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Episode 420: The Hidden Power of Protection: How Avoiding Market Losses Can Supercharge Your Retirement

September 19, 2025 by Not Your Average Financial Podcast

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In this episode, we ask:

  • Have you ever been on a roller coaster that dropped so steeply that your stomach flipped, and just when you think it’s over…?
  • What if there was a way to enjoy the upward momentum of the market without all of the terrifying drops?
  • Are market events and crashes black swan events?
  • If someone was stealing 20% of your cash out of your bank every couple of years, what would you do?
  • Who would move the money to another bank?
  • When are you ever not going to need money?
  • Is your strategy vital, over the long term?
  • Do you have a sense of the major events in recent market history?
  • Who is losing money?
  • How often is the market really dropping? What are the implications of this?
  • What about the sequence of returns risk?
  • How might one tame volatility?
  • What about loss aversion?
  • Is your retirement vaporizing because of someone’s whims on Wall St.?
  • What about panic during market downturns?
  • How does one live on reduced retirement income?
  • If you lose 50%, do you need 50% or 100% to rebound just to get back to even?
  • What are the major market crashes of recent history?
  • Could anybody hold on throughout all of that madness?
  • What about beginners? What about the advanced?
  • What is the key insight to all of this?
  • What about preserving your principal?
  • What about compound growth?
  • What about having a financial fortress?
  • What are some one things to try?
  • What do these insights mean for you and for your long-term financial life?
  • Are you confident in having a guarantee in your portfolio?
  • What is the shield against the storm?
  • What is the ease of a fixed indexed annuity?
  • Am I doing what I need to do with my money?
  • Would you like to read and review our new book, The Business Fortress: How to Grow, Protect and Exit Your Business?
  • What are some next steps and takeaways?

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Episode 419: The Secret Tool to Unlimited Compound Growth in Your Life

September 12, 2025 by Not Your Average Financial Podcast

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In this episode, we ask:

  • Would you like to read our new book, The Business Fortress?
  • Have you ever watched a rocket takeoff?
  • What are the tools that I use?
  • Have you read Atomic Habits by James Clear?
  • What did the study in the journal of Applied Psychology say?
  • How do small changes lead to a big impact?
  • Have you read Mindset by Carol Dweck?
  • What could you do instead?
  • What is an After Action Review (AAR)?
  • What could you do for 5 minutes every day?
  • What is the K.I.S.S. principle?
  • What will you keep?
  • What will you improve?
  • What will you start?
  • What will you stop?
  • What about DayOne or Notion?
  • Would you like to share your AAR on the Not Your Average Financial Community?
  • Would you like to get a full focus planner (Michael Hyatt’s Full Focus Store | Amazon)?
  • What about using the Pomodoro method technique?
  • What about apps like the Headspace Meditation app?
  • What is the ICE Matrix?
  • What about impact? How much will the idea contribute to your goals?
  • What about confidence? How sure are you that this will succeed?
  • What about ease? How simple or complicated is this to implement? 
  • Does this goal align with your values?
  • What are the action items and takeaways?

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Episode 418: Why Bank On Yourself® is Essential at Every Age

September 5, 2025 by Not Your Average Financial Podcast

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In this episode, we ask:

  • Are you a small or mid-sized business owner?
  • Would you like to read the Business Fortress book?
  • Is napping the unsung hero of the universe?
  • What about the seasons of life?
  • How do financial tools and strategies work over the seasons of life?
  • Is there a tool that meets every application with every stage of life?
  • Wouldn’t that change everything?
  • Is whole life insurance a one-size fits all tool?
  • What about children?
  • What about guaranteed insurability?
  • What about building cash value?
  • What about intergenerational wealth?
  • What about singles?
  • What about lower premiums (when you’re young and healthy)?
  • What about borrowing against cash value for life needs?
  • What about debt protection?
  • What about a small term policy?
  • What about newlyweds without kids?
  • What about building a life together?
  • What about the debt SnowBank™ method?
  • What about mortgage pay down acceleration?
  • What about paying off your entire house with your policy?
  • What about lifestyle preservation?
  • What will happen to the surviving spouse?
  • How about parents who are married with children?
  • What about income needs?
  • What about education funding and college costs?
  • What about lifestyle protection?
  • What about an emergency fund?
  • How about empty nesters?
  • Should I drop my life insurance?
  • What is a myth?
  • What about pension maximization?
  • What about a joint life pension?
  • What about single life pension?
  • How do we fix that problem?
  • What can be tax free?
  • Is it just about the kids?
  • What is a safety net and a wealth building tool?
  • What about legacy planning or equalizing an inheritance?
  • What about children in the family business?
  • What about leaving the estate to the children?
  • What about replacing your group insurance?
  • Does your life insurance go away when you leave your employer?
  • What about retirement income supplementation?
  • What about seniors?
  • What about final expenses?
  • What about social security replacement?
  • Will you leave gifts?
  • Will you leave a legacy?
  • What is the ADBR (accelerated death benefit rider)?
  • Can you age in your home?
  • What about federal and state taxes?
  • What about estate tax?
  • How fast will the estate tax be due?
  • What about business owners and life insurance?
  • What is the secret weapon?
  • What are the takeaways?
  • Would you like to see the chart PDF at our FREE Not Your Average Financial Community?
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Episode 417: NEW BOOK! The Business Fortress: How to Grow, Protect and Exit Your Business with Confidence

