this episode we talk about being realistic about what could happen, taking time to work on your financial plan, being open-minded, surrounding ourselves with smart people you trust, and more.
 
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Social media handles
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https://LinkedIn/in/stevegoodmanshg/
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Thank you to our April Sponsor: Entrepreneur’s Guide to Financial Well-Being or Wayne Titus
Imagine starting a long journey without a map…or even a clear idea of the obstacles ahead. That’s exactly what it’s like for entrepreneurs who start companies with a lot of passion, but without the financial expertise to grow and scale their businesses and create long-term wealth for their families.
Wayne Titus shows you how to find a financial adviser who can help you map a better journey. In his book, The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Financial Well-Being.  With the right adviser at your side, you’ll have the freedom to focus on what really matters to you.
Get The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Financial Well-Being at Amazon.com and in the virtual bookstore on the Shock Your Potential app.

Prepare for Amazing Success - John Stoj

 
Can a love of sushi play a role in your financial future? It can if you choose to work with our next guest.
After years of climbing the Wall Street corporate ladder, financial advisor John Stoj became disillusioned with false promises of outperforming the market. After walking away, John built and later sold a sushi delivery company, finally allowing himself to return to his first love – financial planning. But this time, things are different. With his own company, Verbatim Financial, John’s gone rogue with his pricing model, and is applying his decades of experience & personal touch to help clients simplify their financial lives.
In this episode we talk about John’s commitment to a truly client-focused financial plan, how his own entrepreneurial journey helped him to understand the unique needs, challenges and opportunities for an entrepreneur’s financial plan, planning your exit strategy and more.
 
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Thank you to our April Sponsor: Entrepreneur’s Guide to Financial Well-Being or Wayne Titus.
Imagine starting a long journey without a map…or even a clear idea of the obstacles ahead. That’s exactly what it’s like for entrepreneurs who start companies with a lot of passion, but without the financial expertise to grow and scale their businesses and create long-term wealth for their families.
Wayne Titus shows you how to find a financial adviser who can help you map a better journey. In his book, The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Financial Well-Being.  With the right adviser at your side, you’ll have the freedom to focus on what really matters to you.
Get The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Financial Well-Being at Amazon.com and in the virtual bookstore on the Shock Your Potential app.
 

Building Business Credit - Gerri Detweiler

Do you know what your business’ credit rating is, and how that impacts your potential for business credit?
Do you know that identify theft can happen to your business just as easily, if not more so, than for you personally? Our guest today can help you control what you can control.
Credit expert Gerri Detweiler is education director for Nav, which provides business owners with simple tools to build strong business credit and match them to financing. She’s been interviewed in more than 4000 news stories and answered over 10,000 credit questions online. Her articles have been widely syndicated, and she is the author or coauthor of five books, including Finance Your Own Business: Get on the Financing Fast Track. She has hosted her own radio show and testified before Congress on consumer credit legislation.
In this episode we talk about the importance of lining up credit before you need it, the three core steps you need to take to ensure you are ready to apply for a business loan, the connection between your personal credit worthiness and that of your small business and more. This episode will prompt every small business owner to take positive steps today to adequately prepare for the future.
 
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Thank you to our April Sponsor: Entrepreneur’s Guide to Financial Well-Being or Wayne Titus
Imagine starting a long journey without a map…or even a clear idea of the obstacles ahead. That’s exactly what it’s like for entrepreneurs who start companies with a lot of passion, but without the financial expertise to grow and scale their businesses and create long-term wealth for their families.
Wayne Titus shows you how to find a financial adviser who can help you map a better journey. In his book, The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Financial Well-Being.  With the right adviser at your side, you’ll have the freedom to focus on what really matters to you.
Get The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Financial Well-Being at Amazon.com and in the virtual bookstore on the Shock Your Potential app.
 
 

Be Googleable! - Bobbie Carlton

What would it be like to have your day job, a night job and your dream job, all rolled into one? Our guest today certainly knows.
Bobbie Carlton, is the founder of 3 companies. Carlton PR & Marketing, Mass Innovation Nights, and Innovation Women, is an award-winning marketing, PR and social media professional. Mass Innovation Nights (MIN), a social media powered new product showcase that has launched more than 1500 new products which have received a combined $4+ billion in funding.  Innovation Women, is an online “visibility bureau” for entrepreneurial, technical and innovative women.
In this episode we talk about her many businesses, including two new acquisitions, and we learn about Crowd Promotion. By activating your community of supporters and helping to build a community that they enjoy being a part of, everyone wins.
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Social media handles
https://www.linkedin.com/company/innovation-women
https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobbiecarlton/
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https://www.facebook.com/innovationnights
https://www.facebook.com/innovationwomen
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