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The Truth About Investing: Back to BasicsWelcome to The Podcast!This is our (new) introduction to the podcast and more of a... table of contents as it were since we've grown so much since the first season. Give it a listen! Tell your friends! Then tell your enemies! Okay maybe not them.2024-03-2504 minThe Truth About Investing: Back to BasicsBonus with Charlie Koyle! Life Insurance at the Source!Bonus Episode?!At this point, I don't know why we're surprised since we seem to keep adding them. But we were glad to have Charlie Koyle join us today! He is currently involved in the sales of Health and Life Insurance and we wanted to talk to him about some of the perspectives of that. Charlie is an old friend of Chris's so please do not hold that against him. And as always, be sure to listen for after the disclaimer at the end. That's where the best bits go.2022-02-101h 21The Truth About Investing: Back to BasicsAnnuities - Benefits & PitfallsWoah! There's another part?! Woah! End of this season? I'm afraid so. We are wrapping up our final episode of Season 5 with finishing out our Annuities section. We talk about things that you may not expect when considering them. What happens if I'm collecting and I pass? Where does the money go? What if I'm already involved in it and want to change? What if I want to get started? Join us for our Season finale of Season 5!And yes. There's dad jokes.2022-01-2645 minThe Truth About Investing: Back to BasicsAnnuities - Are They For Me?Annuities are something that often gets paired with Life Insurance if you are ever discussing it. What is it? What kinds are there? Is this the right or best thing for me? Let's go into details about these things so you can make an informed decision whether early in your career life or wrapping up.Also we show our ignorance in different languages. If that's your thing.2021-12-1643 minThe Truth About Investing: Back to BasicsWhole Life Insurance: Why Do the Extremely Rich Use It?We continue our life insurance segment to talk about Whole Life Insurance. What is it? How does it work? There are several people that use it and they are usually especially wealthy, but why? Is it best for someone who is up and coming to get early or a late stage investor? What is the best way to approach it? Why am I writing so many questions? Who am I? Am I a sentient being?But really, this is just about life insurance.2021-11-1856 minThe Truth About Investing: Back to BasicsTerm Life Insurance - What Are The Terms?Term Life Insurance. Most have at least heard of it, and at least in Chris's line of work, everyone has it. But do you understand what it even means? Why does it exist? How many claims actually get utilized in it? Is it right for you?Let's dive into it and see what we can learn.2021-11-1136 minThe Truth About Investing: Back to BasicsLife Insurance: What Is It? How Does It Work?Season 5?? How are we even to this many? Tying up to a nice round number of episode 30... we think... is to talk about Life Insurance. We know that this was a daunting concept. Correction, Sean knew this was a daunting concept and we decided to break it down into small and digestible chunks. Join us on life insurance, learning more about they types and if it's right for you! Welcome back!2021-11-0433 minThe Truth About Investing: Back to BasicsDerivatives - The Most Common Stock Trading ToolSeason 4 ending?? We are shocked as this whole segment has been very packed with information and also moved so quickly. In this episode we talk about derivatives. Options, futures, and so on. This is the most commonly used tool in the market trading community, especially in the Hedge Fund sector. This means that there is something of value to learn and we want you to know more about it!Thank you for following us on Season 4! Season 5 is just around the corner. We have so much to still talk about but we are also running out of...2021-10-2838 minThe Truth About Investing: Back to BasicsHedge Funds: Only for Fancy People?Hedge Funds, Hedging the market. What does it all mean? Can I do it myself? How to I get there? All those things are answered in this episode. It is not always easy to conceptualize some of these when you feel like you cannot immediately get started, but it certainly helps form your goals on what to shoot for. Thanks for being here!2021-10-2140 minThe Truth About Investing: Back to BasicsReal Estate Investing, with Chris!Sean interviewing Chris this time? What is this world coming to?!In this episode, we talk about real estate investing and Chris's recent and early stages investment of Short Term Renting and how he incorporated it into his personal home purchase. There are more ways to invest that take a more creative approach and we talk about the why's and how's Chris got involved.2021-10-1455 minThe Truth About Investing: Back to