The Financial Independence Show

Today’s episode features Vitaliy Katsenelson, author of Soul in the Game and creator of Contrarian Edge . Vitaliy spent the first eighteen years of his life in Murmansk, Russia, a city located above the Arctic Circle in the northwestern corner of Russia. He and his family then emigrated to the U.S. in 1991 where he would study to become a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA). Vitaliy entered th...

Today’s episode features Heather Blankenship , an RV park investor expert, who also runs Wealthy Woman . Heather had no RV park industry experience and really no capital to get involved either. A great financing option and a big leap of faith left her as the new owner of a struggling park near Dollywood. Originally a money pit, Heather finally turned the park around and became profitable aft...

In this episode, Cody and Justin walk listeners through the step-by-step flow of what to do with your money at each stage of your financial journey. Using an excellent flowchart from Reddit as a starting point, we break down the full decision tree and give you our own opinions as well (even the controversial ones). This flowchart is broken down into the following main stages: Budgeting Emergency F...

Today’s episode features Ryan Chaw from Newbie Real-Estate Investing , who has created over $10k in monthly rental income. Ryan did all this over a 5-year period of investing in California. His strategy is to buy large single-family homes and rent them by the room to college students. He even sometimes adds walls to these homes to increase the number of rooms. Ryan doesn’t just randoml...

Today’s episode features Jordan Grumet aka Doc G, author of Taking Stock . Doc G brings the best angles, analogies, and unique perspectives when talking about life and money. He himself found himself chasing what he thought was his dream and chasing money before slowing down and really critically thinking about what was important. In his book, Jordan takes us through his perspectives on livi...

Today’s episode features Steve Rozenberg, author of Building an Empire: Failing Our Way to Millions.  He was an international commercial airline pilot who, after the tragedies of 9/11, was forced to realize that his “Safe and Secure career” was nowhere near as safe and secure as he had thought. Steve chose real estate investing to be able to control his own destiny and create his own generat...

Today’s episode features Joseph Hogue, creator of Let’s Talk Money! YouTube channel. Joseph served in the marines but upon getting out he went to college to chase the world of finance. He would become an investment analyst for some of the largest personal investors. Joseph is extremely qualified to talk about a huge variety of finance topics but we brought him on this episode for one r...

Today’s episode features Brittnay Sharman, creator of The Travelling House Sitters . After hearing about housesitting from a friend Brittnay decided to give it a go while still living in London. She didn’t mind that it was just down the road from her flat, or that it was only for 1 week, she just wanted to test the waters and gain some experience before diving deep into it. It was a success...

Today’s episode features Jillian Johnsrud, author of Fire The Haters . We actually featured Jillian once prior on our show in Episode 68 . In that episode, we cover Jillian’s background (quick recap below): Jillian got married at age 19 She saw from an early age that money gave you options They started off their marriage with $55k worth of debt From the start, they always stuck to a go...

In this episode, Cody and Justin talk about something many listening to the show have never had to navigate until now. We’re talking Recessions and Bear Markets. Should your investment strategy change? Is there anything you can do to lessen the blow? How do inflation and rising mortgage rates factor in? Could this actually be a positive opportunity? We’re going to cover all this and mo...

Today’s episode features Ryan Pineda , a serial entrepreneur who runs six 7-8 figure businesses. For most of Ryan’s life, he was sure that he’d be a professional baseball player. And for a while, Ryan was right. But after years in AAA and professional baseball, Ryan finally gave up on that dream. Along the way, he had unknowingly been building skills to create his dream life. His...

Today’s episode features Aleric Heck, the creator of Ad Outreach . It all began when 12-year-old Aleric started making YouTube videos in 2009 with a camcorder. At that time, he was just reviewing mobile apps but even that would go on to make $120k per year in 2015. Aleric didn’t stop with just an app review channel though. He decided to go into the ads space on YouTube and turned that...

Today’s episode features Riggs Eckelberry, the CEO of Origin Clear . Riggs grew up the son of an international businessman. He also had a natural draw towards making the world a better place and joined a Non-profit right out of high school. Then in the early 80s, he followed his passion for technology and started his very own tech company in New York. Riggs eventually sold that to one of his...

