The Whole Wealth Journey

We would love to hear what you have to say about this episode. Please send us a text. Ready for 2023? Want to get yourself started in the right direction? Then you've come to the right place. Your hosts, Matthew Grishman and Jim Gebhardt, complete the prior episode's discussion on bias but take it to a practical application to address its influence on risk. And risk at the wrong time cou...

We would love to hear what you have to say about this episode. Please send us a text. You're not biased on how you spend your money are you? Yes. You most certainly are and in the next two episodes you're going to get a very specific and detailed outline of exactly what those biases look like and how they affect what you buy, what you invest in and how you look at what you do with your m...

We would love to hear what you have to say about this episode. Please send us a text. Welcome to 2023! While Jim and Matthew are hard at work building out the new year of episodes and content for the program, we thought it would be fun to assemble episodes from the last three January's into one great collection of content. From the second show of Financial Sobriety to last January, if you&apo...

We would love to hear what you have to say about this episode. Please send us a text. Did you miss any of the "inflation" episodes in the latter part of the year? Did you want to share with somebody that you thought might benefit but just didn't have the time to load up and share 4 episodes? Did you just lose a little bit in the translation of so much information over the 4 episodes...

We would love to hear what you have to say about this episode. Please send us a text. As a listener to the program you've heard your hosts Jim Gebhardt and Matthew Grishman stress the virtues of slowing down to go faster, the 10-10-10 rule, say "no" more. Well now, you're going to hear turn around and look behind to help you look ahead or go back to go forward. In this episode,...

We would love to hear what you have to say about this episode. Please send us a text. We all carry bias in our lives but did you know you have financial biases too? Probably more than you thought. As Matthew works toward earning his Certified Financial Planner certification, he was exposed to the myriad of biases people can have with regard to their finances. Some obvious, others not so much. Conf...

We would love to hear what you have to say about this episode. Please send us a text. The Thanksgiving holiday is over. Most of us celebrated with family and friends and had a day full of gratitude. But why let it end with just one big day a year? What if gratitude happened every day? Multiple times a day? What could that look like? How could that benefit everyone? How would it make you feel? Your...

We would love to hear what you have to say about this episode. Please send us a text. The Clarity Compass is a great tool to understand what it is you are going to do to improve your relationship with money and consequently with yourself and others. What does that look like as we approach the holidays? How do you prevent the Visa Hangover that comes post holiday when you've violated the very...

We would love to hear what you have to say about this episode. Please send us a text. You've heard the descriptions of both Jeff (aka "Ace") and Theresa as they worked their way through the process of the identification of their core four values. Now hear the completion of the Clarity Compass exercise and learn what it did for them to help crystallize what's most important to t...

We would love to hear what you have to say about this episode. Please send us a text. In Part 1 of the Clarity Compass you went thru the exercise as it was performed with the program's producer, Ace. (aka Jeff). Now, Matthew and Jim take Jeff's wife, Theresa or "T" through the same process with what might be surprising results; In a good way. For couples and families, understan...

We would love to hear what you have to say about this episode. Please send us a text. The Clarity Compass is a part of the foundation of Financial Sobriety and is referenced throughout many of the episodes. Without it, you have no direction. With it, you have, well, clarity! Easier for some than others, the Clarity Compass exercise is a pre-requisite to further understanding of Financial Sobriety....

We would love to hear what you have to say about this episode. Please send us a text. Not unlike flying a plane, you're going to hear Matthew and Jim discuss the need to have checks and balances on your investment "flight" plan. Too often, one tends to want to manually attempt to "fly" their investment strategy over the long haul. Not unlike a flight plan, however, if you&...

We would love to hear what you have to say about this episode. Please send us a text. Inflation is the silent disruptor as you've already heard. But did you know you can battle back with relative ease? Exercising the pain of discipline over the pain of regret, today's episode reveals tips, tricks and tools you can use to win the battle over inflation. You can do it and you can continue t...

We would love to hear what you have to say about this episode. Please send us a text. How, really, does the Inflation Reduction Act impact inflation? As you might have surmised, this is a very familiar governmental titling ploy to make the "Act" sound like something it may not quite really be. Or is it? Does it do what it says? Listen to what Matthew and Jim have to say about it and do w...

We would love to hear what you have to say about this episode. Please send us a text. It's the hottest topic of discussion in financial circles right now. That's right. Inflation is silently eating away at your savings, it's taking your income, it's limiting your freedom to do what you want. Join Matthew and Jim as they discuss what inflation is and how we may have gotten to th...

We would love to hear what you have to say about this episode. Please send us a text. Hard to believe another summer is behind us and the fourth quarter of the year is just around the corner. Your hosts, Jim Gebhardt and Matthew Grishman, reflect on the second summer presenting the "Teach Your Children" series and the significance of preparing your children for their relationship with mo...

We would love to hear what you have to say about this episode. Please send us a text. As our "Teach Your Children" series winds down for the summer, one of the critical "Pay thyself first" comprehensions has to be not only the "why" but the "how". In this episode, Matthew and Jim share both their own personal stories with their children as well as the direct...

We would love to hear what you have to say about this episode. Please send us a text. So you're following along with your hosts Matthew Grishman and Jim Gebhardt and your children are making progress, all excited about that first job and that first paycheck, right? But what happens next is the crux of this episode. The money isn't right! Who took my money? How do you explain to your chil...

We would love to hear what you have to say about this episode. Please send us a text. We're getting toward the end of summer and your hosts Matthew Grishman and Jim Gebhardt have been holding class on teaching your children about many of the attributes of building wealth and money as they relate to somebody just getting started in their earning career. Now comes the moment of truth when an in...

We would love to hear what you have to say about this episode. Please send us a text. If you're thinking it seems like you just heard an episode last week, you're correct. This whole teach your children concept provides so much value, the intent is to get as much of it completed while the kids are out of school and still at home. In this episode, your hosts, Matthew Grishman and Jim Gebh...

We would love to hear what you have to say about this episode. Please send us a text. What if you could count on your state school system to educate, not only your child, but every child on financial literacy? What would that look like 20 years from now as those children grew into leadership, adulthood, government? Pretty amazing I would think. You'll hear about Rhode Island's bill SB349...

We would love to hear what you have to say about this episode. Please send us a text. Continuing the theme of teaching your children financial literacy, this episode digs into respecting the value of money from an early age with some tutorial elements to help you with your children in the process of learning about the value of a dollar. The concepts may be simple in theory but the actual practice...

We would love to hear what you have to say about this episode. Please send us a text. In this brief update, Matthew and Ace bring a message of the postponement of the "live" episode as a result of a family health emergency in Jim's family. Tomorrow, the next episode in the sequencing of "Teach Your Children" will be launched instead of the previously anticipated "live...

We would love to hear what you have to say about this episode. Please send us a text. Yes, you may have heard this before. Because there was such an interest in what we did last year, we've simply polished a few things up and we're relaunching the "Teach Your Children" series for the summer session. We know you're not likely to go back and dig the episode up, but if you&ap...

We would love to hear what you have to say about this episode. Please send us a text. Back by popular demand and with a little twist, the summer series of teaching your children the immutable lessons of Financial Sobriety returns. This is the 7 course program to help your children of any ageget a grip on those three most important relationships of money, self and others. Since it's unlikely t...