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Episode Overview Regional church leaders occupy a unique position: they carry a larger vision while serving local churches with vastly different needs, cultures, and challenges. In this conversation, Brian Miller talks with Jim Jansen, founder of Anchor Consulting, about why coaching may be one of the most valuable tools a regional leader can develop. Drawing from Jim's years of working with local churches, they explore how coaching can turn denominational leadership from something local pastors resist into a relationship they welcome. Key Ideas & Takeaways 1. Regional Leaders Have an Advantage Outsiders Don't Outside consultants can bring valuable expertise, but regional leaders already understand the denomination's culture, language, priorities, relationships, and history. They can see patterns across churches and connect leaders with resources and people they already know. Jim describes them as potential "inside coaches." 2. Organizational Authority Can Be an Asset—or a Liability A visit from a denominational leader can trigger the question: "What do they want?" Local leaders may expect another request for money, another program, or the latest organizational initiative. Coaching changes the posture from "Here's what we need from you" to "How can I help you?" 3. People Don't Necessarily Want Coaching—They Want Breakthroughs Jim's team began simply giving coaching away. As pastors experienced progress, encouragement, and helpful conversations, coaching began to "sell itself." The relationship changed because regional leaders were increasingly experienced as helpful rather than intrusive. 4. A Shared Vision Doesn't Require a Uniform Plan Regional leadership still has an important role in establishing vision and priorities. Jim's organization had a clear emphasis on evangelism and mission. Coaching allowed each local church to answer the question: What does that vision look like here? 5. Local Leaders Need to Own the Plan A regional leader can cast a compelling vision, but the local church ultimately has to make it its own. The pastor and congregation understand their particular people, community, opportunities, and limitations. Coaching helps them develop a plan that fits their context instead of merely implementing someone else's strategy. 6. Coaching Demonstrates Trust in Local Leadership Jim argues that regional leaders should trust that the Spirit of God is at work in local pastors and leaders. The regional leader doesn't have to determine exactly how the larger vision will be implemented everywhere. Coaching creates space for local leaders to discern how that vision should come alive in their particular setting. 7. Coaching Can Produce Organizational Fruit Jim describes having roughly one-third of ministry leaders engaged in some cadence of coaching. Over six or seven years, what felt ordinary day-to-day produced significant results. He credits the coach approach as an important foundation for the fruit and goodwill they experienced. 8. Coaching May Be the Missing Tool for Regional Leadership Regional leaders often have vision, relationships, and access but lack a reliable way to help local leaders translate vision into action. Equipping trusted regional staff with coaching skills can extend the ministry of senior denominational leaders across many churches. Coaching connects big-picture vision with local ownership, action, and accountability. Memorable Quotes & Ideas "People don't want coaching. They want the breakthroughs." "How else can I be of help to this local church?" "You could have a vision, but it's the local pastor, it's the local church, that has to not only make the vision their own, but they have to make the plan." "Have a little bit of respect for the Spirit of God at work in local leadership." "Coaching is probably the missing tool to help you extend your ministry to all the local churches." "We saw so much fruit and so much goodwill built when we began to approach things with a coaching mindset."

Would you like to learn how to accelerate your agency growth? https://www.agencymastery360.com/training John Jantsch is the founder of Duct Tape Marketing, a marketing agency he built over 30 years and the author of the bestselling book Duct Tape Marketing. He has since licensed his systematic marketing methodology to more than 400 agencies, consultants, and fractional CMOs around the world. In this episode, John joins Jason to talk about the hard lessons of removing yourself from the center of your agency, why smaller agencies have a real competitive edge when they lean into being human, and why the fundamentals of marketing haven't changed; even as AI reshapes the tools we use. Subscribe Apple | Spotify | iHeart Radio Sponsors and Resources E2M Solutions:Today's episode of the Smart Agency Masterclass is sponsored by E2M Solutions, a web design and development agency that has provided white-label services for the past 10 years to agencies all over the world. Check out e2msolutions.com/smartagency and get 10% off for the first three months of service. Key Takeaways: The team is the result, not you. If clients believe you are the product, that's exactly what they'll demand. John shifted the dynamic by bringing team members into discovery calls early, showing clients they were getting a team — and a better outcome — not just one expert. Stop answering, start asking. John stopped giving his team the answers and started turning questions back on them. It felt uncomfortable at first, but over time it built a team that thinks independently and holds him accountable to staying in his lane. Scaling a methodology requires radical simplification. When John began licensing Duct Tape Marketing, he discovered that what lived in his head was 90% too complicated to transfer. It took 5 to 7 years of documentation, iteration, and simplification before the system was truly teachable by others. Marketing fundamentals don't change — delivery does. After 30 years, John's north star is the same: get someone who has a need to know, like, and trust you enough to buy. AI changes how you reach that outcome; it doesn't change what you're trying to accomplish. John and Jason also dig into why trying to look bigger is often the wrong play for smaller agencies, how John grew key team members internally over 10 to 13 years rather than through traditional hiring, and why agency owners need to own a leadership seat with their clients — not just a tactical one. Want a quick overview of John's system? Grab his free ebook at dtm.world/7steps. Do You Want to Transform Your Agency from a Liability to an Asset? Looking to dig deeper into your agency's potential? Check out our Agency Blueprint. Designed for agency owners like you, our Agency Blueprint helps you uncover growth opportunities, tackle obstacles, and craft a customized blueprint for your agency's success.

Human Design will not build your business for you, and Nicole thinks the harder you push it to, the less useful it becomes. She's been pairing Human Design with business for nearly seven years, and the same pattern keeps showing up: someone treating the chart like a decision-maker. What the offer should be. Whether the launch should look like this or like that. She understands the pull completely, because it's what she went looking for when she started. In this episode she draws the line between what a chart can genuinely hand you and what it was never built to hand you, and she names the moment she watches people give their power away to it. There's a distinction underneath all of it that she's been teaching for years, and it separates the people who get a decade of use out of their chart from the people who quietly put it down disappointed. Then she goes where most Human Design business content stops. Nicole makes her case for the business fundamentals nobody gets to skip in the new era, why the thing you find hardest isn't the evidence you think it is, and what she says to someone who's convinced her design is the reason she can't stay consistent. Register for The New Era Expert, Nicole's free 5-day masterclass, September 14 to 18 at 12pm CT. Go to https://nicolelaino.com/masterclass or DM Nicole "MASTERCLASS" on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/nicolelainoofficial/ The HD Authority Lab - We have a NEW HD membership community where you get ALL of our monthly HD Masterclasses included and so much more. It is all about creating alignment, action, and consistency in your business with Human Design. To join The HD Authority Lab at the special Founding Member rate click the link below or DM Nicole "Lab" on Instagram. http://nicolelaino.com/lab Readings with Nicole - To book a Human Design Foundation Reading, Business/Purpose Reading, or Relationship Reading with Nicole go to https://nicolelaino.com/human-design-readings Be sure to visit https://nicolelaino.com/podcastlinks for all of the current links to events, freebies, and more! If you enjoyed this week's episode, I'd so appreciate you doing a few things for me: Please subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen! Rate and review the podcast on Apple Podcasts. Tag me @nicolelainoofficial on your IG stories with a story of you listening to the podcast and I'll make sure to share your post!  

Sure, you own index funds. But 99% of portfolios have a "shade of gray" that's more active than we realize. This episode dives into the "shades of gray" in passive investing and how they affect our portfolios and benchmarks.  Looking for a financial planner?  → PlanWithJesse.com Jesse explores an important distinction that many investors overlook: owning passive funds does not necessarily mean you have a passive portfolio. He explains why passive investing remains a strong strategy, using research on the small number of stocks responsible for most market returns, the drag created by active-management fees, and the difficulty of separating investment skill from luck. From there, Jesse examines how allocation choices—such as favoring U.S. stocks, concentrating in technology, or tilting toward small-cap and value stocks—represent active decisions even when implemented entirely with index or rules-based funds. He then connects those decisions to benchmarking, explaining why investors need relevant benchmarks that reflect their portfolio's asset classes, geography, risk, and intended strategy. Ultimately, Jesse argues that investors should understand where their portfolios deviate from the broader market and use thoughtful benchmarks to determine whether those choices are delivering the results and risks they intended. Key Takeaways: • Beating the market is possible, but the odds are not 50/50. Stock returns are highly skewed, with a relatively small percentage of companies responsible for much of the market's long-term performance. • Diversification increases the odds of owning the market's relatively few major winners. Trying to identify those winners beforehand creates a difficult stock-picking problem. • Investment success can be difficult to distinguish from luck. Even when someone beats the market, determining whether that performance resulted from repeatable skill is challenging. • Nearly every investor has some degree of active allocation. A theoretically pure passive portfolio would hold the global investable universe according to its market weights, something that is difficult to replicate completely. • Deviating from global market weights is not inherently wrong. The important issue is understanding where and why your portfolio deviates rather than making those bets unknowingly. • The right benchmark should resemble the investment being evaluated. Asset class, geography, risk level, and the investment's intended purpose all matter when selecting a benchmark. Key Timestamps: (2:22) – You Can Beat the Market, But... (5:12) – Stock Performance Is Skewed (7:44) – Fees Make Beating the Market Harder (9:00) – Luck or Skill? (Usually Luck) (11:43) – Not All Funds Are Created Equal (14:23) – Consider the Allocation (19:48) – Are You a True Passive Investor? (22:55) – Risk Is Fungible (23:39) – You Probably Have Active Allocation (25:15) – What Is Investment Benchmarking? (29:30) – Absolute Investing Benchmarks (35:20) – The Benchmark You Should Use (38:40) – Conclusion Key Topics Discussed: The Best Interest, Jesse Cramer, Wealth Management Rochester NY, Financial Planning for Families, Fiduciary Financial Advisor, Comprehensive Financial Planning, Retirement Planning Advice, Tax-Efficient Investing, Risk Management for Investors, Generational Wealth Transfer Planning, Financial Strategies for High Earners, Personal Finance for Entrepreneurs, Behavioral Finance Insights, Asset Allocation Strategies, Advanced Estate Planning Techniques Mentions: https://bestinterest.blog/fewer-needles-bigger-haystack/ https://bestinterest.blog/the-needle-in-the-haystack/   More of The Best Interest: Check out the Best Interest Blog at https://bestinterest.blog/ Contact me at jesse@bestinterest.blog Need a financial planner?  → PlanWithJesse.com  The Best Interest Podcast is a personal podcast meant for education and entertainment. It should not be taken as financial advice, and is not prescriptive of your financial situation.

A financial analyst spots something wrong with a deal. He writes up his dissent. But the AI disagreed. The investment committee spent 90 seconds discussing his objection, and went with the AI score. A year later, the analyst stopped writing dissents entirely — what's the point? This story is from finance. But the pattern is emerging everywhere — in law firms, in startups, in any organisation where AI is now in the room when decisions get made. This episode is about what to do about it. You will hear from Rana Gujral, the author of the AI Instinct: The Future of Humans and Machine Decision Making Throughout his career, Rana has founded and exited a machine learning SaaS company, led major technology transformations, and built AI systems deployed across industries ranging from financial services to defence. Listen to this episode to learn: Why the biggest AI risk is not that it gets things wrong — it is that it gets things right in exactly the same way as everyone else How to tell whether AI is augmenting your thinking or replacing it — and the two tests that reveal the difference What happens to junior talent in law firms and startups when AI takes over the work that builds judgment The one practical step you can take this week to make sure you are still actually thinking — not just ratifying what the machine already decided Timestamps: 00:00 – Why AI scoring is silencing human dissent 00:49 – Welcome and back-to-school business energy 05:14 – How one bad AI-backed VC deal got approved 07:32 – How leaders can protect employee judgment from AI 10:24 – Why human intuition still beats AI scores 13:59 – The hidden risk of AI in law firms and junior lawyers 17:47 – Is AI augmenting or replacing your team's thinking? 20:39 – How to rebuild independent thinking after relying on AI 22:27 – Rana Gujral on his new book, The AI Instinct Follow and Review: We'd love for you to follow us if you haven't yet. Click that purple '+' in the top right corner of your Apple Podcasts app. We'd love it even more if you could drop an honest review on Apple Podcasts. Simply select "Ratings and Reviews" and "Write a Review" then a quick line with your favorite part of the episode. It only takes a second and it helps spread the word about the podcast. Listen to our podcast on: Apple Spotify YouTube Audible Pandora Transcript: https://www.techfornontechies.co/blog/319-your-judgment-is-your-most-valuable-asset-are-you-losing-it-to-ai

The AMPP Central Conference takes place from September 28-30, 2026, in Saint Paul, Minnesota, with a focus on practical corrosion mitigation and industrial coating solutions to address challenges related to large-footprint assets and difficult access. In this roundtable conversation, General Corrosion Corporation's Rachel Devereaux — co-chair of the conference — joins AMPP's Greg Muha and Tiffany Krevics. As part of an event preview, they share insight on its robust technical program, exhibit hall, and exclusive networking opportunities.