August 29, 2025 by Not Your Average Financial Podcast

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In this episode, we ask:

  • Do you know how to grow, protect and exit your business with confidence?
  • Who is David C. Barnett?
  • Did you know we wrote a new book, The Business Fortress: How to Grow, Protect and Exit Your Business?
  • What happens when…?
  • How do businesses survive the long-haul?
  • What fortress is built around your business?
  • What about business lines of credit?
  • What about a more resilient mindset?
  • What core competencies does it take?
  • Why do entrepreneurs tend to be too optimistic?
  • Why would a business owner want to buy their own property?
  • What about managing risk for yourselves?
  • Is real estate an asset or a liability?
  • What about Walmart?
  • How do small businesses treat debt differently?
  • What is another common trap?
  • What is one of the clearest success signs in a small business?
  • What about a case study?
  • What is corporate-owned life insurance (COLI)?
  • Why did David and Mark write this book?
  • Are we through the volatility and opportunity?
  • Who is sitting on liquid piles of contingency capital?
  • Who is this book best suited for?
  • Who is not ready for this book?
  • Have you read the book?
  • What do you think about the book?
  • How did this book help you in your business?
  • Would you read the book and leave us an honest review on Amazon?
  • Would you like to receive bonuses by sending us a screenshot of your Amazon review to hello@nyafinancialpodcast.com?
  • Would you like to visit davidcbarnett.com?
  • What are the takeaways?

 

David C. Barnett is a small business transaction expert based in Canada who works with entrepreneurs across the globe. Through online consulting, training programs, and valuation services, David helps business owners buy, sell, finance, and improve their companies. With over two decades of experience, he’s facilitated dozens of business deals and advised hundreds of clients worldwide.

He’s the author of 10 Amazon-listed books on topics like business buying, local investing, and franchise pitfalls, and he hosts a YouTube channel with hundreds of videos unpacking real-world issues for small business owners and specializing on buy/sell transactions. He loves to have frank conversations about small businesses and the process of making deals for them. HowToSellMyOwnBusiness.com 

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Episode 416: Buried in Work? Here’s How to Transform Your Estate Plan with Adam Zuckerman

August 22, 2025 by Not Your Average Financial Podcast

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In this episode, we ask:

  • Are you a small to mid-size business owner?
  • Would you like to read Mark’s new book, co-authored with David Barnett, The Business Fortress: How to Grow, Protect and Exit Your Business with Confidence?
  • Who is Adam Zuckerman?
  • Do you have a will?
  • Do you have a trust?
  • Do you have an attorney?
  • Do you have a financial planner?
  • Do you have a CPA?
  • What is the story behind the words Buried in Work?
  • What is the reality when someone passes away?
  • Does everyone already have an estate plan?
  • Who is in control of that plan?
  • Do you have funeral plans in place?
  • What are the frameworks found on Buried in Work?
  • What is the estate planning pyramid?
  • What’s Adam’s story with life insurance?
  • What is the CLEAR kit?
  • What should your family do?
  • Is there a checklist?
  • What or who needs to be paid?
  • What are your succession plans for the business?
  • What happens next?
  • What are the information hubs?
  • How might I find the words to have this challenging conversation?
  • Do you have advanced directives in place?
  • What happened in the hospital?
  • What about the card deck?
  • Do you need an attorney?
  • What situations don’t require an attorney?
  • Do you have a trust?
  • Is the trust funded?
  • Where does one start?
  • Would you like to visit buriedinwork.com?
  • What are the takeaways?

Adam Zuckerman (JD/MBA) is the founder of Buried in Work, a leading resource that helps individuals, families, and businesses simplify estate planning and end-of-life tasks.

Buried in Work’s resources include more than 150+ information hubs, 2,000+ articles, 100+ checklists and guides, service provider directories, a podcast, and innovative tools like the Executor’s Summary Report, CLEAR Kits, and card games that facilitate meaningful conversations about legacy and preparation.

