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How to Avoid Falling behind Financially in Your 40s
Ever feel like you are falling behind financially? Turns out, most Americans feel the same way. New job applicants are requesting no less than $80,000 per year in entry-level roles. While most families say they need over $230,000 per year to stay afloat. Boomers are entering retirement with fewer savings than anticipated. Genx is stuck in its own sandwich generation with the likelihood of another recession. While millennials are now ages 26 to 41. Life is getting financially complicated. We are all navigating through major life transitions from the global pandemic to global reversion to the mean. All this, on top of getting married (or not), going 50/50 on expenses,…
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You Need to Buy a Home, Renting is Expensive!
The narrative that “renting and investing the difference” is always better than home ownership is oversimplified and problematic. Ramit Sethi (Author, millionaire, and financial influencer) has been on a personal crusade to encourage a generation to live as perpetual renters. Why? He is a fervent believer that most people will get rich doing this. Unfortunately, he misses the mark. Let’s break it down. Return on Investments from Renting and Owning Owning a home isn’t just about the monetary Return on Investment (ROI). It’s about having a space that’s truly yours, a sanctuary where memories are made. This intangible value is irreplaceable and can’t be measured solely in financial terms. While…
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More Fables, Myths, and Financial Lessons from Short Stories
When discussing Financial literacy, it’s important to remember that we learned a lot of lessons from short fables, stories, and folklore. By the way, I didn’t write these stories. Just resharing them here to help jog memories with aha! moments. These stories were once pivotal as warnings or cautionary tales. When I was growing up Aesop Fables and Grimm Fairytales were amazingly dark. There were rarely happy endings with a heavy emphasis on life not being fair. Yet, they offered financial nuggets that stand the test of time. The Most Dangerous Financial Lessons Trusting Your Instincts A scorpion asks a frog to carry him over a river. The frog is…
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Since You Got A Degree and Know Everything!
Today 2/3 of the gang is present. Lawrence and Alainta discuss career prospects and earning higher degrees, the false expectations of dreams, and scam lives.
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Understanding the Necessity of Ownership in real life
Today we discuss the topic of black homeownership. We derived the conversation from a relator article breakdown of homeownership amongst different races and what the numbers mean for black communities moving forward.
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The Truth about Progress in the US and the Power of Bootstrapping
The crew shares the story of being called a "Bootstrapper" and how bootstrapping has influenced their lives.
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We Hit over $950,000. Time to Celebrate in Mexico!?
A massive TNFG July celebration is in order. We reached 1 Million dollars worth of Assets. What's crazy is we started off with $0 in 2012. Well here's hoping this is a start to a solid year end close out.
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While most Podcast Fail within a year, TFG Reaches its 100th Podcast Episode
The gang is back! and today there is no topic at all. LOL catching up on what we've been binging, and what's going on in the world. And congratulation on TFG's 100th plus episode.
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Ten Wealth Soft Skills that Require ZERO Talent but Boost Your Income
Success isn’t solely determined by innate abilities or degree; a greater part is shaped by your own Soft Skills. According to MBO Partners, “Soft skills are an essential part of improving one’s ability to work with others and can have a positive influence on furthering your career. If you are a small business owner or self-employed, soft skills can help you find, attract, and retain clients.” Why are soft skills important in your day-to-day life? Polished presentation skills, networking abilities, and social awareness can help you win make friends and win clients. The overall goal is to improve connections with others. Honing the ability to resolve conflicts, solve problems under stress,…
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Tracking Expenses from Year to Year. Where’s Our Money?
Tracking expenses is a difference better barely making it and becoming wealthy. It's easier once you move beyond the barely making it.
