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Invest Anywhere: Six Strategies to Make Money in Real Estate
#384: Welcome back to the third episode in our special series, Afford Anything Presents: Invest Anywhere. Invest Anywhere is a new monthly series tha…
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06/03/2022
How to Talk About Money with Confidence and Charisma, with Vanessa Van Edwards
#383: Behavioral researcher Vanessa Van Edwards, who runs the research lab Science of People, breaks down the psychological secrets behind feeling an…
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06/01/2022
Ask Paula: What Do I Do With Free Money?
#382: Joe is buying his first house hack and would like to understand if the FHA loan or the doctor loan would be better for him. Sara wants to leave…
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05/24/2022
How to Not Let Your Feelings Hijack Your Decisions, with Mollie West Duffy
#381: Maybe you’re envious of your friend who bought Bitcoin in 2015 and held until it hit 7-figures. Maybe you’re anxious about rapidly rising home …
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05/19/2022
Ask Paula: How to Optimize Your Investments Along the Efficient Frontier (If You Dare!)
#380: Matt wants to optimize his portfolio and wants to know if he should invest along the Efficient Frontier – despite the fact that the asset alloc…
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05/11/2022
Invest Anywhere: 4 Benefits and 5 Challenges of Long-Distance Real Estate Investing
#379: Welcome to our First Friday bonus episode. Once a month, Afford Anything presents a special feature called Invest Anywhere, in which we teach o…
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05/06/2022
Ask Paula: Should I Take a Higher-Paying Job if I Can’t Save As Much for Retirement?
#378: Anonymous is 25. She has a job offer that comes with a substantial raise. Hooray! Buuut … there’s a problem. If she accepts this job offer, her…
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05/05/2022
How I Discovered The 4 Percent Retirement Rule, with Bill Bengen
#377: Today’s episode is sheer retirement nerd bliss. We talk to the creator of the 4 percent retirement safe withdrawal rule, Bill Bengen. If you’re…
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04/26/2022
Ask Paula: How Should My 64-Year-Old Mom Handle a Toxic Boss?
#376: Meghan’s mom is 64 years old and suffering under a toxic boss. It’s tough to switch jobs at her age. How should she think through the next step…
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04/20/2022
The 2X Rule (and Other Wealth-Accelerating Advice), with Nick Maggiulli
#375: Here’s the deal: The majority of people who write about personal finance repeat the same tired aphorisms and cliches. “Millennials aren’t inves…
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04/13/2022
Ask Paula: How Can I Minimize My Taxes?
#374: Andy in Palm Springs wants to create an income stream through a taxable brokerage account. What strategy should he use to minimize the tax impa…
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04/06/2022
Invest Anywhere: The 5 Ways Real Estate Makes Money
#373: How do people make money in real estate? Many focus on rental income, but this is only one of five ways that properties create wealth. We exp…
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04/01/2022
Ask Paula: I’m 33 and Want to Retire at 45 – What Should I Do?
#372: Eve has been investing in her brokerage account and the tax liabilities are starting to add up. She wants to retire in 12 years and is wonderin…
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03/29/2022
What’s the Point of Happiness, Anyway?, with Dr. Bill Von Hippel
#371: Psychology professor Bill von Hippel explains the evolutionary science behind how we’re hardwired as humans. We’re wired to be social, to conne…
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03/23/2022
Ask Paula: My Income Is Dropping From $190,000 to $40,000; What Should I Do?
#370: Kristen is 32, and she and her husband want to retire in less than 20 years. They make too much to contribute to a Roth IRA. Should they use ba…
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03/16/2022
Why Does the Stock Market Crash? | Stocks 101 Explained, with Brian Feroldi
#369: To answer these questions, we need a deep, tree-trunk understanding – a core, fundamental understanding – of how the stock market operates. Wha…
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03/09/2022
Ask Paula: Talk Crypto To Me
#368: Grace wants to buy a manufactured home for rental income. Should she calculate her returns differently for a manufactured home? Alex is curious…
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03/04/2022
The Roots of Procrastination, Inattention and Anxiety, with Dr. Ellen Vora, M.D.
#367: Since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, many commentators have remarked that we’re living in an “epidemic of anxiety.” More than 40 million A…
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03/02/2022
Ask Paula: How Do I Invest For My Parents' Retirement?
#366: Micheal’s parents just sold their home to pay off debt and fund their retirement. How should he invest the profits? Ryker would like to underst…
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02/24/2022
Inflation, Explained
#365: Nearly every financial news story for the past several months has centered around inflation – but what, exactly, is inflation? What are its cau…
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02/18/2022