Adam’s mission is simple yet powerful: to make life’s hardest moments a little easier by helping families get organized, communicate openly, and prepare comprehensively for the unexpected.

Learn more at www.BuriedInWork.com.

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Episode 415: What’s Next for Annuities? New Solutions for Savvy Savers

August 15, 2025 by Not Your Average Financial Podcast

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In this episode, we ask:

  • Would you like to read Mark’s new book, co-authored with David Barnett, The Business Fortress: How to Grow, Protect and Exit Your Business with Confidence?
  • What are the three musicians?
  • How are annuities like Weird Al Yankovic?
  • What are annuities, anyways?
  • How much income do you want a year?
  • What are fixed indexed annuities?
  • What’s the catch?
  • What’s the upside?
  • What’s enhanced flexibility with withdrawals?
  • What’s a great feature for dealing with unexpected expenses?
  • How about an example?
  • What about new calculation methods?
  • What about the highest daily value method?
  • What about the performance trigger method?
  • What if you can have your cake and eat it too?
  • What about the income flexibility benefit?
  • Why are these features coming online now?
  • Who is not the right fit for an annuity?
  • What are the takeaways?

 

 

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Episode 414: The 10-Year Retirement Danger Window with Grant Thompson

August 8, 2025 by Not Your Average Financial Podcast

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In this episode, we ask:

  • Would you like to read Mark’s new book, co-authored with David Barnett, The Business Fortress: How to Grow, Protect and Exit Your Business with Confidence?
  • What is this 10-year window?
  • Who is Grant Thompson?
  • Would you like to hear Episode 357?
  • How does the Bank on Yourself® type whole life insurance policy actually work in retirement?
  • What are the passive income years?
  • What about the one trick ponies?
  • What about social security?
  • What could cause that to reduce in the future?
  • Where should one draw money from for income and/or a buffer?
  • What do you need to have in retirement?
  • What about multiple streams?
  • What is the foundation of the house?
  • What is the Swiss army knife?
  • What about peace?
  • What does it take to have a true plan?
  • What are some examples of how clients use the policies?
  • What about taking money with tax efficiency?
  • What about the five years before retirement?
  • What about the five years after retirement?
  • Am I going to run out of my income?
  • What about leaving a legacy for the family?
  • What about inflation?
  • What needs to be on the guaranteed level?
  • What happens for those who have everything in the market?
  • How can one reduce pressure in retirement?
  • What about purpose?
  • What is a buffer asset?
  • Would you like to hear Episode 194?
  • What about borrowing against the policy?
  • What about long term care?
  • Do you have to die to win?
  • What about the 1035 exchange?
  • What about moving money from a life insurance policy to an annuity?
  • What about costs increasing?
  • What do you want your money to do for you?
  • What if you don’t need more income?
  • What about setting up something for the kids?
  • What about pensions?
  • Can you give yourself social security benefits?
  • What about your estate?
  • Is there someone you love so much at the IRS that you want to send them a bunch of money?
  • Is there someone you love so much at the assisted living facility that you want to send them all of your money?
  • What will check off many of the boxes?
  • What assets will you have left upon death?
  • What are the takeaways and action items?

Grant Thompson works with families and their businesses nationwide. The Thompson & Thurman Agency works with families who share in their vision and want to become financially set for life without taking unnecessary risks. With so much misinformation in our financial world today, families really need guidance and direction to find the true path to financial freedom. Grant, Chris and their team of trusted advisers nationwide have are leading the way to meet that challenge. Grant is married to his wife Kathy and they have 2 sons Blair and Blane along with his wife Brittany. Grant enjoys spending his spare time with his family at reining and cow horse competitions plus trying to squeeze in a shooting competition every now and then with his sons. Reach out to Grant at grant@thompsonthurman.com or call Grant at (806) 352-3480. 

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Episode 413: The Closed-End Second Mortgage Consideration for High Interest Debt

August 1, 2025 by Not Your Average Financial Podcast

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In this episode, we ask:

  • Do you have a mortgage?
  • What about the hidden potential within the walls of your home?
  • Would you like to hear Episode 157?
  • What’s been going on with the mortgage industry recently?
  • What are the hidden costs of home ownership?
  • What is a home equity line of credit (HELOC)?
  • What is a closed-end second mortgage?
  • What are the disadvantages and risks of a HELOC?
  • What about a cash out refinance?
  • What are the options?
  • How about some examples?
  • What are the risks?
  • What are the takeaways?

The topics presented in this podcast are general information only and not for the purposes of providing legal, accounting or investment advice. On such matters, please consult a professional who knows your specific situation.