BasicsAlternative Investments (What about Gold and Silver?)Today we talk about our extensions into alternative investments and diversifying your portfolio. Chris keeps asking about Gold and Silver so it's time we finally address that. When should you be diversifying? What types of options do you have? Why is an alternative investment important in the first place? All of these questions and more get addressed here!Please feel free to go back and re-listen to some of our previous episodes. This will help with some of the foundations here if you would like to have that base. Chris had to.2021-10-051h 05The Truth About Investing: Back to BasicsSecurity AnalysisSecurity Analysis? What is it? Why do we need it?We start to dive deeper into the final layer of performing base level analysis. How it works, how it helps you, and what the pros use. Because that’s what we are. The pros… Well, at least Sean is.2021-09-2149 minThe Truth About Investing: Back to BasicsPortfolio Analysis (Stocks, Bonds, Crypto, etc.)We continue in our path of learning about analyzing. It is impossible to make any proper moves forward unless you can compare and contrast what your portfolio is doing for you, how it can improve, and what to consider when wanting to move forward. Make sure to brush up on Correlation and Diversification for this one. Chris certainly had to.Tools for the toolbelt(box?). 2021-09-081h 05The Truth About Investing: Back to BasicsAnalysis Foundations: (Technical vs Fundamental)Welcome back!We have been gone for quite some time and, life happens. For that, we apologize but we are excited to dig deep and get back on track. We are now entering into the realm of investing on your own terms and it all starts here! Analysis is a skill that is required should you do the heavy lifting of investing yourself, but is also an excellent skill to have if you're going to keep track of markets, companies, and simply keeping up with whoever may be assisting in running your investments.Thank you...2021-09-0140 minThe Truth About Investing: Back to BasicsBonus with Phylecia Jones!: Q&A (Part 2 of 2)We finish out our series and bonus episode with something we were lucky to have, a Q&A round from Phylecia. Specifically addressing some of the issues that have happened during the pandemic on what types of things today are considered to be emergencies, and not emergency funds. We talk about her and her background and some general philosophy and are extremely lucky to have her.Thank you for continuing to listen! We are back on track and Season 4 will be here before you even know it.2021-08-1250 minThe Truth About Investing: Back to BasicsBonus with Phylecia Jones!: How to Budget Your Business (Part 1 of 2)Holy Hiatus Batman!We have been gone for awhile and we didn't expect to be. Not only are we back, but we did something in the interim where we had another guest, Phylecia Jones! We can't say enough good things about Phylecia. She is a TEDx speaker, a budgeting machine, former Navy Scientist, and Founder of IFind You Close. She has a great personality and was able to ask us some interesting questions and we hope we brought the same. This go around we talk about business budgeting, her line of work, different avenues of p...2021-07-2955 minThe Truth About Investing: Back to BasicsCorrelation/Diversification: (Season 3 Finale)Correlation and Diversification are fancy words for fancy people. But you too could be fancy! Why do we care about it? What does it do for you? Is there such a thing as too much or too little of diversification? How can Correlation help you make better decisions for the long term?Thanks for sticking around for Season 3! We still have more to come so make sure you keep checking back with us. Find us on Facebook and reach out with questions!2021-06-0447 minThe Truth About Investing: Back to BasicsActive VS Passive Investing. What's best for me?Getting involved in your long-term investing is hard work and it doesn't always have to be you doing the personal heavy lifting. But maybe that's what's best for you and you might even be more successful because of it. Join us today so we can talk about the differences between active and passive investing, what they mean, and what some of the benefits are. Maybe you're doing everything right already!... But maybe you're not...2021-05-2042 minThe Truth About Investing: Back to BasicsDebt vs OwnershipWhen we talk about debt, we usually understand it as a loan to someone like a car loan. But what else can it mean? How can you utilize it as an investment for yourself? What is ownership and how does it play a role in things like the stock market? We touch on these and discuss the different angles of how it affects investing and why it matters to you.Let’s be honest though. It’s mostly just Chris being confused.Also there are bad dad jokes. But they don't have to be good to b...2021-05-0345 min