Today we talk with Laurens about his life and creating a system for investing.
Laurens Bensdorp is the founder and CEO of Trading Mastery School and author of the book The 30 minute stock trader.
In his younger years, he traveled the world instructing white water rafting guides – growing their guiding skills and general performance, and developing contingency plans. Laurens’ training was highly demanded, and he has worked in Germany, Austria, Turkey, Israel, Dominican Republic, Costa Rica and Chile.
In 1998, Laurens started his own adventure tourism company in Mexico and successfully sold his shares in 2000.
In 2000, Laurens was hired to manage a small boutique Venture Capital company in the Netherlands. This started his career in finance and helped him discover his real passion – trading and beating the markets. He took managing all of the company’s investments, first lowering its risk profile. It was a great learning experience, but Laurens disliked the corporate environment.
From then on, Laurens devoted a large portion of his non-working hours to educating himself about trading and risk management. After years of endless studying, Laurens created a trading style that suited his personality, lifestyle, and beliefs.
He then devoted a decade of his life to developing automated, algorithm-driven trading platforms to maximize profit, while limiting risk, and keeping management time to virtually zero. From 2006 on, he had vast success trading his family’s accounts.
You can learn more at his site: https://tradingmasteryschool.com/home
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Today we have a coaching call with Ben who has experienced quite a bit of life at a young age. We are going to talk with Ben and help him put the pieces together in his life as it relates to work, business and real estate.
I would love to hear from you about future topics you would like me to cover, questions you have and any other comments. rocky@richersoul.com
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Today we chat with Kim Nicol about mindfulness and meditation. I asked Kim to be on Richer Soul because I hear from many people about fears, anxiety and stress and her methods are one way to deal with these issues.
Kim Nicol is an author, executive coach and she teaches executives and entrepreneurs to be more present, powerful, and mindful through meditation.
Visit https://kimnicol.com/ to connect with Kim and learn more about what she offers.
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In this episode I coach Jocelyn about her side business and life. She needs to find clarity and space so she spends her time how she wants. As always we have fears that prevent us from success.
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For Alex the reflection in the mirror is his biggest obstacle. He has success and doesn't realize how exceptional he already is. Alex is creating abundance in his life.
He has a strong skills and a great foundation. We learn about the power of a strong education and how critical thinking, writing clearly and the ability to communicate are very valuable. (If you have read my work you know how much I need help!) He has fun learning and what's happening.
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Today we are going to talk about fitness and what mindsets help people to achieve their fitness goals with Simon Hyun. Its amazing how much finance and fitness overlap in the principles that bring about success. Simon helps people get strong and he does it without requiring you to spend your life in the gym.
You can find Simon here https://www.simonsayslift.com/ and connect to learn more about how how to get strong. The first 10 listeners who connect will receive a complimentary fitness consultation.
Welcome to Richer Soul - Your journey to a more purposeful, intentional, amazing life. Where are you going to go and how are you going to get there? Let's figure that out together. At the core is the financial well being to be able to do what you want, when you want, how you want. It's about personal freedom! Thanks for listening!
Today's episode is a coaching call with Mary who at 61 is looking to find her purpose and passion. It just goes to show you that you are never too old to take the next step....
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On today's show we learn from Todd Tresidder who retired at 35 and has spent the last 20 years helping people to create wealth. We are going to learn how he was able to retire and then we will go deep into how to look at investing processes and creating wealth.
BIO: Todd Tresidder graduated from the University of California at Davis with a B.A. in economics and a passion for creating successful businesses. A serial entrepreneur since childhood, Todd went on to build his own wealth as a hedge fund investment manager before “retiring” at 35. He grew his net worth from less than zero at 23 to the point of financial independence just 12 years later.
Todd has maintained his wealth by remaining an active investor and utilizing statistical and mathematical risk management systems for investing. Through his website at FinancialMentor.com, he teaches advanced investing and advanced retirement planning principles. Take the next step beyond conventional financial advice and discover what works, what doesn’t, and why, based on years of proven experience.