Matthew Shanlian is the Vice President of Lending for Crosscountry Mortgage, LLC. the Largest independent mortgage bank in the United States. For the past 15 years, he has focused on educating and supporting the financial services industry and their clients. Matthew travels the country to train financial professionals on Strategic Equity Planning for their clients. He believes that the having a plan for your home is paramount to a building wealth.
Reach out to Matt Shanlian 
| Call Matt at (330) 414-8856

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Episode 412: Syndication Funds and Deferred Sales Trust Insights with Brett Swarts

July 25, 2025 by Not Your Average Financial Podcast

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In this episode, we ask:

  • Is a deferred sales trust (a DST) a magical tool?
  • What about deferring capital gains tax?
  • Who is Brett Swarts?
  • Would you like to listen to Episode 181?
  • What about Taxifornia?
  • How does a 1031 exchange trap you into selling high and buying higher?
  • How is the 1031 exchange like a 401(k) tax deferral?
  • What is the account for?
  • How about a case study?
  • What about hitting a home run?
  • What about getting time back?
  • What about cash flow increase?
  • What about clearing time, energy and brain space?
  • What about diversifying out of highly concentrated assets?
  • How is truly passive income linked to your freedom?
  • How is compound interest linked to your money?
  • What about the wealth of relationships?
  • What about the wealth of the spiritual?
  • What about peace of mind?
  • What is an R.O.E. calculation?
  • How much will the government take out?
  • What is my truly passive income number?
  • What about lending?
  • Who wants to guess about their income or retirement income numbers?
  • What about the contract as the basis for wealth creation?
  • What are the risks?
  • What are the takeaways?
  • What about a return on equity or R.O.E. calculation?

    The topics presented in this podcast are general information only and not for the purposes of providing legal, accounting or investment advice. On such matters, please consult a professional who knows your specific situation.

    Brett Swarts is a best-selling author of “Building a Capital Gains Tax Exit Plan”. He is host of the Build it to Billions & Capital Gains Tax Solutions Podcasts. His insights have been featured at the Best Ever Real Estate Conference, DLP Capital Conference, American Entrepreneur with Kevin Harrington from Shark Tank, and also seen on Fox Business Network. As a real estate broker, his expertise is one of the few in the world who has closed Deferred Sales Trust, Delaware Statutory Trust, and 1031 Exchanges. He is the Founder of Capital Gains Tax Solutions where he teaches purpose-driven entrepreneurs and investors to build their capital gains tax exit plan to multiply their freedom, wealth, and impact. He has closed over ½ Billion in DST and Real Estate Transactions and he was the first to help Bitcoin owners exit millions of gains and defer their capital gains tax using a DST. brettswarts.com

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    Episode 411: Be Aware! Navigating Fraud, Scams and Elder Financial Protection with Terri Lea Gardner

    July 18, 2025 by Not Your Average Financial Podcast

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    In this episode, we ask:

    • Have you come out unscathed?
    • Is it real?
    • Is it a scam?
    • Who is Terri Lea Gardner?
    • What has Terri learned?
    • What are the top frauds and scams today?
    • What do the scammers target?
    • How much is lost on phone calls, social media and email scams?
    • What about the toll road scam?
    • What about the warrant scam?
    • What about the posts on social media?
    • What about the email PayPal scam?
    • What about malware or viruses?
    • What about the QR codes?
    • How many fall victim to the scams?
    • What generations are more likely to get caught in these scams?
    • What is the issue?
    • What is on the other end of the link?
    • What should you do with a suspicious email or text?
    • When should you change your passwords?
    • What about password managers?
    • What about staying educated?
    • What about AI fake video technology?
    • What about talking with elder parents?
    • What was Terri’s first fraud case?
    • What about the fake “family member in jail” call?
    • What about retaliation?
    • What are the tips and tricks to lock down one’s identifying information?
    • What about reporting it to the police and the IRS?
    • What are the action items?

    Terri Lea Gardner is a seasoned law enforcement professional with 35 years of experience in investigative work, specializing in waste, fraud, and abuse investigations. She holds a Master Peace Officer License and has dedicated 17 years to the Office of Inspector General (OIG), focusing on high-stakes fraud detection and prevention.
    Terri earned both her Master of Science in Criminal Justice Leadership (2019) and Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice & Forensic Science (2016) from Sam Houston State University. As a Certified Fraud Examiner for over 12 years, she has been at the forefront of fraud investigations, uncovering complex financial crimes and helping organizations mitigate risks.

    Her passion lies in educating others on fraud prevention, equipping individuals and businesses with the knowledge to protect themselves from financial deception. Through her expertise, Terri empowers others to recognize, report, and prevent fraudulent activity, ensuring a more secure and ethical financial landscape.

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