Uncommon Wealth Podcast

In this episode of the Uncommon Wealth podcast, host Philip Ramsey interviews Kevin Lease, a business consultant and coach. Kevin shares his uncommon journey and discusses the obstacles that people often face when trying to invest in themselves. He emphasizes the importance of belief in oneself and the need to overcome fear, self-doubt, and imposter syndrome. Kevin also highlights the value of bei...

What is the hard thing that you are holding off doing and what would it look like to go after it? This Simple Step episode is our quick encouragement to head right on in to the storm, you'll get through it faster. 

In this bonus discussion, we discuss our episode 171 interview with Jeremy Smith, owner of The BAR Performance Gym.  To listen to the original interview, check out https://uncommonwealth.com/podcast/running-a-gym/

Sometimes, the events that seem to be throwing you off your path are the ones that lead to exactly where you need to be. For Jeremy Smith, those diversions lead him away from college in his final semester to a trying time caring for his dad during an illness. Then he found himself coping with life through drugs, a choice that eventually landed him in jail. But as Jeremy began to rebuild his life,...

In the wake of some significant changes the government made to public student loan programs in July of 2023 (with more to take effect in the future), resident student loan guru Arron Cramer is here to talk us through it.  We'll talk about the changes to the various payback options, the impact of consolidation on public service forgiveness, and the inflation-relevant modification to how the pa...

In this bonus discussion, we talk about our episode 169 interview with Dr. Megan McCoy and our complex relationship with money.  To listen to the original interview, click here: https://uncommonwealth.com/podcast/financial-therapy/

Managing your finances isn't just about holding, folding, spending and saving. In fact, how we approach money is often a complex web of our attitudes, desires, fears, goals, education, and relationships. This means that we often perceive our path to success as a set of financial behaviors when, in reality, being healthy financially requires engaging in the things that drive our behaviors in the fi...

When you're uncommon in the little things, you'll often find that it spreads easily, impacting not only you but those around you.  In this simple step episode, we're talking about encouraging others, relieving yourself of being the person that has to teach the world a lesson, and having some patience and grace for folks (even if they stink at the first two things in this list).  What are...

In this bonus episode, we discuss our episode 167 interview with Rayma Dinnen and how faith and "retirement" helped kick things up a notch.  To listen to the original episode, click here: https://uncommonwealth.com/podcast/blowing-passed-the-finish-line/

What if retirement wasn't the end but in fact just the beginning? What if it wasn't the time to slow down but the time to kick things into high gear? The uncommon path generally tries to find a way to love what you do so much that you don't ever want to retire. But for those of us where that part didn't quite work out, retirement can often be the catalyst to doing more than you ever thought possib...

In this bonus episode, we discuss our episode 165 interview with Joe Snook and his fishing charter business.  To listen to the original episode, click here: https://uncommonwealth.com/podcast/gone-fishin/

What does success look like for you? Having your own definition is not only important in setting goals and tracking progress but it also protects your uncommon path from being upended chasing someone else's view of success. In this episode, Phillip and Arron share some personal definitions of success as well as some recommendations on how to craft your own definitions. Plus, the value of focusing...

For most of us, catching a shark is mostly likely to be a reference to a tv show or a run-in with a door to door salesman. But for Joe Snook, owner of Joe Snook Fishing and Charter, catching a shark could be an actual shark on any given Tuesday. But the transition from doing construction work to running his own charter service wasn't an easy path and likely won't be a permanent one.  In this...

The uncommon path is a step by step thing, but it doesn't mean you can't make those steps a little easier for yourself when the opportunity arises. This week, we're talking about automating your goals. The key is to get started and then start moving the goal post bit by bit to help you on your way. Small actions add up over time, no action does, well, nothing.  Let us know how simple steps ha...

Life doesn’t always follow the path we expect. For Whitney Maxwell, starting out playing classical pieces led to a winding path of dueling pianos, cruise ships, Swiss clubs, a French major, a Midwest circuit of gigs, and finally back home to Iowa to open up Bloom Music studios. The key to success for Whitney was the willingness to embrace new opportunities as they came and to just keep moving forw...

In this Simple Step episode we're talking about taking the time to dream a little bit. One of the key steps in an uncommon life is to have an idea where you'd like to see your life go. But often that vision gets lost or, never found, under the burdens and business of day-to-day life.  So, we want you go go on a date with your spouse with the sole purpose of dreaming about the future. If uncon...

What do you call it when you have a side gig for 13 years that makes no money? If you're Ben Fust, you'd call it exactly what you were looking for.  In addition to being the chief audio man here at the Uncommon Wealth Podcast, Ben also has his own podcast, is a house church pastor, Business Architect, and a family man.  In this episode, we're talking about how an uncommon path sometimes...

Often times cutting your own path involves being bold, persistent in the face of difficulty and criticism, and an almost supernature focus. One of the risks in this path, however, is blindness. Oftentimes, we can't see our own risks with the same keen eye we might see it in others. To help, you need that one person in your life who can say anything to you. In this week's simple step, we're talking...

Do you act the same way when you're by yourself as you do when others are watching? The root word of integrity is integer, meaning "whole" or not divided. To have integrity is to be whole, not divided between two different versions of yourself no matter who is watching or, often, when no one is.   The temptations around acting differently when no one is watching touch many aspects of life, in...

Certainly, with all the fancy computers and smart math folks in the world, there has to be a magic formula out there that balances risk and returns and gets the best investment returns out there for everyone, right? Even if there was such a thing (and we'll discuss modern portfolio theory out of the gate), there is a common variable that makes makes the math inadequate: You.  Yes, humans are...

With less than $10,000 in the bank – credit card debt up to his eyeballs, credit scores in the toilet, and his wife pregnant with their first child, Caleb Walsh thought this was the perfect time to buy an $800,000 multi-unit property! This could have been another 99 Homes story (where huge numbers of people got underwater on their mortgage) but Caleb turned it into a story of going from zero to 50...

Managing your retirement accounts starts with the basics: have a number, know what it'll take to get there, and have a way to know whether you're progressing as expected. In this Simple Step, we're talking about that process, wanting more than "set it and forget it", and letting the math of it all be your friend.  Need help in this area? Hit us up at podcast@uncommonwealth.com. 

You've taken the leap from golden handcuffs to working for yourself. It's day one, what do you do? If you're Kristi Krayneski, you make a list of all the folks you think you can help, maybe panic for a moment, then get to work.  This week we're talking with Kristi, Business Strategy Consultant and Coach with Envision Success, about the transition from the C-Suite to coaching. We'll discuss th...

What makes Uncommon Wealth Partners, and the Uncommon Wealth Podcast, uncommon? This week we're spilling the tea on what supports the claim of uncommon in our work. We'll talk wax rings, big bands, refusing to refer, prayer, humility, starting your future with a date night, and taking a team approach. That's not all, but we wouldn't want to spoil the whole show. For more information about Uncommon...

The Uncommon Path is rarely a straight one. It's full of twists, turns, difficult decisions and occasionally a few mufflers dragging behind your car. No one knows this more than Paige Witte, Owner of Emerald Benefits and traverser of her own uncommon path.  In this episode, we talk with Paige about her journey from  radiation therapist to employee benefits broker and business owner, and...