Banking

Episode 195: How to Write a Contract with Your Future

May 28, 2021 by Not Your Average Financial Podcast

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In this episode, we ask:

Can you imagine writing a contract with your future?
Would you like to hear the live webinar that Mark did for Jay Helm’s W2 Capitalist group?
What are the two universal laws?
What about gravity?
What about entropy?
What about division?
What are the risks?
What about unexpected financial responsibilities?
What do we know?
What can we control?
What about real estate?
What about the deed?
Is real estate about bricks and sticks or is real estate about paper?
What did Mark find at a museum in Chicago?
What about annuity buying Romans?
What about a soldier with guaranteed income?
What tangible, practical systems can you set up for your future?
What about Jim Carrey?
What is money?
What about trust?
What about contracts?
What are amateur contracts?
What about fees?
What about taxes?
What about volatility?
Who has a fee?
What do fees do to your accounts?
What does volatility do to your accounts?
How might taxes affect your accounts?
How does one live and thrive under the circumstances?
Where do you put your money?
Where do you plant your money?
What about complexity?
What about simplicity?
What about security?
What about liquidity?
What about systems?
What about predictable outcomes?
What is a futures contract?
What about insurance contracts?
Who is a wheat farmer?
Will you have enough cash to send your kid to college?
What motivates you?
What excites you?
What did Mark learn about participating whole life insurance?
What about Bank on Yourself® type life insurance policies?
What is steady, boring and predictable?
What is cash value?
What about the right design?
Who should you work with?
What companies should you work with?
How much do you want?
When do you want it?
What about no longer working with banks?
What about having a contract with the future you?
What about private money lending?
What excites you?
If this is good, why isn’t everyone doing it?
How do you go from small to big?
How does nature work?
What about a repeating pattern around a center?
What about easy access?
Does that acorn have a future contract?
Have you sat down with a true professional?
Who might you work with who has this expertise?
How many Bank on Yourself professionals are in the United States and Canada?
Would you like to meet with Mark?
Would you like to join our Not Your Average Financial Community?

Episode 183: What About Bank On Yourself® and Bitcoin?

March 5, 2021 by Not Your Average Financial Podcast

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In this episode, we ask:

Do you remember your MySpace password?
Do you have your bank password somewhere for your kids and grandkids to find?
Who is Stefan Thomas?
How did he lose so much Bitcoin?
What are the risks?
Does Bitcoin have value?
Is crypto a way to safeguard wealth?
What’s to love?
What is the value of the price of a bitcoin?
Is this the latest tulip mania?
Is it the future of money?
What are the main functions of money?
What defines money?
What about blockchain inflation?
Who owns blockchain patents?
What about volatility?
How old is Bitcoin?
How much would you like to spend on pizza?
Who uses Bitcoin to buy groceries?
What about anonymity?
What about concerns and regulations?
What did Janet Yellen say?
What about marketing?
What about a Bitcoin ATM network?
Is Bitcoin a medium of exchange?
What about payment for debts and taxes?
Why is the U.S. dollar the current medium of exchange?
Why does the U.S. government want tax in U.S. dollars?
What about printing money?
What about modern monetary theory?
What happened in the 1960s?
What about the behavior of society?
What about paying tax with Bitcoin?
What about reporting crypto holdings?
What about regulations and oversights?
What about the benefits?
What about paying tax on the gains?
What about the federal reserve?
What about pension funds?
Who is G. Edward Griffin?
What did he say?
Will the U.S. dollar go away?
What about the capital?
Has the government been hands off with crypto?
What about non-Bitcoin cryptocurrencies?
What are the main functions of money?
What about store of value?
What about the word currency?
What about flow?
What about storage?
How many bitcoins have been lost?
What about aging?
How is money like the promise of the future?
What about commodities?
What about futures?
What about gold?
Is Bitcoin a store of value?
Is Bitcoin speculation?
Who is the end user for Bitcoin?
What about futures contracts?
How is this like an insurance contract?
What about beating inflation?
What about predictability?
What about 1970s or 1980s inflation?
What about Bank on Yourself® type dividend paying whole life insurance?
What about speculation?
What about your risk tolerance?
What do you see in crypto?
Is crypto scarce?
Is it useful?
What about a deflationary environment?
What is the biggest profit centers for insurers?
What about term insurance policies?
Will insurers pay in crypto?
When did the dollar become legal?
What happened in 1863?
What is the legally recognized currency?
Who wins?
Is whole life insurance immune from financial disaster?
What about the risks?
Where is the real education?
Where does the real transformation occur?

