Service and Wealth

Trick question (or is it?): what's the first step in budgeting? If you said "put down your income," or "list my regular expenses from biggest to smallest," you're 100 percent WRONG. No effective Pers…

It's a real shame: budgets and budgeting apps are designed to fail. They just tell you the fun and rewarding things that you're not allowed to do! Life's too short not to enjoy it.

But since there's …

America's military families are in trouble:

--74% can't afford their housing costs on BAH alone

--76% state they need more money to make ends meet

--76% say they need their spouse to work to make end…

If you only read the headlines, you'd believe that there's no way you can ever become a homeowner and check off the biggest "to-do" on your way to achieving the American Dream. After all, as we roll …

It's crazy: there are still people out there who think you can't make money in real estate! The reality is that real estate offers so many different ways to make money that it is a far superior asset…

Believe it or not, no one can predict what will happen with the stock market -- or with individual stocks. In fact, on a daily basis, there's a 53% chance a stock will go up and a 47% chance it will …

Just like working up for a deployment, at some point all the training just seems to come together and make sense. You memorized all the technical jargon in your Field Manual (FM), and know the Tactic…

Finally, it's here . . . drumroll please . . . The Authoritative Guide to the VA Loan. If you think you already know all you need to know about the VA Loan, we guarantee that by the end of today's sh…

In our fourth installment of our Podcast series on Real Estate for the Military, we finish building our Financial IQ Foundation by discussing financing and mortgages. Not just for the VA Loan, but ge…

Welcome back for our third installment in the series of Real Estate for the Military, in which we move from crawl to walk -- and help you with some tried-and-true TTPs for making killer offers and ge…

In our second installment of the Military Wealth Coach's Service and Wealth series on real estate for the military, we build on the foundation of Part 1 in which you learned about the foundation of a…

We follow up last week's "post-election special" with a second round of discussion about the link between a second Trump Presidency and your life and finances in the military. In response to listener…

Buying a house -- so many words and feelings come to mind: exciting, intimidating, scary . . . and also we probably all assume it's really complex! But the feeling that it's hard comes from not knowi…

President Trump secured the 2024 presidential election by a wide margin -- and perhaps even more significantly the Republican Party gained seats in both the Senate and House of Representatives. As th…

Do you know what happens when you let the military manage your TSP (Thrift Savings Plan)? You sacrifice between $1.1 and $2.6 MILLION by the time you hit retirement age. Let that sink in for a minute…

When your investment portfolio takes a turn for the worse, how do you react? Are you a "stick it out" type -- or do you "panic sell?" Do you believe that you "got screwed by the market" -- or do you …

Did you know that your beliefs about money, saving, and investing were most likely formed when you were just 6 or 7 years old? The truth is that we imprint the beliefs and emotions of our parents, ne…

TikTok loves Girl Math Memes -- both those "for", and those "against." While Girl Math has nothing to do at all with math (obviously), it also has nothing to do with girls: boys also use Girl Math al…

This week we wrap up our monthlong series on the Blended Retirement System. Click the links to listen to Episode 1 and Episode 2 if you missed out. This episode is dedicated to explaining what to do …

Most of us who leave the military before 20 years do so to chase higher paychecks in civilian jobs. And while the dollar amount printed on the check every 1st and 15th will likely be more, are you re…