Burnout vermeiden Shownotes In dieser Episode geht es ums Burnout vermeiden als Unternehmer – und zwar um drei Warnsignale, die im Unternehmeralltag regelmäßig übersehen werden. Nicht, weil sie versteckt wären, sondern weil sie überhaupt nicht nach Erschöpfung aussehen. Eines davon fühlt sich sogar an wie Gelassenheit. Wichtig vorweg: Ich bin kein Arzt und kein Therapeut. Diese Folge ersetzt keine Diagnose und will auch keine sein. Sie soll Dir helfen, Veränderungen bei Dir selbst früher wahrzunehmen – und Dir zeigen, ab wann Selbstbeobachtung nicht mehr reicht. Zusammenfassung und Stichpunkte zum Burnout vermeiden Das ist die Zusammenfassung dieser Episode in Kurzform: Warnsignal 1 – Erholung erholt nicht mehr. Normalerweise funktioniert Erholung wie Aufladen: schlafen, Wochenende, Urlaub – danach ist wieder Energie da. Das Warnsignal ist, wenn dieser Mechanismus aussetzt. Acht Stunden Schlaf fühlen sich an wie vier, das Wochenende hinterlässt keine Spur, im Urlaub dauert das Runterkommen eine ganze Woche. Der typische Reflex ist, die Dosis zu erhöhen: mehr Schlaf, längerer Urlaub. Wenn Erholung aber nicht mehr wirkt, ist nicht die Menge das Problem. Warnsignal 2 – Es wird Dir zunehmend egal. Das gefährlichste der drei, weil es sich gut anfühlt. Ein Kunde springt ab und es berührt Dich nicht. Eine gute Nachricht wird abgehakt statt gefeiert. Viele deuten das als Professionalität. Der Unterschied: Echte Gelassenheit ist warm – Du bleibst ruhig, aber es ist Dir nicht gleichgültig. Dieses Signal ist kalt. Es entsteht nicht durch Reife, sondern weil gerade nichts mehr da ist, womit Du reagieren könntest. Warnsignal 3 – Mehr Aufwand, weniger Ergebnis. Das Signal, das am schnellsten Geld kostet. Aufgaben, die früher zwanzig Minuten dauerten, fressen zwei Stunden. Dieselbe Mail wird dreimal gelesen. Entscheidungen werden aufgeschoben, die sonst nebenbei fielen. Und weil Du dabei länger am Schreibtisch sitzt als je zuvor, fühlst Du Dich fleißig. Der Preis steht nicht in einer Krankenakte, sondern in Deinen Ergebnissen. Wenn Du Dich bei mehreren dieser Signale wiedererkennst, ist der nächste Schritt keine weitere Selbstoptimierung, sondern jemand, der sich fachlich damit auskennt. Beim Burnout vermeiden gilt dasselbe wie bei allem anderen im Unternehmen: Wartung ist günstiger als Reparatur. Shownotes und Episodendetails Warum ist Burnout vermeiden für Selbstständige schwieriger als für Angestellte? Weil niemand von außen bremst. Es gibt keinen Vorgesetzten, der Überstunden bemerkt, keine Personalabteilung, kein Rückkehrgespräch. Die einzige Instanz, die Alarm schlagen könnte, bist Du selbst – und genau die Instanz ist betroffen. Dazu kommt ein zweites Problem: Im Unternehmertum gibt es keinen Zeitpunkt, an dem etwas fertig ist. Wer Erholung als Belohnung fürs Fertigwerden behandelt, wartet unbegrenzt. Und ein drittes, das selten ausgesprochen wird: Bei Selbstständigen fällt Belastung mit Identität zusammen. Wer sein Unternehmen als Teil seiner Person versteht, deutet Warnsignale nicht als Überlastung, sondern als persönliches Versagen. Das erschwert das Burnout vermeiden zusätzlich, weil Hinschauen dann unangenehmer ist als Weitermachen. Der häufigste Satz zum Thema lautet: Dafür habe ich keine Zeit. In der Praxis heißt das fast immer etwas anderes – nämlich keine Priorität. Zeit für den Steuerberater ist da. Zeit für den wichtigen Kunden ist da. Zeit für einen Serverausfall ist sofort da. Es geht also nicht um Stunden, es geht um Rangfolge. Und was im Kalender steht, passiert. Was nicht drinsteht, passiert nicht. Warum diese drei Signale und nicht andere. Die meisten Ratgeber zum Burnout vermeiden beginnen mit Müdigkeit. Müdigkeit ist aber kein brauchbarer Indikator – die kennt jeder Unternehmer, und sie geht in den allermeisten Fällen wieder weg. Die drei Signale in dieser Folge haben eine andere Eigenschaft: Sie werden nicht als Erschöpfung erlebt. Sie werden umgedeutet. In Professionalität, in Fleiß, in eine Phase, die eben gerade anstrengend ist. Genau deshalb bleiben sie so lange unbemerkt. Was Du konkret tun kannst. Der einfachste Test zu Signal 1: Denk an Deinen letzten richtigen Urlaub. Wie lange hat das Gefühl danach angehalten – zwei Wochen, zwei Tage, oder war es schon auf der Rückfahrt weg? Der Test zu Signal 2: Achte darauf, wie Du über Deine Kunden sprichst. Nicht mit ihnen, sondern über sie. Der Ton verrät mehr als jede Selbsteinschätzung. Der Test zu Signal 3: Schau Dir eine wiederkehrende Aufgabe an, die Du seit Jahren machst. Wie lange brauchst Du heute dafür – und wie lange vor zwei Jahren? Und eine Maßnahme, die im Alltag mehr bringt als jeder Vorsatz: Behandle einen Termin für Dich selbst wie einen Kundentermin. Ein Kundentermin wird nicht verschoben, nur weil gerade viel los ist. Genau das ist beim Burnout vermeiden der Unterschied zwischen Absicht und Umsetzung. Wo Selbstbeobachtung endet. Ein ehrlicher Hinweis an dieser Stelle: Burnout vermeiden ist etwas anderes als Burnout behandeln. Diese Folge kann beim Ersten helfen. Für das Zweite braucht es fachliche Begleitung. Diese Folge ist ein Anstoß zum Hinschauen, mehr nicht. Burnout vermeiden funktioniert im Frühstadium über Struktur und Prioritäten. Ist die Erschöpfung dagegen bereits eingetreten, gehört sie in fachliche Hände – zum Hausarzt, zu einer Psychotherapeutin, zu einer Beratungsstelle. Passend dazu das Leitmotiv von Dr. Michael Spitzbart aus Folge 813: Ursachen behandeln statt Symptome. Er berät seit Jahrzehnten Führungskräfte und Top-Manager, und wer beim Thema tiefer einsteigen will, ist bei ihm richtig. Ein letzter Gedanke zum Burnout vermeiden: Dein Unternehmen kannst Du verkaufen, Deine Kunden weiterreichen, Deine Firma übergeben. Deinen Körper nicht. Er ist das einzige Asset, für das es keinen Ersatz und keinen Käufer gibt. Passende Episoden zum Nachhören: #813 – Dr. Michael Spitzbart – Ursachen behandeln statt Symptome #960 – Durchhalten – 5 Lektionen aus Militär und Business #959 – Unternehmer-Fehler – die 5 teuersten aus 950 Folgen Welches der drei Signale kennst Du aus eigener Erfahrung? Schreib es mir gerne – ich freue mich auf Dein Feedback. Und denk immer daran: Wer will, findet Wege. Wer nicht will, findet Gründe. Tschüss, mach's gut. Dein Tom.             Hol Dir jetzt Dein Hörbuch "Selfmade Millionäre packen aus" und klicke auf das Bild!                 Buchempfehlung bei Amazon: Denken Sie wie Ihre Kunden   +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Mehr Freiheit, mehr Geld und mehr Spaß mit DEINEM eigenen Podcast. 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Tiffany Smith, Partner and the Co-Chair of the Blockchain & Cryptocurrency Working Group at WilmerHale, joined me to discuss the SEC's new Reg Crypto guidance and what it means for the crypto industry and market.Topics:- SEC Regulation Crypto Asset- SEC Tokenization Guidance- SEC Crypt Custody- Clarity Act 

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Policy decisions shape investability, market resilience and long-term returns. In a fragmented global economy, what role should investors play in engaging with governments as part of their stewardship approach? Nathan Fabian, Chief Policy & Research Officer at the PRI, is joined by Jane Ambachtsheer, Chief Sustainability Officer at BNP Paribas Asset Management. Together, they explore how investors can engage policymakers in an evidence-based, financially relevant way, from transition planning and taxonomies in Asia-Pacific to system-level risks and real-economy policy.The conversation also examines asset-owner expectations, stewardship and collaboration, asking how investors can contribute market insight without drifting into partisanship - and what the responsible investment community needs to deliver reliable outcomes for its clients.Detailed coverage:Asia-Pacific policy is moving from frameworks to implementationJane and Nathan discuss transition planning, decarbonisation roadmaps and taxonomies in Japan and China, where investor-policy dialogue is increasingly pragmatic and focused on tools that improve decision-making.Four megatrends are reshaping investment riskJane outlines four megatrends - geopolitics, the environment, innovation and demographics - and why investors need to consider both individual and interconnected system-level risks.Financial policy and real-economy policy are two sides of the same coinThe conversation explores how investor engagement can span disclosure and taxonomy rules as well as economic policies that influence technology, transition pathways and capital deployment.Investors can contribute evidence, not partisanshipNathan and Jane discuss why long-term investors can provide market insight on investability, risk and resilience while maintaining a financially material and objective basis for policy engagement.Policy engagement needs clearer asset-owner expectationsJane reflects on how policy work can be harder to measure than corporate engagement, and why stronger mandates, case studies and accountability can help asset owners assess what managers are doing.Stewardship and policy engagement should reinforce each otherCompany engagement can reveal transition barriers and opportunities that investors can bring to policymakers, while policy positions should remain consistent with voting and corporate stewardship.Credibility and collaboration will define what comes nextThe episode closes with four priorities: local expertise and credibility, authentic collaboration, a whole-value-chain perspective and stronger demand from asset owners for focused policy engagement.Chapters:00:00 – Asia-Pacific: from policy frameworks to implementation03:15 – Four megatrends shaping investor risk and opportunity06:34 – Linking financial-sector policy with the real economy08:55 – How large investors decide where and how to engage14:37 – Why investors are not passive policy takers16:52 – Asset-owner expectations and measuring policy engagement21:18 – Client interests, universal ownership and system-level risks23:10 – Connecting company stewardship with policy reform25:47 – The roles investors should play in policy engagement29:15 – Credibility, collaboration and the future of policy engagementDisclaimer:This podcast and material referenced herein is provided for information only. It is not intended to be investment, legal, tax or other advice, nor is it intended to be relied upon in making an investment or other decision. PRI Association is not responsible for any decision made or action taken based on information on this podcast. Listeners retain sole discretion over whether and how to use the information contained herein. PRI Association is not responsible for and does not endorse third parties featured on in this podcast or any third-party comments, content or other resources that may be included or referenced herein. Unless otherwise stated, podcast content does not necessarily represent the views of signatories to the Principles for Responsible Investment. All information is provided "as is" with no guarantee of completeness, accuracy or timeliness, or of the results obtained from the use of this information, and without warranty of any kind, expressed or implied. PRI Association is committed to compliance with all applicable laws. Copyright © PRI Association 2026. All rights reserved. This content may not be reproduced, or used for any other purpose, without the prior written consent of PRI Association.

Per BioXcel's press release:BioXcel Therapeutics Enters Into Asset Sale Agreement with Teva PharmaceuticalsAug 28, 2026 PDF VersionBioXcel Therapeutics intends to complete a court-supervised sale transaction, in an effort to maximize value for all stakeholdersTeva Pharmaceuticals to serve as “stalking horse” bidder in a court-supervised 363 auction processBioXcel Therapeutics has secured a commitment for debtor-in-possession (DIP) financing to support ongoing operationsNEW HAVEN, Conn., Aug. 28, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- BioXcel Therapeutics, Inc. (Nasdaq: BTAI) (“BioXcel Therapeutics” or the “Company”), a biopharmaceutical company built on artificial intelligence (“AI”) to develop transformative medicines in neuroscience, today announced that it has entered into an asset sale agreement with Teva Pharmaceuticals International GmbH (“Teva”), a subsidiary of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd., for substantially all of the Company's assets. This includes IGALMI® (dexmedetomidine) sublingual film and the related pending supplemental New Drug Application of BXCL501 for potential at-home (outpatient) use for the acute treatment of agitation associated with schizophrenia or bipolar I or II disorder in adults. Concurrent with the execution of the asset sale agreement, BioXcel Therapeutics and its subsidiaries, OnkosXcel Therapeutics, LLC and OnkosXcel Employee Holdings, LLC, have commenced voluntary Chapter 11 proceedings in the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware (the “Court”) to facilitate a court-supervised sale process, which is expected to include the auction of substantially all of the Company's assets.To anchor the sale process, Teva will serve as the sole “stalking horse bidder” for the sale of the assets contemplated by the asset sale agreement. A stalking horse asset sale agreement establishes a strong baseline offer and is intended to help maximize value for all stakeholders through the Chapter 11 auction process.“Following a comprehensive review of strategic alternatives, we believe this option provides a clear framework to pursue a value-maximizing transaction” said Vimal Mehta, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer of BioXcel Therapeutics. “Our priority is to execute a disciplined and efficient sale process while supporting all of our stakeholders and continuing to support the sNDA with a PDUFA date of November 14, 2026. We are pleased to have a signed agreement with a leading pharmaceutical company to serve as stalking horse bidder in the process, underscoring the strategic interest in our assets and in IGALMI®....”For the rest of the BioXcel press release see: https://ir.bioxceltherapeutics.com/news-releases/news-release-details/bioxcel-therapeutics-enters-asset-sale-agreement-tevaFor more information about the BioXcel bankruptcy/sale including the bankruptcy petitions and information about company assets and liabilities see: https://cases.stretto.com/bioxcel/ Typically, in situations such as these, there is a proposed buyer referred to as a stalking horse, and there is also an opportunity for other parties to come forward and bid on the assets.

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What's subtly wearing you out? Free self-assessment for ministry leaders: https://www.ryanfranklin.org/clselfassessment Join Christian Leader® Community Coaching: https://www.ryanfranklin.org/communitycoaching Lincoln Graham, Jr had a career on Wall Street that was actually working. Asset backed securities. Derivatives. A future in wholesale banking that made sense on paper. Then he walked away from it.In this episode, Pastor Lincoln Graham, Jr of Oneness Pentecostal Tabernacle in Queens, NY talks about choosing law school over Bible school, getting sick and losing his academic eligibility, and eventually finding his way back to ministry after 9/11, leading a mature congregation as a total newcomer.But the real story here is what came after. Pastor Graham describes his drive as ADHD like, the kind of energy that doesn't know when to stop. It cost him his health more than once. And as a pastor's kid himself, he'd already seen what that same drive does to a family from the inside.This one is for any leader who's confusing burnout with faithfulness. Pastor Graham walks through what it actually took to find real boundaries between himself, his family, and the church he leads.Purchase Christian Leader Sight Planner (a tool that has drastically changed Ryan's productivity): Black Cover – https://amzn.to/3JpBHvm Blue Cover – https://amzn.to/4ouFRB9 Green Cover – https://amzn.to/4oXVLUrPurchase The Christian Leader Blueprint book today: https://www.ryanfranklin.org/blueprintbookConnect with Ryan: Email: info@ryanfranklin.org Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rnfranklin/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rnfranklin/ Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rnfranklin/ Website: https://www.ryanfranklin.org Audio mastering by Apostolic Audio: https://www.apostolic-audio.com#leadership, #thoughtleadership, #ministry, #pastor, #pastors, #churches, #leadershiptraining, #churchleader, #churchleaders, #influence, #leadershipdevelopment, #coaching, #executivecoach, #leadershipcoaching, #productivitycoach, #productivity, #growthmindset, #theproductiveleader, #ChristianLeader, #ChristianLeadership, #LeadershipPodcast, #FaithAndBusiness, #PodcastInterview, #ChristianEntrepreneurship, #KingdomImpact, #PodcastInspiration, #LeadershipJourney, #PurposeDriven, #ChristianPodcast, #LeadershipEssentials, #LeadershipFundamentalsSend us Fan Mail

Wayne Hillier Before Real Estate: Debt, Gambling & Rock Bottom Before the rental properties, businesses, coaching and real estate investing success, Wayne Hillier was living a very different life. He was working at a gas station for roughly $14–$16 an hour, carrying credit-card debt, gambling, trying to keep up with friends who were progressing in their careers, and feeling increasingly stuck. Then one weekend, Wayne bought a sports lottery ticket. For several hours, he believed he may have won approximately $340,000. What happened next became one of the pivotal moments that eventually pushed him to leave Ontario, move across the country to Alberta, meet Gabby and ultimately discover real estate investing. It is a chapter of Wayne's story he says he had almost completely forgotten — and had never shared on the podcast before. The lesson that came from it would eventually shape much of what happened next: No one is coming to save you.

