Building Your Money Machine

We have always talked about making safe investments and the importance of assessing risks before making those investments.   As we’ve discussed, some investments create continuous cash flow, while others increase their value over time, giving us a profitable return. One of those investments is gold.   However, there’s a risk of investing in gold: its volatility. Its value could go up or down depen...

How are you really?  This is a big question that most don't ask often enough. Because we don't ask it often enough, we can find ourselves living a mildly miserable life or a life that isn't fulfilling us the way we want. In fact, this is where a lot of burnout and overwhelm comes from.   Today’s guest is my good friend Jenna Kutcher, the host of the Goal Digger Podcast, one of the t...

When thinking about our financial future we want what is best for us and our family. For some people, this looks like creating retirement accounts that can help their money grow over time. These accounts come in different types and have different benefits.   And in every wealth plan, there’s one thing you can’t avoid…taxes.   Taxes are simply a part of every financial journey BUT your job is to on...

If you’ve been listening for a while, you know that I believe that multiple streams of income are no longer a luxury, but a necessity. If you’re on this journey already, wanting to accelerate your path towards wealth by diversifying your income, then this episode is for you. It’s also for you if you want to finally be in control of your financial future.   Now, finding the right path towards a des...

Building wealth is not an easy road. There are steps, paths that you have to take and you have to know how to do it safely without jeopardizing your future and your family's future.   Knowing what to invest in and how to do it is a very important part of the road toward building wealth. In order for us to get our financial freedom, we have to identify good investments and how to approach them...

Making choices during uncertain times is not easy, however, nothing that is worth your time is easy, and this becomes especially true when you feel like you're stuck not following your dreams. That's why creating an online source of revenue is so important. Having a second or a third income is not a luxury, it is a necessity in the changing market we currently have. This is about your fi...

The road towards financial freedom is not an easy one. It will be filled with work, time, resources, and, especially, patience. We want to have an affluent lifestyle, and in order to achieve it we first need to know what we want and then make our way, step by step, towards it.   One of the first things we need to know is where we are going. We need to have a vision that sets the roadmap. Then, we...

Being able to financially protect your family is the most important thing you can do, but, sometimes, we as human beings make mistakes. We can forget to look for signs of danger and we can run into financial scams that could affect our family's future.   As entrepreneurs, at times we think that we are indestructible and that no harm could ever come our way, when the reality is that we face th...

Talking about hard times is not easy, and neither is walking through them. So, in this new episode, we are going to talk about the inflationary process that we are currently going through and what to do if we enter a recession.   Of course, there is uncertainty right now, and not knowing when or for how long this period will last, we have to be prepared by knowing which logical step will make the...

Change always brings challenges, and I’d say that finding time to make your family a priority is one of the main ones. When you start moving towards a new job or when you start to work really hard for your dreams, it is not always easy to find a balance between what you love doing and the ones you love.   In today’s episode I’m talking with Elizabeth Hartke, international Business and Leadership S...

Today’s episode is all about investing and some of my top strategies to find and analyze a company, so we can avoid gambling away our future. As I always say, we need to think long-term when it comes to investing. Long-term planning is one of the keys to the work we do in  The Affluence Blueprint™. This is your path to the financial freedom that you are working towards. Now, it's important to...

How to Pay For College. Let's face it, education can be a costly pursuit. But did you know that it can literally cost you your financial future and freedom? There are so many options to pay for college AND bring our children along the financial literacy path to set them up for life. In this episode, I walk through much of what you need to consider. What You'll Get In This Episode:  Why s...

In today’s episode we are talking about budgeting and the best way to create a financial plan that makes your money work with you towards reaching the affluent lifestyle you want to create. Budgets can get a bad rap, but when you understand the power of being intentional with your money, you'll see how this paves the road to your financial freedom.   We're going to start by drawing the m...

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Have you been worried about the uncertain times we are facing? Today I’m sharing some tools that can help you deal with them in a way that is smart and safe, as you go step by step towards fulfilling your Affluent Blueprint. People usually become tenuous when facing uncertainty. As human beings, we become cautious and fearful at different levels. We feel paralized and stop doing the things that we...

The tax man is coming and there's nowhere to run or hide...BUT there's no need to overpay. You still have time to do something to set you up for a better tax situation before the filing deadline. What You'll Get In This Episode: Why everything you get is taxable and nothing is deductible Key deductions you can still take now How to make sure that the tax code is working for you inst...

Get ready to welcome one of my very first guests to the show, Bobby Goodwin, who was part of my “money plan workshop” . Today we’re discussing how this workshop helped him get on his journey to financial freedom. You’ll hear about how he turned the tables and grabbed ahold of his financial ship, little by little, by creating a plan, tackling debt, and starting to work on creating wealth. Bobby is...

Today I’m talking about one of the most important numbers to track on your road to financial freedom. We’ll discuss your Net Worth, how to track it, and build your road to financial freedom by setting different milestones that guide  your steps towards your goal, which, in the end, is to create the money machine that will help you lead an affluent lifestyle. Yep, your Net Worth…but a special kind...

If you want to optimize your investment strategy, this episode is for you. I'm talking all about Target Date Index Funds, and why, over time, they’re a good option for investment compared to investing just in one single stock. But also what the pitfalls are with them and when the best time to use them is. Remember that the goal is always to protect your assets and portfolio. For some backgrou...

The market has been quite volatile at the time of this recording. We need to learn how to handle these current circumstances because we can't afford to stop living in the midst of this financial uncertainty, when we're experiencing inflation and facing the risk of interest rates rising, among other risks. In this episode, we talk about the most common mistakes that individual investors -...

Today, I discuss how to achieve financial liberation, which shouldn’t be confused with financial freedom. The key difference between the two, is that liberation is a journey and a path. It's a process of getting there. Whereas freedom is a state of being it's something of a destination. I specifically use the term “liberation” because when we look at the definition, we see a unique chara...

This week, I am honored to welcome the amazing Amber McCue to the show. She is a proud and loving mom to three girls, who went from single mother at the age of 18 to owning two thriving companies that she runs from anywhere in the world.  We delve into how Amber managed to reach financial freedom and scale her businesses without neglecting one of her core values: family. We also go through Amber&a...

If you are struggling to get your content seen, or to make your audience go through all of it, or to make enough sales with it, this episode is perfect for you.  Joining me today is Brandon Lucero, an online marketing expert, serial entrepreneur, father of three, and host of the New Generation Entrepreneur Podcast. We had a fantastic conversation about one of Brandon's specialties, messaging....

In this episode, we will talk about one of the best ways to generate income, and one of the three pillars of becoming an affluent entrepreneur, called the Generate pillar. I'll share why I prefer digital business to generate revenue, and I'll take you through the three essential elements of The Digital Income Paradigm™ and how they work. What You Will Learn In This Episode: - The three c...

As we are going through what specialists call the Great Resignation, where employees are leaving their jobs for political, financial or even philosophical reasons, the entrepreneurial journey just became a little bit more complicated. Without a committed and reliable workforce, it is impossible to grow and scale our business. So, in this episode, we will learn how to attract, retain and reward our...