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 73: A financing Error
Many “opportunities” require financing, whether it’s a new business, a commercial property, investment real estate or perhaps for a quality-of-life change like a second home. Opportunities often req…
00:07:46 |
Sun 18 Apr 2021
The Divorce Journey
You deserve to feel good about your finances after your divorce. Beth Kraszewski, CFP®, CDFA®, CLU® assists those going through a divorce to protect themselves. Beth is a Certified Divorce Financia…
00:50:45 |
Wed 14 Apr 2021
Coffee Break – Episode 72: Dead Baby Chicks, Lost Mail
A recent visit to a Farm & Fleet Store reminds us all of how easily life can end. This should be a story of newborn baby chicks and ducklings. At a time around Easter, when life is new and precious …
00:06:20 |
Sat 10 Apr 2021
Special Needs Children – Part Two: Where to begin
Planning for the lifetime needs of a special needs child is a great undertaking. Grady Jennings of the Dignity Group shares the work he does to assist families navigating the planning for their spec…
00:51:21 |
Wed 07 Apr 2021
Special Needs Children – Part One: James’ Story
Planning for the lifetime needs of a special needs child is a great undertaking. Grady Jennings of the Dignity Group shares his personal story of the unexpected birth of his son James, who was a dow…
01:00:51 |
Wed 31 Mar 2021
Coffee Break – You’re not guaranteed Life Insurance
Mark Bertrang shares a story of a client who approached him at the beginning of his career, asking him to complete an application for life insurance. After finishing the questionnaire, ordering the …
00:06:01 |
Tue 30 Mar 2021
Growing a Positive Attitude Life – Guest: Sheldon Singleton
Through a year of the Covid-19 pandemic, racial unrest, of Black Lives Matter comes a message of individual responsibility. What choices do we make each and every day? We are all the role models – …
00:50:48 |
Fri 26 Mar 2021
Coffee Break - AM/FM Radio & Life Insurance
Amplitude Modulation and Frequency Modulation are the scientific terms for AM or FM radio. What can we learn from the modulation of radio waves in the comparison of the waves that can ripple through…
00:09:04 |
Mon 22 Mar 2021
Coffee Break – Spring Ahead, Fall Back – It works for clocks, not for life.
Each spring we spring ahead and each fall we fall back. We adjust our clocks for the change of daylight savings time. Wouldn’t it be great if we could make the same adjustments with the planning of…
00:06:19 |
Fri 12 Mar 2021
Coffee Break – What’s in a name? Just a product or does it sing?
Many times, people become distracted by what a product is called and forget the need to focus upon what it might accomplish for them. Some may deny themselves the benefits of liquid safe accumulatio…
00:04:56 |
Mon 08 Mar 2021
Coffee Break - Whole Life Insurance: Guaranteed Cash Values & Dividends
Whole Life insurance has existed for well over a century; yet to many there is confusion as to how the accumulation of its Cash Values work. There’s a Guaranteed-side to Whole Life insurance that’s …
00:09:07 |
Mon 01 Mar 2021
Coffee Break - The Time Value of Money: A Broken Furnace
Recently with wintery sub-zero temperatures outside, Mark found his house with a broken furnace. While the HVAC guys were tearing out the old and installing the new, Mark was calculating the actual …
00:08:06 |
Mon 22 Feb 2021
Adult & Teen Challenge of Western Wisconsin/La Crosse
Guests: Kevin & Jessica Schaler Adult & Teen Challenge of Western Wisconsin-La Crosse is a long-term faith-based drug and alcohol recovery center that serves women, age 18+. It’s a place of refuge f…
00:59:59 |
Fri 19 Feb 2021
Finding your Tribe
Wealth isn’t measured by how much money you have; it’s measured by how much freedom you have. It’s easier to get ahead if you can follow a leader. Who is your leader? How do you become a member of…
00:56:12 |
Fri 12 Feb 2021
Coffee Break - Modified Endowment Contracts
Careful consideration needs to be examined when a whole life insurance policy is used to accumulate cash for opportunities and cash for emergencies. Whole life insurance provides more than just a de…
00:08:07 |
Mon 08 Feb 2021
What is your God-given custom-designed self?
Being an entrepreneur is a lonely, demanding road. We face decisions daily that a lot of people will be impacted by: team, clients and family. This heavy responsibility, along with memories of past f…
00:44:43 |
Thu 04 Feb 2021
Coffee Break - Eroding Factors of your financial life.
When discussing the Life Insurance Asset, you need to consider how this asset could assist you in fighting the "Eroding Factors" of your financial life, which include inflation, taxes, planned obsole…
00:04:59 |
Mon 01 Feb 2021
Coffee Break - Panoramic Life Insurance
Do you view your life insurance as a snapshot in time? That's what we're told to do by the financial gurus, as seen on television, radio and the internet. Are they taking the short view, when we sh…
00:04:59 |
Fri 29 Jan 2021
Finding the Light in The Darkness
Melissa Schultz is a business coach, strategist, trainer and speaker equipping women to leverage their God-given gifts to maximize their business potential to boldly achieve their dreams. Melissa re…
01:02:23 |
Fri 22 Jan 2021
Hunger in our Communities
Erin Waldhart is the Executive Director of WAFER, the largest Food Pantry serving the La Crosse, Wisconsin region. What is WAFER and what are the services it provides; and what is Erin’s story and he…
00:53:56 |
Fri 15 Jan 2021
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