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Today we are going to talk about my failures. I have learned from coaching others that fear and failure keep people from success. However, great people experience a lot of failures as for me inspite of a lot of financial stupidity I still achieved great success.
I want to share my mistakes so you can learn from them and hopefully avoid them yourself.
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." Thomas A. Edison
“Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” Charles Swindoll
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“Now is the time to get serious about living your ideals. How long can you afford to put off who you really want to be? Your nobler self cannot wait any longer. Put your principles into practice – now. Stop the excuses and the procrastination. This is your life! You aren’t a child anymore. The sooner you set yourself to your spiritual program, the happier you will be. The longer you wait, the more you’ll be vulnerable to mediocrity and feel filled with shame and regret, because you know you are capable of better. From this instant on, vow to stop disappointing yourself. Separate yourself from the mob. Decide to be extraordinary and do what you need to do – now.”
― Epictetus, The Art of Living: The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness and Effectiveness
Welcome to Richer Soul - Your journey to more a purposeful, intentional, amazing life. Where are you going to go and how are you going to get there? Let's figure that our together. At the core is the financial well being to be able to do what you want, when you want, how you want. It's about personal freedom! Thanks for listening!
Today we are going to talk to Doug Nordman who retired at 41 and lives in paradise spending his days wondering about the surf report while he raised a financially savvy kid. There are some amazing incites that Doug shares and you will leave having a strong plan to raise your own money savvy kids. Remember you have to start when they are young!
Doug is wonderful giving man and if you meet him I am sure he will invite you out surf with him in Hawaii. Don't forget to say thank you for his service to our country!
About Doug:
Doug ("Nords") Nordman is the author of "The Military Guide To Financial Independence And Retirement" and founder of the-military-guide.com/. All of his writing revenue is donated to military-friendly charities.
Doug and his spouse reached their financial independence in the late 1990s (on a high savings rate). He retired after 20 years with the U.S. Navy's submarine force in 2002 (at the age of 41) and his spouse is a retired Navy Reservist. They've lived in Hawaii for 28 years and he starts every day with the surf forecast. Their daughter was born and raised here, and she's watched her parents enjoy financial independence for over half of her life. Today she's on sea duty in her own Navy career and married to another active-duty spouse.
A (much longer) bio is here: http://the-military-guide.com/about/about-doug-nordman/
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Sarah Li Cain went from broke to six figures after hitting rock bottom and deciding to change her relationship with money. Sarah is willing to share that journey with us. She was quite intentional and set goals for her journey. Taking small baby steps and working her way forward.
Don't forget to check out Sarah's site highfivingdollars.com she has some great free resources for you.
About Sarah: I’m Sarah, and I’m here to get you thinking about money not just in the dollar and cents sense (haha, get it?), but the psychology behind our spending behaviors.
You know you should save more, spend less and all that, but why aren’t you following some of the great advice out there? Or you know you should invest some of your heard earned money, but are too scared to even open an investment account?
It really boils down to how we feel about money. Sounds cheesy, but it’s true. If you’ve been taught that investment is meant to be confusing and you need to learn a lot of crazy technical jargon, then that belief is going to lead you to never spend a dime on any type of investment. Or if you’re stressed and trying to run away from certain problems, then that stress will mostly likely manifest in your spending habits.
I learned the hard way when I ended up jobless, homeless and $9,000 in credit card over an ex-boyfriend. Through that experience I learned that being kind to myself was key to living a richer life. Once I intertwined physical, mental and financial wellness together, I was able to grow my bank account and live a much more fulfilled life (just ask my husband and adorable son).
In the end, money is a tool. But we still attach feelings and beliefs towards money. So to figure out and better our financial situation, then we need to change those feelings and beliefs.