Today’s episode features Daniel Alonzo who is a coach, entrepreneur, podcaster, speaker, and author of Wealth on the Beach . He brings his messaging of creating a better life and financial independence to a massive social media following and speaks in front of hundreds and thousands of people a year. Daniel Alonzo knew he wanted to be somebody from a very early age. When an injury in college...

Today’s episode features Sharon Tseung and Sean Pan. Sharon Tseung runs Digtial Nomad Quest . She went from $30k/year to millionaire by 30, and owns 32 rental units and several passive income businesses. Sharon quit her job, has been traveling the world for 2 years,  and all this while building passive income as a digital nomad. Sean Pan runs Everything REI . He has done flips, buy and holds...

Today’s episode features Emily Williams from I Heart My Life . Emily was going down a path that so many others do — following a typical career path and heading to graduate school. She was on her way but never made it. Literally. Emily just turned the car around with no real plan. It took a few years working low-paying jobs but she finally decided to bet on herself. In 2014, Emily start...

Today’s episode features Kat Norton aka Miss Excel . Kat is taking the world by storm with her 800k+ Tik Tok followers, 600k+ Instagram followers, and LinkedIn learning viewers. It doesn’t just stop with the freebies though, Kat has earned over $100k in a single day (not a typo!) She does this all by educating the world on Microsoft Excel. But not just any form of education, Kat makes...

Today’s episode features Eric Barker, author of “Barking Up the Wrong Tree” and “Plays Well with Others” In Eric’s first book, he scientifically stress-tests the maxims we’ve all been told about success to uncover the surprising answers we need to live a meaningful life. Now in the follow-up to this bestseller, he’s doing it again but this time for relatio...

Today’s episode features Brennan Schlagbaum from Budgetdog . Brennan found himself married at 24 with a combined debt of $300k. He had a great career as a CPA but felt smothered by the weight of their debt. In just a few short years Brennan had paid off all that debt, paid off his house, and even had a kid along the way. This all happened before the age of 30! Now his passion is helping othe...

In this episode, Cody interviews Justin on how he has navigated corporate moves both internally and externally. We’ll talk about how you can find those better opportunities from an inbound and outbound method. These can be within your current company or swapping companies altogether. A big piece of this is filtering and comparing opportunities. In many jobs, the compensation isn’t just...

Today’s episode features Eric Rosenberg from Personal Profitability (again!). Eric is a prolific writer and speaker across all finance topics, but today our main focus is solely on cryptocurrency. We already covered the intro to crypto with Eric back in episode 163 , so now it’s time to go deeper! In this episode, we discuss mining, NFTs (art & utility), staking, Smart Contracts, D...

Today’s episode features Brian Feroldi, author of Why Does the Stock Market Go Up ? In this episode, we get a chance to dig into the basics of stocks and investing. Why do companies split their shares? What are shares really? What happens when a company buys back stock? And the most important question: Why does the stock market go up? Brian delivers all of this financial knowledge in a super...

Today’s episode features Logan Leckie, creator of Topia, The Financial Independence App . Logan saw a void in the app marketplace when it came to an all-encompassing app that could guide you through your entire journey to FI. The app also comes with a built-in community to encourage and guide you through the various stages of financial independence. Logan isn’t just stopping with an ap...

Today’s episode features Vincent Pugliese, author of The Wealth of Connection. But really when I think of Vincent, I think of a master networker and amazing storyteller. Vincent walks us through how he went from a guy with a camera standing outside of a stadium to taking some of the most iconic pictures of some of the biggest names in professional sports. The whole time Vincent was building...

Today’s episode features Barbara Sloan, Author of Tipped . Tipped focuses on personal finance for anyone in the “tipped” industry. The tipped industry includes waitresses, bartenders, hairdressers, cosmetologists, dancers, etc. Barbara spent a lengthy career in the tipped industry. After she became passionate about personal finance, she realized there was a huge information gap f...