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Navigating Love and Money with Nicole Middendorf

Money is still a major taboo subject in a relationship—whether you’re on your first date or have been with your partner for multiple years. Money can be confusing and even, let’s just say, uncomfortable to discuss – wouldn’t it just be better if we all had this chip in us that allowed the other person to inherently know our money story without having to say a word.

Nicole Middendorf, a Wealth Advisor and Certified Divorce Financial Analyst with Prosperwell Financial, is here to thankfully help us take a deeper dive into how we navigate love and money. This fall her fifth book “Who Pays? Navigating Love and Money” will hit bookshelves. Nicole’s life goal is to reduce the divorce rate by helping couples – and especially women – feel less intimidated when talking about money. Yes, Please!

What You’ll Learn

  • What makes money so tough for couples to deal with
  • What you should and shouldn’t share about money in every phase of your relationship
  • How to figure out who should pay and whether it matters
  • How to deal with money in blended families
  • Why we’d rather get divorced then deal with money in our relationships
  • The #1 subject Nicole says every couple must talk about when it comes to money

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Finding Balance in Mt. Hood Columbia River Gorge Oregon

To be good at anything in life, your career, your relationships, managing your money, etc. you need to find some balance. For my husband Jeff and me, that means escaping from time to time and finding places to explore that are about beauty, exploration, experiences and if we’re lucky, making a few friends along the way. On this episode, we invite you to escape with us to one of the most beautiful places in Oregon, the Mt. Hood/River Gorge area.

What You’ll Learn

  • Why balance is so important and not just a buzz word
  • How to find balance on just about any budget
  • How Ali McLaughlin created a business (MountnBarrel) with the sole purpose of helping others relax and enjoy life while sipping wine on a bike
  • The discoveries you can find traveling to unique places like a historic inn (Balch Hotel) in a tiny town and how that tiny town can change you in all the right ways
  • The serene beauty of the Oregon rivers and the healing power of the water along the Clackamas River
  • Why Mt. Hood/River Gorge should be on your travel to-do list

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The Mystery Behind Why Healthcare Sucks With Dan Weissmann

As Dan Weissmann, host of An Arm and a Leg podcast says, “You gotta be ready to do some pretty good adulting to figure out this whole health care thing.”

Health care is crazy. People are declaring bankruptcy, no one really knows what kind of coverage they have, and the whole process is just plain screwed up. If you’ve been trying to understand health insurance and frustrated with the system in place, this podcast episode is for you!  As Dan says, we may be screwed, but at least we’re all screwed together.

What You’ll Learn

  • What do we really need to know about health insurance that the experts aren’t telling us
  • Why you should always negotiate your hospital bill – and how to do it
  • Some of the craziest stories Dan has heard on his podcast, An Arm and a Leg
  • How to figure your way through the cost of health insurance
  • Why you need to know what you have before a disaster happens
  • Why Dan decided to start the podcast and what’s up for season 2

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Grow Your Cash and Pay Off Your Student Loans With Robert Farrington

Student loan debt is real and politicians are fighting about it with no clear answers. Meanwhile, what you really want to know is can you actually pay off your student loans and build your wealth at the same time?

Robert Farrington, the mastermind behind The College Investor who is also America’s Student Loan Debt Expert, is dishing his tips to pay off your debt while balancing the need to grow your wealth.

I get asked this question a lot, “How can I grow wealth and invest when my student loan payment is draining my bank account?” It’s tricky, I know, and it’s emotional and stressful. My MBA cost me over $80K and there were many times I wondered was it actually worth it. The good news is it can be done – you can build wealth and still pay off your loans. It just takes a little elbow grease and a few tips to get you started.

What You’ll Learn

  • In what ways does  debt hold you back from growing your wealth
  • How to balance the emotions of debt and lean into the process of paying them off
  • What has caused the student loan debt issue and Robert’s thoughts on the future of college
  • Practical steps you can take to build wealth while you are paying off your debt
  • Robert’s student loan debt journey and how he achieved success

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The Secrets to Raising a Family and Paying Off Debt With Jessi Fearon

Jessi Fearon and her husband tackled two of life’s biggest challenges all at once – managing the cost of raising a family while simultaneously paying off debt of over $55 …they didn’t have superpowers or win the lottery, but we’re showing how they did it in this episode (and how you can as well).

As Jessi says, “Life takes on new meaning when you’re not strapped down by monthly payments. Living debt-free changes you in such beautiful and powerful ways.” Most of us have this love-hate relationship with debt – we love the stuff it buys us, but hate it when we’ve got to make those monthly payments. Debt-free is always the goal, but I’m going to be honest with you, working as a financial planner for over 15 years, debt comes and goals for most of us. So don’t beat yourself up if you’re in a debt phase…just keep putting one foot in front of another to chip away and let Jessi’s story inspire you to keep going.