Episode 166: Sean Morrissey is Landlording for Life

November 6, 2020 by Not Your Average Financial Podcast

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In this episode, we ask:

When was your moment?
Who is Sean Morrissey?
Have you heard the podcast Landlording for Life?
Who is Sean leading?
What about buy and hold real estate?
What is leading with lifestyle?
What does financial freedom mean for Sean?
What happened when banks lowered the line of credit?
What happened for four years?
What did Sean learn?
What does Sean do and what does liquidity do for Sean’s business?
How did Sean get started?
What is the value of liquidity?
What are the challenges for landlords right now?
What does the average guy or gal not realize about the need we have for access to capital?
Is it easy to buy?
What’s the weird position?
Are you liquid enough?
What about roughly 3% of capital expenditures and reserves?
What about roughly 5% for vacancy?
What about roughly 3% for a liquidity factor?
What about the “what if” game?
What about Mark’s meeting with Sean?
What surprised Sean?
What did Sean find?
Have you heard Episode 159 and Episode 160?
What did Sean learn?
What about universal life policies?
Are all mutual insurance companies good for Bank on Yourself® type policies?
Why does the contract matter on a life insurance policy?
What is a direct recognition loan provision?
What about non direct recognition company?
What’s an eye opener?
What are Sean’s hopes?
How does Sean plan to use his policies in sync with real estate?
What does Sean see, looking back?
How does Sean think big enough now?
Where do you want to be in 10 to 20 years?
When do we want our money most efficient?
What’s the power of a whole life insurance policy (especially the older ones)?
What about tax deductions and depreciation in real estate?
What about long range thinking?
What are the options down the road?
What’s the problem of real estate without whole life?
Would you like to work with Sean?
What is happening with evictions in Illinois?
What about liquidity?
What about setting sights too small?
How big can you think?
What about opportunities?
Want to work with us? We’re hiring. http://bit.ly/worklg

Sean Morrissey is a landlord and real estate broker, in the western suburbs of the Chicagoland area, who has built a $7M real estate portfolio and owns/manages Chicagoland Realty Group Partners LLC.

Having managed 200+ properties for landlords in the Chicagoland area, Sean has built property management systems to make “buy and hold” real estate sustainable and wealth-building.

Sean’s proudest achievement is being able to spend his days with his wife, two kids, dog and cat in what some may define a financial freedom lifestyle. Sean is the host of the real estate “buy and hold” real estate investor podcast called Landlording for Life.

Episode 163: Why Banks Need Insurance Companies with Kevin Greer

October 16, 2020 by Not Your Average Financial Podcast

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In this episode, we ask:

Would you like to be the owner?
What about assets?
Who is Kevin Greer?
Who works with Kevin?
What’s the craziest thing Kevin’s seen?
What about families inheriting properties?
What about estates and life insurance death benefits?
How does Kevin acquire properties for BankFinancial?
What’s the big difference for a smaller bank?
Who is the target market?
Why does it make sense to work with a community bank?
How does cash value life insurance factor into net worth calculations?
What does Kevin see on the balance sheets?
What about term insurance?
What is a future asset vs. current asset?
What about liquidation situations?
What are capital markets?
What are BankFinancial’s sweet spot?
What is a recourse loan?
How does one personally guarantee a loan?
What is it like, as a bank, borrowing from life insurance companies?
What kind of loans do life insurance companies want?
What are the companies looking for?
How might you, as an owner in a mutual life insurance company, participate in these deals?
What about cash flow?
What about yield?
What about private lending (sort of like hard money lending)?
How does Kevin help private lenders?
How did Kevin discover his passion for this work?
Would you like to talk with Kevin?
- kgreer@bankfinancial.com
- Call 312-525-1131
- Reach out on LinkedIn
What are the takeaways?
What is a current asset? What is a future asset?

