The Life Planning 101 Podcast

Keeping the Long-Term Focus of Investing

Aaron Kennedy and Matt Ervin join us this week for another episode of Black & White Market Chatter. This week they discuss the importance of staying invested for the long-term.

Spring Cleaning Your Financial House

Even though you think you have everything in order and in its place, your finances won’t stay stagnant. This means your financial house gets messy without you even knowing it. This week we take a look at some ways you can get a head start on your financial spring cleaning.

Paying Taxes on Your Terms

Did you know you can often choose when to pay tax? By default, you can often choose how much you will pay. There is no trick. It is simply a result of understanding how taxes work for or against your situation.

Life Insurance Myths

Did you know twenty percent of men die before retirement age? Is your family ready if you were killed today? Would they be taken care of the way you would want? This week we debunk some common myths about life insurance.

Is Your Retirement Portfolio Built to Last?

The only guarantee is that there are no guarantees in life. When you retire there is no guarantee what the next three years will be. And, if you are retired, there is no guarantee what the next three years will be. The key is to plan for just this.

Family Disaster Planning

You have great power over the destiny of your family. In fact, you have the ability save your family… or destroy it. Too many of us make all the excuses in the world to not work on our estate plan or just throw darts at an attorney, get documents in place, and say we have one. Neither of these add up to a Family Disaster Plan.

3 New Risks to Your Retirement

Today is a very different world than it was just two years ago. A retiree in 2022 still faces those same risks and concerns, but there are a few new ones that need to make the list—or at least require more attention.

Fed Update

Aaron Kennedy and Matt Ervin join us this week for another episode of Black and White Market Chatter. Aaron and Matt talk inflation, interest rates, and the Fed. You don't want to miss this!

Blake Briscoe Interview

We were honored to have a sit down interview with Blake Briscoe, CPA and Jim Kennedy to talk about their new business partnership, Briscoe & Associates, LLC. For more information, check out: briscoeandassociates.com

COVID Fog

Refer to any news media and the headlines are teeming with news about COVID…and has been for 2 years. It is no wonder that important information about other areas of interest is getting buried. After placing a few phone calls regarding various legislation that passed at the end of 2019, I thought it might be good to revisit some important issues that may impact your planning.

Getting Back to Simplicity

As life goes on, it seems to become more and more complicated. You can keep living by default or choose to live Life on purpose. This week we talk about the toy box approach when it comes to life planning.

Are We There Yet?

What is it about our minds that make us more impatient the closer we get to our goal? We all want to get where we are going “yesterday.” The problem sometimes develops that we become so focused on “getting there,” that we forget to be a human being in the midst of it. We become a human doing instead.