#056. Today's guest is Tom Karadza. Tom is the co-founder of Rockstar Real Estate Inc, a real estate brokerage focused on helping investors in the Greater Toronto and Golden Horseshoe areas create income to live life on their terms. Tom is also the co-host of The Your Life! Your Terms! Show, where he chats about real estate, business building, the economy, bitcoin, monetary policy, nutrition, fitness and anything else to help us all live life on our own terms.

Tom shares spending time in Croatia, growing up as a child and how it shaped his views on how money works. We dive into his unconventional path, from corporate world to entrepreneur. Tom shares strategies of how parents can talk to their kids about money, and tangible examples of what he does with his kids to help them learn about money, as well as transfer info and knowledge to them. We also talk about financial freedom, and his three bucket strategy for achieving it. We dive deeper into a few of those buckets, including bitcoin, and how owning some real estate can be a beautiful thing - because of leverage to achieve higher returns to stay ahead of our currency debasement. And two, how that same property can change over the years, based on the different strategies you can deploy for that same piece of real estate, in his example, a regular boring single family home.

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#055. Today's guest is Jess Bryan. Jess is the founder and CEO of Future Empowered, a company that combines critical skills of money and communication to empower individuals including millennials, women and teens to create financial freedom, security and independence. We chat about impactful lessons about money Jess learned through her childhood. We discuss the unique trio of formative money perspectives that influenced her growing up. Jess talks about the reasons she created Future Empowered, what inspired her to get into teaching, and how she started mixing in financial literacy with teaching her courses. We discuss the benefits of using a Classroom Economy system. And we discuss strategies on how to teach teenagers to become financially independent adults and how to set them up for success. As well as strategies that millennials should take to build a strong financial foundation.

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#054. Today's guest is John Bromley. John is the founder and CEO of Charitable Impact, an innovative giving platform that has facilitated Billions in charitable donations. We chat about the biggest problem in the charitable sector today, what inspired him to start Charitable Impact and how it is built to provides tools and support for the donor. We discuss how how we can grow our children’s financial literacy through their charitable allowance functionality, which allows our kids to not only see how charitable giving is modelled by us as parents, but also empowering them to experience making decisions around giving. And we talk bout the future of charitable giving.

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#053. Today's guest is Chris Larsen. Chris has been investing and managing real estate for 20+ years and absolutely loves helping investors become financially independent through RE. We chat about real estate, how he set a goal for FI from his early 20’s to become FI within 15 years and how he helps investors get on their path to FI through passive investing. We also spend a fair amount of time chatting about how we as parents can raise our kids to be financially confident. Chris co-wrote a book called No Problem Parenting, Raising Your Kids with More Confidence and Less Fear. And we get into a whole host of strategies he uses with his kids, including how he involves them in his real estate and car wash businesses. And how you can use those same strategies to teach your kids about money with one of the most impactful ones really normalizing conversations about money with our kids. He also has great free resources for parents on how we can teach our kids to be money pros.

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#052. Today’s guest is Jeff McLean. We discuss Jeff’s recently published book “Hedgie’s Bitcoin Story” to help kids learn about money and the evolution of money over time and where it is heading. We hone in on the concept of value, and how his book makes the connection between value and money for kids. We discuss bitcoin, what it is, what it represents, and how it is an option and a path to fighting the currency debasement that is happening in our society today. We also discuss Jeff’ entrepreneurial activities and businesses, the reason why he became an entrepreneur and some of the lessons we can pass along to teach our kids.

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#051. Today’s guest is Maya Corbic. We discuss Maya’s most recently published book to help kids learn about investing and why she decided to write it, We cover the the beauty of compounding and how kids can use the luxury of time to their advantage. We debunk some investing myths and talk about the most important message for kids about investing. We learn options that kids have to invest in and how it depends on your risk profile and how we can take advantage of the lazy way of investing to achieve our goals.

We debunk investing jargon, and discuss investing goals we should be teaching our kids, both short and long term. We cover tips that parents can use to set kids up for financial success, including age appropriate activities you can do with your kids to teach and encourage them to invest.

And we close with how parents should install the right money mindset in our kids from an early age, including how we should be aware of our money mindset and ensuring we don’t pass on our mindset to them, if it doesn’t serve them.

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#050. Today’s guest is Brian Page. We discuss money lessons Brian received during childhood, why he is passionate about teaching personal finance to kids, and challenges he faced as a teacher talking about money in the classroom. We discuss important money skills we should be emphasizing and how and when to create environments that parents can teach values through money lessons. We discuss how to create financial incentives and lessons around back to school shopping, helping kids appreciate what they have and the importance of meeting kids where they are in their financial literacy journey.

We discuss why he founded Modern Husbands and what is his mission with building the Modern Husbands community. Plus how to effectively have money conversations between spouses, who grew up with different money stories and how to set up systems that make good habits automatic and bad habits harder.

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#049. Today’s guests are Aziz and Mariyah Kaderbhai. We discuss their “More To Give” initiative, which they started and implemented in every part of their business. They give back not only dollars, but also give back generously with their time. They have a launched a free program called Beyond Success that delivers financial literacy education, targeting kids in schools that are most in need.

We talk about their investing journey, how it has evolved while they continue to work full-time, and the importance of building a team. We share how we have gotten our kids discussing or involved in our real estate. We talk about their partnership with Canada’s first education bank and the financial literacy workshops they run for them.

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