Welcome to Richer Soul - Your journey to more a purposeful, intentional, amazing life. Where are you going to go and how are you going to get there? Let's figure that our together. At the core is the financial well being to be able to do what you want, when you want, how you want. It's about personal freedom! Thanks for listening!
Today we are chatting with Jonathan Harris who left a corporate job to start a company with his wife and kids. https://hardlotion.com/
We will explore that journey along with how he helps parents find their kids talents. http://10ktotalent.com/
If you just want to hear the second part skip to 46:20 minute mark.
About Jonathan: As a homeschooling father with nine children in the home (my oldest child is currently 18 years old), I began to earnestly look for ways to make the standard educational time more productive and worthwhile. My fear was that we were going to spend so much time perfecting educational details and still wind up getting to where we really didn’t want to be. Instead I wanted to be able to give my children an inspiration to develop early in their life a focus and a drive to cultivating something that they would eventually be very, very good at, and maybe even something that they could use to provide for themselves with a generous living.
As a result, I started experimenting with dovetailing our standard study times as a means to push my children into a deeper understanding around one chosen topic of their interest. Then I tried other ideas that were equally as successful. Because of these home-grown experimentations in education, I am discovering some great techniques and ideas along the way that I want to share with other homeschooling parents. I am doing all of this so I can guide my children into a life-long passion early enough so they can avoid wandering aimlessly in their early twenties through unfocused college degrees or low-paying market skills. Passion, focus, discipline, creativity, productivity: Why not get all those good things for our children before the age of 18? That is what I intend to do and I hope you will follow me on this exciting journey.
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Thanks for listening!
Quick tax day rant to make sure you are focused on how much you really are paying in taxes and not of how much your refund is.
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Today we are going to talk to Mike Brown from Nitro about how to make college affordable regardless of how much money you have or don't have. Too often people don't put enough thought into the cost of college and the eventual payoff from the degree in terms of income.
Nitro just launched the promised NitroScore tool, which can be accessed here: https://score.nitrocollege.com.
This new student loan calculator is structured to do all of the legwork for parents and families, allowing them to find the best school that meets their personal financial needs, in a way never available before.
For the first time, students and their families can explore how picking one college or major over another may impact their ability to repay student loans. Backed by real-world college cost data and projected post-graduation salaries, NitroScore allows students and their families to compare schools, financial aid offers, and majors to identify their most affordable option. A big step in confronting the $1.3 trillion of student loan debt we face today.
Mike Brown is managing director for Nitro, a leading resource for student borrowers on all things FAFSA, scholarships, grants, and student loans. Brown is passionate about helping people manage their college payment decisions, having first served as a professor of mathematics at Pennsylvania State University, and with 15 years in development and marketing of education programs. He currently leads a team of professionals working to provide students, families, financial professionals and others with reliable resources on how to best tackle financing a higher education and manage student debt.
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David Greer helped me to create the time and space needed to launch this podcast and juggle a few other priorities in a short period of time. Having someone to coach you and help you get stuff done is very important and we are going to learn why today.
About David Greer:
David joined Robelle Solutions Technology as the first employee after the founders. After joining Robelle, he got permission from his 4th year professors to take a week off so he could fly to an international conference to give his first ever technical presentation. During David’s tenure as co-owner and President of Robelle, he traveled the world giving a new presentation every year, creating multi-million-dollar product lines while building Robelle into one of the world’s leading provider of HP 3000 solutions.
Since successfully exiting Robelle, David has been an angel investor, director, and senior executive, always working 1-on-1 with entrepreneurs to define strategy, increase the value of the company in their markets, and defining formalized processes to drive outcomes. David now works directly with entrepreneurs to coach them to their next level of success or with entrepreneurs and their senior management teams to create high growth strategic results.
In his spare time, David enjoys the beauty, water, and mountains of the Vancouver area, while taking occasional adventure breaks with his wife, Karalee. David and Karalee are committed to their three children, spending time supporting them in the many and varied activities they are involved with, including skiing together as a family in Whistler, BC.
