The Investing for Beginners Podcast - Your Path to Financial Freedom

Want to help us make the Investing for Beginners Podcast even better? Take our quick listener survey at https://einvestingforbeginners.com/podsurvey and you’ll be entered to win a $500 Amazon gift card next month. Bonus: the first 100 respondents also get free IFB swag. This episode answers three listener questions to kick off the new year. First, Dave and Andrew break down the difference between...

Want to help us make the Investing for Beginners Podcast even better? Take our quick listener survey at https://einvestingforbeginners.com/podsurvey and you’ll be entered to win a $500 Amazon gift card next month. Bonus: the first 100 respondents also get free IFB swag. In this listener Q&A episode of At Any Rate, Evan Raidt answers two practical questions from Keaton: how to estimate the after-ta...

Want to help us make the Investing for Beginners Podcast even better? Take our quick listener survey at https://einvestingforbeginners.com/podsurvey and you’ll be entered to win a $500 Amazon gift card next month. Bonus: the first 100 respondents also get free IFB swag. In this episode, the Pitch Team (Tyler, Brandon, and Constantin) gets into a practical conversation about what to do when your po...

Want to help us make the Investing for Beginners Podcast even better? Take our quick listener survey at https://einvestingforbeginners.com/podsurvey and you’ll be entered to win a $500 Amazon gift card next month. Bonus: the first 100 respondents also get free IFB swag. In this episode, Andrew sits down with Samit Umatiya, Managing Partner at UIG, to talk about how he went from day trading to runn...

Want to help us make the Investing for Beginners Podcast even better? Take our quick listener survey at https://einvestingforbeginners.com/podsurvey and you’ll be entered to win a $500 Amazon gift card next month. Bonus: the first 100 respondents also get free IFB swag. In this episode of At Any Rate, Evan Raidt and Dave Ahern break down the basics of wills—what they are, why they matter, and how...

Want to help us make the Investing for Beginners Podcast even better? Take our quick listener survey at https://einvestingforbeginners.com/podsurvey and you’ll be entered to win a $500 Amazon gift card next month. Bonus: the first 100 respondents also get free IFB swag. In this first episode of 2026, Dave and Andrew revisit The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham and explain why it’s still wor...

Want to help us make the Investing for Beginners Podcast even better? Take our quick listener survey at https://einvestingforbeginners.com/podsurvey and you’ll be entered to win a $500 Amazon gift card next month. Bonus: the first 100 respondents also get free IFB swag. In this episode, Dave and Andrew run through a 2025 stock market year-in-review, using the “Spotify Wrapped” idea as the framing...

You can download Evan’s free monthly budgeting spreadsheet here: https://einvestingforbeginners.com/budget/ In this episode of At Any Rate, Evan Raidt is joined by Andrew Sather to talk about something most investors don’t realize is shaping their decisions: the market environment you “grew up” in. Andrew shares what it was like starting to invest in 2012 in the shadow of the Great Financial Crisi...

Want to go deeper on real companies with simple, long-term investing guidance? Subscribe to the Value Spotlight Newsletter, where Dave and Andrew share stock ideas, valuations, and lessons from real businesses straight to your inbox. In this episode of Financials Demystified, Andrew and Dave continue working down the balance sheet by breaking down current liabilities—what they are, why they matter...

Want to go deeper on real companies with simple, long-term investing guidance? Subscribe to the Value Spotlight Newsletter, where Dave and Andrew share stock ideas, valuations, and lessons from real businesses straight to your inbox. In this Christmas Day episode, Dave and Andrew play a fun “Santa wishlist” game: what stocks (and even a couple private companies) would they love to see under the tr...

You can download Evan’s free monthly budgeting spreadsheet here: https://einvestingforbeginners.com/budget/ In this episode of At Any Rate, Evan Raidt walks through the exact system he uses to track his personal financial progress—without obsessing over every transaction or living on extreme “never spend money” rules. Over the past few years, Evan has nearly quadrupled his net worth using boring (...

Want to go deeper on real companies with simple, long-term investing guidance? Subscribe to the Value Spotlight Newsletter, where Dave and Andrew share stock ideas, valuations, and lessons from real businesses straight to your inbox. In this episode, Dave and Andrew welcome Tobias Carlisle—Principal and CIO at Acquirers Funds and co-host of the Value After Hours podcast—to discuss his book The Sol...

