Personal Finance Cat

✔️Summary: In this episode, we discussed the fascinating journey of Jay, a financial expert, as he shares his personal and professional experiences. From starting with a million dollars at 21 to losing it all at 25, Jay's story is filled with valuable lessons. He discusses the importance of financial literacy and the challenges faced by those living a child-free lifestyle. Jay's passion fo...

✔️Summary: In this episode, I interviewed Liz Rossof, an RE/MAX realtor based in Denver, Colorado. Liz shares her transition from an art and technology background to becoming a real estate agent in Denver. She talks about Denver's changing real estate market, challenges faced by homebuyers, and strategies to navigate it, including understanding zoning and creating clean offers. Some other wond...

✔️Summary: In this episode, I interviewed Jason Brown, who runs an education company teaching people how to trade and manage finances. Jason shares his personal journey, starting with trading $10,000 from a student loan, and eventually building a six-figure trading company at a young age. He talks about his humble background and early exposure to financial disparities. Jason learned trading throug...

✔️Summary:  In this interview, Mariusz Skonieczny discusses the concept of microcap investing, which focuses on small companies with market caps below $100 million. Mariusz explains that large institutional investors tend to overlook these companies due to their smaller size and prefer to invest in well-known, large-cap companies like Microsoft or Tesla. However, individual investors can find oppo...

✔️Summary: In this interview, I spoke with Rocky Lalvani, a business consultant and Profit First Professional, about his unique approach to helping entrepreneurs and small business owners grow their businesses profitably. Rocky emphasized that while traditional accounting and bookkeeping services focus on managing transactions and preparing taxes, his main priority is to drive profitability for hi...

✔️Summary: In this episode, Colleen Gillam-Judd, a Canada based Certified Financial Planner, discusses interesting topics in financial planning, as well as her personal journey in this industry. ► Colleen started her career as a financial advisor in 2008, right before the financial crisis, which gave her valuable experience in managing money during difficult times. ► She realized that focusing on...

✔️Summary: In this interview, 23 year old Karl Swanepoel, the Founder and CEO of Revolancer, discussed the vision and success of his tech startup. Revolancer is a rapidly growing freelance marketplace, boasting a user base of over 20,000 individuals. ⚡ The core mission of Revolancer revolves around empowering freelancers, businesses, and independent professionals, offering them freedom in their w...

✔️Summary: I had the pleasure of interviewing Lindsey Bomgren, the passionate founder of Nourish Love Move, and a fitness trainer specializing in pre- and postnatal workouts for moms who want to stay healthy and active throughout their pregnancy and beyond. During the entire course of the interview, I was simply amazed at her dedication to fitness content creation and her role as a fitness trainer...

✔️Summary: In this Episode, Elisabeth (aka Liz) Cardiello shares her journey of creating Caffe Unimatic and finding purpose through her grief process of losing her father early. She talks about the challenges she faced in building Caffe Unimatic, finding mentors who saw her for who she was, and incorporating coffee as a conduit for conversation to help young women build confidence. Such experience...

✔️Summary: In this episode, show guest Adam Carroll shares his valuable advice on paying off debt, building wealth, and building a bigger life that frees you from a W2 job. ⭐️About Adam: Through the use of The Shred Method, Adam Carroll paid off his home in record time saving over $180,000 in interest in the process. He’s sharing this strategy with the world in order to help people ‘free themselv...

✔️An awesome interview with Michelle Marki regarding how she modeled her investing philosophy on Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger. It was great speaking with Michelle as she is a Podcaster, YouTuber, and value investor, just like me and many millennials! I am thankful for our conversation and hope it will help you along your personal finance journey. 👉 Feel free to check out Michelle's YouTu...

✔️ Summary: In this episode, Dr. Erin Hudson shared so much gold about the benefits of investing in real estate, especially large multi-family rental properties, as a full time real estate professional. She's had it with working hard as a doctor only to let Uncle Sam take away 50% of her income. When she discovered the power of multi-family investing as a wealth generation and wealth preservat...

