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BiggerPockets Money Podcast
Intermediate to advanced personal finance strategies for people serious about the FIRE (financial independence retire early) movement—not just dreaming about it. Tune in on Tuesdays and Fridays for new BiggerPockets Money episodes with your hosts, Mindy Jensen and Scott Trench! Or visit BiggerPocketsMoney.com with additional resources.
Episodes
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389: Finance Friday: How to DOUBLE Your Net Worth in 1 Year (or Less!)
Doubling your net worth in only a year? Seems impossible, right? Is making such massive money moves during a down market even realistic? If you think it can’t…
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388: Twitter’s “Warning Shot” and What to Look for When Investing in Tech
Twitter’s massive layoffs affected the tech industry more than people think. For years, tech stocks ran with enormous valuations, with over-inflated workforces…
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387: Finance Friday: Is Staying At Your Job Costing You More Than You Think?
Most people assume that buying rental properties is only for those making six-figure salaries. How can the average American afford the sizeable down payment…
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386: How to Build Wealth While Working for Tips
Look up any “how to retire early” guide online, and you’ll see some basic information: invest in your 401(k), take advantage of your employer match, buy real…
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385: How to Use Equity in Your Home to Reach Financial Freedom Faster
Your home equity could be the secret sauce to earlier retirement. With so many homeowners and rental property investors across the nation sitting on hundreds…
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384: How Red Robin’s Waiter of the Year Built MULTIPLE 9-Figure Businesses
Every entrepreneur wants to build a nine-figure business. Even a million dollars in revenue seems like a dream to the everyday American. So how did a Red Robin…
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383: The Hidden World of Credit Hacks That Leads to 0% Interest Loans
Knowing how to build business credit could be the difference between starting your dream business or waiting on the sidelines. And while most people think that…
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382: HGTV Dream Home or Financial Headache? The Truth About Winning
What if you won the HGTV Dream Home? If you’ve heard of the sweepstakes before, you know what it feels like to watch the walkthroughs, read about the top-tier…
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381: Is Financial Fear Stopping You from Living the Life You Dream Of?
Knowing how to build wealth may come as a given for most investors. Buy assets, hold on to them, profit, and repeat. While this formula may seem simplistic at…
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380: Surviving a Layoff: What HR Wants You to Know?
The 2023 tech layoffs have already begun to make the 2022 tech layoffs look like small-scale firings. What started as a few large companies firing unneeded…
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379: Finance Friday: Stock-Based Compensation Explained and Tax Traps to Avoid
For the entry-level worker, employee stock options may seem completely foreign. But for most tech workers, this is commonplace and can be highly lucrative if…
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378: Billion-Dollar Jackpots and the Bright Side of Buying a Lottery Ticket
“What to do if you win the lottery." This question is getting more online searches than ever before. But what would you do? The wheels start turning as soon as…
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377: Mr. Money Mustache on Life After FI: The Truth About Retiring Early in Your 30s
Mr. Money Mustache is the internet’s poster child for early retirement. At age thirty, Pete Adeney was able to leave a lucrative job as a software engineer to…
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376: Margin Loans: Low-Interest Lending or Risky Rates?
Margin loans could be the sneakiest way to snag a low-interest rate loan in today’s Fed-influenced environment. What most investors don’t know is that you can…
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375: FTX, Fraud, and the Case for Cryptocurrency in 2023
Cryptocurrency is dead in the mind of most investors. What started as an awe-inspiring investment reaching massive multiples in just months, quickly became a…
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374: Private Equity: Passive, Profitable Investments You’ve Probably Never Heard Of
Private equity is a term often left undefined. Ask most people if they’ve heard of private equity, and they’ll say yes. But ask them to explain what it is or…
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373: The Money Show’s Guide to Personal Finance for Beginners
Mastering personal finance is one of the most important things anyone can do. If you know where your money is coming from, where it’s going, and how to make…
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372: Franchises 101: How to Find, Fund, and Profit from Owning a Franchise
Want to buy a business? If so, you’ll need franchises explained. At first, franchises seem like something only for fast food, gas stations, or hotel chains…
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371: Bitcoin: Investing Fad or Final Bullet to Fiat Currency?
