About this podcast
Welcome to "Service and Wealth" with the Military Wealth Coach! Dive into military budgeting tips, investing for military personnel, and financial planning for military families. Unlock strategies for military savings, debt management, and retirement planning. Take back control over your money, and Master Military Finance with us today!
Episodes
The newest 20 of 35 episodes
- 035 Budget Problems Solved: Introducing The iCASH System™ · 1 h 4 minTrick question (or is it?): what's the first step in budgeting? If you said "put down your income," or "list my regular expenses from biggest to smallest," you're 100 percent…
- 034 Why Budgeting Fails and Budgets Suck · 1 h 6 minIt's a real shame: budgets and budgeting apps are designed to fail. They just tell you the fun and rewarding things that you're not allowed to do! Life's too short not to enjoy…
- 033 Military Families in Financial Crisis · 57 minAmerica's military families are in trouble: --74% can't afford their housing costs on BAH alone --76% state they need more money to make ends meet --76% say they need their…
- 032 Can You Be Military and Actually Afford a Home in 2025? · 1 h 6 minIf you only read the headlines, you'd believe that there's no way you can ever become a homeowner and check off the biggest "to-do" on your way to achieving the American Dream…
- 031 Real Estate 101, Part 7 -- How Real Estate Makes You Money · 1 h 5 minIt's crazy: there are still people out there who think you can't make money in real estate! The reality is that real estate offers so many different ways to make money that it is…
- 030 Stock Market: Bubble or Not, What You Can Do to Protect Your Investments · 1 h 12 minBelieve it or not, no one can predict what will happen with the stock market -- or with individual stocks. In fact, on a daily basis, there's a 53% chance a stock will go up and…
- 029 Real Estate 101, Part 6 -- Your Millionaire Real Estate Campaign Plan · 1 h 11 minJust like working up for a deployment, at some point all the training just seems to come together and make sense. You memorized all the technical jargon in your Field Manual…
- 028 Real Estate 101, Part 5 -- The VA Loan, Your Tactical NUKE!!! · 1 h 8 minFinally, it's here . . . drumroll please . . . The Authoritative Guide to the VA Loan. If you think you already know all you need to know about the VA Loan, we guarantee that by…
- 027 Real Estate 101, Part 4 -- Financing Basics, aka the Miraculous Mortgage · 1 h 10 minIn our fourth installment of our Podcast series on Real Estate for the Military, we finish building our Financial IQ Foundation by discussing financing and mortgages. Not just…
- 026 Real Estate 101, Part 3 -- the 5 C's of Buying a Home · 1 h 6 minWelcome back for our third installment in the series of Real Estate for the Military, in which we move from crawl to walk -- and help you with some tried-and-true TTPs for making…
- 025 Real Estate 101, Part 2 -- Building Your Team · 1 h 10 minIn our second installment of the Military Wealth Coach's Service and Wealth series on real estate for the military, we build on the foundation of Part 1 in which you learned…
- (BONUS) 024 Trump 2.0, Part 2 · 50 minWe follow up last week's "post-election special" with a second round of discussion about the link between a second Trump Presidency and your life and finances in the military. In…
- 023 Real Estate 101, Part 1 - The Foundation · 1 h 3 minBuying a house -- so many words and feelings come to mind: exciting, intimidating, scary . . . and also we probably all assume it's really complex! But the feeling that it's hard…
- 022 ELECTION SPECIAL: Predicting the Impact of Trump 2.0 on Your Military Pay · 57 minPresident Trump secured the 2024 presidential election by a wide margin -- and perhaps even more significantly the Republican Party gained seats in both the Senate and House of…
- 021 Know Thine Enemy . . . The Real Deal on the TSP Lifecycle Funds · 53 minDo you know what happens when you let the military manage your TSP (Thrift Savings Plan)? You sacrifice between $1.1 and $2.6 MILLION by the time you hit retirement age. Let that…
- 020 You Have the Power to Change: Saving Money is Hard, Part 2 · 57 minWhen your investment portfolio takes a turn for the worse, how do you react? Are you a "stick it out" type -- or do you "panic sell?" Do you believe that you "got screwed by the…
- 019 It's Not Your Fault: Saving Money Is Hard, Part 1 · 1 h 9 minDid you know that your beliefs about money, saving, and investing were most likely formed when you were just 6 or 7 years old? The truth is that we imprint the beliefs and…
- 018 The Military Wealth Coach's Take on "Girl Math" (Hint: It's Not What You Think) · 1 h 4 minTikTok loves Girl Math Memes -- both those "for", and those "against." While Girl Math has nothing to do at all with math (obviously), it also has nothing to do with girls: boys…
- 017 Getting Out of the Military: What to do with Your Blended Retirement System (BRS) -- 3 of 3 · 1 h 9 minThis week we wrap up our monthlong series on the Blended Retirement System. Click the links to listen to Episode 1 and Episode 2 if you missed out. This episode is dedicated to…
- 016 How Much You Really Make, aka The Blended Retirement System's Cash Value · 53 minMost of us who leave the military before 20 years do so to chase higher paychecks in civilian jobs. And while the dollar amount printed on the check every 1st and 15th will…