✔️ Summary: In this episode, Pili, an actress turned real estate investor, talks about her amazing journey as an entrepreneur. She started her career as an actress in NYC, worked many different jobs and ultimately decided to get into real estate with her husband Jason. Their venture into real estate has included heavy construction, flipping houses, wholesaling houses, and now multifamily apartment...

✔️ Teaser: If you read the news at all, you probably remember the bad rap Meta had experienced late last year. Meta is the worst company. Do not invest in Meta. Meta’s Metaverse is garbage. Meta already lost the Metaverse war to Microsoft. Mark Zuckerberg’s net worth dropped by over $ 60 billion in 6 months in 2022. Hold on a second, despite all that, Personal Finance Cat is talking about investin...

✔️ Summary: In this episode, Vivian Chen talks about her journey climbing the corporate ladder. In particular, she was able to successfully transition from a technical PhD scientist to a strategy and operations professional at a multinational pharmaceutical company. I find it especially fascinating her take on why the pharmaceutical industry may be better than the tech industry, at least for some...

✔️ Summary: In this episode, Calanthia Mei, Co-Founder at Masa Finance, talks about her career journey as a female, first-generation immigrant, minority entrepreneur in the fintech and web3 space. ⭐️ About Calanthia: Calanthia's work has been featured on CNBC, Blockworks, CoinDesk, TechCrunch, CoinTelegraph, FinTech TV, Crypto Coin Show, and more. Prior to Masa, Calanthia has been a serial en...

✨ In this episode, we have Kelly An, a web 2.5 startup founder based in Singapore, to talk about her experience going from a software engineer, to venture capital investor, to startup founder. Her journey covers China, United States (both east and west coasts), France, Singapore, and wherever else it may take her! 👉 About Kelly: Kelly An is a software engineer, impact investor, and experienced c...

Evelyn is currently a Software Engineer at Microsoft. She changed her career from political science, to international development, to software engineering. It took her 17 months to break into tech by teaching herself how to code while having a full time job and raising two kids. She first got accepted into the Microsoft LEAP Apprenticeship Program in less than one year after she wrote her first “H...

Summary: What excites me the most about the Metaverse is the fact that with the brand new platform (aka web 3.0), there will be brand new business opportunities. Web1.0 and web 2.0 brought about all the amazing businesses we know and love (or love to hate) today. It added so much convenience (think about search), liberated people from traditional career paths (think about social media), and elevat...

Summary: In this episode, we’re going to talk about another exciting opportunity in the Metaverse industry - manufacturing hardware such as VR headsets. Do you know that among all the billionaires in the world, one of the top 3 industries is manufacturing? I don’t know about you, but I always thought the top industry would be tech by far, but turns out, according to Forbes, of the the 2,668 billio...

Summary: Do you want to be the founder of the next Nest, Zoom or Coinbase, but in the Metaverse industry? These founders are all billionaires now but they started out just as you and I - working as an employee for some company they do not own. So if you want to be a Metaverse entrepreneur, maybe get a job in a Metaverse company first! Listen to this episode to find out how! References: Forbes Arti...

Summary: Would you pay for something that does not exist in the physical world? Well, in a sense we all do that nowadays - movies, music, games are all digital products and we have been buying and consuming them for years. If you are a gamer, you also know that people have been buying stuff in video games, not just the game itself, but other so-called in-game purchases like extra lives, hints, one...

Summary: Before social media was created, there was no such a thing as an influencer. But now of course, being an influencer is a legit business venture, and it’s getting very competitive in all of the popular platforms. Metaverse is offering you another chance! Except there is one caveat, Metaverse is not quite here yet, at least not completely. So how can I become an influencer in the Metaverse,...

Summary: Interested in education in the Metaverse as a creator? Good news, it is already here. Listen to the episode to find out what resources are out there ready to be used, and what training is available for you to take in order to learn more about education in the Metaverse. We are still in the first inning, so as they say - sky’s the limit! There is so much impact you can potentially make! Re...

Summary: In this episode, I talk about how to become a mearaverse technical expert. I’m not a coder, so I speak from a layman perspective. I more so want to make the case that it’s a no-brainer that if you’re already a coder or programmer or software engineer or in any other tech career, you should really start learning how to channel your skills to make them relevant for the metaverse, if you hav...