Asking for Bitcoin explained is like asking how a rocket works; it's a little complex. A digital currency is valued at a certain amount of dollars (or euros…
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370: Finance Friday: How to Build a Six-Figure Business (in Your 20s!)
How can a simple pressure washing business make you six figures of income a year? With a startup cost of only a couple hundred dollars, today’s guest Chris…
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369: The Capitalist Cult: How MLMs and Pyramid Schemes Trap Average Americans
Multi-level marketing companies (MLMs) operate in secrecy. They don’t want you to know where the products are coming from, how they’re being sold, who’s making…
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368: Lynne Twist’s “Want Less, Obtain More” Philosophy All FI-Chasers Should Follow
Lynne Twist’s The Soul of Money sparked a conversation we needed to have. It didn’t make people think “how do I make more money,” instead it asked, “what world…
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367: Finance Friday: Tips to Build a House Hack STACK in Your 20s
Couch flipping may be the best side hustle you’ve never heard of. It’s so lucrative that today’s guest Parker used couch flipping to save up his down payment…
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366: The Repeatable Steps to Financial Freedom in 4 Years w/TheFICouple
Financial independence means something different to everyone. For some, it means having enough to not worry about being laid off. For others, it could mean…
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365: Finance Friday: How to Become Real Estate Ready in 2023
Don’t know how to become a millionaire? There’s a pretty simple formula for seven-figure wealth that the average American doesn’t know about. It isn’t…
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364: Divorce: The Biggest Marriage and Money Mistakes to Avoid
Everyone makes financial mistakes, even those that we trust with money the most. Rachel “Money Honey” Richardsto many people online is the epitome of someone…
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363: Finance Friday: Savings Stuck At Zero? Here’s How to Grow Your Bank Account
Once you know how to save money, you can start stacking those savings to buy real estate and businesses or invest in long-term wealth-building investment…
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362: Scott Trench’s Step-by-Step Guide to Building Your Perfect, 1-Page Investment Plan
A financial plan puts you on the path to long-term wealth and a life rich in time freedom. So why don’t most Americans have one? Everyday workers are often so…
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361: Finance Friday: Got Extra Cash? Here’s the Investment Plan for You
Retirement planning is something best started early on. The more time you give yourself to invest, the faster your accounts can grow, giving you early…
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360: Year-End Tax Tips and How to Owe Even Less in 2023
If you talk about how to avoid taxes, most people will think you’re doing something fishy in the eyes of the IRS. Very few know you can use the tax code to…
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359: Finance Friday: My Home Renovation Put Me in a HELOC Hole
The house hack strategy doesn’t always run smoothly. Turning an old home into a modern, rentable masterpiece takes money—especially if you’re doing a big…
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358: Giving Tuesday 2022: Which Charities Will Use Your Money Wisely?
For the past decade, Giving Tuesday has been a way for everyday Americans to donate their money, or time, to charities and causes that help collectively make…
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357: Budgeting for a Baby: The Costs EVERY New Parent Should Expect
The cost of raising a child is constantly changing. Every year, a new article comes out claiming that the cost of raising a child is hundreds of thousands of…
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356: Finance Friday: First Down Market? Here’s How to Stop Stressing
Tech stocks were slam dunk investments for the past decade. No matter what you invested in—Google, Facebook, Amazon, or even some obscure AI toaster…
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355: All the Money Hacks We WISH We Had Known About
Travel hacks, spending hacks, medical hacks. If there’s one thing that Chris Hutchins has learned from hosting the All the Hacks podcast, it’s that everything…
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354: Frank Advice on What to Do When a Real Estate Investment Goes Wrong
You’re one bad real estate investment away from being cash flow-poor and debt-rich. That’s right, not every investment property works out, and when leveraged…
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353: Ask the Money Experts: Debt, Diversification, Retirement, and Real Estate
What should retirement planning look like? How can I invest if I am still paying off student loan debt? What makes a perfectly diversified portfolio? And when…
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352: Common Money Fears That Are Costing You BIG
With so much going on—a recession, rampant inflation, rising interest rates—overcoming your money fears can be more challenging than ever before. The world is…
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351: Does the 4% Rule Hold During 2022’s Stock Market Crash?