Every so often, a financial product gets picked up by the internet for one reason and one reason only — its name. TIPS are a perfect example. Treasury Inflation-Protected Securities have the word inflation right on the box, so the moment people start worrying about rising prices, the hive mind of finance decides the answer is obvious: inflation's coming, buy the thing with inflation in the name, done. In this episode, Brandon and Brantley take that reflex apart — and make the case for an inflation-resilient asset almost nobody thinks to put in the same conversation: whole life insurance. We'll say the honest part first, because it's the part that trips people up. Nothing contractual, structural, or mechanical inside a whole life policy addresses inflation. Your dividend does not go up because CPI went up. It's not in the name, it's not on the box, it's not a line drawn from point A to point B. So how can we possibly call it inflation-resilient? Because once you stop reading the label and look at how these things actually work under the hood, whole life turns out to capture a far bigger piece of the inflation cycle than the flavor-of-the-week trade ever could. What we get into: What TIPS actually do — and what they quietly cost you. The nominal yield looks pathetic on the screen, but that yield gets added to the change in CPI, so functionally it's better than it looks and it does hedge your buying power in a high-inflation stretch. The catch is the tax bill. When inflation adjusts the value of the bond, you owe ordinary income tax on that gain in the year it happens — even though no money has actually been sent to you. State and local taxes are usually exempt, which blunts it, but in a higher bracket the real, after-tax return can drift toward zero or negative. That's a strange result for something you bought specifically to keep your buying power above zero. The part everybody forgets: you have to stick the landing. A TIPS trade is a bounce-in, bounce-out move on a single, narrow objective — protect yield against a rapid rise in inflation. The problem is that by the time you've decided inflation is here, the shock has usually already happened. You're reacting to a headline that's already priced in. Why the "safe bond" can still lose 12% in the worst possible year. We walk through a real, humbling number. Vanguard's inflation-protected securities fund — a stand-in for the TIPS exposure a regular investor could actually buy — lost around 12% in 2022, the very year inflation spiked to roughly 8%. That's the year it was "supposed" to shine. The culprit is a broader bond-market and duration problem, and it's exactly the kind of surprise that makes people who thought they owned something simple and safe scratch their heads. How whole life responds to inflation — through the bond market, not the CPI print. Here's the mechanism. An insurer's job is to earn enough on the premiums it collects to make good on a contractual guarantee. Say a company needs to earn 3% to capitalize that guarantee, and it can buy bonds at 4% — it pockets the difference, and with participating whole life, a large share of that gets returned to policyholders as dividends. Crucially, insurers don't buy bonds the way retail investors do. They don't chase total return; they match income-producing assets to their liabilities. So when inflation pushes yields up, they get to buy new bonds at higher yields, and they never sell the old ones at a loss just because rates moved. The lag that works in your favor. Because insurers keep buying up income at higher yields as rates rise — and because they reprice slowly — a relatively short burst of inflation can hold the returns inside a whole life portfolio elevated for years afterward. It doesn't snap up in lockstep with TIPS, and it never will. But it moves in the same direction, it stays there far longer, and it does the whole thing in a dramatically more tax-efficient way. You'll actually understand what happened. Only half tongue-in-cheek. Unraveling whether a TIPS position was a win or a loss is genuinely hard once you fold in the tax treatment. With a well-designed policy, if you pay the premium you planned to pay, you'll have more cash value at the end of next year than you had this year, and so on down the line. The honest caveat we make on-air: this isn't "whole life beats TIPS," and it certainly isn't a fast trade. Dividend rates change from year to year — we've had clients whose cash value came in a bit under the original illustration when scales dropped, and the honest reaction is usually a shrug, because the variance is manageable, not wild. Whole life won't move quickly, there's no contractual link to CPI, and it's not the tool for locking in a defined real return over a set horizon. What it is designed to do is capture a much broader slice of the inflation cycle — maintaining buying power and building profitability in a rising-rate environment — while being one of the more boring, dependable pieces of a plan. If you want to buy TIPS because you think that's the right move, fine. Just know that the "obvious" inflation play and the durable one are not the same thing. If you're interested in more of a deep dive, please check out the article we wrote as the companion to this podcast: https://theinsuranceproblog.com/whole-life-insurance-vs-tips/ Sitting on a life insurance illustration — or a policy you already own — and not sure it's actually pulling its weight in your plan? Don't let ChatGPT be the last word on it; it'll hand you a confident answer that's often just the "whole life is a rip-off" line scraped off the internet, and confidently wrong is still wrong. Send us the illustration, or just a few lines about your situation and what AI or your advisor already told you, and we'll give you a straight, honest read — what's right, what's wrong, and whether it's a good fit for you. No pitch, no sales call. Send us a message, or if you'd rather talk it through, book a call with us.

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There are more millionaires than ever, but is $1 million still enough to retire comfortably? In this episode of Wise Money, we break down what it really means to be a millionaire in 2026, the habits that consistently build long-term wealth, and why your net worth alone doesn't tell the whole story. You'll also learn how automatic investing, living below your means, managing debt, and giving your money time to grow can move you toward financial independence.  Season 12, Episode 2 Download our FREE 5-Factor Retirement guide: https://wisemoneyguides.com/    Schedule a meeting with one of our CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNERS™: https://www.korhorn.com/schedule-a-call/  or call 574-247-5898.   Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/b9e4izivV48  Subscribe on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/c/WiseMoneyShow Listen on podcast: https://pod.link/1040619718   Submit a question for the show: https://www.korhorn.com/ask-a-question/   Read the Wise Money Blog: https://www.korhorn.com/wise-money-blog/    Connect with us: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/WiseMoneyShow  Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wisemoneyshow/    Kevin Korhorn, CFP® offers securities through Silver Oak Securities, Inc., Member FINRA/SIPC. Kevin offers advisory services through KFG Wealth Management, LLC dba Korhorn Financial Group. KFG Wealth Management, LLC dba Korhorn Financial Group and Silver Oak Securities, Inc. are not affiliated. Mike Bernard, CFP® and Joshua Gregory, CFP® offer advisory services through KFG Wealth Management, LLC dba Korhorn Financial Group. This information is for general financial education and is not intended to provide specific investment advice or recommendations. All investing and investment strategies involve risk, including the potential loss of principal. Asset allocation & diversification do not ensure a profit or prevent a loss in a declining market. Past performance is not a guarantee of future results. This video may discuss estate planning concepts but does not constitute legal advice. Please consult an attorney for advice specific to your situation. Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards Center for Financial Planning, Inc. owns and licenses the certification marks CFP®, CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ and CFP® (with plaque design) in the United States to Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc., which authorizes individuals who successfully complete the organization's initial and ongoing certification requirements to use the certification marks.

Prof. Richard Werner is one of the best known economists in the world. Amir Taaki is one of the most famous cryptographers and cypherpunks of his generation. Together, they join forces to defeat centra planning & stop the rise of CBDCs. Time stamps: 0:00 - Intro: A Crossover Panel at Mallorca Blockchain Days 2:02 - Werner's Paradigm: Why Mainstream Economics Is Charlatanism 5:52 - David Ricardo, Karl Marx & the Single Central Bank Dream 7:02 - Scientific Economics: The German Historical School & East Asia 9:25 - The Subsidiarity Principle: Lessons from the Prussian Army 12:46 - Decentralization in Money: 25,000 Local Banks 15:10 - Europe in Decline: Germany's Negative Growth & Rising Controls 17:20 - Germany Is Not Sovereign: The Occupation Statutes Theory 20:45 - The Undemocratic EU: A Soviet-Style Rubber Stamp Parliament 21:58 - Article 146: Germany's Path to a Real Constitution 24:39 - Direct Democracy via Technology: Why Do We Need Representatives? 26:00 - Amir Asks: What Does the Ideal Society Look Like? 27:13 - Switzerland's Referendum Culture as the Model 29:30 - The Scarcity Lie: Every Country Can Have 15% Growth 32:15 - Disaggregated Credit: Productive vs. Non-Productive 33:24 - Why One Currency? Medieval Bonds & Local Money 35:36 - The Wörgl Experiment: Full Employment in the Great Depression 38:04 - Tally Sticks: The Original Public/Private Key Money 40:10 - Local Credit as a Social Force Under Community Control 43:09 - Sea Power vs Land Power: The Bank of England's Origins 47:07 - 1688: The Foreign Invasion Nobody Talks About 49:49 - Belt & Road, Iran, and the Real Target: China 51:47 - Sponsors: Cake Wallet, LayerTwo Labs, Orange Rock, Braiins, SideShift 54:22 - The Year in Privacy: FHE, Obfuscation & the Zcash Hack 56:35 - The Year in Economics: Chat Control & the Digital Prison 57:46 - CBDC Explained: The Umpire Who Wants to Play 59:04 - How a Banking Crisis Ushers in the Soviet System 1:01:07 - Q&A: How Can Politicians Create Growth? 1:06:31 - Q&A: Why Did the Soviet Union Collapse So Suddenly? 1:12:05 - The $100 Cake Wallet Prize Vote 1:13:07 - Closing Question: What Do You Think of Bitcoin Today? 1:14:07 - Amir on Bitcoin: No Leadership, Proletariat Vibes & Trump Dependency 1:17:05 - Werner: Bitcoin Works as an Asset, Fails as Money 1:18:18 - Bitcoin, Geopolitics & Iran Charging Shipping Fees in BTC 1:20:32 - Gold, Cash & the War on Alternatives 1:22:51 - Closing

  Macroeconomic uncertainty, persistent inflation, and geopolitical conflicts are reshaping capital flows across the commodity complex. This episode brings together precious metals and energy sector...

In this episode Dan Kennedy and Bill Glazer discuss Renegade Millionaire strategies for transforming ordinary businesses into extraordinary wealth-producing assets. They unpack how top entrepreneurs think differently about asset creation, value measurement, and long-term wealth development. The conversation includes specific frameworks from the Renegade Millionaire system and real-world examples from businesses that have made the shift. You will learn to track and quantify business value beyond monthly income, convert customer lists and proprietary systems into marketable assets, and use strategic alliances and high-value networking to accelerate growth. Dan and Bill also show how to balance immediate cash flow with long-term equity building, and why exit planning should be a continuous process, not an afterthought. Tune in to get actionable steps you can implement this week to start building a more valuable, saleable business, and subscribe so you never miss another classic lesson from Dan Kennedy and top marketing minds. MagneticMarketing.com NoBSLetter.com

