The Prosperity Podcast

Summary: Do you have money in a qualified plan like a 401(k) or an IRA? Are you thinking about putting money into one? If so, this episode is for you. Today, our hosts Kim Butler and Todd Strobel sit down with special guest John Cummuta to talk about the dangers that qualified plans pose to your hard earned savings. They discuss the statistics that prove qualified plans are poor places to store yo...

Summary: Today on the Prosperity Podcast, best-selling author Kim Butler and our host Todd Strobel review a book they've both read recently, Disrupt Aging: A Bold New Path to Living Your Best Life at Every Age . They discuss the changing face of aging, and how new technologies and medicine that cause is to live longer and healthier are changing the way we think about death, dying, and the aging pr...

Summary: Welcome to the ninety seventh episode of the Prosperity Podcast! Today we welcome special guest Tom Laune to our podcast to talk about finding financial security while self employed. Tom Luanne is the CEO of Stress Free Planning and is able to help many high profile, self employed clients in the music and entertainment industry find financial security for what can often be very volatile w...

Summary: Welcome to the ninety-sixth episode of the Prosperity Podcast! Today best-selling author Kim Butler and no b.s. money guy Todd Strobel sit down to review Matt Ridley's new book, The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge . They talk about how the book dissects economics and economics progress, and the importance of letting things develop naturally. They also talk about the internet...

Summary  It's finally happened! What we've been hinting at for so long, best-selling author Kim Butler's book, " Busting the Interest Rate Lies: Discover the Whole Truth About Money and How You Can Take Control of Yours " is published! On this episode of the Prosperity Podcast, Todd Strobel and Kim Butler talk about the inspiration behind the book and the content included. Don't be afraid to go an...

Summary Today our hosts, best-selling author Kim Butler and no bs money guy Todd Strobel, discuss a financial article that Todd read on Modern Money Theory. Modern money theory is the idea that is actually makes sense to lower people's taxes, increase benefits, reduce the sale of bonds, and just inject more money into the money supply. Find out - is this a long term strategy? Will policies like th...

Summary: Welcome to the ninety third episode of the prosperity podcast! Today our hosts Kim Butler and Todd Strobel talk about the idea of buying gold as an investment. They discuss the problem with labeling gold an "investment" and ask gold buyers to consider - what exactly do you want your money to do for you, and how does gold fit into that? Tune in to find out what investments can replace gold...

Summary Today on the Prosperity Podcast, our host Todd Strobel and co-host best-selling author Kim Butler sit down with a very special guest! Curtis May talks to us about his company, Practical Wealth Advisors , and his five step money organizer plan to putting you in a position to be prosperous and to live prosperously. Tune in to learn more about managing your money and find a way to live the li...

Summary: Join our host Todd Strobel and best selling author Kim Butler, today on the ninety first episode of the prosperity article as they discussed the absurdity of an article entitled "The Turning Forty Checklist in Planning for Retirement". They talk about some of the problems with trying to save for retirement (when do you plan on start saving for?) and the importance of not putting things of...

Summary: Welcome to the ninetieth episode of the Prosperity Podcast! Join our host Todd Strobel and best selling Kim Butler as they talk about the best way to share prosperity economics with your friends, family, and co-workers. More important than any one product is the mindset and strategy of prosperity economics, and alternative financial strategy that allows people to keep their money save and...

Summary   Best-selling author Kim Butler and co-host Todd Strobel welcome you the eighty ninth episode of the Prosperity Podcast! Today, they get together to talk about how to spend your (whole life insurance) death benefit while living! A lot of people don't need or don't want money after they die, they need it as they retire and as they grow older. Conversely, some people do not have heirs or cl...

Summary  Welcome to the eighty eighth episode of the Prosperity Podcast! Today, best-selling author Kim Butler and host Todd Strobel "do the dividend thing" and go in depth with dividends! They explain the important difference between stock dividends and whole life insurance dividends - namely, that whole life insurance dividends are risk free (unlike stock) and virtually guaranteed (also unlike s...

