Wealth Formula Podcast

Happy New Year! I don't know about you, but I am looking forward to another profitable year in the roaring 20s. If you have been investing in real estate for the last several years, you are obviously doing very well. The big question on everyone's mind seems to be whether or not the market is too hot to continue investing. There is no one right answer to this. In fact, when we talk about the "real...

Technology is great but the burdens of technology are significant. Think of all your accounts and all your passwords. You may have cryptocurrency and might be trading on cryptic DeFi platforms. What if something happened to you today? How much of your money would be a giant mess to the family you left behind? There's a New Year's resolution for you. Make sure your house is in order! Meanwhile, whi...

Inflation is running at about 6-7 percent right now. That is significant. In fact, we haven't seen those numbers in about 4 decades. On this week's show, we will talk to an economist to explain what this means at the macro level and what may potentially be the long-term outcome. I'm not an economist. I am a professional investor and the way I see things right now is at that level. Let me tell you...

A number of people told me that they really enjoyed last week's podcast interview with William Green, who spoke about what we can learn from the greatest investors of all time. One line that still haunts me is Sir John Templeton saying that the four most dangerous words for an investor are "This time it's different". Why does it haunt me? Listen, the economy is in a massive boom right now. There i...

Asset prices are booming. We have more than doubled price per door costs on acquisitions made in some markets just two years ago. That's just what our investor club has seen in real estate. To look at rising asset prices on steroids, just look to the crypto markets. A guy who works out at the place I work out bought $400K of gala token under 1 cent and is now sitting on a couple hundred million bu...

When you are trying to figure out how to become more successful in life, don't try to re-recreate the wheel. Success stories aren't all the same, but they often rhyme. My first two successful businesses were nothing other than me ripping off other successful business models and giving them a twist of my own. I knew the concepts already worked in other markets and there was, in my view, no reason w...

It's been 2 years since Covid-19 first became the major global topic. I must admit, if you told me back then that we'd still be wearing masks and living our lives with Covid-19 precautions every day, I would have never believed you. So much about this period in time is extraordinary. It's hard to really appreciate that as we continue to live in the moment while this chapter in history continues to...

At the core of every individual's subconscious there is a wealth thermostat. What sets the temperature is a combination of nature and nurture. Once it's set, it's difficult to change it. But if you know you have a thermostat, it's a lot easier to change your mindset. What do I mean by this? Well, think about yourself for a moment. Are you $200K/year type? $500K or a million/year type? Now, try to...

Last week I did an emergency podcast to make sure everyone is aware of an upcoming change related to the whole life policies we use inside of Wealth Formula Banking. It all revolves around recent changes made to IRC Section 7702, with is the IRS code that dictates how life insurance policies are taxed. Since the 1980's, the code mandated insurance companies who offer whole life to offer a 4% guara...

I began talking about cryptocurrency on Wealth Formula Podcast in 2017. Many joined the crypto world after that and have made a significant amount of money. If you are one of those people…you're welcome! Those who stayed on the sidelines often felt, for good reason, that cryptocurrency was just a big digital fad and that it would probably die out like tulips of the past. Well, there was a deep fro...

This is a 5 minute update on Wealth Formula Banking changes that are occurring because of current tax legislation. PLEASE LISTEN NOW!

It's not easy becoming a physician. You have to be at the top of your class in college to get into medical school. Then medical school itself is a pretty big commitment. Of course, I'm one of those crazies who added 7 years of residency training to my education. But by the time you get done with all of that training, you really do get an opportunity to master a body of knowledge. And while medicin...

I am a natural entrepreneur. It's not something I tried to be. I'm just wired this way. School does not teach you to be an entrepreneur. However, there is no doubt that certain subjects parallel my thinking as an entrepreneur. It may surprise you to know that the classes I took that most resemble my way of entrepreneurial thinking, were in the area of organic chemistry. Higher level organic chemis...

At our Wealth Formula meetup in Dallas a few weeks ago my CPA, Tom Wheelwright, got up on stage and surprised me. Tom is a very smart guy. He wrote one of the books that I consider a "must read" for personal finance called Tax Free Wealth. He is the Michael Jordan of CPA's. He has several high profile clients including Robert Kiyosaki and is Robert's Rich Dad Advisor on taxes. I thought I had read...

Economics is a social science. While science is knowledge and application of existing aspects of the world and applications through physical laws, mathematics and research, social sciences deal with society and human behaviors. Certainly there is plenty of math involved in economics but the math is predictive insofar as the behavior is predicted correctly. That is not an easy task when trying to p...

"It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future." -Yogi Berra The residential real estate market is on fire. No doubt. We are seeing this across the board from single-family homes to massive apartment complexes. I'm not an expert on single-family home values. I don't understand them as they are not rooted in cap rates etc. However, I can comment on larger residential real estate. Cap...

Personal finance is personal. However, there is a type of conventional financial wisdom that leads us to believe that there is one right way of doing things. That becomes very confusing to people…especially in our alternative investment world. After all, financial advisors are the experts, right? In reality, financial advisors are usually most interested in your money going into traditional invest...

When I first read The Cash Flow Quadrant by Robert Kiyosaki (the purple pill), I was fascinated by the concept of using earned income to produce streams of passive income, that would eventually become a great river that would replace ones earned income all together. That concept is what I now call Wealth 1.0. You see, while the concept is appealing, the math is not. Let's do some simple arithmetic...

There is a saying, "People grossly over-estimate what they can accomplish in a year and grossly under-estimate what they can accomplish over five years." As I write this to you on my 48th birthday (September 8th), I look back on the last 5 years and it's hard to argue the point. Five years ago, this podcast did not exist. Today, Wealth Formula Podcast gets about 25K-30K downloads per month and we...

As a flaming entrepreneur, I had a serious problem when I was a young man: Shiny Object Syndrome. After surgical residency, I had a couple of major business successes. Having never failed in business before, I kept pushing the limits. It wasn't about the money back then. You see, natural entrepreneurs like me enjoy money—no doubt. But we use it mostly as a way to keep score. If you create a succes...

Henry Ford once said, "Whether you think you can or think you can't, you're right". The older I get, the more I am convinced that he was right! I believe that mindset is the single most important element to success in life—be it financial or otherwise. Mindset is a broad term but the way I think about it is as a thermostat for your expectations of the world. In my experience, there certainly is a...

Once you realize how much you don't know, you always feel like you're playing catch up. At least that's how I feel when it comes to personal finance. Wealthy families often implement family offices to help keep things straight. Theoretically, that's a great solution. However, from what I've seen, family office structures often leave clients with a false sense of security. No matter what your level...

Over the last three weeks, you have heard actual members of our Wealth Formula Community talk about their financial journeys. A recurrent theme through these interviews was the concept of Wealth Formula Banking. In case you didn't notice, all three of these individual investors are essentially using Wealth Formula Banking as the cornerstone of their investor strategies. You might, therefore, be wo...

In June of 2008, I had just completed my surgical residency and gotten married the day after graduation. There was already quite a bit of change in my life. On the way back from my honeymoon, I looked for something to read in at the Puerto Vallarta airport—not many choices as you can imagine. Most people heading back stateside are too hung over to read on the plane. There on the shelf, I grabbed o...

"Coming out of left field" is a slang derived from baseball which basically references something unexpected. What does that equate to in personal finance? Well, the opposite of something unexpected would be something expected or… conventional. Conventional financial wisdom includes stocks, bonds, and mutual funds as the foundation of a solid, responsible portfolio. Conventional finance has even la...