Cover art for podcast Listen Money Matters - Free your inner financial badass. All the stuff you should know about personal finance.

Listen Money Matters - Free your inner financial badass. All the stuff you should know about personal finance.

506 EpisodesProduced by ListenMoneyMatters.com | Andrew Fiebert and Matt GiovanisciWebsite

Honest and uncensored - this is not your father’s boring finance show. This show brings much needed ACTIONABLE advice to a people who hate being lectured about personal finance from the out-of-touch one percent. Andrew and Matt are relatable, funny, and brash. Their down-to-earth discussions about m… read more

40:51

Getting Over The Fear of Investing

Most of the scary stories you hear about people losing big in the market are from people who were trying to make a quick buck. We don’t recommend that. Investing is a long term proposition.

 

You don’t have to have a finance degree or even really understand the stock market in order to invest and make money. You also don’t need to hire someone to invest your money for you.  This is the 21st Century, we have the technology to do it ourselves. It’s time you get over the fear of investing.

 

Invest in market index funds that represent a broad swath of the market, like the S&P 500, which is a group of 500 companies which cover many aspects of the overall market.  Betterment is a great tool for this kind of investing.

 

Have a certain amount of money automatically invested every month.  The money goes in without you having to do anything.  Set it and forget it.  The market will give you an average return of about 7%.

 

Be greedy when others are fearful. When everyone else is panicking and selling low, that’s when you buy.  When everyone is going crazy buying high, be fearful in the face of their greed.  Works for Warren Buffett.

 It’s not handing over money to the market that causes mass losses.  It’s handing money over to a person.  Bernie Madoff is the most recent and most grotesque example of this. It wasn’t the market that was doing shady stuff with that money, it was Madoff.

 

The point is, just do it already!  Did you learn how to fly a plane yourself before you took your first flight?  No, you didn’t.  The same with the market.  You don’t have to understand it, you only have to do it.

Show Notes

Betterment:  The easy way for beginners to invest.

Mint:  The smart way to track your spending.

 

 

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Educational emoji reaction

Educational

Interesting emoji reaction

Interesting

Funny emoji reaction

Funny

Agree emoji reaction

Agree

Love emoji reaction

Love

Wow emoji reaction

Wow

Listen to Listen Money Matters - Free your inner financial badass. All the stuff you should know about personal finance.

RadioPublic

A free podcast app for iPhone and Android

  • User-created playlists and collections
  • Download episodes while on WiFi to listen without using mobile data
  • Stream podcast episodes without waiting for a download
  • Queue episodes to create a personal continuous playlist
RadioPublic on iOS and Android
Or by RSS
RSS feed
https://feeds-origin.megaphone.fm/listen-money-matters

Connect with listeners

Podcasters use the RadioPublic listener relationship platform to build lasting connections with fans

Yes, let's begin connecting
Browser window

Find new listeners

  • A dedicated website for your podcast
  • Web embed players designed to convert visitors to listeners in the RadioPublic apps for iPhone and Android
Clicking mouse cursor

Understand your audience

  • Capture listener activity with affinity scores
  • Measure your promotional campaigns and integrate with Google and Facebook analytics
Graph of increasing value

Engage your fanbase

  • Deliver timely Calls To Action, including email acquistion for your mailing list
  • Share exactly the right moment in an episode via text, email, and social media
Icon of cellphone with money

Make money

  • Tip and transfer funds directly to podcastsers
  • Earn money for qualified plays in the RadioPublic apps with Paid Listens