Summary: Welcome to the 87th episode of the Prosperity Podcast! Today, best selling author Kim Butler and host Todd Strobel sit down to talk about their favorite financial books. They take care to differentiate between well written financial books and well informed financial books. Finally, Kim Butler talks about her own books that she has published, how they were written, and her soon to be publi...

Summary: Welcome to the 86th episode of the Prosperity Podcast! Today, host Todd Strobel and best-selling author Kim Butler sit down to discuss the relationship between life insurance and savings. They answer the question of the one of the listeners "Do premiums paid to whole life insurance count as savings?". They also discuss the same question for term life insurance. Finally, they explain insur...

Summary Tune in to the eighty-fifth episode of the Prosperity Podcast! Today, our host Todd Strobel and best-selling author Kim Strobel talk about "unbelievable thinking" and the difference between Prosperity Thinkers and Poverty Thinkers. They explain how poverty thinkers reduce involvement, whereas prosperity thinkers work on self improvement - poverty thinkers stop dreaming, and prosperity thin...

Summary: Welcome to the 84th episode of the Prosperity Podcast! Today, host Todd Strobel and best-selling author Kim Butler sit down to discuss the power of systems. Systems allow us to let our money work for us (to leverage our money) and to create cash flow, one of the main principles of prosperity. Taking advantage of systems doesn't require us to work harder to make more money, just smarter. O...

Summary: Join Kim Butler and Todd Strobel today as they discuss financial triage. Learn what three steps occur in a triage, and what personal financial triage means to you. Also, find out what to do if you are experiencing financial triage to take back control of your money and regain your lost opportunity cost. Most importantly, listen as Kim and Todd discuss addressing systemic finance errors, i...

Summary: Welcome to the eighty first episode of the Prosperity Podcast! Join best-selling author Kim Butler and host Todd Strobel as the talk about the concepts of double line investing and triple wins in finance. The best investments are investments where both the buyer (or the investor) and the seller (or the borrower) have opportunities to grow and make more money. This is called a double line...

Summary: What is the difference between typical finance and traditional finance? Join Kim Butler and Todd Strobel on this episode of The Prosperity Podcast to find out. Learn about how the stock market, and the risk involved in stock market investments, has changed over time and how that affects the most stable retirement and savings strategies today. Also, learn about the how different financial...

Summary: Welcome to the 80th episode of the Prosperity podcast! Join bestselling author Kim Butler and no bs money guy Todd Strobel today as they discuss the millennial mindset and it's implications for our future. Are millennials really ruining the future, or is there room to hope? How should their preferences influence our investment decisions today? And maybe most importantly, what is valuable...

Summary: What type of mindset do you have? On this episode of the Prosperity Podcast, join Kim Butler and Todd Strobel as they talk about the important difference between a growth mindset and a fixed mindset. Find out how a growth mindset can help you make more money and become more prosperous, while a fixed mindset will cause you to plateau. For more information on fixed and growth mindsets, chec...

Summary: What's the difference between good and bad debt? When do you want to prepay a loan? Should your investment strategy be the same for an investment property and a property you live at (your home)? What is a good interest rate? When should you take out loans? Let best-selling author Kim Butler and co-host Todd Strobel walk you through the answers to these questions and more on this episode o...

Summary: Join us on the seventy-seventh episode of the prosperity podcast as best selling author Kim Butler and co-host Todd Strobel investigate fifteen year versus thirty year mortgages. Conventional wisdom seems to be based off of bank's best interest and marketing tactics, so the Prosperity Podcast breaks down the best ways to analyze different mortgages so that you can make the financial decis...

Summary: Join Kim Butler and Todd Strobel today as they discuss negative interest rates. Learn about what they are, what their purpose is, and how that should affect your investment strategy. Also find out whether, ultimately, negative interest rate are a positive or negative thing for our economic well being. Always, don't hesitate to reach out to us at welcome@partners4prosperity.com , with any...

Summary: Welcome to the seventy-fifth episode of the prosperity podcast! Join our host Todd Strobel and bestselling author Kim Butler as they discuss the important difference between faux prosperity and real prosperity. Learn why annuities and universal life are more accurately labeled as faux prosperity products and how to become more aware of financial products that don't deliver on their promis...