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

Kevin Greer, a commercial and multifamily real estate specialist for BankFinancial, has over 25 years experience lending and has closed over $100 million in real estate financing transactions.

Kevin participated on bank REO committees and REO disposition teams. In addition, Kevin has personally bought and sold several real estate properties over the past 15 years.

Episode 161: Bank on Yourself® and Real Estate Investing

October 2, 2020 by Not Your Average Financial Podcast

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In this episode, we ask:

Would you like to hear a LIVE workshop Mark did with Roger Blankenship of the Flipping America Real Estate Investment Association?
Who has the deal funding power?
Is it possible to cut out mortgage companies?
What was the biggest wake up call of Mark’s adult life?
What are the three strategies and tactics?
What else?
Would you like to watch the video presentation (see below)?
Would you like to subscribe to the NYAFP YouTube page?
Would you like to hear the Q&A?

Episode 160: Why Work with a Bank on Yourself® Professional? Part 2

September 25, 2020 by Not Your Average Financial Podcast

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In this episode, we ask:

What is the history of Bank on Yourself®?
What did Nelson Nash find with the Infinite Banking Concept?
How was Nelson an evangelist?
What’s the issue with the IBC meaning?
What standards are in place around the Infinite Banking Concept?
What did Pamela Yellen learn?
What does Pamela write on page 247 of the Bank of Yourself® Revolution?
What is a modified endowment contract (or MEC)?
How did Pamela Yellen develop the Bank on Yourself® Professionals program?
How is the Bank on Yourself® language protected?
What is Bank on Yourself®?
How does this make a significant difference?
How might you know if an agent is capable and properly trained in designing a Bank on Yourself® type policy?
What about investment advisors?
What about designing riders properly?
How are these policies different from traditional whole life policies?
What is the only kind of insurance recommended for the Bank on Yourself® strategy?
What about captive agents?
What sort of products are captive agents writing?
Does it sound too good to be true?
What is Bank on Yourself® based upon?
Who owns Bank on Yourself® type life insurance policies?
Who do you know who is a Bank on Yourself® policy owner?
Can that advisor truly help you?
Why didn’t that advisor already tell you about Bank on Yourself®?
What is Bank on Yourself® NOT?
What about the knock-off advisors?
What about advisors who lost their licenses?
What is happening in the marketplace landscape?
What about the Infinite Banking Concept?
What about Private Banking Systems, Family Banking, Circle of Wealth, What Would the Rockefellars Do? and Perpetual Wealth Strategy?
Have you heard episode 95 and 96?
When was Nelson Nash’s Becoming Your Own Banker written?
What’s wrong with outdated numbers?
Is it about rate of return?
Is it legal to call an insurance policy a “bank”?
What about the laws and regulations?
Did Nelson Nash defend his trademarks?
How much do we treasure Nelson’s legacy?
What is a 770 Account?
What about the other names for a 770, including a President’s Secret Account, a 501(k) Plan, an Invisible Account and Income for Life?
What about a 702(j) Retirement Plan, attributed to President Ronald Reagan?
How are the Bank on Yourself® Professionals different?
What about Wealth Beyond Wall Street?
What is the promise?
What are some other names?
What is a Safe Money Millionaire or a 101 plan?
What is Indexed Universal Life?
What is in the fine print?
What about the warnings and disclaimers?
Why does the cash value on these go to ZERO?
What about the watchdog investigation?
Why are the illustrations on IUL and UL products wildly inaccurate?
What are IUL problems?
What about the IUL increasing costs?
Why is this devastating?
Why do these policies fall apart?
Would you like to hear Episode 59?
Would you like to hear Episode 60?
Would you like to hear Episode 61?
How are Bank on Yourself® Professionals different?
What is Maximum Premium Indexing and why is it so hot right now?
Why are they recommending buying an IUL and a whole life policy?
What is this mysterious strategy?
What is the advantage? What is the downside?
What is piggy backing?
Who does this benefit?
What are the red flags?
Why is this an ethical crisis?
Why is borrowing from one policy to buy a new one a bad idea?
What can you do if you’ve already purchased an inefficient or troubling policy?
Have you heard of the 1031 exchange in real estate?
Is there a like kind exchange in insurance?
What is the 1035 exchange?
Do you have an in-force illustration?
Would you like to call your insurer to get an in-force illustration?
Would you like us to review your in-force illustration for FREE?
- Email us your PDF at hello@nyafinancialpodcast.com
- or hop on Mark’s calendar.

