The Practical Wealth Show

Your Network Is Your Net Worth: How Relationships Create Opportunity with Guy Dunn What if your greatest asset isn't your money, your business, or your investments? What if it's your relationships? In this episode of The Practical Wealth Show, Curtis May sits down with entrepreneur, speaker, networking expert, and author Guy Dunn to discuss why networking remains one of the most valuable wealth-bu...

A business can have revenue, clients, employees, and status and still be financially unhealthy. In this episode of The Practical Wealth Show, Curtis May sits down with Rachid M. J. Barry, Founder and CEO of RMJ Consultant, for a powerful conversation on why revenue is not wealth. Many business owners and high-income earners look successful on paper but are quietly losing money through poor tax pla...

Most people focus on making money, investing money, and reducing taxes. But very few stop to ask a more dangerous question: Can someone take this from me? In this episode of The Practical Wealth Show, Curtis May sits down with Mark Pierce, a trust and LLC attorney with more than 42 years of experience in asset protection, complex tax planning, and estate preservation strategies. Mark is the foundi...

Most people believe wealth comes from earning more money. Brock Fortner believes wealth comes from something entirely different: free cash flow. In this episode of The Practical Wealth Show, Curtis May and Brock Fortner dive deep into the hidden reason many six-figure earners still feel financially stressed despite making great incomes. You'll discover: • Why income alone does not create wealth •...

Most people misunderstand whole life insurance because they look at it as a product instead of a system. In this Practical Wealth Study Group, Curtis May breaks down the Four Stages of Whole Life Insurance, also known inside the Money4Life Blueprint as the Private Reserve Strategy. This is not about chasing rates of return. This is about control, liquidity, certainty, and building a personal econo...

Most people don't have an income problem — they have a money flow problem . In this episode of The Practical Wealth Show , Curtis May breaks down the Money 4 Life Operating System : a simple framework for creating more control, liquidity, cash flow, and freedom. The framework is: Earn it → Bank it → Borrow it → Spend it → Repay it → Own it → Repeat This is not just another budgeting conversation....

Are Trump Accounts a good idea — or just another financial product being sold as a plan? In this episode, Curtis May breaks down Trump Accounts from a Practical Wealth and principle-based planning perspective. These accounts may help children begin saving and investing, and eligible children may receive a one-time $1,000 government contribution. But Curtis explains why one account does not replace...

Most people don't have an income problem. They have a cashflow control problem. In this episode, Curtis May breaks down why money disappears so quickly — even for high-income earners and business owners — and why budgeting alone usually fails. You'll learn: Why most people unknowingly operate from one financial bucket The hidden danger of unmanaged cashflow Why wealthy people use systems instead o...

In this episode of The Practical Wealth Show , Curtis breaks down why most debt payoff plans fail—and why throwing extra money at debt without fixing your cash flow structure keeps people stuck in the same cycle. Most people don't have a debt problem. They have a cash flow control problem. That's the real issue. Using lessons from The Richest Man in Babylon and the Babylon Debt Paydown Method, Cur...

This episode is not for everyone. If you're a business owner earning $500K+ and your CPA isn't proactively helping you reduce your tax burden… you're likely leaving serious money on the table. In this conversation with Ed Lyon , we break down: Why most tax strategies never get implemented The difference between compliance and real planning Where high-income business owners lose the most money How...

Stop Investing Wrong: What the Top 1% Do Differently Most people are told to save, invest, and hope. But that's not how real wealth is built. In this episode of The Practical Wealth Show, Curtis May sits down with Dave Wolcott (Founder of Pantheon Investments) to break down how high-level investors actually create predictable cash flow, tax efficiency, and long-term wealth. But more importantly—we...

EPISODE SUMMARY In this episode of The Practical Wealth Show, Curtis May sits down with entrepreneur, investor, and former Wall Street bond trader Nicole Purvy. Nicole shares her journey from trading on Wall Street to building businesses, investing in real estate, and launching her growing YouTube platform The Profitor. As the managing partner of Invictus Elite Capital Group, she helps investors d...

