Not Your Average Financial Podcast™

Episode 351: The Unseen Dark Forces in Your Retirement Plan

May 24, 2024 by Not Your Average Financial Podcast

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In this episode, we ask:

What about the hidden things in your financial life?
Would you like to hear Episode 343?
What is the hidden dimension to our financial portfolios?
What is financial dark matter?
What is price?
What are the fees?
What is obscure?
What erodes wealth?
What is small, invisible but constant?
What are the consequences?
What about the illusion of progress?
What might send ripples through your financial plan?
What did JAMA say about wealth shocks?
What is the opportunity cost?
Are we doomed to the dark matter?
Why are we huge fans of the Bank on Yourself® strategy?
What is the aha! moment that changes everything?
What about peace of mind?
Do you know your money is going to do a certain thing?
What about owning the number?
Do you have a contract with your future?
How is this different from a 401(k) or a IRA?
Who is phased out of the Roth IRAs?
How much are you allowed to put in?
Can you have a financially secure future on the ROTH?
Is it liquid?
How can you access to the money?
What about penalties?
Who is tapping retirement accounts?
What did a recent Vanguard study say?
What retirement savings do Gen X members have?
What about living from paycheck to paycheck?
What about living on credit cards?
What about borrowing from a 401(k)?
What about credit reporting?
Would you like to listen to Episode 206?
What is one of the only ways you can be taxed twice on the same dollar?
What about being on a forced repayment plan?
Where does the money come from?
What about an after action review (AAR)?
What was the plan?
What went right?
What went wrong?
How might we do better next time?
What about an example?
What is the key takeaway?
What about constant refinement along the way?
What would it look like if it were easy?
What would money look like if it were easy?
What characteristics or attributes would it have?
How would you change?
What would you do about it?
What is the first step?
How do you feel?
What do you want more?
What did Lawrence Peter say?
Would you like to meet with Mark?

Episode 350: The Art of Leveraging Insurance for Real Estate Success with Jay Helms

May 17, 2024 by Not Your Average Financial Podcast

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In this episode, we ask:

Can you imagine?
Would you like to hear another story from Jay Helms?
Would you like to hear Episode 243?
How did Jay break free from the rat race?
How did Jay leverage his Bank on Yourself® type whole life insurance policy’s cash value for real estate?
What was the annualized return?
What were the results?
What was the deal?
What was the loan amount?
What was the interest rate?
What happened six months later?
What’s a “me-loc” ?
What are the advantages?
What was the policy’s growth?
What is positive arbitrage?
Where else can you do this?
What about the risk?
What about first lien position as a safeguard?
What about coming out of the W-2 and going into the real estate world?
What did he say?
What did he not say?
What about liquid access to that money?
What about Jay’s mastermind group?
What about growth friends?
Would you like to join or login to the FREE Not Your Average Financial Community to access and participate in office hours?
How about a thought exercise?
Would you like to download this FREE two column sheet with growth friends | maintenance relationships along the top?
What are 20 of the most recent, important connections from your device (text, zoom, phone)?
What is the crab bucket?
What happens when you take action?
Would you like to meet with Mark?
Would you like to meet with Jay?
When is the best time to plant a tree?
What does Jay say about starting a policy?
What are the takeaways?
How might you leverage your life insurance?
What could be a powerful cash management tool?
What about positive arbitrage?
What are you waiting for?
What about calculated risks?
What about the importance of real relationships?
How will you think differently about your money, your economy and your future?

Thought Exercise: Growth Friends and Maintenance Relationships (PDF)

Jay Helms, Founder of the W2 Capitalist, escaped the rat race after 6 years of side hustling in real estate investing. Jay has a goal to help one million people create multiple streams of income, achieve financial freedom, or build legacy wealth through real estate investing. Jay met his wife Cassie when they were contestants on a reality TV show and when their family of 5 are not traveling the country in their RV, Jay and Cassie reside in Gulf Breeze, FL, with their three kids, Rowland, Stella, and Ellen Anne. Knowing that closing on the first deal is the biggest hurdle and roadblock for new investors, he wrote a book, Make An Offer: Break Through Analysis Paralysis & Grab the Confidence You Need to Become a Real Estate Investor, to help them get over those mental hurdles.

Episode 349: The Heirs or The IRS?