Listen and subscribe to Money Making Conversations on iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, www.moneymakingconversations.com/subscribe/ or wherever you listen to podcasts. New Money Making Conversations episodes drop daily. I want to alert you, so you don’t miss out on expert analysis and insider perspectives from my guests who provide tips that can help you uplift the community, improve your financial planning, motivation, or advice on how to be a successful entrepreneur. Keep winning! Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Don Ford. A board-certified probate and estate attorney and managing partner of Ford Bergner LLP. The conversation focuses on the importance of estate planning, wills, trusts, probate, executors, and family dynamics that often arise after the death of a loved one. Ford provides practical guidance on how individuals can protect their assets, reduce family conflict, and ensure their wishes are properly carried out through legally sound estate planning. Throughout the interview, he emphasizes that estate planning is not just for the wealthy but for anyone who owns assets or has loved ones they want to protect. Purpose of the Interview The interview was designed to: Educate listeners about wills, trusts, and estate planning. Explain the legal differences between financial planning and estate planning. Help families avoid disputes and costly probate issues. Clarify common misconceptions about handwritten wills and DIY estate documents. Encourage individuals to create estate plans before a crisis occurs. Highlight the importance of planning for incapacity as well as death. Key Takeaways 1. Estate Planning Is Different from Financial Planning Ford explains that financial planners focus on growing wealth, while estate planning focuses on what happens to your assets if you die or become incapacitated. 2. Most Americans Don't Have a Will According to Ford, approximately two-thirds of Americans do not have a will, often because they avoid thinking about death, worry about legal costs, or struggle with difficult family decisions. 3. DIY Wills Can Create Major Problems While some states allow handwritten wills, poorly written documents often create ambiguity that leads to family disputes, litigation, and unintended outcomes. 4. Clear Legal Language Prevents Family Conflict A properly drafted will eliminates confusion by clearly defining beneficiaries, distributions, responsibilities, and contingency plans. 5. Estate Planning Should Be Based on Life Stage, Not Age Ford argues that estate planning becomes important when people begin accumulating assets such as: Homes Vehicles Retirement accounts Brokerage accounts Savings The need for a plan is determined more by responsibilities and assets than by age. 6. Communication Is Critical After a Death Many estate disputes begin because family members grieve differently and have different expectations about property, money, and responsibilities. 7. A Good Estate Plan Protects Family Relationships When instructions are clearly documented, families spend less time arguing about intentions and more time focusing on healing. 8. Executors Have Serious Legal Responsibilities An executor is responsible for managing and settling an estate, but cannot legally act until approved by a court. Executors must: Treat beneficiaries fairly Account for all assets Distribute assets according to the law and the will Avoid conflicts of interest 9. Trusts and Wills Serve Different Purposes A trust can be used to transfer assets during a person's lifetime and may help avoid probate in certain states where the probate process is costly and complicated. 10. Estate Planning Is More Than a Will A complete estate plan may include: A will A trust Medical powers of attorney Financial powers of attorney Guardianship planning Asset protection strategies 11. Family Structure Matters Blended families, multiple marriages, children from different relationships, and out-of-state property ownership often require more sophisticated estate planning. 12. Planning for Incapacity Is Equally Important Ford emphasizes that estate planning also addresses what happens if someone becomes unable to make their own medical or financial decisions before death. Notable Quotes On Estate Planning "Estate planning is really what happens if I die, making a plan for your death and what happens after you're gone." On Handwritten Wills "While the handwritten will may be an option, it's usually not the best option." On Legal Guidance "A lawyer would put in the verbiage to make sure there is not that ambiguity." On Why People Avoid Wills "A lot of people have not wanted to talk about these issues because they don't really want to talk about dying." On Planning Ahead "Not thinking about it doesn't mean it's not going to happen." On Timing "It's more of a position-in-life issue and not more about an age issue." On Estate Administration "The executor can't take money and spend it on themselves when it's supposed to go to the others." On Family Conflict "Communication is a big piece of that." On Good Planning "A good plan and a well-drafted will alleviates a lot of those problems." On Trusts "The trust agreement is going to determine who gets my home rather than my will determining who gets my home." On Estate Planning as a Whole "Estate planning is a more holistic view about all of these issues." On Powers of Attorney "We need powers of attorney if you become incapacitated before you die." Bottom Line Don Ford's central message is that estate planning is an act of protection, not simply a legal exercise. A properly structured estate plan helps preserve assets, reduce family conflict, ensure personal wishes are honored, and prepare for both death and incapacity. The interview serves as a reminder that waiting too long to create a will, trust, or estate plan can leave loved ones facing unnecessary stress, confusion, and costly legal challenges. #SHMS #BEST #STRAW Money Making Conversations Master Class with Rushion McDonald is America's premier entrepreneurship, business leadership, financial literacy, and wealth-building podcast featuring successful entrepreneurs, executives, founders, celebrities, and industry experts sharing actionable insights for professional and financial success. 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Listen and subscribe to Money Making Conversations on iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, www.moneymakingconversations.com/subscribe/ or wherever you listen to podcasts. New Money Making Conversations episodes drop daily. I want to alert you, so you don’t miss out on expert analysis and insider perspectives from my guests who provide tips that can help you uplift the community, improve your financial planning, motivation, or advice on how to be a successful entrepreneur. Keep winning! Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Don Ford. A board-certified probate and estate attorney and managing partner of Ford Bergner LLP. The conversation focuses on the importance of estate planning, wills, trusts, probate, executors, and family dynamics that often arise after the death of a loved one. Ford provides practical guidance on how individuals can protect their assets, reduce family conflict, and ensure their wishes are properly carried out through legally sound estate planning. Throughout the interview, he emphasizes that estate planning is not just for the wealthy but for anyone who owns assets or has loved ones they want to protect. Purpose of the Interview The interview was designed to: Educate listeners about wills, trusts, and estate planning. Explain the legal differences between financial planning and estate planning. Help families avoid disputes and costly probate issues. Clarify common misconceptions about handwritten wills and DIY estate documents. Encourage individuals to create estate plans before a crisis occurs. Highlight the importance of planning for incapacity as well as death. Key Takeaways 1. Estate Planning Is Different from Financial Planning Ford explains that financial planners focus on growing wealth, while estate planning focuses on what happens to your assets if you die or become incapacitated. 2. Most Americans Don't Have a Will According to Ford, approximately two-thirds of Americans do not have a will, often because they avoid thinking about death, worry about legal costs, or struggle with difficult family decisions. 3. DIY Wills Can Create Major Problems While some states allow handwritten wills, poorly written documents often create ambiguity that leads to family disputes, litigation, and unintended outcomes. 4. Clear Legal Language Prevents Family Conflict A properly drafted will eliminates confusion by clearly defining beneficiaries, distributions, responsibilities, and contingency plans. 5. Estate Planning Should Be Based on Life Stage, Not Age Ford argues that estate planning becomes important when people begin accumulating assets such as: Homes Vehicles Retirement accounts Brokerage accounts Savings The need for a plan is determined more by responsibilities and assets than by age. 6. Communication Is Critical After a Death Many estate disputes begin because family members grieve differently and have different expectations about property, money, and responsibilities. 7. A Good Estate Plan Protects Family Relationships When instructions are clearly documented, families spend less time arguing about intentions and more time focusing on healing. 8. Executors Have Serious Legal Responsibilities An executor is responsible for managing and settling an estate, but cannot legally act until approved by a court. Executors must: Treat beneficiaries fairly Account for all assets Distribute assets according to the law and the will Avoid conflicts of interest 9. Trusts and Wills Serve Different Purposes A trust can be used to transfer assets during a person's lifetime and may help avoid probate in certain states where the probate process is costly and complicated. 10. Estate Planning Is More Than a Will A complete estate plan may include: A will A trust Medical powers of attorney Financial powers of attorney Guardianship planning Asset protection strategies 11. Family Structure Matters Blended families, multiple marriages, children from different relationships, and out-of-state property ownership often require more sophisticated estate planning. 12. Planning for Incapacity Is Equally Important Ford emphasizes that estate planning also addresses what happens if someone becomes unable to make their own medical or financial decisions before death. Notable Quotes On Estate Planning "Estate planning is really what happens if I die, making a plan for your death and what happens after you're gone." On Handwritten Wills "While the handwritten will may be an option, it's usually not the best option." On Legal Guidance "A lawyer would put in the verbiage to make sure there is not that ambiguity." On Why People Avoid Wills "A lot of people have not wanted to talk about these issues because they don't really want to talk about dying." On Planning Ahead "Not thinking about it doesn't mean it's not going to happen." On Timing "It's more of a position-in-life issue and not more about an age issue." On Estate Administration "The executor can't take money and spend it on themselves when it's supposed to go to the others." On Family Conflict "Communication is a big piece of that." On Good Planning "A good plan and a well-drafted will alleviates a lot of those problems." On Trusts "The trust agreement is going to determine who gets my home rather than my will determining who gets my home." On Estate Planning as a Whole "Estate planning is a more holistic view about all of these issues." On Powers of Attorney "We need powers of attorney if you become incapacitated before you die." Bottom Line Don Ford's central message is that estate planning is an act of protection, not simply a legal exercise. A properly structured estate plan helps preserve assets, reduce family conflict, ensure personal wishes are honored, and prepare for both death and incapacity. The interview serves as a reminder that waiting too long to create a will, trust, or estate plan can leave loved ones facing unnecessary stress, confusion, and costly legal challenges. #SHMS #BEST #STRAW Money Making Conversations Master Class with Rushion McDonald is America's premier entrepreneurship, business leadership, financial literacy, and wealth-building podcast featuring successful entrepreneurs, executives, founders, celebrities, and industry experts sharing actionable insights for professional and financial success. Business Podcast Entrepreneurship Small Business Business Growth Financial Literacy Wealth Building Black Entrepreneurs Minority Business Leadership Executive Leadership Business Funding Marketing Strategies Personal Development Startup Advice Sales Training CEO Interviews Founder Stories Professional Development Economic Empowerment Business Success Networking Brand Building Innovation How to start a business Small business funding Entrepreneur success stories Business leadership podcast Wealth building strategies Black entrepreneur podcast Minority business development Marketing for small businesses Business growth strategies Startup funding opportunities Executive leadership training Financial literacy education Success mindset podcastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Listen and subscribe to Money Making Conversations on iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, www.moneymakingconversations.com/subscribe/ or wherever you listen to podcasts. New Money Making Conversations episodes drop daily. I want to alert you, so you don’t miss out on expert analysis and insider perspectives from my guests who provide tips that can help you uplift the community, improve your financial planning, motivation, or advice on how to be a successful entrepreneur. Keep winning! Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Don Ford. A board-certified probate and estate attorney and managing partner of Ford Bergner LLP. The conversation focuses on the importance of estate planning, wills, trusts, probate, executors, and family dynamics that often arise after the death of a loved one. Ford provides practical guidance on how individuals can protect their assets, reduce family conflict, and ensure their wishes are properly carried out through legally sound estate planning. Throughout the interview, he emphasizes that estate planning is not just for the wealthy but for anyone who owns assets or has loved ones they want to protect. Purpose of the Interview The interview was designed to: Educate listeners about wills, trusts, and estate planning. Explain the legal differences between financial planning and estate planning. Help families avoid disputes and costly probate issues. Clarify common misconceptions about handwritten wills and DIY estate documents. Encourage individuals to create estate plans before a crisis occurs. Highlight the importance of planning for incapacity as well as death. Key Takeaways 1. Estate Planning Is Different from Financial Planning Ford explains that financial planners focus on growing wealth, while estate planning focuses on what happens to your assets if you die or become incapacitated. 2. Most Americans Don't Have a Will According to Ford, approximately two-thirds of Americans do not have a will, often because they avoid thinking about death, worry about legal costs, or struggle with difficult family decisions. 3. DIY Wills Can Create Major Problems While some states allow handwritten wills, poorly written documents often create ambiguity that leads to family disputes, litigation, and unintended outcomes. 4. Clear Legal Language Prevents Family Conflict A properly drafted will eliminates confusion by clearly defining beneficiaries, distributions, responsibilities, and contingency plans. 5. Estate Planning Should Be Based on Life Stage, Not Age Ford argues that estate planning becomes important when people begin accumulating assets such as: Homes Vehicles Retirement accounts Brokerage accounts Savings The need for a plan is determined more by responsibilities and assets than by age. 6. Communication Is Critical After a Death Many estate disputes begin because family members grieve differently and have different expectations about property, money, and responsibilities. 7. A Good Estate Plan Protects Family Relationships When instructions are clearly documented, families spend less time arguing about intentions and more time focusing on healing. 8. Executors Have Serious Legal Responsibilities An executor is responsible for managing and settling an estate, but cannot legally act until approved by a court. Executors must: Treat beneficiaries fairly Account for all assets Distribute assets according to the law and the will Avoid conflicts of interest 9. Trusts and Wills Serve Different Purposes A trust can be used to transfer assets during a person's lifetime and may help avoid probate in certain states where the probate process is costly and complicated. 10. Estate Planning Is More Than a Will A complete estate plan may include: A will A trust Medical powers of attorney Financial powers of attorney Guardianship planning Asset protection strategies 11. Family Structure Matters Blended families, multiple marriages, children from different relationships, and out-of-state property ownership often require more sophisticated estate planning. 12. Planning for Incapacity Is Equally Important Ford emphasizes that estate planning also addresses what happens if someone becomes unable to make their own medical or financial decisions before death. Notable Quotes On Estate Planning "Estate planning is really what happens if I die, making a plan for your death and what happens after you're gone." On Handwritten Wills "While the handwritten will may be an option, it's usually not the best option." On Legal Guidance "A lawyer would put in the verbiage to make sure there is not that ambiguity." On Why People Avoid Wills "A lot of people have not wanted to talk about these issues because they don't really want to talk about dying." On Planning Ahead "Not thinking about it doesn't mean it's not going to happen." On Timing "It's more of a position-in-life issue and not more about an age issue." On Estate Administration "The executor can't take money and spend it on themselves when it's supposed to go to the others." On Family Conflict "Communication is a big piece of that." On Good Planning "A good plan and a well-drafted will alleviates a lot of those problems." On Trusts "The trust agreement is going to determine who gets my home rather than my will determining who gets my home." On Estate Planning as a Whole "Estate planning is a more holistic view about all of these issues." On Powers of Attorney "We need powers of attorney if you become incapacitated before you die." Bottom Line Don Ford's central message is that estate planning is an act of protection, not simply a legal exercise. A properly structured estate plan helps preserve assets, reduce family conflict, ensure personal wishes are honored, and prepare for both death and incapacity. The interview serves as a reminder that waiting too long to create a will, trust, or estate plan can leave loved ones facing unnecessary stress, confusion, and costly legal challenges. #SHMS #BEST #STRAW Money Making Conversations Master Class with Rushion McDonald is America's premier entrepreneurship, business leadership, financial literacy, and wealth-building podcast featuring successful entrepreneurs, executives, founders, celebrities, and industry experts sharing actionable insights for professional and financial success. 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John Hope Bryant explains what it means to be an “operating entrepreneur” as he records from a quiet late-night retreat in Wailea, Maui, to show how silence fuels thinking and wealth creation. Responding to a viral clip about poor neighborhoods being noisy and wealthy ones quiet, he argues the real divider is economics (“green”), not race, and that poverty removes peace, time, and mental bandwidth. He links stability and quiet to focused attention, strategy, ideas, intellectual property, ownership, assets, wealth, wellness, and longevity, citing Operation HOPE’s Financial Wellness Index showing higher credit-score neighborhoods correlate with longer life expectancy. He warns smartphones and the attention economy recreate “noise” anywhere, urges protecting attention, prioritizing the important over the urgent, and moving from labor to ownership by creating and owning ideas.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This week, James Marriott talks to Sarah Harper, Professor of Gerontology at the University of Oxford and one of the world's leading experts on demographic change. She challenges the increasingly common narrative that ageing populations represent an inevitable economic and social burden, arguing instead that longer lives should be seen as an achievement that requires us to rethink the way society is organised. As birth rates fall and life expectancy increases, governments across the world face growing concerns about pensions, healthcare and shrinking workforces. Yet Harper believes many of these pressures stem from institutions that were designed for a very different era. She argues that our welfare systems, labour markets and assumptions about retirement are still based on outdated ideas about ageing and no longer reflect the realities of modern life. She wants us to be more radical, and makes the case for a fundamental rethink of the state pension, proposing that eligibility should be linked to years of contribution rather than chronological age. More broadly, she argues that we need to move beyond rigid age-based milestones and develop new ways of understanding work, contribution and later life in an ageing society. Can ageing populations drive prosperity rather than decline? Should age continue to determine when we stop working and start receiving support from the state? And what would it take to build a society that not only adapts to longer lives, but thrives because of them?- WhatsApp: 0330 123 9480  - Email: radical@bbc.co.ukEpisodes of Radical are released every Thursday and Monday.Series Producer: Rufus Gray Producers: Nathan Gower and Ivana Davidovic Digital Producer: Gabriel Purcell-Davis Technical Producer: Dafydd Evans Senior News Editor: Sam Bonham

