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2021/03/26
Latest episode
2025/12/15
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12 min.
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15 days
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A different kind of financial podcast, where money is NEVER about money.
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437 - Memories Don’t Discriminate: Don’t Let a Lack of Resources Rob You From Creating Beautiful Memories
2025/12/15
Many people are hurting financially this holiday season. Things feel tight. This can lead many families to feel defeated and throw their arms in the air when it comes to creating memories for their kids. In today’s episode, host Travis Shelton discusses how memories are memories because they are memories…..period. Memories don’t require a large financial investment to be valuable. Instead, all that’s required is intentionality and creativity. Wherever you are financially this holiday season, don’t let it hold you back from creating some of the best memories ever.
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436 - Closer Than You Think: Why You’ve Probably Made More Investing Progress Than You Believe
2025/12/08
We invest, invest, invest, and invest some more, only to look at our numbers and get frustrated by little progress we’ve made. Sound familiar? It’s common for people to experience immense frustration and fatigue about 10 years into their investing journey, sometimes leading to apathy….or quitting altogether. Did you know that $100,000 is 1/3 of the way to $1M? It sounds ridiculous, but it’s true. In today’s episode, host Travis Shelton discusses why you’re probably closer to your goals than you think, and if so, why it should only embolden you to keep fighting.
Blog post about this topic (including the chart): https://www.travisshelton.com/blog/closer-than-you-think
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435 - Reverse Engineering Our Obituary: Starting With the Desired End in Mind
2025/11/24
We’re all going to die. Yeah, morbid, we know. What will your obituary say about you? In today’s episode, host Travis Shelton talks about the exercise of writing our own obituary. What do we want to be remembered for? What impact do we want to make on this world? How do we want the end of the story to read? Then, once we do that, we reverse engineer it; work our way backwards to fill in the gaps between today and when that obituary will be published. Yes, it’s weird. But also, yes, it can be an impactful exercise to get to the core of what we’re on this planet to do……then actually do it.
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434 - What Would You Pay For Meaning? When Meaningful Work (Initially) Requires a Pay Cut
2025/11/17
Would you take a pay cut to pursue work that would provide you with more meaning and a higher level of well-being? In today’s episode, host Travis Shelton shares the story of a friend who recently weighed this very decision, and chose meaning. His decision may be counter-cultural, but through the lens of pursuing work that matters and living a fulfilling, meaningful life, he might have cracked the code.
Podcast website: https://www.travisshelton.com/podcast
Daily Blog: https://travisshelton.com/blog
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433- More Is Never Enough: How the Curse of More Can (and Will) Hunt Us Down
2025/11/10
You know what the problem is with more? Every time we get more, more is still, well, more. In today’s episode, host Travis Shelton shares an intense story about a couple that is painfully losing the battle for more. It’s a brutal story to share, and one that far too many people can relate to, but perhaps this story can help to shift the perspective of many. We hope you enjoy.
Podcast website: https://www.travisshelton.com/podcast
Daily Blog: https://travisshelton.com/blog
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432 - Recent Does Not Mean Real: The Risk of Recency Bias When Making Decisions
2025/10/27
Whether you know it or not, there’s a hidden force at play in your life. It’s called recency bias. It’s a phenomenon where we humans place too much emphasis on recent experiences when making decisions. It’s present in all areas of our lives, but nowhere as impactful and prevalent as in our finances. We’re notorious for allowing recent events and experiences to cloud our judgment and pollute our decision-making skills. In today’s episode, host Travis Shelton discusses how this impacts our financial lives, and ways we can combat it.
Podcast website: https://www.travisshelton.com/podcast
Daily Blog: https://travisshelton.com/blog
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431 - It’s Gotta Come From Somewhere: The Art & Science of Budgeting in the Real World
2025/10/20
Budgeting is simple on paper, but we don’t live on paper. We live in a chaotic, volatile, and ever-changing world. In today’s episode, host Travis Shelton discusses how best to live in a budget when the real world decides not to cooperate with our best laid plans. It’s not easy, but it is simple.
Podcast website: https://www.travisshelton.com/podcast
Daily Blog: https://travisshelton.com/blog
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430 - Live By the Sword, Die By the Sword: The Dangers of Businesses Polarizing Their Customers
2025/10/13
We’re living in crazy times. Never before has our culture seemed so divided, so polarized. This sentiment also applies to businesses, unfortunately. In today’s episode, host Travis Shelton explores the dangers of what happens when businesses decide to adopt human beliefs, values, and polarizations. It may seem like a zero-sum game, but it’s far from it. The consequences may not be immediately evident, but they can sneak up on us before we realize it’s too late. Whether you’re a business owner, a consumer, or someone who cares about the state of our culture, we hope you take something valuable from this episode.
Podcast website: https://www.travisshelton.com/podcast
Daily Blog: https://travisshelton.com/blog
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429 - The Unfixable Mistake: The Harsh Lessons of Trying to Time the Market
2025/10/06
Buy low, sell, high, right? That’s the motto when it comes to stock market investing. One problem: It doesn’t work. It’s nearly impossible to time the right moment to buy, and even if we get lucky, it’s also nearly impossible to time the right moment to sell. In today’s episode, host Travis Shelton shares a cautionary tale from one of his “expert” investor buddies. The costs of trying to game the market are severe, and unfortunately, unfixable. Travis’s friend might have lost $400,000 (spoiler!), but you don’t have to. Let’s learn from this mistake and make sure we handle our own investments with more wisdom, patience, and confidence.