May 10, 2024 by Not Your Average Financial Podcast

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In this episode, we ask:

What annual day did Americans just survive?
Where do you pay tax?
Who pays the most in lifetime taxes?
Who pays the least?
What about your heirs?
Do you want theirs or your heirs to get the money?
What is legally required?
Would you like to hear Episode 199?
What are the steps?
What about income tax?
What about assets that force an income?
What about assets you can borrow against?
What about collateral?
What about the tax to your heirs?
Is this only for the ultra-wealthy?
What are some ideas?
What happens when the laws change?
What about BITA?
What about taxing the rich?
How does this affect the middle class and less wealthy?
What about estate tax?
What about interest rates?
What about a mindset shift?
Are there capital gains on life insurance?
What are the problems?
What is guaranteed to grow?
What is not guaranteed to grow?
What happens if you find yourself underwater?
What about liquidity?
What about compounding?
What assets compound?
How about an example?
What about the power of compounding growth?
What are the opportunities?
Is everyone going to be able to save enough money?
What about saving a modest amount?
What are billionaires doing with their stocks and real estate?
What are the quick takeaways?
What are the strategies?
What about the risks with common strategies?
What about whole life insurance?
What about reducing your tax burden now?
What about a Bank on Yourself® type whole life insurance policy?
Would you like to visit notyouraverage.mn.co?

Episode 348: What Your Other Advisor Will Say

May 3, 2024 by Not Your Average Financial Podcast

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In this episode, we ask:

Would you like to see videos?
Do you have an existing advisor?
Can Mark predict what they will say?
What are the motivations beneath their comments?
What is it hard for them to hear?
Can the other professional build a knock off version?
What is completely normal?
What about fewer fees?
What about the loss of big commissions?
What is the motivation?
What process happens with a transfer form?
Do you have a similar product?
What are the fees?
What are the taxes?
Who knows how to build a Bank on Yourself® type whole life insurance policy correctly?
What about guarantees?
Can Mark sign a guarantee?
Would they be able to sign a guarantee?
What about the disclosures?
What about the market-based advisor?
Would you like to hear Episode 36?
What’s on the internet?
Where is that advice coming from?
Do they have your best interest at heart?
Are they obligated to consider your best interest?
What is the problem exactly?
Is their situation just like yours?
Does your kid have financial advice for you?
What about death benefit numbers?
How about a review?
What about the financial infotainers?
What is the misunderstanding?
What is the doubt?
What is the major flaw?
What about the crab bucket?
With whom do we work?
What is the good, the bad and the ugly?
What are the concerns?
What are the expenses?
What about your beliefs?
Who will be here for you?
What about insurer’s statistics and backing?
What about state’s sources?
What happened?
What questions do you need to ask your advisors? (Send your stories and answers to hello@nyafinancialpodcast.com!)
- Have you ever lost your clients in the past? If so, how can I be guaranteed that you won’t lose my money in the future? Can you put that guarantee in writing?
- Where do you think tax is going in the future, down or up? How will you protect me from (excess) taxation over my lifetime?
- Can you know for certain what the market will do over the next 40 years, or even this year?
- What can you do to help me grow my net worth and my business, if banks decide to reduce or takeaway my line of credit?
- What are your fees? Do you promise to eliminate them completely when you lose my money in the market?
- What are you doing to completely protect me from market downturns?
- What are you doing to completely protect me from creditors if my business fails?
- What is your plan for me when I bring on equity partners and eventually sell my business?
What would you like to discuss further?
Would you like to meet with Mark?

Episode 347: Gathering the Kings with Chaz Wolfe

April 26, 2024 by Not Your Average Financial Podcast

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In this episode, we ask:

Can you imagine being 5 miles deep into the wilderness of Wyoming?
How about that for a real-life encounter?
What would you do if you faced a wild grizzly bear?
What about the exceptional life?
What about good power for the betterment of those in your care?
What about Aslan’s safety in the The Chronicle of Narnia?
Who is Chaz Wolfe?
What happened to Chaz in the wilderness?
How did Chaz get from hunting to becoming a serial entrepreneur?
How to define success?
What are we in harmony towards?
What is winning in all areas?
What is the formula?
What are you after?
What is your chief aim?
Are you clear?
Are you making good decisions?
Are you sticking with it long enough?
What about belief?
What do I want?
Why do they call them brokers?
What is kingship?
What is the responsibility of power?
What are the second order consequences?
What about business and finance?
What about family and marriage?
What about health, mental and physical?
What about faith?
What about lifestyle and joy?
Who is carrying the weight?
What about stepping out of isolation and into a community?
What is Chaz’s story?
What about a full cup?
What about overflow?
What’s life like for Chaz’s coaching community?
Would you like to hear Gathering the Kings podcast?
Would you like to learn more about Chaz’s group?
What about growth in all areas of life?
What about business success?
What about personal growth?
What is balance for?
Where are we going?
How can you work on improving your life situation?
What is the final takeaway?
What does it mean to balance power and responsibility?
What is your domain?
How do you enjoy the process of taking care of others?
Would you like to work with Mark?

