Invest In Your Life

Why do we believe pessimists and shrug off optimists? In this week's episode, James makes a case for optimism and uncovers the reason we believe pessimists more than optimists. Have we been choosing the wrong side? Listen now!   To learn more about The Rich Life Book + Coaching, visit www. LivingARichLife.com.  This podcast is brought to you by Wealthquest. Learn more at www.wqcorp.com

Are you typecasting yourself? In this week's episode, James challenges you to notice the identity statements you make about yourself and introduces a revolutionary way to break the narratives you're stuck in. Not to bury the lead, but this might be the key to making better money decisions. Listen now!   To learn more about The Rich Life Book + Coaching, visit www. LivingARichLife.com.  This podcas...

A waiter walks up to you with a tray of different thoughts you can have about our current economic outlook – can you pick the one that actually leads to what you want? In today's episode, James explains how you don't have to just take the thought that you're given. You can pick something else. Listen now!   To learn more about The Rich Life Book + Coaching, visit www. LivingARichLife.com.  This po...

Did we just find the missing piece to the formula for living a rich life? In this week's episode, James uncovers the third segment to a psychologically rich life and how, unbeknownst to him, he's cultivated this third piece through his work with clients like you! Listen now!   Article referenced in this episode https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/between-cultures/202205/how-live-psychologicall...

In this week's episode, James gives you 8 steps to conduct a mid year financial checkup! While doing a thorough analysis of your wealth may sound intimidating, James breaks it down into simple, actionable steps to keep you focused and on track. Listen now!   To learn more about The Rich Life Book + Coaching, visit www. LivingARichLife.com.  This podcast is brought to you by Wealthquest. Learn more...

It's seemingly "business as usual" these days, but are we unknowingly ignoring the inevitable side effects of the past two years? In this week's episode, James dives into the onset of psychological changes you might be experiencing, including changes in life goals and personal values. Listen now!   To learn more about The Rich Life Book + Coaching, visit www. LivingARichLife.com.  This podcast is...

Building off of last week's episode, James explores the second part to a happier life. In this episode, you'll learn how autonomy plays a key role in your happiness and the importance in knowing the difference between your "want-to's" and your "have-to's." Listen now!   To learn more about The Rich Life Book + Coaching, visit www. LivingARichLife.com.  This podcast is brought to you by Wealthquest...

Do you spend your free time doing things you actually enjoy? In this week's episode, James looks at the leisure activities that actually make us feel worse, and how to make better use of our free time. Spoiler alert: it's an easy fix. Listen now!   To learn more about The Rich Life Book + Coaching, visit www. LivingARichLife.com.  This podcast is brought to you by Wealthquest. Learn more at www.wq...

When you think of consumption in an effort to soothe some kind of inner turbulence, you probably think of buying physical goods, but you'd be omitting the most used method of compensatory consumption that's probably in your hand right now. In today's episode, James looks at the ways we use consumption to soothe loneliness, and how it's affecting us as a collective. Listen now!   To learn more abou...

James talks with special guests Brad Zimmerman and Tom Willis from Phoenix Performance Partners. In this episode, they will touch on how Brad and Tom are helping cultures-particularly in the corporate setting-move from fear, to love. How do we actually create environments where we move away from fear, our natural tendency, and aim towards love? Listen now!   To learn more about Brad and Tom's work...

The midlife crisis might seem like an adult-like tantrum, but is it more than that? In today's episode, James talks the infamous midlife crisis –  what causes it, and why does it cost our bank accounts? And what are the ways to lessen the effects (and, potentially, avoid altogether) when a midlife crisis begins to emerge? Listen now!   To learn more about The Rich Life Book + Coaching, visit www....

You have probably taken a love language assessment at some point in your life, but do you know how your love language impacts your money decisions? In this week's episode, James helps you understand the direct relationship between your love language and money! Listen now!   Don't know your love language? Take the test here https://www.5lovelanguages.com/quizzes/love-language   To learn more about...