 

What You’ll Learn

  • What does it mean to be debt-free
  • What paying off debt has taught Jessi about her relationship to money
  • How people get trapped in the debt cycle and what steps should you take to break it
  • How debt impacts your budget when you’re also raising a family
  • How to overcome roadblocks when you’re trying to pay off debt
  • How soon-to-be parents can prepare their bank accounts for a newborn
  • The one tip Jessi says you can’t live without when you’re trying to pay off debt

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Summer Reboot – Can Your Mind Make You Broke (& How to Avoid It)

Have you ever made a money decision that you regretted later? I’ve made about a million of these over the years, but I’ve also learned how powerful your mind is when it comes to money. Can you trick yourself into being broke or being wealthy? How powerful do you think your mind is when it comes to your bank account? We’ll uncover these answers and the most common money mindset traps in this episode.

 

What You’ll Learn

  • The four negative mindset traps that can actually make you broke
  • How to recognize the mindset traps and what you can do to strategize against them
  • Why you need to define what success means to you and how that might be affecting your bank account
  • My own stories of powerfully connecting my health with my wealth and what I’ve learned
  • Why you should have your own version of the “24-hour” window before you make big purchases
  • How a “f**ck it bucket” can give you options in life when you need them the most

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500th Episode & Big Little Money Lies That Hold You Back

This is our 500th podcast episode!

500 episodes of money tips and tricks, saving strategies, travel destinations, healthy money mindset stories and tips, money stories from entrepreneurs, authors, musicians and more and all along the way, you’ve been there listening episode by episode. So today, for our 500th episode, we’re talking about those big little money lies that are holding us all back from achieving our greatness!

What You’ll Learn

  • We’re celebrating 500 podcast episodes
  • The power of money lies and how they will come up over and over again if you aren’t careful
  • How to identify the money lies holding you back
  • Why the lie of perfection is so powerful and destructive
  • The #1 money lie that I get stuck in and work to break every day
  • How to proactively break your money lies

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Align Your Investment Dollars To Support The LGBTQia+ Community With Jay Lipman

June is pride month, although I’d argue that every month should be about loving others no matter what they look like, what their sexual orientation is, or what their life story is. In my opinion, as long as you aren’t hurting anyone else, you have every right to be you, just like I have every right to be me. That may be my view, but I was curious, with the rise of an inclusive culture and social responsibility, how are companies and investors supporting the LGBTQia+ community.

My guest and fellow millennial is Jay Lipman, co-founder, and president of the Fintech asset management sustainable investing firm Ethic. On this episode, we’re covering a lot of topics including social responsibility investing and what companies are doing to support the LGBTQia+ community.

What You’ll Learn

  • Are we seeing a strong shift in companies towards better equality with LGBTQ workers or are we still just talking about it without any definitive action
  • How and why are companies aligning their investment portfolios to support the LGBTQia+ community
  • If you’re an investor and want to support the LGBTQ community, are there certain things you can be doing
  • What lead Jay to a career in social entrepreneurship
  • What are trends that are emerging in the social/sustainable investing space
  • What can we do as millennials with less cash to build a sustainable investing practice

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Invest and Make An Impact With Arianna Savant & Swell Investing

Did you know that you cast a vote every time you spend your money? You are voting for companies whether you realize it or not. When you invest your money, you are doing the same thing…but do you know who you are voting for?

Arianna Savant, Head of Product at Swell Investing, is the guest on this episode demystifying how and why impact investing is important in your investing practice.

What You’ll Learn

  • What is driving the movement behind impact investing
  • What is the difference between investing for impact and traditional investing
  • How do you decide what impact companies you should invest in
  • What Swell is doing to bring impact investing to the masses
  • Arianna’s money story and her journey to evolve her own investing practice

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Get Out Of Your Own Way & Step Into Your Greatness With Keren Eldad

When we talk about greatness, we think that means we have to perfect, or wealthy, or recognized as an expert, and so on.

I’ve learned that being great means that I’m using the skills and talents I was born with to contribute a little bit of me into this world. I want you to feel empowered to do the same because reaching your greatness has a lot to do with how you make and grow your money.

Keren Eldad, our podcast guest and success coach, will motivate you in all the best ways to step into who you are meant to be and tap into your greatness.

What You’ll Learn

  • How do you figure out what your greatness is
  • How do you then tap into your greatness to enrich your life
  • Is there a wrong way to cultivate a good money mindset
  • Keren shares the story about the last day she was broke and how a Latin superstar helped her out
  • Common ways we hold ourselves back from our greatness

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