Purpose with Mark Bertrang
Welcome to “Purpose with Mark Bertrang”, author in “Investments Don’t Hug; Embracing the Life Insurance Asset”. Mark visits with guests who share their life experiences, career knowledge and the gift of their personal wisdom & purpose. Knowledge may be Discovering your purpose may take a lifetime or it can come in a moment of enlightenment.
- Update frequency
- every 10 days
- Average duration
- 29 minutes
- Episodes
- 172
- Years Active
- 2019 - 2025
Coffee Break – Episode 113: Golf Clubs or Golf Swing - Which performs best?
If you're like Mark Bertrang, you might spend more time watching professional golf than playing anything that looks like 'professional' golf. Mark is lucky if he hits a few buckets of balls annually…
00:08:28 |
Thu 06 Oct 2022
Coffee Break – Episode 112: Financial Anxiety – How to plan for it.
Fog burns off with the rising of the morning sun. That’s how weather works; but, it’s not quite how life works. It seems as if people worry more and more about the market, their job, emergencies, o…
00:12:33 |
Mon 19 Sep 2022
Coffee Break – Episode 111: Life Insurance Sales Fall
"The Boom for Life Insurance Policies Fades" according to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal. Now that fear of Covid-19 appears to be waning, the fear of death is waning, as well. Here's t…
00:11:18 |
Thu 01 Sep 2022
Coffee Break – Episode 110: The Psychology of Safety
There is psychology in everything we want in life. Are we basing our wants and needs on the past, as Sigmond Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis would have suggested or can we be what we project in…
00:15:02 |
Wed 24 Aug 2022
Coffee Break – Episode 109: Judge Not
Do you judge too quickly? Thirty-five years prior to entering the financial services industry, Mark Bertrang began his career as a broadcaster. This meant working on-air for five years. Realizing t…
00:19:06 |
Tue 16 Aug 2022
Coffee Break – Episode 108: Building Foundations
I am often amazed when I enter a brand-new building. I love looking at the architecture. The walls, the ceiling, the floor, the furniture. Everything that has made the new building, the wonderful str…
00:12:52 |
Tue 09 Aug 2022
Coffee Break – Episode 107: Inherited IRAs, A Poor Gift
Other than your home, your single largest asset may be your retirement account. Many older folks want to leave their 401K, IRA or other retirement account to their kids or grandkids. They believe t…
00:22:30 |
Wed 03 Aug 2022
Coffee Break – Episode 106: Road Closed Ahead
The road ahead might be one less traveled; but what if it's a road that's been closed to you? Then it doesn't matter, because it now becomes a road you could never experience. We're told that we ca…
00:12:58 |
Fri 15 Jul 2022
Coffee Break – Episode 105: One & Done?
We would all like to think that our life's projects can simply be ‘one and done’. Last year, the street in front of our home was torn up during the entire summer as sewer pipes, water pipes, wiring a…
00:09:41 |
Fri 01 Jul 2022
Coffee Break – Episode 104: Grafting Grapevines, Olive Trees & Whole Life Insurance
Grapevines have been plagued by pests that can leave a vineyard void of fruit. Olive trees has been dying in many countries due to pests and disease that has killed off entire hillsides. Have you fel…
00:09:51 |
Mon 27 Jun 2022
Coffee Break – Episode 103: Language Misunderstandings
Words can be confusing. Why? Sometimes we simply don’t speak the same language. During a recent trip to southern Italy, this became very clear to me. Sometimes just holding up the wrong fingers duri…
00:05:18 |
Tue 31 May 2022
Coffee Break – Episode 102: The Glass Bull
You've heard of the story about the Achilles Heel or a Glass Jaw. Today, Mark Bertrang shares the story about The Glass Bull. Decades ago, Mark purchased this bull in the village of Murano on an ou…
00:13:34 |
Wed 18 May 2022
Coffee Break – Episode 101: Get in the Game!
There are those folks who sit in the stands or armchair quarterback from their mancave. Yet, to win you actually have to get off your duff and get into the game. Playing is oftentimes difficult. It…
00:12:46 |
Wed 11 May 2022
Coffee Break – Episode 100: Scarcity, Abundance & Dryer Sheets
You may live in a world of scarcity or a world of abundance. Often, we choose the world in which we live, because of our own upbringing. We bring our own circumstances to the world that we live in.…
00:11:03 |
Tue 03 May 2022
Coffee Break – Episode 099: Outliers and the Life Insurance Asset
People talk about 'averages' as if they actually live in an average world, where everything plays out in average-ways. Is that really how life works? Do you want to be average or are you an Outlier…
00:18:02 |
Wed 27 Apr 2022
Coffee Break – Episode 89: 4-Year-Old Broken Refrigerator
I was scrolling through my Facebook feed recently and saw this post from a client and friend of mine, lamenting on how his four-year-old refrigerator died. It was brand new in 2018 at a cost of $1,9…
00:14:11 |
Thu 14 Apr 2022
Coffee Break – Episode 97: Alfie, What's it all about?
In the mid-1960s Michael Caine starred in a British comedy/drama title: Alfie. It might be better known by the question which was also part of its title and a song which became famous by Dionne Warw…
00:10:18 |
Wed 06 Apr 2022
Coffee Break: Coffee & Whole Life Insurance
: If you research down through the ages, you can actually see how your simple cup of morning Joe has been maligned. Coffee was thought to make you weak, lazy and of questionable value. Coffee? This…
00:10:04 |
Thu 31 Mar 2022
Coffee Break – Episode 95: The Pampered Chef & Warren Buffett
What does the upcoming acquisition of insurer Alleghany Corp. for $11.6 billion dollars by Berkshire Hathaway have to do with Pampered Chef parties? It’s all about having the cash to take advantage …
00:13:30 |
Wed 23 Mar 2022
Coffee Break - Episode 094: The Big Gamble
People gamble. They love to gamble. Unfortunately, there is always someone willing to help us depart from our hard earned money. It doesn't come as a surprise that during 2021 casinos took in more mo…
00:14:35 |
Fri 25 Feb 2022
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