Cash Flow & Capital Control

Learn how to improve cash flow, preserve liquidity, reduce inefficient debt, and keep more money working toward your priorities. These strategies focus on control, coordination, and using capital intentionally rather than relying on restrictive rules of thumb.

15 vs. 30 Year Mortgage: Myths About Paying Off Your Mortgage

By Rachel Marshall / July 8, 2019 /

When it comes to paying off your mortgage, the 15 vs. 30-year mortgage question can stop you in your tracks.  Chances are, you’re probably trying to figure out how to get a better interest rate or get out of debt sooner. But to make the decision that puts you in the most financial control, you…

The Night I Almost Died, and Why My Family Wouldn’t Need a GoFundMe

By Rachel Marshall / June 10, 2019 /

You can survive dying without needing a GoFundMe.  I’m living proof.  Three weeks ago, I almost died in an emergency operation after childbirth. Today, I’m looking down at the fluttering eyelashes of my snoring newborn, and my heart swells with enormous gratitude for the privilege of being alive to witness her life. In today’s podcast, my…

Profit Maximization: Find and Fix Your Money Leaks

By Rachel Marshall / May 20, 2019 / Comments Off on Profit Maximization: Find and Fix Your Money Leaks

The best profit maximization strategies are the ones nobody’s talking about.  Why?  Because everyone is looking for the hardest, most challenging, and over-complicated techniques.  Maybe it’s our human tendency to believe that everything worthwhile has to be difficult. Or perhaps, we like the bragging rights we get after surviving the most grueling, tortuous feats. Like cutting…

How to Wean Grown Kids Off Your Payroll — Financial Freedom for Parents

By Rachel Marshall / May 6, 2019 / Comments Off on How to Wean Grown Kids Off Your Payroll — Financial Freedom for Parents

Many people get stuck paying their kids’ bills long after the kids are grown and moved out of the house.  Often, it’s to the tune of hundreds, if not thousands of dollars each month.  Even commitments you initially made because you love your kids and want to help them can begin to feel like a…

Economic Value Added (EVA) and Infinite Banking

By Rachel Marshall / April 21, 2019 / Comments Off on Economic Value Added (EVA) and Infinite Banking

Economic Value Added (EVA) is a little-known, but impressively effective measure to boost your profitability. Coca-Cola, AT&T, Quaker Oats, CSX, and Briggs and Stratton helped the term rise to prominence when they adopted economic profit, or EVA, in the 80s and 90s.  Focus on this insightful accounting measure resulted in an overwhelming increase in business…

Profit First, with Mike Michalowicz

By Rachel Marshall / April 15, 2019 / Comments Off on Profit First, with Mike Michalowicz

Mike Michalowicz is a champion of profitability, on a mission to eradicate entrepreneurial poverty.  Mike is the author of Profit First, Transform Your Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine. He helps business owners realize their need for making a profit and design a practical, working accounting system that doesn’t take ironman willpower…

Don’t Step Over Dollars to Chase Pennies

By Rachel Marshall / March 11, 2019 / Comments Off on Don’t Step Over Dollars to Chase Pennies

One of the biggest mistakes people make in saving money is stepping over dollars to chase pennies.  This happens any time you put so much time and energy into cost-cutting tactics to save a few cents that you ignore the greater opportunities to make money. When people talk about stepping over dollars to pick up…

Better Than A Budget: Cash Flow Awareness

By Rachel Marshall / January 7, 2019 / Comments Off on Better Than A Budget: Cash Flow Awareness

The ultimate goal of cash flow awareness is to save more each month.  Why? Because generously paying yourself first is the foundation of wealth creation.  With more savings, you build up capital to invest in cash-flowing assets so you can create time and money freedom.   But across all income levels, most people’s savings habits are anemic, or even…

Strategic End of Year Tax Moves That Leave You Wealthier

By Rachel Marshall / December 10, 2018 / Comments Off on Strategic End of Year Tax Moves That Leave You Wealthier

As you count down the days until Christmas, you’re also counting down the days you have before you tie up the loose ends on your fiscal year to prepare for 2018 taxes.  We’ll walk you through practical and strategic tax moves you can make to close out the books, stay organized, and save taxes.  This…

Early Tap of the 401(k) Replaces Homes as American Piggy Bank (Reviewed)

By Rachel Marshall / October 29, 2018 / Comments Off on Early Tap of the 401(k) Replaces Homes as American Piggy Bank (Reviewed)

Piggy banks may seem best suited to our childhood era.  We mentally organize them with wagon-rides, tooth fairies, and the endless pencil-sharpening of early grade school.  But as adults, we need and use piggy banks; they just come in a different form.  When people need money for life’s setbacks and lean times, one of the…

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