Listen Now Early in your financial life, personal finance looks a lot like a curriculum. Spend less than you earn. Avoid expensive debt. Build a cash reserve. Protect your family. Save consistently. Use tax-advantaged accounts. Invest in a diversified, low-cost...
Watch Now Listen Now Building a low-cost, diversified portfolio has never been easier. But easy access to good investments is not the same as knowing how to use them well. In this episode, I’m joined by Liz Muirhead, a senior portfolio strategist at Vanguard who has...
Listen Now When I bought my first home in 2010, I was dead set on having a big yard. I got what I wanted. I also got the work that came with it. At first, mowing took two or three hours. Eventually, I got it down to about 90 minutes. The result was acceptable, but it...
Watch Now Listen Now In this episode, I’m joined by Jack Raines, author of Young Money: A Field Guide to Finding Wealth and Purpose in Your Twenties, for a conversation about what happens when traditional financial advice focuses too heavily on accumulating money and...
Listen Now Welcome back. Today I want to talk about benchmarks—and why a perfectly sensible portfolio can feel like a failure when you measure it against the wrong thing. Benchmarks measure performance and shape what performance feels like. When the benchmark doesn’t...