Listen and subscribe to Money Making Conversations on iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, www.moneymakingconversations.com/subscribe/ or wherever you listen to podcasts. New Money Making Conversations episodes drop daily. I want to alert you, so you don’t miss out on expert analysis and insider perspectives from my guests who provide tips that can help you uplift the community, improve your financial planning, motivation, or advice on how to be a successful entrepreneur. Keep winning! Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Attorney S. Diane Clair. A Georgia-based attorney, real estate law professor at Kennesaw State University, and founder of a law practice specializing in real estate, estate planning, probate, business, and contract law. The discussion focuses on wealth building through real estate investing, asset protection, and estate planning strategies for generational wealth. Purpose of the Interview The primary purpose of the interview was to: Educate listeners about real estate investing opportunities, including lesser-known strategies such as tax liens and tax deeds. [ Stress the importance of working with qualified legal professionals instead of relying on Google, social media, AI tools, or generic legal templates. [ Promote wealth preservation through estate planning, particularly trusts and business structures. [ Encourage minority communities to create estate plans and pass wealth to future generations. [ Key Takeaways 1. Don't Rely Solely on Google, Social Media, or AI for Legal Advice Clair warns that many individuals attempt to create wills, trusts, and legal documents online without professional guidance. She emphasizes that legal matters require experienced attorneys because AI and internet sources may provide incomplete or incorrect information. Why it Matters Legal mistakes can create costly problems later. AI-generated content can be inaccurate. Estate planning and real estate transactions require professional review. 2. Real Estate Is a Powerful Wealth-Building Tool Clair argues that real estate remains one of the strongest ways to build and transfer wealth between generations. She highlights its relative stability compared to stock market fluctuations. Benefits Mentioned Builds long-term wealth Generates passive income Creates assets that can be inherited Helps achieve financial freedom [ 3. Start Real Estate Investing Through a Business Entity One of Clair's first recommendations is to establish a legal business structure before purchasing investment properties. Recommended Structures LLC Corporation Other formal business entities [ She repeatedly stresses that investment assets ideally should not be owned in an individual's personal name. 4. You Don't Need Large Amounts of Money to Invest A major myth she debunks is that real estate investing requires significant capital. Entry-Level Strategies Tax liens Tax deeds Foreclosure purchases Fix-and-flip projects Rental properties [ According to Clair, investors can begin with relatively small amounts by purchasing tax liens and earning interest when property owners redeem them. [ 5. Estate Planning Is Largely Ignored Clair shares a startling statistic: Approximately 64% of Americans do not have an estate plan. Among minorities, that number rises to about 70%. [ She believes the problem is educational rather than financial, noting that even wealthy celebrities frequently fail to plan their estates. 6. Trusts Are Better Than Wills for Many Situations Clair strongly favors trusts, especially irrevocable trusts, as vehicles for preserving wealth. Advantages of Trusts Avoid probate Potential tax benefits Asset protection Easier transfer of wealth Can operate while the creator is still alive Difference Between a Will and a Trust Will Takes effect after death Goes through probate court Directs distribution of assets Trust Can function during the owner's lifetime Avoids probate Can provide stronger protection and tax advantages [ 7. Asset Protection Is Essential Clair explains that trusts can own: Real estate Bank accounts Businesses Investments Other valuable assets Because the trust, rather than the individual, owns the property, there can be additional protection from lawsuits and claims. Notable Quotes On Legal Services Beyond Personal Injury Law "You can hire lawyers for way more, and we can assist you in way more." [ On Using AI for Legal Matters "AI is not really something you want to trust... It creates and makes up stuff." [ On Professional Guidance "You want to book a consultation with an attorney." On Real Estate Investing "A lot of people have that misconception that you have to have a lot of money to start investing in real estate, and that's not true." On Generational Wealth "Real estate is something that is the best thing to invest in and pass down to future generations." [ On Estate Planning "This is not a money thing... It's an education thing." [ On Trusts "The best estate planning instrument is always going to be a trust." On Asset Ownership "Don't have anything in your own name, have it in the name of the trust or in the business." Overall Message Attorney Diane Clair's central message is that wealth creation and wealth preservation must work together. Building assets through real estate is important, but equally important is protecting those assets through proper business structures, trusts, estate planning, and professional legal guidance. The interview encourages listeners, especially entrepreneurs and minority communities, to think long term about generational wealth, asset protection, and financial legacy rather than short-term gains. [#BEST #STRAW #SHMS Money Making Conversations Master Class with Rushion McDonald is America's premier entrepreneurship, business leadership, financial literacy, and wealth-building podcast featuring successful entrepreneurs, executives, founders, celebrities, and industry experts sharing actionable insights for professional and financial success. Business Podcast Entrepreneurship Small Business Business Growth Financial Literacy Wealth Building Black Entrepreneurs Minority Business Leadership Executive Leadership Business Funding Marketing Strategies Personal Development Startup Advice Sales Training CEO Interviews Founder Stories Professional Development Economic Empowerment Business Success Networking Brand Building Innovation How to start a business Small business funding Entrepreneur success stories Business leadership podcast Wealth building strategies Black entrepreneur podcast Minority business development Marketing for small businesses Business growth strategies Startup funding opportunities Executive leadership training Financial literacy education Success mindset podcastSupport the show: https://www.steveharveyfm.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Listen and subscribe to Money Making Conversations on iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, www.moneymakingconversations.com/subscribe/ or wherever you listen to podcasts. New Money Making Conversations episodes drop daily. I want to alert you, so you don’t miss out on expert analysis and insider perspectives from my guests who provide tips that can help you uplift the community, improve your financial planning, motivation, or advice on how to be a successful entrepreneur. Keep winning! Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Attorney S. Diane Clair. A Georgia-based attorney, real estate law professor at Kennesaw State University, and founder of a law practice specializing in real estate, estate planning, probate, business, and contract law. The discussion focuses on wealth building through real estate investing, asset protection, and estate planning strategies for generational wealth. Purpose of the Interview The primary purpose of the interview was to: Educate listeners about real estate investing opportunities, including lesser-known strategies such as tax liens and tax deeds. [ Stress the importance of working with qualified legal professionals instead of relying on Google, social media, AI tools, or generic legal templates. [ Promote wealth preservation through estate planning, particularly trusts and business structures. [ Encourage minority communities to create estate plans and pass wealth to future generations. [ Key Takeaways 1. Don't Rely Solely on Google, Social Media, or AI for Legal Advice Clair warns that many individuals attempt to create wills, trusts, and legal documents online without professional guidance. She emphasizes that legal matters require experienced attorneys because AI and internet sources may provide incomplete or incorrect information. Why it Matters Legal mistakes can create costly problems later. AI-generated content can be inaccurate. Estate planning and real estate transactions require professional review. 2. Real Estate Is a Powerful Wealth-Building Tool Clair argues that real estate remains one of the strongest ways to build and transfer wealth between generations. She highlights its relative stability compared to stock market fluctuations. Benefits Mentioned Builds long-term wealth Generates passive income Creates assets that can be inherited Helps achieve financial freedom [ 3. Start Real Estate Investing Through a Business Entity One of Clair's first recommendations is to establish a legal business structure before purchasing investment properties. Recommended Structures LLC Corporation Other formal business entities [ She repeatedly stresses that investment assets ideally should not be owned in an individual's personal name. 4. You Don't Need Large Amounts of Money to Invest A major myth she debunks is that real estate investing requires significant capital. Entry-Level Strategies Tax liens Tax deeds Foreclosure purchases Fix-and-flip projects Rental properties [ According to Clair, investors can begin with relatively small amounts by purchasing tax liens and earning interest when property owners redeem them. [ 5. Estate Planning Is Largely Ignored Clair shares a startling statistic: Approximately 64% of Americans do not have an estate plan. Among minorities, that number rises to about 70%. [ She believes the problem is educational rather than financial, noting that even wealthy celebrities frequently fail to plan their estates. 6. Trusts Are Better Than Wills for Many Situations Clair strongly favors trusts, especially irrevocable trusts, as vehicles for preserving wealth. Advantages of Trusts Avoid probate Potential tax benefits Asset protection Easier transfer of wealth Can operate while the creator is still alive Difference Between a Will and a Trust Will Takes effect after death Goes through probate court Directs distribution of assets Trust Can function during the owner's lifetime Avoids probate Can provide stronger protection and tax advantages [ 7. Asset Protection Is Essential Clair explains that trusts can own: Real estate Bank accounts Businesses Investments Other valuable assets Because the trust, rather than the individual, owns the property, there can be additional protection from lawsuits and claims. Notable Quotes On Legal Services Beyond Personal Injury Law "You can hire lawyers for way more, and we can assist you in way more." [ On Using AI for Legal Matters "AI is not really something you want to trust... It creates and makes up stuff." [ On Professional Guidance "You want to book a consultation with an attorney." On Real Estate Investing "A lot of people have that misconception that you have to have a lot of money to start investing in real estate, and that's not true." On Generational Wealth "Real estate is something that is the best thing to invest in and pass down to future generations." [ On Estate Planning "This is not a money thing... It's an education thing." [ On Trusts "The best estate planning instrument is always going to be a trust." On Asset Ownership "Don't have anything in your own name, have it in the name of the trust or in the business." Overall Message Attorney Diane Clair's central message is that wealth creation and wealth preservation must work together. Building assets through real estate is important, but equally important is protecting those assets through proper business structures, trusts, estate planning, and professional legal guidance. The interview encourages listeners, especially entrepreneurs and minority communities, to think long term about generational wealth, asset protection, and financial legacy rather than short-term gains. [#BEST #STRAW #SHMS Money Making Conversations Master Class with Rushion McDonald is America's premier entrepreneurship, business leadership, financial literacy, and wealth-building podcast featuring successful entrepreneurs, executives, founders, celebrities, and industry experts sharing actionable insights for professional and financial success. Business Podcast Entrepreneurship Small Business Business Growth Financial Literacy Wealth Building Black Entrepreneurs Minority Business Leadership Executive Leadership Business Funding Marketing Strategies Personal Development Startup Advice Sales Training CEO Interviews Founder Stories Professional Development Economic Empowerment Business Success Networking Brand Building Innovation How to start a business Small business funding Entrepreneur success stories Business leadership podcast Wealth building strategies Black entrepreneur podcast Minority business development Marketing for small businesses Business growth strategies Startup funding opportunities Executive leadership training Financial literacy education Success mindset podcastSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Listen and subscribe to Money Making Conversations on iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, www.moneymakingconversations.com/subscribe/ or wherever you listen to podcasts. New Money Making Conversations episodes drop daily. I want to alert you, so you don’t miss out on expert analysis and insider perspectives from my guests who provide tips that can help you uplift the community, improve your financial planning, motivation, or advice on how to be a successful entrepreneur. Keep winning! Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Attorney S. Diane Clair. A Georgia-based attorney, real estate law professor at Kennesaw State University, and founder of a law practice specializing in real estate, estate planning, probate, business, and contract law. The discussion focuses on wealth building through real estate investing, asset protection, and estate planning strategies for generational wealth. Purpose of the Interview The primary purpose of the interview was to: Educate listeners about real estate investing opportunities, including lesser-known strategies such as tax liens and tax deeds. [ Stress the importance of working with qualified legal professionals instead of relying on Google, social media, AI tools, or generic legal templates. [ Promote wealth preservation through estate planning, particularly trusts and business structures. [ Encourage minority communities to create estate plans and pass wealth to future generations. [ Key Takeaways 1. Don't Rely Solely on Google, Social Media, or AI for Legal Advice Clair warns that many individuals attempt to create wills, trusts, and legal documents online without professional guidance. She emphasizes that legal matters require experienced attorneys because AI and internet sources may provide incomplete or incorrect information. Why it Matters Legal mistakes can create costly problems later. AI-generated content can be inaccurate. Estate planning and real estate transactions require professional review. 2. Real Estate Is a Powerful Wealth-Building Tool Clair argues that real estate remains one of the strongest ways to build and transfer wealth between generations. She highlights its relative stability compared to stock market fluctuations. Benefits Mentioned Builds long-term wealth Generates passive income Creates assets that can be inherited Helps achieve financial freedom [ 3. Start Real Estate Investing Through a Business Entity One of Clair's first recommendations is to establish a legal business structure before purchasing investment properties. Recommended Structures LLC Corporation Other formal business entities [ She repeatedly stresses that investment assets ideally should not be owned in an individual's personal name. 4. You Don't Need Large Amounts of Money to Invest A major myth she debunks is that real estate investing requires significant capital. Entry-Level Strategies Tax liens Tax deeds Foreclosure purchases Fix-and-flip projects Rental properties [ According to Clair, investors can begin with relatively small amounts by purchasing tax liens and earning interest when property owners redeem them. [ 5. Estate Planning Is Largely Ignored Clair shares a startling statistic: Approximately 64% of Americans do not have an estate plan. Among minorities, that number rises to about 70%. [ She believes the problem is educational rather than financial, noting that even wealthy celebrities frequently fail to plan their estates. 6. Trusts Are Better Than Wills for Many Situations Clair strongly favors trusts, especially irrevocable trusts, as vehicles for preserving wealth. Advantages of Trusts Avoid probate Potential tax benefits Asset protection Easier transfer of wealth Can operate while the creator is still alive Difference Between a Will and a Trust Will Takes effect after death Goes through probate court Directs distribution of assets Trust Can function during the owner's lifetime Avoids probate Can provide stronger protection and tax advantages [ 7. Asset Protection Is Essential Clair explains that trusts can own: Real estate Bank accounts Businesses Investments Other valuable assets Because the trust, rather than the individual, owns the property, there can be additional protection from lawsuits and claims. Notable Quotes On Legal Services Beyond Personal Injury Law "You can hire lawyers for way more, and we can assist you in way more." [ On Using AI for Legal Matters "AI is not really something you want to trust... It creates and makes up stuff." [ On Professional Guidance "You want to book a consultation with an attorney." On Real Estate Investing "A lot of people have that misconception that you have to have a lot of money to start investing in real estate, and that's not true." On Generational Wealth "Real estate is something that is the best thing to invest in and pass down to future generations." [ On Estate Planning "This is not a money thing... It's an education thing." [ On Trusts "The best estate planning instrument is always going to be a trust." On Asset Ownership "Don't have anything in your own name, have it in the name of the trust or in the business." Overall Message Attorney Diane Clair's central message is that wealth creation and wealth preservation must work together. Building assets through real estate is important, but equally important is protecting those assets through proper business structures, trusts, estate planning, and professional legal guidance. The interview encourages listeners, especially entrepreneurs and minority communities, to think long term about generational wealth, asset protection, and financial legacy rather than short-term gains. [#BEST #STRAW #SHMS Money Making Conversations Master Class with Rushion McDonald is America's premier entrepreneurship, business leadership, financial literacy, and wealth-building podcast featuring successful entrepreneurs, executives, founders, celebrities, and industry experts sharing actionable insights for professional and financial success. Business Podcast Entrepreneurship Small Business Business Growth Financial Literacy Wealth Building Black Entrepreneurs Minority Business Leadership Executive Leadership Business Funding Marketing Strategies Personal Development Startup Advice Sales Training CEO Interviews Founder Stories Professional Development Economic Empowerment Business Success Networking Brand Building Innovation How to start a business Small business funding Entrepreneur success stories Business leadership podcast Wealth building strategies Black entrepreneur podcast Minority business development Marketing for small businesses Business growth strategies Startup funding opportunities Executive leadership training Financial literacy education Success mindset podcastSteve Harvey Morning Show Online: http://www.steveharveyfm.com/See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Check the episode transcript hereABOUT CHRIS SHEPARD Chris Shepard is an experienced real estate investor, property manager, and real estate agent.  He owns property in multiple states and chooses to invest in Portland, Oregon.  He has completed multiple 1031 exchanges and cost segregations to maximize the tax benefits of investing in real property.  Chris also holds the principal broker's license for Uptown Properties LLC and is responsible for its real estate activities.  On top of his state license, Chris holds a Certified Property Manager (CPM) designation from the Institute of Real Estate Management (IREM).  He graduated with a Bachelor of Science in Business Finance at the University of Arizona.  With his extensive background in deal analysis and negotiation, he provides incredible value to this company and its projects.  ABOUT SEAN POGGI Sean is the Asset Manager of Uptown Syndication. He graduated from the University of Oregon with a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration and brings over 14 years of leadership experience with Apple Inc. Sean has been actively investing in real estate since 2015, with experience managing both short-term and long-term rental properties, including out-of-state investments. As a passionate Project Manager and Entrepreneur, Sean is focused on driving operational efficiency, overseeing asset performance, and supporting the long-term success of each investment opportunity.   THIS TOPIC IN A NUTSHELL:  The Disposition Stage  Knowing When to Sell Setting a Target Sale Price Choosing a Multifamily Broker Preparing an Asset for Sale Creating Buyer Upside Cap Rates and NOI Understanding NOI Scenarios Beyond Cap Rates Balancing Timing and Returns When Exit Plans Change Investor Waterfalls at Sale Lessons From a Completed Disposition Adjusting Exit Underwriting The Current Multifamily Market What Comes Next and Potential Buying Opportunities     KEY QUOTE:  “You have to be ready for when the market meets your sale price.”      ABOUT THE WESTSIDE INVESTORS NETWORK   The Westside Investors Network is your community for investing knowledge for growth. For real estate professionals by real estate professionals. This show is focused on the next step in your career... investing, for those starting with nothing to multifamily syndication.   The Westside Investors Network strives to bring knowledge and education to real estate professionals that is seeking to gain more freedom in their life. The host AJ and Chris Shepard, are committed to sharing the wealth of knowledge that they have gained throughout the years to allow others the opportunity to learn and grow in their investing. They own Uptown Properties, a successful Property Management, and Brokerage Company. If you are interested in Property Management in the Portland Metro or Bend Metro Areas, please visit www.uptownpm.com. If you are interested in investing in multifamily syndication, please visit www.uptownsyndication.com.     We would like to thank our Sponsors: OffsitePros and MyMoneyWorksForMe  #RealEstateInvesting #MultifamilyInvesting #MultifamilySyndication #RealEstateSyndication #RealEstateInvestors #PassiveInvesting #PassiveIncome #CommercialRealEstate #MultifamilyRealEstate #RealEstateEducation #RealEstatePodcast #PropertyInvesting #ApartmentInvesting #ApartmentSyndication #RealEstateWealth #WealthBuilding #InvestmentStrategy #RealEstateStrategy #ExitStrategy #MultifamilyInvestors #RealEstateProfessionals #PropertyInvestors #RealEstateEntrepreneur #RealEstateMarket #CapRates #NOI #RealEstateUnderwriting #InvestmentProperty #RealEstateFinance #FinancialFreedom   CONNECT WITH SEAN AND CHRIS: Sean's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/seanpoggi Email: syndication@uptownpm.com Website: https://www.uptownsyndication.com   CONNECT WITH US   For more information about investing with AJ and Chris:  · Uptown Syndication | https://www.uptownsyndication.com/ · LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/company/71673294/admin/  For information on Portland Property Management:  · Uptown Properties | http://www.uptownpm.com ·  Youtube | @UptownProperties  Westside Investors Network  · Website | https://www.westsideinvestorsnetwork.com/ · Twitter | https://twitter.com/WIN_pdx · Instagram | @westsideinvestorsnetwork · LinkedIn | https://www.linkedin.com/groups/13949165/ · Facebook | @WestsideInvestorsNetwork ·  Tiktok| @WestsideInvestorsNetwork ·  Youtube | @WestsideInvestorsNetwork 