The Problem with Costs Going Crazy in Indexed Universal Life (IUL)

Example of What Might Happen with Retirement Income Using Indexed Universal Life (IUL)

Episode 154: Invest Local! Private Money Lending with David C. Barnett

August 14, 2020 by Not Your Average Financial Podcast

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In this episode, we ask:

Who is David C. Barnett?
How did David get into private money lending?
How does David look for deals that help improve the borrower’s business?
What’s David’s story?
What about doing financial deals?
What about commercial debt brokerage?
What did the limited power attorney allow David to learn?
Do we know what will happen in the future?
What about collateral?
What about Plan B?
What happens when things go south?
How do the wealthy stay wealthy?
What about the small deals?
What about doing a small deal with your own money?
What about the percentage?
What about selling the collateral piece if it doesn’t work out?
What about social, moral trust?
What about retail vs. wholesale investment?
What is a retail investment?
What does a bank do with a certificate of deposit?
What happens with the repo man?
How might you increase your rate of return?
Are these sort of deals the riskiest?
How do you build your network?
What about diversification?
What about risk and reward?
How do you find opportunities?
Should you put an ad out?
How do you connect with a club?
How do you build a network?
Where is the social angle?
How is a network self filtering?
What about credit reporting?
What are the advantages of a private deal?
Will it affect the borrower’s credit score?
What are the protections?
What about diversification?
What about the notes as an asset?
What about a rate with compound yield?
What happens if the zombie apocalypse happens?
What’s the worst case scenario?
What about Nassim Taleb’s barbell strategy?
What about the rattlesnake?
What about leverage strategies?
What about thinking about someone’s personal needs?
How might you benefit your borrower?
How might you collateralize?
What legal documents do you need?
How is personal property different from real estate?
What about the contracts?
Do you need to go in front of a judge?
If someone can’t make the payment, what’s likely happening?
What about a nuance in the language?
What’s a UCC filing?
What about creating a registration?
How do you choose which loans are worth it?
What are the rules in your state?
What is the limit on the interest you can charge?
What about consumption?
What about financing business needs or personal needs?
What are the circumstances that must exist for David to make a loan?
How does this increase cash flow?
How does this increase revenue?
How does this help them save money?
Why did David write this book?
Can you do deals on the side?
How much should you limit yourself?
How might you leverage deals with your knowledge and expertise?
Would you like to learn more at davidcbarnett.com?
Would you like to download his free book?
How might you invest in what you know?
Do you know your borrower?
Do you have liquid capital?
How might you be an ethical lender?
How might you provide a solution for those in need?
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David Barnett works with entrepreneurs around the world helping them to buy, sell and organize their small and medium sized businesses.

He’s the author of 8 titles on Amazon (Read David’s Books) and has been maintaining a YouTube channel (watch David on YouTube) covering these topics which has hundreds of videos.