Episode 346: When Bank on Yourself® Policy Loans Matter Most

April 19, 2024 by Not Your Average Financial Podcast

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In this episode, we ask:

Why haven’t you subscribed yet?
What big purchases are coming up?
Can you earn your way out of expenses?
What happens in retirement?
Can you earn your way out of expenses throughout all of the ages of life?
What’s the difference between earning income at age 35 and age 86?
What allows for uninterrupted compounding?
How is this possible?
Who offers non-direct recognition policy loans?
How about an example?
What is the amount of the cash value?
What is the simple interest rate on the policy loan?
What happens over four years?
What happens to the policy?
What is the gain?
Did you earn more than you spent?
What happens over a longer time horizon?
What about dividends?
Would you like to hear Episode 345?
Would you like us to review your policy?
What is unbelievably cool?
What products stop growing your money when you spend it?
Can you imagine this chart?
What happens on the spend down?
What continues to earn interest?
What if you could continue to maintain the compounding growth on your money?
What are the implications?
What results shocked Mark?
What if they never paid off the loan?
How about another apples-to-apples example?
What does a policy loan look like in a direct recognition policy?
What about the interest?
What about receiving a weird letter from the insurer at age 81?
Where was the compounding?
Where did the growth go?
What does a policy loan look like in a non-direct recognition policy?
What about the interest?
What is the difference?
What is the policy growth based upon?
What about compounding and accumulation?
What about loan interest?
How much more?
Is the policy designed the right way?
Who is getting penalized?
How about a timely warning?
Does your agent understand the working parts well?
Is your policy built correctly?
Is your policy breaking compound growth?
What about the Gold Standard of the Bank on Yourself® Professional training?
What would it look like?
What about absolute certainty?
Do you have to know everything about how your phone was engineered to enjoy it?
How is a Bank on Yourself® type whole life insurance policy like a smart phone?
When was the last time you reviewed your current policy?
Would you like a second set of eyes?
Would you like to learn more by listening through our Episodes in a List?
What about time?
Are you serious?
Would you like a meeting with me or an associate?

Episode 345: Direct vs. Non-Direct Policy Loans, The Debate and The Truth

April 12, 2024 by Not Your Average Financial Podcast

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In this episode, we ask:

What is a policy loan?
Why do we love the Bank on Yourself® type whole life insurance policies?
Is a non-direct recognition policy loan the best feature in the financial universe?
What is a direct recognition policy loan?
Is there really no difference between the two?
Does it really matter?
Why is transparency key?
What is the history between non-direct recognition and direct recognition policy loans?
How long have life insurance policies loans been around?
Over 150 years ago, how did insurers treat these separate loans with distinct interest rates?
What about collateral?
What about the life insurance general fund?
What about using your policy as collateral?
What about dividends?
How would the policy continue to earn interest?
Where is the money for the loan coming from exactly?
Why did some insurance companies move over to do direct recognition policy loans?
Why did some insurance companies hold firm with non-direct recognition policy loans?
What is a mutual life insurance company?
What about profits?
Who should logically have a higher dividend?
Who is penalized?
Do companies offering direct recognition policy loans offer slightly higher dividends?
Who is going to have a better experience?
What good is that cash value if you can’t collateralize it?
What about the living benefits of life insurance?
What is outrageous?
What did Nelson Nash say?
Who has real liquidity?
What about direct recognition policy loans for a time horizon (for 10 years, etc.)?
How about an example?
What is a 1035 exchange (a like-kind exchange for life insurance)
Would you like to learn more in Episode 252?
What happens in a scenario where direct recognition policy loans were taken?
What happens in a scenario where non-direct recognition policy loans (as in a Bank on Yourself type whole life insurance policy) were taken?
What about the dollar diagram?
What about the one dollar?
What happens if you put this single dollar into a paid up additions rider (PUAR)?
What about opportunity cost?
What happens if you spend that dollar instead of saving it?
What is the interest?
What benefits you?
What about dividends?
How do the insurers earn money for dividends?
How does that benefit policy holders?
How much would you have?
How many dollars…?
Is there such a thing as paying too much premium?
How about another example about a policy loan to purchase a car?
What did the three cars cost you?
How much did you net in the non-direct recognition policy loan’s policy?
Knowing all of this, why would you buy a car any other way?
Should you just get a bank loan?
What totally defeats the purpose of Bank on Yourself®?
Are you being penalized?
Which scenario keeps me more in control of my own money?
Which scenario yields control to the bank?
What about Bank on Yourself® policy engineering?
Would you like to meet with Mark?
Would you join us next week?

