Posts in Personal Finance
GMR 180: The Amazon Phenomenon

There’s are many ways that Amazon continues to impact our lives. The benefits of ordering pretty much anything from the comfort of our home to having the item arrive at our door within hours can’t be overstated. But there’s at least one negative impact to Amazon’s influence that can harm or do serious damage to your financial health. In this episode, we discuss this Amazon phenomenon, how you can protect yourself from financial harm while enjoying the benefits.

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GMR 135: Financial Choices with Long-Term Negative Impact

Making smart financial decisions will ensure you maintain long-term financial health. Unfortunately, with the lack of basic financial education, that’s easier said than done. In this episode of GMR, we look at those financial decisions that have the most impact on our finances and give you some specifics on how to make better financial decisions.

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GMR 134: How to Experience Positive Change In Your Finances

Change is difficult! Whether you are trying to improve your finances, lose weight, or anything else, it requires a certain level of discomfort, which none of us enjoy. The biggest obstacle to change is our emotions. Because of the way we feel influences our behavior, we must understand and adapt our feelings if we stand to achieve whatever we’re after. In this episode of GMR, we discuss the five stages people move through emotionally when changing their behavior to help you experience positive change in your finances and your life.

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GMR 133: Common-Sense Reasons to Buy Insurance Coverage

You can do many things right to manage your money well and ensure a good financial future, but if you fail to add adequate insurance to your strategy, you could lose big! In this episode of GMR, we talk with Harry Stout, the author of Today’s Life Insurance - A Protection Tool for Your Future. His many years of experience in the insurance industry will help us understand the role insurance play into our financial lives, and why this one choice is so crucial to our success.

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GMR 128: Time Tested Principles for Your Finances

In the past three months, we’ve experienced historical events; from COVID 19 impacting everyone across the globe, to recent riots breaking out all over the United States and beyond. There is much uncertainty in our world today. That’s why it’s necessary to rely on time-tested financial principles when making decisions that impact your today and your tomorrows. In this episode of GMR, we discuss these financial principles that have stood the test of time so you can use them to ensure your family’s financial future.

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GMR 126: Help Us Help You!

We need your perspective! After more than 2 years of launching Getting Money Right, we’re taking a pause to ask you about the things that really matter to you. Our goal is not just to give you good information, but to also help you take action that leads to your financial and life success. To help us in providing the kind of content and support you need, we’ve developed a quick survey. Please use the following link to take the survey, and thank you for your feedback - https://forms.gle/bWdrXPbzNQ9YMset8.

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GMR 121: The Yearly Budget Tool - Does it meet the 4 Foundational Principles of A Budget?

From using personally designed Excel spreadsheets to online apps, there are plenty of budgeting tools readily available to use to manage your personal budget. Over the next few episodes, we’re going to review some of the most popular apps and tools to see how effective they are at helping you manage your money. This week, we’ll evaluate the Yearly Budget Tool to see whether it meets all four of the 4 Foundational Principles of A Budget.

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GMR 119: How Dealing with Money Problems Makes Us Better

Episode 119
At first glance, problems can be seen as frustrating, and therefore to be avoided. That's no surprise since humans naturally seek pleasure and try at all costs to prevent pain. Money problems are especially painful because a lack of money threatens so many areas of life. In this episode of GMR, we discuss how dealing with our money problems can help us not only in fixing our money problems but also in improving ourselves.

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GMR 118: CARES Act: What You Need to Know

Episode 118
The Coronavirus pandemic has had significant health and economic impact in the United States. As a way to help shore up and maintain financial stability, Congress has passed the CARES Act bill. It is designed to keep workers paid and employed, fund health care systems enhancements, and provide for economic stabilization. In this episode of Getting Money Right, we break down the specifics of the CARES Act and how it will impact you.

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