Podcast website: https://www.travisshelton.com/podcast
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428 - It’s Just Money: Why We Can (and Should) Make Some Decisions That Hinder Our Finances
2025/09/22
Have you ever intentionally made a decision that hinders your finances? Good! That’s great news! It means there are more important things in life than money. In today’s episode, host Travis Shelton shares his controversial perspective about how the mission should matter more than the money. Sometimes, in order to pursue the mission (and the meaning behind it), we must make decisions that will inevitably hinder our own personal finances. And that’s a good thing!
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427 - The Bar Has Never Been Lower: Your Opportunity to Make An Impact Has Never Been Greater
2025/09/15
It seems like our culture has grown accustomed to mediocre. We’ve normalized bleh. It almost feels like every time we engage with a business and they hit a home run, we’re shocked. We didn’t expect that. We expected to be let down like every other time. In today’s episode, host Travis Shelton discusses why the bar is so low today, and how that has created countless opportunities for each of us to step into the gap. Let’s step up and raise the bar together!
Podcast website: https://www.travisshelton.com/podcast
Daily Blog: https://travisshelton.com/blog
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426 - Sometimes, the Only Prescription Is More Income
2025/09/08
In the personal finance world, experts are typically keen to recommend all sorts of cutting, saving, hacks, and frugality. Don’t get us wrong, all of these have value! However, sometimes, the only prescription is more income. Sometimes, there simply isn’t enough fat to cut in order to get on the other side of our financial tensions. Sometimes, we just need to get to work. In today’s episode, host Travis Shelton explores this idea and encourages people to view life through the lens of seasons. In some seasons, we might just need to step up and increase that income.
Podcast website: https://www.travisshelton.com/podcast
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425 - Quality Over Quantity: Why Less Is More
2025/09/01
Whenever we spend money, there’s a tension in the air. Do we buy cheaper items so we have the resources to buy more, or do we focus our resources on buying fewer, but higher quality items? In today’s episode, host Travis Shelton shares why he believes quality over quantity is almost always the right answer. Not only that, but buying more expensive items is often a cheaper long-term strategy.
Podcast website: https://www.travisshelton.com/podcast
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424 - Give An Inch, Take a Mile: Why We Self-Sabotage Our Own Best Interests
2025/08/25
For more than four years, we produced two episodes per week.....like clockwork. 419 episodes in a row without a single miss. Then, something happened. We decided to skip one episode, which led us to take a week off, which led us to take two weeks off, which eventually led us to take nearly three months off. If we give ourselves an inch, we'll take a mile. In today's episode, host Travis Shelton discusses the dangers of excuses and justifications. If we're not careful, even giving ourselves an inch of excuse can cause a snowball of failure.
We're glad to be back, and we hope you enjoy!
Podcast website: https://www.travisshelton.com/podcast
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423 - Too Many Flourless Cakes: The Value of Work In a Society That Glorifies Leisure
2025/05/28
If sugar is what makes cake taste good, why don’t we just replace all the flour with more sugar? It would taste like crap, that’s why. However, we live in a culture that continually tells us that we should replace the flour in our lives with more and more sugar. In today’s episode, host Travis Shelton explores the idea of finding a healthy balance of sugar (leisure and fun) and flour (work, purpose, and impact) in our lives. Just as we don’t want a life full of just flour, neither should we pursue a life of just sugar. We don’t need to be flourless cakes.
Podcast website: https://www.travisshelton.com/podcast
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Runtimerev 2024/03/20
Travis has changed my future!
I'm working with Travis on a monthly basis as my financial coach. My financial life was rough before I started working with Travis. I'm now out of deb...
MelRamsey 2023/10/25
Great Listen and Great Financial Information!
I love that the financial tips are all simple and applicable to any budget. I think the ideas are genius especially the sinking funds. Sometimes there...
Spencer177777777 2022/10/21
A positive light
This is a really positive podcast! Love how it shines a light for financial hope in a world of darkness. There is good knowledge in here to get throug...
Becka_Brandmeyer 2022/04/27
Meaningful Content
Great topics and the perfect length to listen to for practical money and life advice! Keep it going!!!
Joeyb4dass 2022/03/18
Incredible ! Highly recommend , especially newlyweds
This podcast is not only extremely well done, but Travis is an incredible man of wisdom with tons of helpful and humble insight on navigating the hard...
Future Mrs. Blanchard 2022/03/18
Relevant and Relatable
Every episode takes on relevant topics and challenges, and provides practical insight. Travis has a heart for helping people, and he shares relatable ...
jennymbell 2022/03/16
Favorite podcast!
I listen to this podcast every morning as I get ready. Travis gives such good ideas and makes you rethink a lot of the ideas society has put into our ...
dandelrusso 2022/03/16
Humble an Honest
What travis brings to the table is humility, honesty, and wisdom. I’ve listened to many other people talk about money, but he by far is the most balan...
lexus 24 2022/03/16
Real and practical examples
Best financial podcast out there. Short, sweet and to the point. Budgeting made simple. I love Travis’ passion for helping people.
IOWAtoKCcyclone 2022/03/16
Excellent content!
Travis and Cole do an excellent job of debunking the myths and secrets of the financial world, all while providing advice that reorients their audienc...
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