Podcast 45- Understanding All of Your Retirement Options
It's important to realize that retirement will likely be the biggest expense of your lifetime. So saving for retirement is a big job, especially if you envision a retirement that is flourishing with experiences: like traveling to your dream countries, spending time with your grown children and grand...
Podcast 44- More Retirement Planning Advise
Planning for retirement can be overwhelming and intimidating. The best way to begin is by asking yourself a few simple questions to help you picture what you want your retirement life to look like. Once you determine the kind of lifestyle you want in retirement, you can begin to determine what that ...
Podcast 43- Fix Your Finances in the New Year
While most of the country is cleaning up messes made during the holidays, many of us are preparing the usual resolutions for 2020. Getting finances in order is one of the most common resolutions each year. Financial resolutions could mean anything from building up a savings account, repairing credit...
Podcast 42- Preparing a Solid Retirement Plan
Retirement can be a very challenging season of life for those who fail to save. If you don't prepare in advance for retirement, you could find yourself saying "au revoir" to your post career dreams and hello to an extended working schedule. And even worse, you could spend your retirement worrying ab...
Podcast 41- How to Determine Financial Independence
Reaching financial independence is a common, yet ambitious goal. And it's also not a very complicated goal. In this episode of The Money and Business Hour, Roy Matlock Jr. shares a few simple calculations that can give you a rough estimate of how many years it should take for you to get there, based...
Podcast 40- The Financial Offense
The financial offense refers to two sets of income: your regular income and your portfolio income. Regular income is the money you make by working a job. Making more money can obviously increase your financial security. However, people who receive a promotion or a bump in their salary exchange it, t...
Podcast 39- The Financial Defense
Have you thought about your financial defense? What does that even mean? Simply put: It's being frugal. It’s the pay yourself first strategy. Most of us want to save, but try our best to do so at the end of the month, instead of immediately after we get paid- at the beginning of the month. And most ...
Podcast 38- Four Fundamentals of Finances Part 2
Essential skills, in both your personal life and career, include the ability to budget and plan financially. You should confidently be able to weigh up the risks and rewards associated with your borrowing and investment options. In this episode of The Money and Business Hour, Roy Matlock Jr. explain...
Podcast 37- Four Fundamentals of Finances Part 1
Essential skills, in both your personal life and career, include the ability to budget and plan financially. You should confidently be able to weigh up the risks and rewards associated with your borrowing and investment options. In this episode of The Money and Business Hour, Roy Matlock Jr. explain...
Podcast 36- Fix the 2 Biggest Money Problems: Dying Too Soon or Living Too Long
Life insurance is the best tool to guard against the risk of dying too soon, while annuities are often the best recommendation to guard against the risk of living too long. Typically, purchasing life insurance is done almost routinely and without question, probably because most of us tend to think o...