Episode 143: The Genius of Flexibility… with Marty Smith

May 29, 2020 by Not Your Average Financial Podcast

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In this episode, we ask:

Can you imagine?
Can you see the raw material?
Who is Marty Smith?
Who is Security Mutual Life?
What is unique about the combo rider?
What about the 7 pay test?
What about the modified endowment contract (MEC) limit?
What is an all base premium?
How is it determined?
What about dividends?
What happens in a Bank on Yourself® type whole life insurance policy?
What happens when you add additional premium?
What about paid up additions?
How can you finance something right away?
What is the beauty of riders?
What about business owners?
What about real estate investors?
What about unexpected windfalls?
What is so special about the combo rider?
What about term insurance?
What about paid up additions?
What happens to the total amount you can put into a policy?
How do riders augment a policy?
How might we lift up the death benefit?
How does an agent keep the policy non-MEC?
How much premium flexibility do you want?
Do you need premium flexibility?
How much premium do you want to pay into the contract?
Is it better to keep cash in a bank account?
When do I want to pay those premiums?
What about Nelson Nash’s exercise in imagination?
What does the combo rider allow?
How is this different from past policies?
How does the combo rider create new avenues within the typical restrictions of whole life insurance?
How does it work so beautifully?
What do business owners need to conduct business?
How flexible can this be?
What’s the limitation?
Are there complications?
What about converting to permanent insurance?
What about increasing the death benefit?
What are the proportions?
Would it be possible to put in 10x?
What is the ultimate limit of the combo rider?
How is this like building additions onto a house?
How is this like a car?
How might we go from the potential to the actual?
Does this policy grow on a guaranteed basis?
What about expecting an inheritance?
What about going on an extravagant trip?
Who could benefit?
What’s a wonderful thing about the life insurance industry?
Where are the two best places to start?
Have you read Pamela Yellen’s book, The Bank on Yourself® Revolution? Talk to Mark for a free copy of this book
Have you read Nelson Nash’s Becoming Your Own Banker?
What three things does the combo rider help to solve?
If you couldn’t leave your family money, but only 1-2 ideas or principles to achieve fulfillment and success, what would they be? (Leave us a message! Due on or before June 7th, 2020) www.speakpipe.com/nyafp

The following is for example purposes only. Please schedule a meeting to see your own numbers, unique to your situation.

Marty Smith is Regional Vice President of Security Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York.

He loves the Infinite Banking and Bank on Yourself Concepts, Circle of Wealth, and Wealth & Wisdom.

He believes that “dividend-paying, cash-value whole life insurance” is the greatest financial product that’s ever been created.

Episode 128: Seven Reasons Bank On Yourself® is Legitimately the Real Deal!

February 14, 2020 by Not Your Average Financial Podcast

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In this episode, we ask:

