Posts by Rachel Marshall
Why You Want Insurance Part 3: It Costs More to Self-Insure
To navigate your insurance decisions, you must weigh the costs and opportunity costs of each option. While some choose to self-insure as a solution to reduce insurance costs, there are additional costs hidden beneath the surface that you need to be aware of. Insurance is fairly polarizing. Chances are, you either love it or you…
Read MoreWhy You Want Insurance Part 2: It Protects Your Human Life Value
Insurance is about more than protecting your stuff. It’s about protecting your human life value. Often, your life insurance needs rank pretty close on the motivation list with you need to change the oil in your car. Here’s the filtering mechanism your brain goes through when you hear it: Not that pressing. Things are going fine without it. …
Read MoreEstate Planning That Works, with Rick Randall
Rick Randall says that estate planning that works is not the norm, but it does not have to be that way. The goal of estate planning is to dictate how you will transfer the baton of your life’s wealth and wisdom to generations after you. With it, you ensure your legacy will live on, beyond you,…
Read MoreWhy You Want Insurance Part 1: Insurance Transfers Risk
Throughout civilization, people have created tools to transfer risk, protecting themselves from negative circumstances. This is the core function of insurance: to transfer risk. It’s what makes insurance not only something you want but something to love. However, many people have a misguided and negative view of insurance, being inadequately insured or uninsured altogether. As…
Read MoreThe Family Office Model: Invest Like the Wealthy, with Richard C. Wilson
In this episode, we asked Richard C. Wilson, the CEO of the Family Office Club, to share his experience in coordinating the wealth teams of multimillionaire and billionaire families. There’s a divergence between the investing strategies of the status quo and those of the ultra-successful. The ultra-wealthy leverage a family office model so they can…
Read MoreSaving vs. Investing: Should I Save or Invest?
Have you ever wondered, should I save money or invest? How does my investing strategy fit in with my cash flow creation system? How do I get my saving and investing to work together so that I can maximize my whole personal economy? Where Investing Money Fits into the Cash Flow System First we focus…
Read MoreDiversification Is Ignorance Protection
Diversification is typical financial planning advice that average investors use to protect themselves from losses. Simply put, diversification is ignorance protection. It is admitting that you don’t know what you are doing. It is common to think of investing and the stock market as one and the same. However, investing encompasses much more than just the stock market.…
Read MoreSaving vs. Investing: What Is Investing? Part 2 – How to Find Your Best Investments
In a sea of investment choices, it can be overwhelming to determine which are the best investments for you. But don’t let overwhelm keep you in the dark, procrastinating, making mediocre decisions, losing money, and perpetually frustrated. The first step to confident investing is having a clear picture of exactly what you want and WHY. …
Read MorePersonal Finance Solutions for REALTORS®, with Moses Seuram
Many successful REALTORS® struggle when it comes to planning for the future. They have high incomes, live an upper-middle-class lifestyle or better, build growing businesses. However, they don’t have a plan for future income that they’re confident will lead to financial freedom. This is no truer than in the REALTOR® community. More than 50% of…
Read MoreSaving vs. Investing: What Is Investing? Part 1 – Cash Flow
Most investing returns fizzle far beneath our expectations. When we most want our money to generate cash flow, we end up flatlining, or even losing money. The prosperity and confidence we’d hoped for elude us, leaving us more anxious and uncertain instead. Could it be that we have our sights on the wrong target? Let’s…
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