Emma Johnson is the founder of Wealthy Single Mommy - a blog, website, podcast and community to help, motivate and inspire other single mothers just like herself. Prior to becoming a single mother, Emma was married with a 14-month old daughter when her husband was involved in a tragic accident. Thankfully her husband survived, however their relationship was never the same again due to him suffering a traumatic brain injury. Thus Emma soon became a single mother to now two children. What Emma soo...
Feb 22, 2018•32 min•Ep. 82
“Seth” - my very own financial advisor - comes on to say what most advisors won't. Since most professionals in the financial industry are so highly regulated, “Seth” agreed to come on the show if we kept his identity a secret. Now that he's anonymous, he is able to drop a ton of value including what you should be asking your advisor, how fees are structured, and some of the biggest mistakes he sees new clients make. During our interview, I ask Seth: • Explain how robo-advising works • When robo-...
Feb 15, 2018•39 min•Ep. 81
Kayla Sloan has been my virtual assistant since the very beginning of Money Peach. There is so much that goes into creating blog content, putting together a weekly podcast, helping students inside the Awesome Money Course, and making sure it all goes smoothly. Without Kayla, there’s no possible way I could get all of this done and still work as a full-time firefighter. Recently I have had a few people ask me how they could generate extra income every month to pay off debt faster, to cover their ...
Feb 01, 2018•44 min•Ep. 80
Vincent Pugliese rose to fame among the photography world when he became one of the best sports photographers in the world. During his career he has filmed Superbowls, World Series, Stanley Cup finals, multiple Presidents of the United States, and many of the defining moments in history we are all familiar with. Vincent was one of the very best in his field, but there was only one problem: he was making $30k/year and there wasn’t much room for him to make more in his field of work. In addition, ...
Jan 25, 2018•52 min•Ep. 79
Robert was the guy in his econ class in college sitting in the back with his laptop open and updating his blog. Today he blogs full-time on his site, The College Investor , which has over 1 million visitors per month and generates 7 figures in revenue per year. But Robert didn’t start there, did he? Instead, Robert graduated college and went to work for all places - Target. He actually worked his way up as store manager while all along he was building this “little blog” on the side. The story in...
Jan 18, 2018•43 min•Ep. 78
My good friend Nick Loper from the Side Hustle Nation Podcast on the show to talk about generating income NOW. Nick founded Side Hustle Nation back in 2013 as a weekly show to feature people from all different backgrounds who were dedicating themselves to side hustling. At the time of our interview, Nick has recorded 260 shows and has one of the most popular business podcasts in iTunes. During our interview, I ask Nick: Profits vs Wages - what does that really mean How he is still side hustlin’ ...
Jan 11, 2018•42 min•Ep. 77
Colin Jones, founder of Blackjack Apprenticeship, on the show this week to share his crazy story of going from flat broke to generating a very high income by counting cards in Blackjack. Yes, it sounds absolutely crazy and it was hard for me to digest when I first heard about his story. But, after meeting Colin in person and asking him everything I possibly could, I asked him to share his story. Colin and I both agree that gambling is dumb. Sure, it’s fun and can be a form of entertainment, but ...
Jan 04, 2018•38 min•Ep. 76
Founder of Stash Wealth Priya Malani on the show to talk H.E.N.R.Y’s - High Earners Not Rich Yet. Priya spent the first part of her career helping very wealthy individuals manage their high net worth in retirement and she came to one conclusion - IT WAS SUPER BORING! Priya made the pivot and decided she start her own firm called Stash Wealth in order to focus all of her efforts on the people she could help the most - people just like herself. “We are not your Father’s Financial Advisor” The mill...
Dec 28, 2017•38 min•Ep. 75
Kelly Snyder is the founder of the website and brand, Adore Your Wardrobe. Kelly’s mission is to give women the tools to overcome the problem of having a closet full of clothes, but nothing you want to wear. She isn’t about the latest and greatest trends, but rather focuses on finding clothes that make women feel confident, regardless of age. Now of course Kelly didn’t come on the show to share her fashion trends with a 34-your man who wears gym clothes everyday! I asked Kelly to come on the sho...
Dec 21, 2017•52 min•Ep. 74
Chad Carson, AKA Coach Carson, on the show this week to talk about something I have been obsessed with lately - Real Estate Investing (for beginners). Coach Carson has been investing in real estate for the past 15 years and he has seen both the good times and the bad. I asked him to share some of his best real estate investing techniques and how he got started with his first property. On the show we discuss: Driving for dollars (real estate terms) Getting that first rental (the hardest one) What...
Dec 14, 2017•47 min•Ep. 73
Jennifer Barrett is the Chief Education Officer for Acorns and the Editor in Chief for Grow. Jennifer is incredibly smart, knows how to move up the ranks in business, and is a high-income earner. In fact, for the past 8 years she has been the primary breadwinner of their family of four. And it’s been a struggle. I asked Jennifer to come on the show to share her struggles with being a full-time working mom and how she had to make that pivot in life to start thinking like a breadwinner. On the sho...
Dec 07, 2017•53 min•Ep. 72
Co-founder and CEO of Blooom, Chris Costello, on the show today to talk about your 401(k). Chris spent his entire life in the financial advising world and now he’s blowing the whistle on the crap that he says has been going on for way too long. He’s talking about the outrageous fees, the terms no one understands (or is supposed to understand), and the ridiculous amount of greed the folks from Wall Street posses when handling your retirement funds. In 2013, he founded Blooom which he coins as the...
Nov 30, 2017•56 min•Ep. 71
Kim and Cressel Anderson have an incredible story. Like many of us, they were just going through the motions and asking themselves if there was more to life than driving hours each way to their corporate America job, only to wake up and do it all over again every single day. That’s when they decided to make a change and do something absolutely crazy….make it their mission to go completely debt free inside their 20s! I asked both of them: How do you pay off a mortgage inside your 20s? What is lif...
Nov 23, 2017•45 min•Ep. 70
I asked Liran Amrany, the CEO of the NYC-based company Debitize to come on the show to share how he as officially solved the problem of grabbing all the credit card rewards without worrying about carrying a credit card balance. Debitize is now the company turning your credit card into a debit card for FREE. He will explain exactly how it all works, the security behind it, and the benefits of automating the process, but I wanted to much more than just the product he created. During the interview,...
Nov 16, 2017•36 min•Ep. 69
Phillip Taylor, AKA PT Money, and I sit down at FINCON 2017 from Dallas, TX. Fincon is the conference PT actually started in 2011 as a way for people inside the world of financial blogging to come together and create a community that had never been created until then. Fast forward just a few years later, and FINCON started to take on it’s own identity. Lifelong friendships have formed, small blogs have turned into multi-million dollar media empires, and the people who attend now label themselves...
Nov 09, 2017•30 min•Ep. 68
Saving for kids college can seem impossible when you’re living paycheck-to-paycheck, trying to pay off debt, thinking about planning for retirement, and wondering how you’re going to make it until next payday. Abby Chao saw these pain points we all face and decided to do something about it. She is the co-founder of CollegeBacker.com, a very unique platform helping you save for your kids college without having to save every dollar on your own. Inside the episode we break down: The 529 Plan (the b...
Nov 02, 2017•42 min•Ep. 67
Deacon Hayes from WellKeptWallet.com on the show today and I could not be more excited! Why? Well, I often tell people Deacon is the “Dad” of Money Peach because it was a meeting with Deacon over a cup of coffee in the corner of Starbucks where the idea for Money Peach was born. Fast forward over the past few years and Deacon and I are great friends AND now we are also in the same niche within our businesses. However, what makes our relationship so unique is we have never viewed each other as co...
Oct 26, 2017•46 min•Ep. 66
Whitney Hansen from the Money Nerds Podcast comes on the show to share her no B.S. debt-free story which led her into starting her own business in the personal finance world. Right out of college, Whitney decided to do the unpopular thing - sacrifice a lot early on in life to live the life she had always dreamed of. I ask Whitney to come on the show to talk about: Her aha moment (cutting through the B.S. of money) What she did to pay off $30,000 in just 10 months out of college How she maintains...
Oct 19, 2017•37 min•Ep. 65
The founder and CEO of Lenda comes on the show to share how his company is fixing the broken mortgage system. If you have gone through the process of getting a loan or going through a re-fi, you know first-hand the process is absolutely ridiculous, takes way too long, and is about as confusing as possible. The truth is: it’s designed this way. The less you understand, the more you will pay. Jason comes on the show and explains how he started off inside the mortgage industry and quickly realized ...
Oct 12, 2017•54 min•Ep. 64
Michelle Schroeder-Gardner is one in a million. In 2011 she had started her blog Making Sense of Cents as a hobby to share her ideas of how she was managing the money in her early 20s. It wasn’t until after six months of blogging for fun, she was told by a friend she could actually make a few bucks through her blog. Six months later she made her first $100 and began to realize there was room for growth. Fast forward to 2017 and she is consistently earning over $100,000 every single month from he...
Sep 28, 2017•42 min•Ep. 62
“Inoperable brain cancer”. These were the words spoken by the team of doctors who met with Andy and her family to share with her the devastating news of what was causing her extreme and sudden headaches. Andy Ptacek; wife, daughter, friend, and mother of two small boys would now be facing the greatest challenge any of us could ever imagine - defeating brain cancer. The Backstory: Andy and her husband were featured on the Money Peach Blog in the very early days when the blog was first started. Th...
Sep 21, 2017•56 min•Ep. 61
Mark Asher was once co-host of the #1 sports radio talk show in Arizona. He made up half of the “Gambo and Ash Show”, the local drive-time afternoon radio program where local sports dominated the airwaves for the drivers of Arizona. It’s unheard of for a radio show to last 5 years in today’s world and the Gambo and Ash Show went on for 12 years. But as the saying goes, all good things must come to an end. Their radio show was #1, Mark was living out his dream, and life was great - until one afte...
Sep 14, 2017•57 min•Ep. 60
I received an email from Brian Winch of CleanLots and he told me, “I’ve been cleaning up litter in and around commercial properties for over 30 years and I’ve been earning a 6 figure income from it.” Wow! That is an email I’ll read all day long! I decided to head on over to his website and sure enough this guy started a side hustle back in 1981 and now generates an incredible income doing what he calls “walking around parking lots and picking up trash”. Since one of the most common questions I r...
Sep 07, 2017•35 min•Ep. 59
Dr. Eric and Dr. Tami Hefferon come on the show this week after two years of dry needling, cupping, stretching, and fixing me up on a monthly basis (due to my own lack of stretching before CrossFit). They are the husband and wife co-founders of a rapidly growing physical therapy center, Impact Physical Therapy, with a “fan base” of clients who willingly bypass their health insurance to get treatment from Impact PT on a cash-only basis. After each session, I learn something more than just how to ...
Aug 31, 2017•1 hr•Ep. 58
Janelle Diller is the co-founder and co-author of of Pack n Go Girls - the popular children's books series for 6 to 9 year-old-girls. Janelle has an amazing story of how she grew up traveling the world on an average income and how she took a passion for writing and combined it with her love of world culture. During the interview, Janelle share how her co-founder Lisa have not only created a thriving business, but how they are expanding the world for young readers so they can better understand th...
Aug 24, 2017•37 min•Ep. 57
Steve Chou is one of the most brilliant guys I know. I met Steve at a conference a few years ago and I have been impressed ever since. This guy is the epitome of hard work meeting opportunity and then combining it with extremely high-level thinking. I asked Steve to come on the show to share his story of working a 9am-5pm job as an engineer while at the same time generating $100k profit in his ecommerce “side hustle” within his first year in business! Fast forward to today, and Steve is now gene...
Aug 17, 2017•40 min•Ep. 56
Jonathan Barkl is the Co-founder and CEO of AirGarage, Inc., a new app connecting homeowners and businesses to those looking for affordable parking. Jonathan is also 20 years old… I asked Jonathan to come on the show to share his incredible story of how he went from creating a $500 per hour side hustle in high school to then attending college AND starting a business which has already changed the trajectory of his life forever. Jonathan explains how he went from a problem he personally had with p...
Aug 10, 2017•59 min•Ep. 55
Amanda Walker from awalkmyway.com is a successful nutritional coach who has had tremendous growth in her business and has even created a cult-like following in her first year as a macros coach. I ask Amanda to tell her story of leaving her job as a schoolteacher to pursue her passion as a successful entrepreneur in the niche of nutritional coaching - specifically macros coaching. What is macros coaching? Amanda explains what “tracking your macros” actually means, why it is important for everyone...
Aug 03, 2017•58 min•Ep. 54
Speaker, author, and Ramsey personality, Chris Hogan comes on the show today to share his story and talk all about retirement. Chris has an amazing story of how he went from winning a football national championship in college, to working in the banking industry, and then later joining Dave Ramsey’s team as one of Dave’s Ramsey personalities. I also asked Chris to come on the show to talk about his passion - the do’s and don’ts of retiring wealthy. Chris has made quite a name for himself by looki...
Jul 27, 2017•56 min•Ep. 53
A few months ago I came across this really incredible FinTech (Financial Technology) software called Trim. Trim does many things like sending me a message letting me know how many subscriptions I have active, how much I am (over) paying, and even allows me to cancel anything and everything with one push of a button! The way I think about Trim is this: it’s the virtual assistant in the background of my life, working 24/7 for free, and making me look like a financial rockstar when it comes to the ...
Jul 20, 2017•48 min•Ep. 52
