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 93: Inflation & The Life Insurance Asset
We have experienced little or no inflation for decades in the United States. Now inflation is hitting people where they live - groceries, cars, gasoline, auto, homeowner and health insurance premium…
00:12:53 |
Sun 20 Feb 2022
Free Book Chapter-Investments Don't Hug: Embracing the Life Insurance Asset
This is a free chapter from Mark Bertrang's book - Investments Don't Hug: Embracing the Life Insurance Asset, taken from Chapter six, titled "We thought we invincible". Enjoy this gift as read by th…
00:27:54 |
Wed 16 Feb 2022
Coffee Break: Will your employer cancel your life insurance?
A recent article from the Wall Street Journal outlines exactly how an employer can take away a retirement benefit its employees’ thought was untouchable. At the end of 2021, as many as 220,000 AT&T r…
00:09:17 |
Wed 19 Jan 2022
Coffee Break: Safety Features
The government regulates the safety features in every car that drives off the production line of America. Last year the safety features of each automobile were approximately four percent of its tota…
00:05:35 |
Wed 12 Jan 2022
Mary Jo Werner, JD, CPA, CFF–Wipfli: Talking Taxes
It’s time to talk year-end taxes. This is not a boring conversation. This is an extremely interesting visit with my guest is Mary Jo Werner, Attorney, Certified public account and Certified in Financ…
01:17:00 |
Sun 26 Dec 2021
Coffee Break – Episode 88: Storing Your Safe Money
What can you learn about an 80-year-old woman who needed three things to happen with her safe money? Number one – A better return than the bank. Number two - No taxes due on her gains, and Number thr…
00:09:24 |
Wed 01 Dec 2021
Amy DuPont: A Local Television News Journey
News anchors usually ask the questions. In a role reversal, Amy DuPont-News Anchor at WKBT-News 8 is asked questions about her decades-long career in reporting and delivering the news; a journey of …
01:13:58 |
Tue 16 Nov 2021
Coffee Break: What Milly Did with her Whole Life Cash Values
Walt Disney partially financed Disneyland with a loan against his Whole Life Insurance Policy. The Bushes Baked Bean Company was partially financed with a Whole Life Insurance Policy. The Pampered …
00:05:04 |
Thu 11 Nov 2021
Coffee Break: Purifying Money is like purifying water.
At the headwaters of the Mississippi River, you can literally dip your cup and take a drink of water; but, by the end of the same river - 2,350 miles later at the Gulf of Mexico, you probably wouldn'…
00:06:39 |
Sun 07 Nov 2021
La Crosse Jail Ministry-providing spiritual direction & rehabilitation support
How do you love a population of offenders? Can God create something good out of people who are not seen as worthy due to incarceration? Ann Wales is the chaplain of the La Crosse Jail Ministry. An…
00:58:10 |
Tue 02 Nov 2021
Job Burnout: Work/Life Balance
Herbert Freudenberger coined the term “burnout” forty years ago as he described a state of mental and physical exhaustion caused by one’s professional life. Our guest, Richard Kyte is the director o…
01:07:55 |
Tue 05 Oct 2021
Engage Greater La Crosse
Vicki Markussen takes us into her deep-dive by engaging us into a greater La Crosse, Wisconsin. Local media outlets may provide a few short column inches of print or perhaps ninety seconds of airtim…
00:54:37 |
Tue 21 Sep 2021
Building men from incarceration, Part Two
This is visit number two with Chris Crye, executive director of Next Chapter/La Crosse about its mission of building lasting relationships with people who have been impacted by crime, restoring them …
00:51:32 |
Tue 07 Sep 2021
Building Men from Incarceration (Part One)
A visit with Chris Crye, executive director of Next Chapter/La Crosse about its mission of building lasting relationships with people who have been impacted by crime, restoring them to God, family, a…
00:57:39 |
Tue 31 Aug 2021
A Non-Typical Journey to Financial Freedom
Mark Bertrang visits with Kim D.H. Butler about her eighth book – “Perpetual Wealth: How to use ‘Family Financing’ to build Prosperity and Leave a Legacy for Generations”. Making the list of one of A…
00:56:42 |
Thu 15 Jul 2021
Coffee Break – Episode 78: Measuring Whole Life Implementation
Here’s the complaint: “Life Insurance only works when I die” or “How will Life Insurance benefit me?” or “When I’ve built up my wealth, why would I want or need Life Insurance?” If maximized to it f…
00:20:30 |
Tue 08 Jun 2021
Coffee Break – Episode 77: Life Insurance & Levers
Permanent Life Insurance Policies come with an assortment of levers, which are controlled by the insurance companies. New and improved policies or “levers” sold to the public may actually give insur…
00:07:02 |
Mon 10 May 2021
Coffee Break – Episode 76: Whole Life, Rate of Return
What is the rate of return of a whole life insurance policy? There are actually three different rates of return to consider – Internal, External and Eternal rate of return. People often fixate upon…
00:07:15 |
Mon 03 May 2021
Coffee Break – Episode 75: Whole Life, Cash Value Guarantees
Experience has taught me, that the more money people have, the more they are motivated in the ‘return of that money’ and less on the ‘rate of return’ of that money. This is why a portfolio of mutual …
00:10:02 |
Mon 26 Apr 2021
Funeral Preplanning, Guest: Jake Kramar
No one wants to think about their own funeral. If you don’t plan ahead, someone will need to make the decisions for you quickly during a difficult and emotional time. They will wonder if they were …
01:03:06 |
Thu 22 Apr 2021
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