Being aware of the causes of your level of risk tolerance can help you to invest rationally, rather than by reaction. In today's episode, James goes over some possible outcomes of 5 different ways flashpoints of your money story might influence your risk tolerance today!  Listen now!   To learn more about The Rich Life Book + Coaching, visit www. LivingARichLife.com.  This podcast is brought to yo...

Is burnout just par for the course, or are we allowing ourselves to stay in an unnecessary negative cycle? In this week's episode, James brings in Carolon Donnally, burnout expert and coach. They will discuss Burnout symptoms to look for How to talk to your boss about burnout And knowing when you've reached your limit! Listen now!   Visit www.carolon-donnally.com to set up a discovery call with Ca...

There is dignity after divorce. Divorce can be so messy, difficult, emotional, confusing and even traumatic.  It can be so hard to prevent divorce from throwing you into a tailspin.  I've had the honor of helping our clients make their way through this season of life and I wish we had Christine Luken's book when we did.  Listen to this week's podcast to hear: -How to find emotional dignity after d...

When it comes to your kids, is fair always equal? In today's episode, James questions the assumption that fair and equal should always go hand in hand. Because the reality is, each kid is on a different path and circumstances will differ at each point in time. So how do you make sure your kids feel like the family ecosystem is in equilibrium? Listen to find out!   To learn more about The Rich Life...

James and today's guest wrote the book on Living a Rich Life. No, really! Greg Williams is here today to talk about Heart Tools, his program and toolkit designed to help you build stronger relationships by learning to recognize and understand your emotions. Listen now!   Get a free copy of the Relationship Dashboard Check infographic to increase your emotional awareness skills https://mailchi.mp/g...

You might think of your friend's wedding this summer as another fun night to fill a weekend, but there's actually more to it than that. Whether you're aware of it or not, rituals run your relationships (specifically with family). What happens though when rituals need to be adjusted? Listen now!    To learn more about The Rich Life Book + Coaching, visit www. LivingARichLife.com.  This podcast is b...

Research indicates that when you own a thing, it becomes more attractive, valuable, and of better quality to you. In today's episode, James reveals how the endowment effect influences not only your bias of tangible things you own, but intangible things like ideas and the first letter of your name! Listen now to understand how this bias affects your relationship with the world and, more specificall...

As we get older, we get set in our ways. Because we each have biases and beliefs about the world, it takes considerable effort to see facts while withholding judgment and resisting explanations. In this episode, James dives into how recognizing 3 different biases can help you make better decisions so that you don't just believe what you want to be true, but rather, what is actually true.   To lear...

You know those people who can quickly and effortlessly go from having a bad day based on one negative experience to feeling great 30 minutes later? What do they know that you don't? Today, we're going to find out! Join us for an episode on breaking negative cycles and using your emotional intelligence to flip the narrative. Listen now!   To learn more about The Rich Life Book + Coaching, visit www...

The ongoing pandemic has shown us what it looks like when our routines collapse. Even though the world is putting us back on regular routines in these still abnormal circumstances, can we somehow adjust our schedules to create a more rhythmic experience of time?   To learn more about The Rich Life Book + Coaching, visit www. LivingARichLife.com.  This podcast is brought to you by Wealthquest. Lear...

Parents: what do you do when your empty nest is suddenly not so empty? In today's episode, James addresses why taking your adult child coming home might feel like a failure. Turns out, this living arrangement might have some benefits. The key is setting some very necessary ground rules.    Listen now for 5 must-discuss topics when you find your adult child back in their childhood bed!   To learn m...

Everyone's talking about the Great Resignation, but is it really a problem or merely a symptom of something deeper? In today's episode, James is joined by Mike Sipple, CEO of Centennial and co-founder of Talent Magnet Institute, to discuss what Mike is calling the Great Realization. Listen now!   To learn more about The Rich Life Book + Coaching, visit www. LivingARichLife.com.  This podcast is br...

We all know that "less is more," but how often do you actually work that into your problem solving? In today's episode, James dives into new research revealing a bias towards finding solutions by adding something rather than subtracting. Are you limiting your imagination in your completion of day to day tasks? And how did Wealthquest unknowing tackle this bias in it's mission? Listen now!   To lea...