Episode Summary What happens after you build your private banking system? In this episode of The Practical Wealth Show, Curtis May sits down with Ben Buzek — former Special Operations leader turned real estate investor and collaborator with Wealth Without Wall Street — to discuss how to strategically deploy capital into cash-flowing assets. If you've implemented the Infinite Banking Concept (IBC)...

EPISODE SUMMARY Franchising is often marketed as passive or semi-absentee—but that misunderstanding costs investors millions. In this episode, I'm joined by franchise veteran Cliff Nonnenmacher, who has spent over 25 years owning, scaling, and advising franchise businesses across multiple industries. We talk candidly about: Why franchisees really fail The operator vs. owner mindset Capital mistake...

Episode Summary "Good" doesn't feel exciting. Good feels calm. In this episode, Curtis defines what financial stability actually looks like in real life—and walks through the Be the Bank Blueprint that turns chaos into control. What you'll learn -The clearest definition of financial stability: -Nothing feels urgent -Money moves without panic -Decisions aren't permission-based -Why most people conf...

Episode Summary Free markets only work when signals are honest. Today's money signals are distorted so people work harder, earn more, and still feel stuck. In this episode, Curtis exposes the myth of free markets, explains why money friction is engineered into the system, and reveals the three silent wealth leaks draining households and business owners every day. What you'll learn Why distorted mo...

Episode Summary Most people think they live in capitalism. They don't. They live in a permission-based money system—where access to capital requires approval, delays, or debt. In this episode, Curtis breaks down what capitalism actually is, why most households aren't participating in it, and how Infinite Banking represents household-level capitalism in action. This isn't political. It's structural...

Summary  Curtis sits down with Joey Mure (Wealth Without Wall Street) to talk straight about what financial freedom really is and why most people never reach it. Joey breaks down the mindset shift away from "retirement someday" toward building enough passive income to cover monthly expenses so you own your calendar today. From there, the conversation goes tactical: why your cash flow system must c...

Summary  Most people hear "franchise" and think McDonald's-level money and full-time grind. In this episode, Curtis sits down with Greg Mohr, founder of Franchise Maven, to break down a smarter, recession-resistant path: buying essential service businesses with proven systems without needing to be the technician. Greg shares his background from corporate engineering and small business ownership in...

Summary  A "raise" isn't just more income  it's more control. This episode breaks down how to build an income engine so your lifestyle isn't dependent on one stream of earned income. The focus is practical: stabilize cash flow, redirect leaks, and convert surplus into a repeatable system that produces results. What You'll Learn -The difference between more income and more usable income. -Why most...

Summary  Curtis sits down again with Dave Menz—now fully branded as The Laundromat Millionaire—to get the real 2026 update: what's changed, what's working, and why laundromats are still one of the strongest small-business plays in America. Dave breaks down how the industry shifted from "nobody talks about it" to a legitimate, modern, scalable asset class—driven by better operators, better systems,...

In this episode of The Practical Wealth Show, Curtis May interviews Brandi Jo Newman, a leading Infinite Banking practitioner and agency builder who has mastered the art of scalable growth through paid advertising, automation, and systems thinking.   Brandi explains how she built a $12,000-per-month paid ad engine that fills her team's calendars with qualified prospects, and how she uses AI and au...

Real-estate operator August Biniaz (Co-Founder & CIO, CPI Capital) breaks down how he grew from agent and small developer to closing $225M+ in multifamily assets—plus the boutique advantages that win in today's market: cross-border investor structures, a mid-market acquisition lane ($20–$50M), and ruthless underwriting discipline (rent growth, exit caps, and debt selection). We cover value-add vs...

On this episode, Curtis May welcomes Brent Kesler, a former chiropractor who transformed his life by applying a 200-year-old wealth strategy once used by the Rockefellers and Morgans. After eliminating nearly $1 million in debt in just 39 months, Brent sold his five successful chiropractic clinics to dedicate himself fully to wealth education. Today, as the founder of The Money Multiplier, Brent h...

In this episode, Curtis May sits down with Dr. Laquore J. Meadows, wealth strategist, educator, and CEO of Invest2Give and founder of Stocks & Sorors. Rising from poverty to earning her Ph. D., Dr. Meadows built a business dedicated to helping professionals and entrepreneurs take control of their financial futures through stock and options trading. We dive deep into her signature framework, the We...