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MMM #5: Recovering From Financial Mistakes

Life can be messy, and so we don’t want to curate the personal finance world.  We all make mistakes, even those of us who live and breathe personal finance.  Yet, in many places it feels like the message is “look at how perfect I am; you can be perfect, too!”  In this episode, we will dispell this myth by discussing financial mistakes we can all learn from and how to recover from those financial mistakes, too.

What You’ll Learn from Recovering From Financial Mistakes?

Set for Life InsuranceFinancial mistakes don’t have to be the end of the world. We can learn a lot from them, including everything you can anticipate learning from this episode:

  • Steps to recover from financial mistakes.
  • Unnoticed subscription services eating away at your monthly cash flow.
  • Examples of investing mistakes, including active investing techniques.
  • How smart people can reason their way to bad financial decisions, even after you know better.
  • Our thoughts on commodities like gold and silver as hedges against the economy.
  • Student loan mistakes during training.
  • How multiple income streams and emergency funds can protect you from some financial mistakes.

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This Episode’s Sponsor

This episode’s sponsor is Jamie Fleischner from Set for Life Insruance, which is one of the nation’s top independent brokerages specializing in life and disability insurance for physicians and professionals. Since 1993 they have worked with thousands of clients finding the most suitable products at the greatest discounted price.

Jamie has been a long time sponsor at The Physician Philosopher, and I’ve never heard a single bad review from my readers.  So, if you need a term-life insurance or disability policy, you can reach out to Jamie by calling Set for Life at 888-553-3559 or emailing her team at [email protected]

Listener Question of the Week:

Today’s question comes from Dr. Graham,

“There is so much cash out there chasing returns right now… do you think it is a good time to be investing in real estate syndicates? We know a higher return means more risk… how much risk is there in real estate syndicates?”

Each episode, we are going to start including listener questions as they are provided to us.  So, if you have a specific question you’d like answered on the podcast reach out to us!  Email [email protected] or [email protected]

TPP

1 Comment

  1. FiPhysician

    Thanks for mentioning my question… but you didn’t really address the second part. How much risk is there in syndication now with all the money chasing after returns?

    And maybe I was noticing more syndication deals because of blogger’s sponsor deals. But where my question came from is private equity and family offices are no longer finding good Real Estate deals (the “smart” money), so how is a syndicate to have a good deal?

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