When not writing books, coaching, or speaking, you might find David hiking the Himalayan Mountains of Nepal or sailing across oceans.
You can find David Greer @ http://coachdjgreer.com/
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Welcome to Richer Soul - your journey to more a purposeful, intentional, amazing life. Where are you going to go and how are you going to get there? Let's figure that our together. At the core is the financial well being to be able to do what you want, when you want, how you want. It's about personal freedom and abundance.
Today we are going to chat with Kathe Kline from rockyourretirement.com about what makes for a great retirement. Kathe and I are of a similar age and it's around our generation that the rules of the previous generations for work, life and retirement changed and a new set of rules applies. I wanted to talk to Kathe because even though the rules are constantly changing we need to figure out what a happy retirement looks like especially for those of us who decide to achieve freedom early!
Kathe was a financial adviser to the middle class since 1990 and noticed that some people who had very little money were having a good time, staying healthy, and enjoying life, while some people who were very wealthy were not enjoying life and getting very sick.
She started to question What was the difference? Isn’t Retirement supposed to be all about money?
Welcome to Richer Soul - your journey to more a purposeful, intentional, amazing life. Where are you going to go and how are you going to get there? Let's figure that our together. At the core is the financial well being to be able to do what you want, when you want, how you want. It's about personal freedom.
Today we are going to chat with John, not his real name - he is a millionaire already in his 30s and his life in pretty good, however there are a few areas out of balance and we are going to explore those with John.
It's always amazing to me how the people who need help the most are least likely to ask and those who need to the least are most likely to ask.
As we see with John, money alone will not bring you happiness, you need to find balance across all areas of your life.
If you are interested in a coaching session please reach out to me - rocky@richersoul.com
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Welcome to Richer Soul - your journey to more a purposeful, intentional, amazing life. Where are you going to go and how are you going to get there? Let's figure that our together. At the core is the financial well being to be able to do what you want, when you want, how you want. It's about personal freedom.
Today we are going to chat with Joshua Sheats, MSFS, CFP®, CLU®, ChFC®, CASL®, CAP®, RHU®, REBC® at https://radicalpersonalfinance.com/. Joshua has a ton of letters after his name with regards to his financial credentials and I am going to let him tell you about all of them. Joshua is the embodiment of someone who walked away from a lucrative career to live life on his terms. Joshua lives on far less then most of us and enjoys his life in Palm Beach Florida where he can spend the day with his kids at beach and still have enough income to live the life he chooses. His podcast Radical Personal Finance is an amazing collection of in depth knowledge of various financial topics. I encourage you to check it out.
As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another. Proverbs 27:17 - Have you ever watched steel blade being sharpened? It throws off a lot of sparks and the blade being sharpened heats up quite a bit. When it's done it's sharp and quite lethal - but in order to get there it must withstand the sparks and fire just as you will need to in order to be great.
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Today we are going to talk about a bigger purpose than ourselves, the opening quote is from the bible and the key takeaway is not to do the sharpening but to accept the sharpening so you too can be great. I am not going to advocate for a religion,a particular god or particular belief system. That is for you to choose. What's more important is that you take the time to investigate, understand and as always be intentional in your choice. Most people don't understand the religious system they are part of and many have put zero thought into it because it's what their family did. I challenge you to do otherwise.
This is the last in the series laying out the foundational plan and areas for a richer more meaningful life. Episodes going forward will focus more on interviews with experts, coaching calls with people who are willing to share their struggles, and some more podcasts digging deeper into these area.
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"You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want." - Zig Ziglar
If we could first know where we are and whither we are going, we could better judge what to do and how to do it. Abraham Lincoln - so do you know where you are going financially? Have you done the math - Today I am going to teach you the 3 step secret to massive wealth.
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- Live on less then you earn
- Save the difference
- Make the money you save - grow.
- Bonus - stay out of debt
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You can't change other people, you can only change yourself and the way you react to a situation. I heard it best said that life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.