Would you like to learn how to accelerate your agency growth ?  https://www.agencymastery360.com/training What if your biggest growth bottleneck isn't your team—but how you're leading them? Laura Lee Jones built Lion Share Marketing into a 45-person healthcare agency with an extraordinary retention record by focusing on people before processes. Rather than forcing employees into predefined roles, she learned to build roles around their natural strengths, creating an environment where team members stay for decades, leaders stay in their zone of genius, and the business continues to grow profitably. In this episode, Laura shares how shifting from task management to strength-based leadership transformed her culture, why founder role clarity drives long-term growth, and why profit—not revenue—is the metric that ultimately matters. What You'll Learn Why treating employees the way you want to be treated creates long-term retention. How managing people around their strengths outperforms assigning work based on organizational charts. The leadership shift from directing every task to building complementary teams. Why founders should protect the work only they can do—and delegate everything else. How staying focused on profit instead of revenue leads to healthier decisions. The connection between founder role clarity, team stability, and sustainable agency growth. Key Takeaways Great retention isn't created through perks—it's built through consistent leadership and genuine care for your team. Stop trying to make people fit every role. Build roles around the strengths your people naturally bring. Founders become bottlenecks when they refuse to let go of work outside their highest-value contribution. Revenue growth means very little if profit, team health, and founder fulfillment are declining. Long-term agency success comes from designing a business where the right people are doing the right work—and the founder stays focused on the responsibilities only they can own. Have you been losing good people and telling yourself it is the market, the economy, or bad luck? Maybe you've been watching revenue numbers so closely that you forgot to ask whether the profit and the life underneath them were actually working. Today's featured guest runs a 45-person data-driven healthcare marketing agency she starting building just four days after being fired from an agency job. She'll get into why she intentionally built her agency thinking about employee happiness and fulfillment, how she evolved from drill sergeant to leader who plays to people's strengths, and what she has learned about staying profitable and mentally steady across three decades of business cycles. Laura Lee Jones is the CEO of Lion Share Marketing, a Kansas City-based agency specializing in data-driven marketing for the healthcare industry. They build large patient and prospect databases, layers proprietary software on top of them, and uses front-end analytics and back-end ROI measurement to drive healthcare marketing decisions. Laura Lee started the agency in 1995 after being let go from a firm she had run for ten years. She has grown Lion Share to 45 people with a retention rate that is genuinely unusual: some team members have been with her for close to 30 years, and several who could not join immediately due to non-compete agreements came over as soon as they could. In this episode, we'll discuss: The standard that makes people want to stay 30 years Pairing people with the work they want to do Why revenue is not the number that matters the most Subscribe Apple | Spotify | iHeart Radio Sponsors and Resources E2M Solutions:Today's episode of the Smart Agency Masterclass is sponsored by E2M Solutions, a web design and development agency that has provided white-label services for the past 10 years to agencies all over the world. Check out e2msolutions.com/smartagency and get 10% off for the first three months of service. Why People Stay for 30 Years Laura Lee does not have a complicated theory about retention. She built her agency around a standard she had for herself: treat people the way you want to be treated, and then actually do it rather than just saying it. When she wanted flexibility because she was going to be a mother, she built it into the culture for everyone. When she wanted to leave early on summer Fridays, she made two o'clock the standard. When she needed childcare, she added a daycare to the building so anyone on the team who needed it had access. The outcome of that consistency over 30 years is a team that has watched each other's children grow from birth to college graduation. That kind of tenure is not built through perks or compensation alone, but through a founder who did not treat the team differently than she wanted to be treated herself, and who kept that standard even when the business hit years that were harder than expected. People can tell when a policy is real and when it is marketing. Learning to Lead Instead of Just Direct As Laura Lee herself admits, her early leadership style looked like a drill sergeant with a checklist, trying to fit square people into round holes. The evolution away from that happened as she paid more attention to what people were actually good at rather than what she needed done. Her agency's standard now is pairing people with the work their natural strengths fit, not assigning tasks based on organizational convenience and hoping it works out. The specific example she gives is herself: she does not take detailed notes and never will. So she pairs herself with someone who does it well, gets the net summary she needs, and stays at the altitude where she is most useful. That same principle applies across the team. The grumpy programmer who is brilliant at the work does not need to be socially engineered into a different personality. They need to be left in the seat where the grumpiness does not matter and the brilliance does. That is a structural decision that keeps the right people doing the right work and reduces the friction that makes good people leave. Revenue Is Not the Number That Matters Laura Lee has grown her agency every year but one in thirty years and she believes this is because she stays in the relationship and business development role that only she can fill, and she does not let herself get pulled into operations. The moment she drifts from that job, the numbers move. That clarity of role is the structural discipline behind the growth consistency. For most founders, a revenue dip triggers alarm regardless of what is happening to margin. The more honest measure is whether the business is generating real profit, whether the team has what it needs, and whether the founder is actually enjoying the work. Laura Lee frames it the same way: you are the one who picks what your life looks like, whether you are an owner or not, and you can always pick again. Thirty years in, she is still picking. Do You Want to Transform Your Agency from a Liability to an Asset? Looking to dig deeper into your agency's potential? 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In the autumn of 2021, Ron Gonen sat across from me and made a call that sounded like activism: fossil fuel assets were already stranded, the smart money was gone, and anyone divesting that year was a decade too late. He said it during the best year energy stocks had had in a decade. For eighteen months, he looked flat wrong.He wasn't. This is a re-release, and before the interview I score the thesis against what actually happened. In 2024 the S&P's fossil fuel components returned 5.7% against 25% for the index; the sector has underperformed in seven of the last ten years and shrunk from 30% of the index in 1980 to about 3% today. The regulation he predicted arrived: seven states now have packaging producer-responsibility laws, up from two. And the single national recycling company he said the US needed — which did not exist when we spoke — he built a year later. It's Circular Services, now the largest privately held recycler in the US, with close to a billion dollars behind it from Brookfield, Microsoft, Nestlé, PepsiCo, Starbucks and Unilever.Ron Gonen is the Founder and CEO of Closed Loop Partners, an investment firm and innovation center built entirely around the circular economy. He founded and ran RecycleBank, served as New York City's Deputy Commissioner of Sanitation, Recycling and Sustainability, and wrote The Waste-Free World. In this conversation he lays out why the linear “extract, use, landfill” economy is a subsidised anomaly, why he thinks circular investing carries a clear financial edge rather than a moral discount, and how he underwrites it — value investing, price-to-value discipline, and a corporate LP base that tells him where the market is going before it gets there.The one part he under-called was the politics — and that's the live risk. Federal policy went the other way, every gain came from the states, and the fight he once compared to a bug bite is now a 17-state lawsuit. He was right on the assets, the regulation, and the infrastructure. The open question is whether the politics catches up.In this episode we discuss:Why he called fossil fuel assets “stranded” in the middle of their best year — and how that call has agedThe financial case that circular and sustainable portfolios beat the market, not lag itWhy the linear economy only works because extraction and landfill are subsidisedHow George Soros's writing turned an idealistic student into an investorValue investing applied to the circular economy: strict price-to-value discipline and a sub-$10M entry screenHow a corporate LP base of the largest CPG companies can de-risk the thesisRedirecting $100 billion in fossil fuel subsidies — “without costing taxpayers a cent”Why he builds a circular economy rather than thinking of himself as an investorFeatured guest:Ron Gonen, Founder & CEO, Closed Loop PartnersDiscover More from SRI360°:Explore all episodes of the SRI360° PodcastSign up for the free weekly email updateKey Takeaways:Stranded means stranded. Ron called fossil fuel assets impaired in 2021, with the divestment window already a decade closed. By 2024 the S&P's fossil components returned 5.7% against 25% for the index.The moral discount is a myth. He argues circular, stakeholder-aligned portfolios outperform — a fund built on the “greediest” companies would never have screened out Enron, WorldCom, or Tyco.The linear economy is subsidised, not natural. Extraction and landfill dominate only because they're propped up; the fossil fuel industry that makes plastic takes roughly $20 billion a year in US subsidies.Value investing, applied to circularity. Every fund runs a strict price-to-value discipline. On the venture side the hard screen is a sub-$10 million post-money valuation, then whether the tech can become a business, then the team.The corporate LP base is the edge. Closed Loop's LPs include some of the largest CPG companies, and they signal where supply chains are heading — turning an “idealistic” thesis into a realistic one.Redirect the subsidies. His biggest structural idea: move $100 billion over five years from fossil fuel subsidies into circular and renewable industries. As reallocation, not new spending, he argues it costs taxpayers nothing.The politics is the unhedged risk. Every recent gain came from the states, not federal policy, and incumbent resistance has escalated from a “bug bite” to a 17-state lawsuit — the one variable no investor controls.Additional ResourcesRon Gonen on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ron-gonen-807a49/Closed Loop Partners: https://www.closedlooppartners.com/Circular Services:  https://circularservices.com/The Waste-Free World (book): https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/646769/the-waste-free-world-by-ron-gonen/

Wall Street has declared yet another “year of the stock picker.” Don and Tom examine Morningstar and SPIVA data showing how few active large-cap funds beat their benchmarks—and why high fees, trading costs, taxes, short horizons, and fierce competition keep the odds tilted toward low-cost diversification.Then Greg asks where stocks and bonds belong while he begins Roth conversions. The discussion covers asset location, small-cap value exposure, international diversification, tax brackets, IRMAA, and keeping the portfolio's overall risk level intact.Finally, they tackle an all-U.S. Roth for a 20-year-old, a couple's pre-retirement glide path, and a pricey Fidelity target-date fund that can be replaced inside a Roth without creating a tax bill. Stay through the end for a money-music bonus.0:37 — The “year of the stock picker” returns2:41 — Active funds trail their benchmarks again8:30 — Why passive keeps winning13:29 — Asset location for Roth conversions22:09 — Should a 20-year-old invest only in the U.S.?23:59 — Reducing risk before retirement28:24 — Escaping an expensive target-date fund31:53 — Reviews, inflation, and a money-music bonusQuestions? Comments? Click!