What are the core reasons why Bank On Yourself® is the real deal?
Who is The White Coat Investor, Dr. Jim Dahl?
What did he write about Bank On Yourself®?
What did Ted Benna, the father of the 401(k), say?
Where is Ted Benna parking his money?
What are Ted Benna’s three reasons why we should be weary of 401(k) plans?
Who is Jim Harbaugh?
What is a split dollar loan agreement?
What is the nature of Jim Harbaugh’s arrangement?
Could a business own a whole life insurance policy?
Why would a business want to own a policy?
Can a life insurance policy act like a deferred compensation plan?
What about Babe Ruth’s life insurance policy?
Would you like purchase a replica of Babe Ruth’s policy?
Have you heard Episode 66?
Are you still skeptical?
Have you read the Pirates of Manhattan?
What do the banks do with their assets?
What about Enron founder, Ken Lay?
What about Lehman Brothers?
What is Tier 1 capital?
Does life insurance qualify as Tier 1 capital?
What did your grandparents do with their whole life insurance policies?
What was the most popular life insurance product from 1940-1970?
What happened in 1981?
Have you heard Grandma’s Wealth Wisdom podcast?
What is 10x safer than a bank’s savings account?
Why are banks so eager to keep your cash on hand?
What is fractional reserve banking?
How much can banks loan out?
What is the Dodd Frank Act?
What are the reserve requirements for life insurance companies?
How much does the well capitalized life insurance company have to have on hand?
What is the big difference in reserve requirements between banks and life insurance companies?
Have you read How Privatized Banking Really Works?
How do the life insurance companies invest their funds?
How much do life insurance companies have to keep liquid?
How much do life insurance companies have to have to pay death benefits?
How are life insurance companies strictly regulated?
What happens if a life insurance company gets into difficult times?
What are the additional protections?
How have many life insurance companies been able to pay a dividend for over 100 years?
Why do life insurance companies under promise and over deliver?
Have you heard Episode 118?
Have you heard Episode 106 and 107?
How does the insurance industry support the infrastructure across the U.S.?
What is the unique business model of the insurance companies?
How can the insurance companies get a better yield?
If this was a big scam, how could the insurance company build so much?
What do the investments of the insurance companies look like?
Is the money still liquid?
What usually constitutes a scam?
When do most people lose their skepticism?
How does life insurance cash value benefit families, businesses and other individuals?
What about the disclosures?
What is concealment?
What about the paperwork?
What about the disclosures from a prolific insurer, Mass Mutual?
What are the myths and truths about life insurance?
What about subscribing to the research from Pamela Yellen’s work?
What are some takeaways?
Should you believe everything you read on the internet?
What sources have authority?
Have you read Financial Independence in the 21st Century?
Would you like to buy this book?
What about Investopedia’s guide to dividend paying whole life insurance?
Have you heard Episode 74?
Have you heard Episode 55?
Have you heard Episode 6?
Have you heard Episode 36?
Have you heard Episode 91?
Have you heard Episode 110?
What is your favorite or most memorable money mistake? Leave us a message and let us know!
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Episode 120: Are You Investing and Banking at Retail Prices?

December 20, 2019 by Not Your Average Financial Podcast

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In this episode, we ask:

Are you ready?
What is the most wonderful shopping season?
Would you like to retire right now?
What is it we’re talking about when we talk about money?
Can you meet your life goals without money?
Should we put money in the stock market and wait?
What are taxes going to do?
Will you get more than a 10% return on your money?
What can you expect from the stock market?
Why does Dave Ramsey still quote 12% annually on mutual funds when advisors aren’t allowed to do that?
What are real investors actually receiving, according to DALBAR?
What about fees?
What are the ongoing costs?
What are 12b1 fees?
What are other expenses?
What about redemption fees?
What about exchange fees?
What about the account fee?
Do you have to keep a minimum balance in that fund?
How might you think outside of the “retail” investing space?
What if you could invest at “wholesale” prices?
What is a REIT?
What about a private equity fund?
What is the trouble with wholesale shopping?
What about getting the top of the line model?
Are you giving up liquidity?
Does the government regulate who has access to wholesale?
What is an accredited investor?
How might you shop direct?
Do you increase your return with direct investing?
Do you increase your risk with direct investing?
Do you increase your control with direct investing?
How can you increase the tax benefits?
Would you like to defer your tax?
What about a Roth IRA?
What about offsetting rent income with expenses?
Can you do this inside a Roth IRAs?
What is the disadvantage of a self-directed IRA?
What about a professional real estate investor?
Who is blocking you when you’re a direct investor?
How can you eliminate the bank from the equation?
What about the function of banking at the retail, wholesale and direct levels?
What about Bank on Yourself® type designed whole life insurance policies?
What if you could become a banker in the direct sense of the word?
Are you a private money lender?
What happens when banks stop lending?
Could you offer your friends or family a better rate and better terms?
Could you become a lender to improve your financial picture?
How many fees are in your portfolio?
Are you an accredited investor?
Have you seen crunchbase.com?
Do you budget your cash value?
Have you started using YNAB (youneedabudget.com)?
Would you like to talk with us about making your financial picture more direct?
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