Stock market crashes aren't good news for anyone. For retirees though, this dip in prices can feel like a death wish, as active income is no longer an option…
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350: Why We Turned Down a 5% Rate Mortgage | Mindy & Carl’s Budget Review
Margin loans, medium-term rentals, and potential mortgage rate mistakes summarize what Carl and Mindy have been up to over the past couple of months. It’s been…
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349: When to Buy New vs. Used and is That Car Repair Worth the Cash?
The new vs. used car debate has been going on for as long as automobiles have existed. For almost the entirety of time when cars were being bought and sold, it…
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348: Finance Friday: How to Start Investing After Becoming Debt-Free
Unless you’re a money nerd, knowing how to start investing from scratch isn’t as easy as it seems. With so many options out there and the economy faltering…
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347: Why “Just Keep Buying” is The Smartest, Simplest Way to Get Rich
Dollar-cost averaging—you may have heard the term before, but maybe not its implications. According to Nick Maggiulli, it’s probably the easiest way to get…
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346: Finance Friday: How Sabbaticals Make You Happier, Healthier, and Wealthier
Taking a sabbatical from work requires a few things: time, money, and the willpower to do some soul-searching. Most people think that they can’t take any more…
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345: Divorced and $250K in Debt to Financially Free in 10 Years
We know financial freedom is possible for those in their 20s and 30s, just starting their careers, without children and serious financial obligations. But what…
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344: Rethink Social Security: Myths, Benefits, and Clearing Up Misconceptions
Everything you’ve been hearing about social security is a lie. For years, mainstream media and many financial figureheads have said that social security is on…
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343: Is Now the Time to Buy as The Housing Market Starts to Dip?
The 2022 housing market doesn’t make a whole lot of sense. At the start of the year, competition was fierce, with bidding wars on every home and lines out the…
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342: Finance Friday: Financially Independent, But Not Feeling “Free”
Financial independence isn’t for everyone. That comes as a surprise for most of us within the personal finance community. Whether we like it or not, the “save…
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341: Money with Katie’s Middle-Class Myths and The Great Roth vs. 401K Debate
Katie Gatti Tassin from Money with Katie had her “financial awakening” earlier than most. She saw the middle-class wealth trap of working, spending, and…
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340: Finance Friday: When Rental Property Investing Doesn’t Make Sense
Over the past two years, short-term rental investing has become a financial lifeline for those that are trying to make extra income. A small one or two-bedroom…
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339: From Sociology Major to Seven-Figure Agent Commissions
Everyone knows that real estate agent commissions are hefty. Those who have sold a house in the past few years may look at their settlement agreement and…
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338: Finance Friday: How to Become Debt-Free 20 Years Faster Than You Thought
Student loan debt—the gift that keeps on giving with interest, stress, and the overwhelming feeling that you won’t be able to pay them off. The larger the…
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337: College is NOT for EVERYONE: Joining the Military & Become Financially Free
College isn’t the only option after high school. In fact, it’s not even the best option. Typically, twenty-two-year-olds fresh out of college are launched into…
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336: Finance Friday: Six-Figure Passive Income in Just 4 Years!
Becoming a millionaire by 30 is almost every 20-or-something-year-old’s dream. But what if you want to go even further? Instead of seven-figure net worth, what…
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335: The (Almost) Guaranteed Way to 31x Your Investments
What do timing the market and a circle have in common? There’s no point, literally and figuratively. Some people would like to have you think they’ve cracked…
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334: Finance Friday: The 5 Questions to Ask if You Want to Fast-Track FI
If someone told you that financial freedom could be achieved by traveling the world, you probably wouldn’t believe them. How can going on a work vacation to…
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333: From Broke at 40 to FI at 50 While Raising 4 Kids
In the early retirement movement, becoming a millionaire is a crucial part of the financial path. While everyone has different spending habits, the first…
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332: Handling Finances as a Couple: Individual, Combined, or a Bit Of Both?
Having shared finances, for most couples, is an automatic thing to do once married or after being together for many years. It seems natural to want to combine…
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331: From Food Stamps to Six-Figure Flips and Debt-Free On a Teacher’s Salary
How would a six-figure side hustle change your financial picture? Think of the possibilities—being able to travel, becoming debt-free, or even buying your…
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330: The Ultimate Teen Money Hack for Parents
You’ve heard of money hacks before, but probably not like this. For the teenagers and parents of teenagers listening, this episode will give you everything you…