Most coaches and practitioners who stall out somewhere between 8 and 12K months assume the fix is more visibility, better credentials, or harder work. The actual gap usually sits somewhere else entirely, and once you see it, the income rollercoaster starts to make a lot more sense. In this episode, I'm breaking down the single asset that separates businesses with predictable revenue from businesses that reset every month. I call it the sales bridge, and it's the connection between everything you publish and the offer you want people to buy.  I'm also walking through what happened with a client of mine, Chris, a UK nutritionist who had been in business since 2009, podcasting since 2015, and selling high ticket one-on-one with no trouble at all. His group program was a different story. Two launches, £10,000 of ad spend on the second one, refunds, and almost no profit later, he was ready to shut the whole thing down. What we changed was smaller than you'd expect, and his revenue doubled in a year when a lot of businesses were shrinking. If your income has been resetting every month no matter how much effort you pour in, this conversation will show you exactly where the leak is and what to build instead. Timeline Highlights [00:00] – The income rollercoaster: 8 to 12K months, the occasional spike, and the reset that always follows [03:25] – Why sales that run on manual effort and good timing can never compound [04:49] – The asset that sells for you every day, including the days you don't show up [05:32] – What a sales bridge is and how it links your marketing to your paid offer [07:58] – Chris's situation: ten years in business, easy high ticket sales, and a group program nobody wanted [11:35] – Why his one-on-one had demand baked in and his group program never did [12:26] – Two launches, £10,000 in ad spend, a discount strategy, and a wave of refunds [18:59] – The podcast mention that produced six sales in a week and what it proved about his audience [23:33] – The three changes we made: a hybrid offer, thesis messaging, and getting discoverable again [29:25] – Everything we deliberately left alone, including his niche, his prices, and his podcast [32:24] – The outcome: doubled revenue, 4,500 to 13,000 followers, and a four-day week [39:27] – Who the one-on-one sales and systems audit is built for Top Quotes from the Episode "If nothing connects your marketing to your offer, your income will reset every single month no matter how much effort you pour into it." "Chasing people in the DMs and spending forty-five minutes on a call explaining your offer is what happens when nothing else in your business is doing that work for you." "You want people arriving at sales conversations with one foot already in your offer, needing one last touchpoint from you to say yes." "Demand you don't have to create is the most valuable thing in your business. Chris's one-on-one had it. His group program never did." "Lowering the price is what people reach for when an offer isn't landing, and it's almost never the thing that moves it." "Your thesis is the set of beliefs that, once someone takes them on, make your offer the obvious next step for them." "Chris didn't have a traffic problem, a skill problem, or a work ethic problem. He had marketing on one side, an offer on the other, and nothing carrying people across." Links & Resources Take the "What's Your CEO Type?" Quiz Work with me DM me the word SALES LINK on Instagram Chris Sandel, Seven Health Full case study interview with Chris: Read it HERE or listen HERE. If this one landed, follow the podcast, leave a review, and send it to someone whose income keeps resetting every month.

It's one thing to talk about what strategic podcast decisions look like in theory. It's another thing entirely to watch someone actually make them—and see the results play out in real numbers, real sponsorships, and a real business.That's exactly what happened with Ali Haney, host of the Brand & Market podcast and a Podcasting for Business alumna. Over the last year, Ali went from a podcast pulling in 25 to 30 downloads per episode to one that's landed a paying sponsor, far more than doubled its download average, and become a genuine lead generator for her business. This is a look at how she got there—and what it reveals about what strategic podcasting actually requires.Clocking In with Haylee Gaffin is produced by Gaffin Creative, a podcast production company for creative entrepreneurs. Learn more about our services at Gaffincreative.com, plus you'll also find resources, show notes, and more for the Clocking In Podcast.Find It Quickly: Before the program (5:53)Making real connections with listeners (13:16)The impact of niching down and choosing her ideal audience (15:00)The value of entertaining, fun episodes (16:55)Rebuilding the content strategy (19:05)Podcast search optimization and keyword strategy (22:01)The first podcast sponsorship opportunity (26:31) Running podcast ADs (30:03)Ali's biggest podcast challenge before and after the program (35:16)The biggest mindset shift (35:53)Ali's proudest accomplishment (37:08)Mentioned in this Episode:Podcasting for Business: gaffincreative.com/coachingConnect with Ali:Website: brandandmarket.coInstagram: instagram.com/brandandmarket.coConnect with Haylee:Instagram: instagram.com/hayleegaffinWebsite: gaffincreative.comReview the Transcript: https://share.descript.com/view/SdnQn6zH2TjPodcasting for Business Program is now taking applications! If you're looking to generate more money from your podcast in your business this year, I'm here to help. This program teaches you how to better leverage your podcast for your business through strategic alignment, authority building, and client conversion. Come join us for this 8-week program starting in just a few weeks. Don't forget: applications close on August 28th!Apply now at gaffincreative.com/coaching >> Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Think your email list is too small to matter? Copywriter Tanya Brody says think again. In this episode, Tanya makes the case for why a small, engaged list can outperform a massive disengaged one, whether you're starting from zero or already have a hundred subscribers, fifty, or just three. We cover: Why showing up each week beats list size How to start building an email list from scratch (and grow from a small one) The "serve first, sell second" approach to writing emails people actually want to open What a strong welcome sequence looks like How to keep your list healthy and deliverable over time How Tanya uses (and doesn't use) AI in her own email writing Tanya also shares why treating your list like an ongoing relationship, not a broadcast, shapes how people respond to what you send. Whether you're just starting your side hustle or have been putting off building an email list until you have "enough" people, this episode will change how you think about the list you already have. Do you like what you're hearing? Consider giving it a caffeinated thumbs up. We'd really appreciate it! Need a little (and sometimes big) push to start and stay focused to grow your side hustle? Dive into my online Masterclass: How To Turn Your Thoughts Into Wanted Things. For the full show notes head on over to the home of Side Hustle Hero. https://www.sidehustlehero.com/201 Connect with Tanya: Her copywriting website Subject Line Generator Connect with Joan: Instagram Facebook About Joan Be on the show! Do you have a side hustle success story to tell? We want to hear from you.      

We started with trading cactus pads and ended with barcode price tags, but today we face the final boss of capitalism: an invisible thief called inflation. In the grand finale of our Illusion of Value trilogy, host Marcos Lopez breaks down why your paycheck is on a forced diet, how shrinkflation sells you fancy bags of air, and why the money printer is quietly robbing your 9-to-5 while you sleep. Grab your coffee, lock in, and let's figure out where your purchasing power went before the price of this episode goes up.#Economics #Inflation #Money #Shrinkflation --------------------------------------------------THE ILLUSION OF VALUE TRILOGY:Part 1: Why Money is a Shared Hallucination (OOF 121)Part 2: Why America Stopped Haggling (OOF 122)Part 3: Why Your Dollar is Vanishing (OOF 123)--------------------------------------------------CHAPTERS:(00:00) Introduction to inflation and its effects(01:51) Money supply, demand, and the paper money switch(03:57) Measuring inflation with the consumer price index(05:59) Sneaky store tricks: shrinkflation and quality cuts(06:59) How companies hide price hikes and manipulate perception(09:00) The uneven impact of inflation on different groups(09:51) Asset owners versus wage earners in inflationary times(10:57) The borrower's advantage and hyperinflation risks(11:56) Tools central banks use to control inflation(12:56) Summary and practical advice for listeners--------------------------------------------------☕ SUPPORT THE SHOW:Researching and producing these deep dives takes a frankly unhinged amount of high-grade caffeine. If you want to keep our studio mic hot and support independent, ad-free breakdowns, consider buying me a coffee:

In the second episode of our AMPP Ambassadors series, Carlos Roberto Córdova (MM Contratistas, Peru), Syed Wajahat Hussain (ATCO Gas, Australia), and Juan Pablo Bohórquez Rico (Penspen, Mexico) share insights on asset integrity for pipeline and energy infrastructure systems. To explore challenges and opportunities in the field, our guests bring perspectives from pipeline integrity, cathodic protection, corrosion mitigation, inspection, and asset management across multiple world regions.

In this episode, I sit down with Kevin Fasting, founder of Kevin Edward and Kerv Capital, who's built a group of 13+ recruitment JVs alongside a law firm, an FCA-regulated financial services brokerage, and a 70+ unit property portfolio, all while turning the founders he's backed into asset millionaires.We get into the financial education most people in recruitment never get, why earning good money is the easy part, and what Kevin did differently to make it compound.Connect with Kevin here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinfasting/-------------------------Watch the episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/NoWw0inwE1Q-------------------------Podcast Sponsors: Claim your exclusive savings from our partners with the links below:Sourcewhale - Check Out Sourcewhale & Claim Your Exclusive Offer Here.Atlas - Check Out Atlas & Claim Your Exclusive Offer HereRaise - Check Out Raise & Claim Your Exclusive Offer Here.-------------------------Want more content like this?The Wednesday Debrief is our free weekly newsletter for recruiters who take their craft seriously. Join 7,000+ subscribers here: https://newsletter.recruitmentmentors.com/-------------------------Get in touch with me:Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/hishemazzouz/-------------------------

Interview with Phil Hoskins, CEO of Atomic EagleOur previous interview: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/posts/atomic-eagle-asxaeu-all-known-questions-answered-april-2026-10323Recording date: 3rd August 2026Atomic Eagle Limited (ASX:AEU | OTCQX:AEUXF) has negotiated the return of its Madaouela Uranium Project in Niger, transforming the company from a single-asset Zambian developer into a dual-asset uranium play with a combined resource base spanning two continents. The deal, agreed in principle after seven months of negotiation with Niger's Ministry of Mines, follows the 2024 expropriation of the project from Atomic Eagle's subsidiary GoviEx Uranium and the international arbitration proceedings that followed.The scale differential between the two projects is significant. Madaouela hosts 116.5 million pounds of U3O8 at 1,282ppm - roughly twice Muntanga's resource size and four times its grade - underpinned by more than $160 million of historical expenditure and 600,000 metres of drilling. At current uranium prices, management estimates the project's net present value at approximately $650 million US, with each $5-per-pound price increase adding a further $100 million.The commercial terms give Atomic Eagle 60% ownership of a newly formed Nigerien entity, with the government holding 40% - 15% as a standard free-carried interest and up to 25% as a contributory stake that dilutes if unfunded. Near-term cash outlay is limited to $10 million US in staged payments, plus a non-cash offer to carry the government for up to $40 million of its equity contribution. Critically for investors assessing execution risk, operational control - budgets, work programmes, and day-to-day decisions - sits unambiguously with Atomic Eagle, with no unanimous consent requirements from the government side.The company now has a two-year window to update feasibility studies, reapply for environmental approvals, and convert the historical NI 43-101 resource estimate into a JORC-compliant figure, targeted for the second half of 2026. With $13.8 million in cash as at 30 June 2026 and a further $16 million potentially available through early option exercises by strategic holders, management believes funding is adequate to meet these near-term obligations without an immediate capital raise.Management was explicit that Madaouela is not intended to divert resources or attention from Muntanga, which continues to grow toward a resource approaching 60 million pounds, supported by its own dedicated exploration and study teams. CEO Phil Hoskins framed the valuation opportunity in relative terms: African uranium developers currently trade around $3 a pound, which applied to Atomic Eagle's 60% attributable Madaouela resource implies roughly $210 million Australian in additional value - a figure he suggested could be exceeded given strategic interest already expressed by parties including the White House and major Chinese uranium companies, though he cautioned this depends on Atomic Eagle first demonstrating the deal's credibility to the market.Formal signing of the mining convention is imminent. Until then, the agreement remains non-binding, and investors should treat the current terms as indicative rather than final.View Atomic Eagle's company profile: https://www.cruxinvestor.com/companies/atomic-eagleSign up for Crux Investor: https://cruxinvestor.com

From the archive: This episode was originally recorded and published in 2022. Our interviews on Entrepreneurs On Fire are meant to be evergreen, and we do our best to confirm that all offers and URL's in these archive episodes are still relevant. Lewis Raymond Taylor is a Forbes-featured entrepreneur and 25 million dollar business owner who overcame abuse, addiction, mental illness, and prison to transform his life and success. Top 3 Value Bombs 1. At times, you have to make ruthless decisions. 2. The Coaching Masters is the world's first coaching academy delivered in virtual reality and artificial intelligence. 3. See every setback as something that happened for you, not to you, a lesson you can use to help others. Connect with Lewis on Instagram - Lewis's Instagram Sponsors HighLevel - The ultimate all-in-one platform for entrepreneurs, marketers, coaches, and agencies. Learn more at HighLevelFire.com. Nexus Install - Have a high-ticket offer? Nexus Install builds you a custom LinkedIn prospect booking system designed to generate more quality sales calls. Email JLD at John@EOFire.com to learn more.

