Welcome to the Troubleshooting Life Podcast! J and Craig are on a mission to bridge the gap between generations by empowering, exposing, and educating others about financial literacy, new perspectives, and life goals. Today's topic of conversation is about stopping self sabotage. Craig and J wax deep on different ways people tend to self sabotage their goals, relationships, and overall improvement. This is part 2 of 2, we hope you all enjoy it!! Frugal or Cheap: This weeks topic is taking zip-lo...
Jan 19, 2023•29 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Welcome to the Troubleshooting Life Podcast! J and Craig are on a mission to bridge the gap between generations by empowering, exposing, and educating others about financial literacy, new perspectives, and life goals. Today's topic of conversation is about stopping self sabotage. Craig and J wax deep on different ways people tend to self sabotage their goals, relationships, and overall improvement. This will be part 1 of 2, so stay tuned next week! Frugal or Cheap: This weeks topic we didn't pla...
Jan 12, 2023•40 min•Season 1Ep. 2
Welcome to the Troubleshooting Life Podcast! J and Craig are on a mission to bridge the gap between generations by empowering, exposing, and educating others about financial literacy, new perspectives, and life goals. Today's topic of conversation is about taking the King. Craig and J use the game of chess as an allusion to life goals and values. Frugal or Cheap: This weeks topic for this segment is only going to places that provide discounts. What do you think? What are other topics that can be...
Jan 05, 2023•35 min•Season 1Ep. 1
Welcome to the Troubleshooting Life Podcast! J and Craig are on a mission to bridge the gap between generations by empowering, exposing, and educating others about financial literacy, new perspectives, and life goals. Today's topic of conversation is about how things happen for you, and not to you. Craig and J expound upon the victim mentality and how that can be a detriment to personal accountability and responsibility. Frugal or Cheap: This weeks topic for this segment is continuously repairin...
Jul 08, 2022•53 min•Ep. 18
Welcome to the Troubleshooting Life Podcast! J and Craig are on a mission to bridge the gap between generations by empowering, exposing, and educating others about financial literacy, new perspectives, and life goals. Today's topic of conversation is to stop expecting rewards for success. Chasing an extrinsic reward can become a rat race of superficial motivation. For example, getting a job that pays more money just to buy a more expensive car. Craig and J go over examples like these during this...
Jul 08, 2022•44 min•Ep. 17
Welcome to the Troubleshooting Life Podcast! J and Craig are on a mission to bridge the gap between generations by empowering, exposing, and educating others about financial literacy, new perspectives, and life goals. Today's topic of conversation is repairing damaged credit. Finishing off the small financial series, Craig and J expound on the topic of repairing credit. In reality, things happen and it's possible to suffer from poor decisions. But there is always another day, and taking the next...
May 27, 2022•40 min•Ep. 16
Welcome to the Troubleshooting Life Podcast! J and Craig are on a mission to bridge the gap between generations by empowering, exposing, and educating others about financial literacy, new perspectives, and life goals. Today's topic of conversation is maximizing your credit. As Craig and J talked about on the previous episode, credit is a tool to use as leverage towards purchasing assets. They continue to talk about ways to get a better credit score and how to build the foundation for a great cre...
May 27, 2022•54 min•Ep. 15
Welcome to the Troubleshooting Life Podcast! J and Craig are on a mission to bridge the gap between generations by empowering, exposing, and educating others about financial literacy, new perspectives, and life goals. Today's topic of conversation is starting to build credit. Credit can be used to leverage other people's money to purchase assets. Learning to build credit early and properly is what Craig and J will be going over and breaking down. Frugal or Cheap: This weeks topic for this segmen...
May 06, 2022•50 min•Ep. 14
Welcome to the Troubleshooting Life Podcast! J and Craig are on a mission to bridge the gap between generations by empowering, exposing, and educating others about financial literacy, new perspectives, and life goals. Today's topic of conversation is learning how to budget. This is the beginning of a financial series that Craig and J are starting to help viewers and listeners understand money. Budgeting helps people track their finances, which can lead into better decisions for Financial Managem...
May 06, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 13
Welcome to the Troubleshooting Life Podcast! J and Craig are on a mission to bridge the gap between generations by empowering, exposing, and educating others about financial literacy, new perspectives, and life goals. Today's topic of conversation goes over competing against yourself instead of others. We find ourselves comparing our lives, success, and happiness to others around us or to those we see on social media. The common term for this is Keeping Up with the Jones'. However, that's not th...
May 06, 2022•52 min•Ep. 12
Welcome to the Troubleshooting Life Podcast! J and Craig are on a mission to bridge the gap between generations by empowering, exposing, and educating others about financial literacy, new perspectives, and life goals. Today's topic of conversation goes over respecting your obligations. We tend to put optional tasks or opportunities above our obligatory responsibilities. For example, if you're in school and your friends decide to go out for drink when you know you are supposed to study for exams....
May 06, 2022•41 min•Ep. 11
Welcome to the Troubleshooting Life Podcast! J and Craig are on a mission to bridge the gap between generations by empowering, exposing, and educating others about financial literacy, new perspectives, and life goals. Today's topic of conversation goes over the principal that you can't drive by only looking in the rear view mirror. In more literal sense, people can't move forward with their life if they continue to live in their past. Join J and Craig in this conversation steered towards future ...
May 06, 2022•29 min•Ep. 10
Welcome to the Troubleshooting Life Podcast! J and Craig are on a mission to bridge the gap between generations by empowering, exposing, and educating others about financial literacy, new perspectives, and life goals. Today's topic of conversation is Don't Let Anyone Invest More Into You Than You. Sometimes we fall into the trap of allowing others to give their time, money, or other resources to us without reciprocity. A tangible story is when a Professor spends at least an hour of their time in...
Apr 28, 2022•47 min•Ep. 8
Welcome to the Troubleshooting Life Podcast! J and Craig are on a mission to bridge the gap between generations by empowering, exposing, and educating others about financial literacy, new perspectives, and life goals. Today's topic of conversation is You are not broke if you don't have money. We believe whole hearted that poverty and wealth are mindsets and not necessarily attached to an income level. But how do we swap our minds from broke to wealthy? Craig and J talk about what it takes to cha...
Apr 28, 2022•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 7
Welcome to the Troubleshooting Life Podcast! J and Craig are on a mission to bridge the gap between generations by empowering, exposing, and educating others about financial literacy, new perspectives, and life goals. Today's topic of conversation is Time Over Money. As people, we tend to put a high value on money and forget that our greatest resource is time. Time for each person is finite, as in there is only so much time that a person lives. We tend to trade our time for money and put more of...
Apr 28, 2022•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 6
Welcome to the Troubleshooting Life Podcast! J and Craig are on a mission to bridge the gap between generations by empowering, exposing, and educating others about financial literacy, new perspectives, and life goals. Today's topic of conversation is defining the difference between Punishment and Sacrifice. Most people will not understand your goals and aspirations the same way you do, so they may misinterpret things like a diet to lose weight as a punishment for being overweight. However, the r...
Mar 30, 2022•58 min•Ep. 9