Want to go deeper on real companies with simple, long-term investing guidance? Subscribe to the Value Spotlight Newsletter, where Dave and Andrew share stock ideas, valuations, and lessons from real businesses straight to your inbox. In this episode, Dave and Andrew share a practical “back to basics” starter guide for new investors—focusing on the foundational decisions that matter before you ever...

You can download Evan’s free monthly budgeting spreadsheet here:https://einvestingforbeginners.com/budget/ In this episode of At Any Rate, Evan Raidt sits down with Sean Tepper, CEO and founder of TYKR, a platform designed to simplify stock analysis and help everyday investors buy and sell with more confidence. Sean shares how the 2008 crash became his wake-up call, why most beginners get stuck in...

Want to go deeper on real companies with simple, long-term investing guidance? Subscribe to the Value Spotlight Newsletter, where Dave and Andrew share stock ideas, valuations, and lessons from real businesses straight to your inbox. In this episode, Dave and Andrew break down the latest earnings from top SaaS and discount retail companies—Snowflake, MongoDB, Salesforce, CrowdStrike, Dollar Tree,...

Want to go deeper on real companies with simple, long-term investing guidance? Subscribe to the Value Spotlight Newsletter, where Dave and Andrew share stock ideas, valuations, and lessons from real businesses straight to your inbox. In this episode, Dave welcomes Nick Rossolillo from Chip Stock Investor for a deep dive into the semiconductor industry. They break down what semiconductors are, how...

You can download Evan’s free monthly budgeting spreadsheet here:⁠https://einvestingforbeginners.com/budget/⁠ In this episode of At Any Rate, Evan Raidt breaks down the practical process of deciding how much to save, spend, and invest—using a clear, percentage-based system that works for any income. Evan walks through the 50-30-20 rule (and how he tweaks it himself), explains why percentages matter...

Want to go deeper on real companies with simple, long-term investing guidance? Subscribe to the Value Spotlight Newsletter, where Dave and Andrew share stock ideas, valuations, and lessons from real businesses straight to your inbox. In this episode, Dave and Andrew break down Warren Buffett’s legendary Four Pillars of Investing, sharing strategies to help you become a better investor. They explor...

Want to go deeper on real companies with simple, long-term investing guidance? Subscribe to the Value Spotlight newsletter, where Dave and Andrew share stock ideas, valuations, and lessons from real businesses straight to your inbox. In this episode, Dave and Andrew welcome Brett Schaefer to talk about “emerging moats” and showcase his new research service.  Brett breaks down why he’s focusing on...

You can download Evan’s free monthly budgeting spreadsheet here:https://einvestingforbeginners.com/budget/ In this episode of At Any Rate, Evan Raidt sits down with Kim Butler—founder of Prosperity Thinkers, host of the Prosperity Podcast, and bestselling author of Live Your Life Insurance—to break down how life insurance can be used as a tool for building wealth (not just protecting your family)....

Want to go deeper on real companies with simple, long-term investing guidance? Subscribe to the Value Spotlight newsletter, where Dave and Andrew share stock ideas, valuations, and lessons from real businesses straight to your inbox. In this episode, Dave and Andrew take a stroll through the latest earnings reports from some of the world’s biggest and most influential companies to get a pulse on t...

Want to go deeper on real companies with simple, long-term investing guidance? Subscribe to the Value Spotlight newsletter, where Dave and Andrew share stock ideas, valuations, and lessons from real businesses straight to your inbox. In this episode of The Investing for Beginners Podcast, Dave and Andrew bring back David Stein—author, co-founder of AssetCamp, and host of Money for the Rest of Us—t...

You can download Evan’s free monthly budgeting spreadsheet here:https://einvestingforbeginners.com/budget/ In this episode of At Any Rate, Evan Raidt and Andrew Sather dig into how to make smart spending decisions without living like a hermit or constantly feeling guilty every time you buy something. They push back on the extreme “never spend money” advice that goes viral online, talk about how bo...

Want to go deeper on real companies with simple, long-term investing guidance? Subscribe to the Value Spotlight newsletter, where Dave and Andrew share stock ideas, valuations, and lessons from real businesses straight to your inbox. In this episode of the IFB podcast, Dave and Andrew answer a thoughtful set of questions from listener Bruno about building confidence as a long-term investor, using...

Want to go deeper on real companies with simple, long-term investing guidance? Subscribe to the Investing for Beginners newsletter, where Dave and Andrew share stock ideas, valuations, and lessons from real businesses straight to your inbox. In this episode, Dave and Andrew continue their Financials Demystified series by breaking down long‑term assets on the balance sheet and why they matter so mu...