Welcome to the China Compass podcast on the Fight Laugh Feast Network! You can follow me on Twitter, @chinaadventures, where I post daily reminders to pray for China (PrayforChina.us). You can also email me any questions or comments @ bfwesten at gmail dot com… And if you want to learn more about our missions projects or get one of my books, visit PrayGiveGo.us. Here's the link to the interview I did with NSA Professor, Mr. Pinkall, the week before this podcast went live (August 17, 2024): https://pubtv.flfnetwork.com/tabs/audio/podcasts/30293/episodes/19 We start out the actual podcast by discussing Tim Walz' ties to China, as seen in two different articles... Seven Troubling Tim Walz Connections to Communist China https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/08/08/exclusive-seamus-bruner-seven-troubling-tim-walz-connections-to-communist-china/ Tim Walz’s Long Relationship With China Defies Easy Stereotypes https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/11/us/tim-walz-china.html Next we talk about our primary sponsor, Pray for China, where we encourage Christians from every US state to pray for every Chinese province. Today in “honor” of Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, we are looking at the Chinese province of Heilongjiang (Black Dragon River), which is paired up with the state of Minnesota for prayer in our Pray for China intercession scheme. Heilongjiang translates literally as Black Dragon River, and is located in far northern China just south of the Black Dragon River, which separates it from Siberia to the north. Black Dragon River is known for its pine forests, rivers, lakes, and frigid winter weather (sound familiar?). It makes a natural fit for Minnesota. The capital of Black Dragon River is Harbin, but that same trip I also visited the towns of Suihua, Hegang, Yichun, Jiamusi, Shuangyashan, Jixi, Qiezihe, Qitaihe, Mishan, Hulin, and more. I tell a few stories in the time that remains… 4am Conversation with a Homeless Man https://open.substack.com/pub/chinacall/p/4am-conversation-with-a-homeless Double Duck Mountain Orphanage Thinking in Chinese for the 1st Time More fun town names: Eggplant River, Western Chicken, Tiger Forest One final story. It was in one of these cities where I ate dog for the first time. And can you guess the one and only place I've eaten camel (burgers)? Thank you for listening! Subscribe to my blog/substack @ ChinaCall.Substack.com and find everything else at PrayGiveGo.us!

AI is changing the way we invest, manage money, protect against financial scams, and make financial decisions. In this episode of Wise Money, we explore how AI financial planning is evolving, from investing and insurance to budgeting and fraud prevention. Plus, we discuss the opportunities and risks that come with AI and why more information doesn't necessarily lead to better financial decisions. Ultimately, artificial intelligence can be a powerful tool, but true financial wisdom still requires context, experience, and good judgment.  Season 12, Episode 1 Download our FREE 5-Factor Retirement guide: https://wisemoneyguides.com/    Schedule a meeting with one of our CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNERS™: https://www.korhorn.com/schedule-a-call/  or call 574-247-5898.   Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/UFtHMRQxUsw  Subscribe on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/c/WiseMoneyShow Listen on podcast: https://pod.link/1040619718   Submit a question for the show: https://www.korhorn.com/ask-a-question/   Read the Wise Money Blog: https://www.korhorn.com/wise-money-blog/    Connect with us: Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/WiseMoneyShow  Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wisemoneyshow/    Kevin Korhorn, CFP® offers securities through Silver Oak Securities, Inc., Member FINRA/SIPC. Kevin offers advisory services through KFG Wealth Management, LLC dba Korhorn Financial Group. KFG Wealth Management, LLC dba Korhorn Financial Group and Silver Oak Securities, Inc. are not affiliated. Mike Bernard, CFP® and Joshua Gregory, CFP® offer advisory services through KFG Wealth Management, LLC dba Korhorn Financial Group. This information is for general financial education and is not intended to provide specific investment advice or recommendations. All investing and investment strategies involve risk, including the potential loss of principal. Asset allocation & diversification do not ensure a profit or prevent a loss in a declining market. Past performance is not a guarantee of future results. This video may discuss estate planning concepts but does not constitute legal advice. Please consult an attorney for advice specific to your situation. Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards Center for Financial Planning, Inc. owns and licenses the certification marks CFP®, CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ and CFP® (with plaque design) in the United States to Certified Financial Planner Board of Standards, Inc., which authorizes individuals who successfully complete the organization's initial and ongoing certification requirements to use the certification marks.

Book a call: https://remnantfinance.com/calendarEmail us at info@remnantfinance.com or visit https://remnantfinance.com for more informationFOLLOW REMNANT FINANCEYoutube: @RemnantFinance (https://www.youtube.com/@RemnantFinance)Facebook: @remnantfinance (https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61560694316588)Twitter: @remnantfinance (https://x.com/remnantfinance)TikTok: @RemnantFinanceDon't forget to hit LIKE and SUBSCRIBEHans opens this episode with a correction to the original recording, the SECURE 2.0 Act dropped that penalty from 50 percent to 25 percent, and then makes the case that the only incentive that explains the rule at all is that they do not want you leaving it to your children.From there, a macro roundup on the three stories driving the tape right now: the 30-year Treasury clearing above 5.3 percent for the first time since 2007, oil sitting stubbornly in the eighties while the Strategic Petroleum Reserve hits its lowest level since 1982, and the Fed holding its range at 3.5 to 3.75 while the betting markets start pricing a hike rather than a cut. Then a replay of what was, for most of this show's run, its most popular episode. Hans and Brian take apart the conventional financial planning model, starting with the assumption buried underneath all of it: that anyone can predict the future. When you retire, what taxes will be, what inflation does, how long you live, how the market performs. Every one of those has to break your way for the plan to work. Only one has to break against you for it to fall apart.Chapters 00:00 – Opening segment 01:05 – Why part two of the interest rate breakdown is delayed a week 04:55 – Correction: SECURE 2.0 took the RMD penalty from 50 percent to 25 percent 06:45 – The one piece of the tax code Hans cannot steel man 07:00 – How the two gates work: 59 and a half, then 73 08:15 – Reducing the penalty to 10 percent, and why the barrier never really left 10:20 – Tax on the seed versus tax on the harvest 11:55 – Macro roundup: how a Treasury auction actually clears 14:05 – The 30-year breaks 5.3 percent, highest since 2007 14:55 – Heavy federal issuance and the approaching 40 trillion mark 15:50 – AI data center CapEx enters the rate story 16:35 – Three straight down sessions in the S&P 17:00 – Oil, Hormuz, and the lowest SPR level since 1982 20:20 – Why "cooling inflation" is still inflation 22:10 – Replay begins: the airline gig and stop being a passenger 25:50 – What the institutions want, and the four things they are optimizing for 26:40 – Pond money versus river money 27:45 – The blackjack cheat sheet the dealer hands you for free 28:50 – The conventional model in one paragraph 30:50 – Where did 65 come from, and why is it a goal at all 32:25 – The Social Security incentive trap 33:35 – The generation that struck gold on the timeline of history 36:10 – Asset price inflation is not value creation 37:10 – A proposal: let our generation take the hit 40:40 – On spending it all and leaving nothing behind 44:15 – The Waiting List, and what you would actually trade for your children 48:55 – Back to the model: predict the future 50:20 – What will tax rates be in thirty years 53:40 – If taxes double, does your plan survive 53:55 – The family budget slide and what it actually is 59:35 – 1988 prices and the case against linear inflation 1:02:50 – How long will you live, and the barrel of water on the island 1:05:35 – Market performance as a load-bearing assumption 1:06:45 – Closing segmentKey TakeawaysThe conventional plan is a stack of predictions dressed as a strategy. When you retire, what tax brackets look like decades out, what inflation does to the cost of a car or a house, how long you live, and what the market returns over the accumulation window.

After an annual physical reveals that her cholesterol is trending in the wrong direction, Monica gets an important reminder: business owners cannot separate their health from the health of their businesses. Entrepreneurs protect equipment, monitor finances, track sales, and create systems to prepare for problems, but they may postpone the very things that protect their own well-being.In this episode, Monica shares why preventative care deserves a place in every entrepreneur's business strategy. She explores the connection between personal health, leadership, and business continuity while challenging business owners to put themselves back on their priority lists.Episode Quote: Being healthy is a success that many people forget to celebrate. ~ OurMindfulLife.comQuestions answeredWhy should personal health be part of a business continuity plan?What can preventative healthcare teach entrepreneurs about monitoring their businesses?How can business owners prioritize health when everything feels urgent?What example does an always-working leader set for a team and family?Where can entrepreneurs start if they have been putting their health last?Helpful Entrepreneurial Resources from Become Your Own Boss⁠Take the SIMPLE Life AssessmentSign Up for the ⁠Level Up Living Newsletter⁠⁠KICKSTART YOUR BUSINESS PROGRAM⁠⁠⁠Monica's FREE ebook⁠⁠: 11 Essential Secrets for Small Business SuccessGet your⁠ ⁠Become Your Own Boss Planner⁠⁠Your business needs a healthy boss behind it. Listen to this episode for a reminder to protect the person who built the business in the first place. Then subscribe to Become Your Own Boss, leave a rating and review, and share the episode with another entrepreneur who needs this message.

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Being great at running a company does not make anyone a market oracle. Don and Tom unpack the money regrets of successful CEOs—and the costly confidence that often follows success.They draw the line between business skill and investment skill, explain why financial literacy matters, and make the case for diversification over hindsight, stock-picking games, and concentrated bets.Then they turn to listener questions on catching up at 43, investing a church endowment, an underperforming robo portfolio, and where stock dividends should go near retirement.Topics03:46 CEOs, money regrets, and false confidence08:10 Financial literacy without the stock-picking game10:21 Tesla hindsight and the bets we didn't make11:41 Asset allocation and the cost of being too conservative15:20 Business owners and concentration risk17:48 Catching up on retirement saving at 4321:22 A 60/40 church endowment with a 2.5% draw23:12 When a robo portfolio badly trails the market25:35 Dividends, bonds, and rebalancing near retirementQuestions? Comments? Click!

I've been digging into mobile home park investing for some personal initiatives lately, so this was a genuinely selfish interview for me. My guest, Brad Johnson, is the co-founder and CIO of Vintage Capital, and he's got the kind of resume that makes you want to just sit back and ask questions: 20 years across traditional and alternative asset classes, over $3.3 billion in commercial real estate acquisitions closed, and a rare perspective as both a former mobile home park operator and a current capital allocator in the space. We started with his own jump from Wall Street, leaving a real estate investment bank in his mid-30s, right after having his first kid, because manufactured housing showed the highest cash flow yields paired with the lowest default rates he'd ever seen, a combination that shouldn't exist but does. From there we got tactical: what makes mobile home parks structurally different from other real estate, why owning the infrastructure instead of the homes themselves changes your entire profit margin, and the specific due diligence checklist Brad runs on every deal, from market-level home price ratios down to road and utility conditions. We also got into the money side that most people never hear about: seller financing on smaller parks, how mom-and-pop sellers with decades of depreciation often want creative structuring more than a cash-out, and the accelerated depreciation tax benefit tied to land improvements that can hand investors an outsized first-year tax loss. Brad closed with a stat that stuck with me: the major players in this space have never had a negative year of net operating income growth in 25 years, a steady 5% annual compound that's almost unheard of in a normally cyclical asset class. If you've ever driven past a mobile home community and wondered whether there was real money in it, or you're already investing creatively and want to know how this niche fits into a three paydays approach, this conversation is worth your full attention.   Key Talking Points of the Episode 00:44  Introducing Brad Johnson, co-founder and CIO of Vintage Capital 01:04  Brad's 20 years across traditional and alternative asset classes, and $3.3 billion in acquisitions 02:05  Why Brad chose real estate over Wall Street securities: insider knowledge and lower volatility 03:15  Discovering manufactured housing's unusual combination of high yield and low default rates 03:33  Leaving a W-2 in his mid-30s, right after his first child, to buy mobile home parks 05:19  Advice for high income earners stuck and afraid to leave their W-2 07:23  Why mobile home parks structurally have low default rates and declining supply 08:35  Why owning the infrastructure instead of the homes creates higher profit margins 09:42  Park sizes Vintage Capital focuses on: the 50 to 150 pad middle market 11:53  Key due diligence: market-level home prices, population stability, and infrastructure condition 16:20  The accelerated depreciation tax benefit tied to land improvements and infrastructure 17:33  Why Vintage Capital partners with local operators and avoids anti-landlord states 19:34  How seller financing shows up in mobile home park deals, and why 22:08  A real community story: a woman who focused on free-and-clear parks for creative financing 23:12  Why clustering smaller parks into a regional portfolio creates arbitrage opportunities 24:32  How to reach Brad and Vintage Capital directly 25:37  The stat that stands out: 25 years without a single negative year of NOI growth   Quotables "If I don't do it now, I'm never going to do it." "You can and should operate with the utmost confidence… it doesn't matter if you're in an up, down, or sideways market." "The major players in our space have never had a negative year of NOI growth… a steady compound at 5% per year."   Links Vintage Capital — Brad's mobile home park investment firm and educational resources — https://vintage-funds.com   3 Paydays® Live https://3paydayslive.com/podcast   Free Discovery Call https://smartrealestatecoachpodcast.com/discovery   3 Paydays® System Mastery Course - Use coupon code for 50% off https://smartrealestatecoach.com/qls Coupon code: pod   Apprentice Program https://3paydaysapprentice.com Coupon code: Podcast   Masterclass https://smartrealestatecoach.com/masterspodcast   3 Paydays Books https://3paydaysbooks.com/podcast   Partners https://smartrealestatecoach.com/podcastresources

Brad Stevens, Founder and CEO of Outsource Access, joins Spaghetti on the Wall to share the entrepreneurial lessons behind scaling a 500+ employee global business, building powerful referral partnerships, and navigating the failures that ultimately shaped his success. Brad also dives into AI, automation, delegation, remote teams, and why entrepreneurs need to embrace disruption instead of running from it.Connect with Brad StevensFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/outsourceaccess/Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bradstevens444/?hl=enYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@OutsourceAccessLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradstevens44Website: https://outsourceaccess.com/

Chris Pierce and Sean Graham talk about how the future of bonus depreciation is here, and it's a permanent game-changer for property investors. They explore how the recent tax laws, like the reintroduction of 100% bonus depreciation in mid-2025 can accelerate your write-offs and boost your bottom line. Sean Graham, owner of Maven Cost Segregation, reveals how timing your cost segregation study, leveraging Form 3115, or planning ahead for recapture taxes can unlock significant savings and flexibility for your portfolio. Don't miss the insider tips on how to navigate complex rules, avoid costly mistakes, and leverage strategies like lazy 1031s and step-up-in-basis inheritance planning to defer taxes legally and keep more money working for you. Sean Graham, CPA Maven Cost Segregation Tax Advisors Based in: Detroit Metropolitan Area Where to find them: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sean-graham-cpa/ mavencostseg.com Chris Pierce Account Executive of Maven Cost Segregation Tax Advisors Based in: Salida, Colorado Where to find them: https://www.linkedin.com/in/pierce-christopher/ Book your free demo today at bill.com/bestever and get a $100 Amazon gift card. Visit https://malabarhillcapital.com/ for more info. Podcast production done by⁠ ⁠Outlier Audio Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices