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Q&A: I’m Tired of Managing My Rental Property. Should I Sell It?

#752: A caller's rental is performing fine, but a late-paying tenant and a roof replacement have her ready to sell it before she moves to Madrid for her MBA. Paula argues

Why Self-Worth Predicts Your Income More Than Your SAT Score Does, with Marisa Franco

#751: The belief that’s quietly sabotaging your progress might not even be true. Free worksheet to question it: https://affordanything.com/turn-it-around Two people can

Your "Diversified" Portfolio Might Secretly Be One Big Bet on AI, with Alec Litowitz

#750: Free worksheet: question the belief that might be keeping you stuck — before reality forces the update for you: http://affordanything.com/turn-it-around Alec Litow

How a Blind Man and His Guide Dog Survived Sept. 11 — and What His Mindset Can Teach Us, with Michael Hingson

#749: Michael Hingson was on the 78th floor of the North Tower of the World Trade Center when the first plane hit on Sept. 11. He felt the impact, but couldn’t see it. M

Q&A: My Dream Job Won't Wait If I Take a Family Gap Year — Do I Quit Anyway?

#748: The real question behind quitting a job you love or paying off debt anyway? Your money mindset. Take our free quiz to find yours: https://affordanything.com/fiire

First Friday: Hope in Nepal; Trouble in the Bond Market

#747: We have good news on multiple fronts to share about the job market, the stock market, the commodities market, and volatile news around the bond market. And we begi

Q&A: What Nepal Reveals About Wealth and Safety

#746: We begin today’s episode with a discussion of the disastrous flash flooding in Nepal, a personal topic for Paula given her family there. There’s both a human story,

The Four Kinds of Rich Nobody Counts -- with Sahil Bloom [GREATEST HITS]

#745: A friend once asked Sahil Bloom how often he saw his parents. About once a year, Sahil said. How old are they? Mid-60s. His friend did the math out loud. If they

This Historian Says We're Living in the Best Era Ever, with Joseph Moore

#744: With about $200 and a crypto exchange, historian Joseph Moore turned himself into a legitimate billionaire — a stunt that says more about how money actually works t

Everyone Wants a Piece of You. Here's How to Stay Whole -- with Luke Burgis

#743: Everyone talks about a loneliness epidemic — but Luke Burgis argues the opposite problem is just as real: we now have so much easy, frictionless community that we n

Q&A: I Reached Financial Independence Three Years Early … Now What?

#742: A listener hit her $1.4 million early-retirement goal three years ahead of schedule — and now she's stuck deciding whether paying off a low-interest mortgage is sma

You Can't Buy Back Your 20’s — with Jack Raines

#740: Jack Raines turned $6,000 into $400,000 trading blank-check stocks during the 2020–2021 bubble — and he says it was some of the least fun money he's ever made. Jac

Q&A: Should We Retire in Our 40s With $4 Million and an 80% Stock Portfolio?

#740: Paula and Joe rarely butt heads — but a caller's side hustle, which pulled in $5,500 in a single day, sparked their most heated disagreement in months. This week's

First Friday: We Lost 23,000 Jobs, Yet Somehow Unemployment is Down?!?!

#739: The U.S. just lost 23,000 jobs — and unemployment fell anyway. The numbers were strange enough that Paula broke a years-long, all-stocks habit and bought her first

Hackers Waited 3 Months for This Couple's $1.2 Million Deal, with Dr. Eric Cole [GREATEST HITS]

#738: Hackers broke into a real estate closing company's servers and waited three months for the right deal — then intercepted a wire and stole $1.2 million from a couple

She's Researched Money for 30 Years—and Never Seen It This Bad for Young People, with Beth Kobliner

#737: Beth Kobliner has covered personal finance for people in their 20s and 30s for over three decades — and she says this is the hardest she's ever seen it. One in four

Q&A: Would You Spend $60,000 on a Wedding Knowing It Could Be $800,000 Someday?

#736: A bride wants to spend $60,000 on her wedding — money that could grow to $800,000 in 40 years if she invested it instead. This week, three very different listener q

He Tried 30+ Side Hustles Before 3 Actually Paid Off, with Cody Berman

#735: Cody Berman failed at more than 30 side hustles — from a disc golf manufacturing company to sweaty bike deliveries in the Australian heat — before three of them got

Q&A: Her Brother Owns 3 Houses — Is That Why We Have a 'Housing Shortage'?

#734: Depending on which source you ask, the U.S. is short somewhere between 1.2 million and 10 million homes — and the reason for that wild range says as much about who'

The Hidden Math Behind Every Venture Capital Fund, with former Wharton Prof. David Bell

#733: Venture fund managers can collect years of fees before a single dollar comes back to investors — and the bar to hand over your money is lower than you'd think. Dav