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Episode 344: Owning the Number with Len Renier (Part 2)

April 5, 2024 by Not Your Average Financial Podcast

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In this episode, we ask:

Would you think long range?
Would you like to hear Part 1, Episode 343?
How about an example?
What about an inheritance?
Are you going to bet on it?
What about creating legacy programs?
What did you see?
What didn’t you see?
Who owned the number?
What happened when Ms. Smith died?
Who understood the idea of legacy?
What are the powerful implications of legacy maximization?
What about family and religion?
What about ownership?
Would you like to read Len’s books?
How will generational planning improve your life today?
Would you like to visit wealthandwisdominc.com?
What are the action steps?

Leonard Renier studies the economic trends and shifts and the impact of government programs and regulations on the social fabric of our country. His research has resulted in bringing a new awareness to the financial challenges the average American faces. Leonard is considered an expert in communicating these challenges and believes with more information; people will make better life decisions. As founder of the Wealth & Wisdom Institute, Leonard recognized the importance of Education, Discovery and Understanding. He has been involved in the financial services industry for over 30 years.

Episode 343: The Money Matrix with Len Renier (Part 1)

March 29, 2024 by Not Your Average Financial Podcast

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In this episode, we ask:

How do magicians make the impossible, possible?
Have you heard financial advisors act like magicians?
Do you want your financial advisor to retire before you?
What don’t you see?
Who is Len Renier?
What is the Wealth and Wisdom Institute?
What about knowledge?
What about wisdom?
Would you like to learn about hiddenomics?
What about time?
Will you inherit the financial challenges in your life?
Will you inherit the financial solutions?
What do you see? What don’t you see?
What will impact your financial future?
What about Len’s book, Double Jeopardy?
How about a story?
What financial accident will occur?
What are the five core elements?
- Risk
- Taxes
- Regulation
- Inflation
- Depreciation
Which of these five elements do you control?
Does your 401(k) solve these problems for you?
When can you create a brand new ending?
What are the critical stages?
What is the role of the government?
How much did they collect in income tax?
Do you believe it’s a good idea to defer tax until a later date?
What about the debt issue?
What about the unique inflation situation?
How do they measure inflation?
What about the cost of energy and food?
What was the two year inflation rate (as of Autumn 2023)?
What about credit cards?
What is losing value?
Is accumulation buying power?
How about an example?
What about buying power?
How about a qualified plan example?
What about the hidden elements?
Why is ownership important?
What about reducing the element of risk?
What questions do you need to ask?
What about the money matrix?
What about owning the number now?
What are the action steps?

Episode 342: Beware of Analysis Paralysis

March 22, 2024 by Not Your Average Financial Podcast

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In this episode, we ask:

What is the exceedingly odd number?
Why?
What about the imperial Roman war chariot?
What about the space shuttle?
What are the historical roots of our financial principles?
What are the ruts?
What are the engrained financial beliefs?
What would you do?
Who is stuck in the rut?
What is analysis paralysis?
What about second guessing yourself?
What are the phases?
What about curiosity?
What about hope?
What changes?
What about the fear of making the wrong decision?
What about missed opportunities?
What about real consequences?
What about the inverse relationship between spinning tires and forward momentum?
Where is your energy going?
What do we do with overwhelm?
When does this become a problem?
What about confusion?
What about whirlwinds of thought?
What about the spinning wheel of over-thinking?
How might analysis paralysis sabotage the big issues in your life?
Is the tire just stuck in the snow?
What happened to Mark when he learned about the Bank on Yourself® type whole life insurance policies?
Do you truly understand the policy?
What about rigid thinking?
What about cognitive flexibility?
What are some both/and ideas?
What about an example?
What happened at the year-end review?
What about perfectionism?
What about being careful?
What about people pleasing?
Is the person I’m trying to please planning to be financially involved with my financial future?
Who has made mistakes with money?
How might one recover resilience and confidence?
What did Mark learn when his car was stuck in the ice and snow?
What is the correlation between learning and doing?
What do you need to know?
What about the contractual guarantee?
What about the financial ruts of the past?
Where do you want to go financially?
What are some steps?
What are the signals the body and mind are sending?
What about the permission to be flexible?
Are you confident that you can make good decisions?
What’s the worst that can happen?
Who is can deal with moments of stress, challenge and discomfort?
Who deserves to get a voice, and who are the stakeholders?
What can we predict?
What about a financially solvent future?
Do you know enough to make a good decision?
What are your success stories?

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