The Prosperity Podcast

Our hosts are back in this episode to answer all your life insurance questions on this episode of The Prosperity Podcast. “No BS Money Guy,” Todd Strobel, and best-selling financial author, Kim D. H. Butler instruct listeners in Life Insurance 101. They answer questions, clarify differences between types of life insurance, and give listeners advice. Todd and Kim explain the different ways we can use life insurance, and which types are the most ideal for different situations. This truly is a life (insurance) lesson you won’t want to miss.

To those who think that financial advising and financial planning are the same thing, Kim Butler says otherwise. In this episode of The Prosperity Podcast, “No BS Money Guy,” Todd Strobel and Kim D. H. Butler, best-selling financial author, clear the murky air in this area and set straight the differences between financial advising and planning. Our hosts point out the impossible problems of financial planning and the traps it creates for us. They also talk about how financial advising is different and WHY it works better than financial planning to build wealth and prosperity.

In this episode of the Prosperity Podcast, “No BS Money Guy,” Todd Strobel and best-selling financial author, Kim D. H. Butler talk about the different types of financial advisers that exist and the pros and cons of each type. They answer questions about which type of adviser is the most beneficial for various situations and how to decide which is best for your situation. Our hosts answer the question about free financial advice and whether or not the phrase “you get what you pay for” rings true in those types of situations. Referring to insurance, Todd and Kim remind us that investments are not our only way toward gaining financial stability and growth.

Picking up where they left off last episode, “No BS Money Guy,” Todd Strobel and best-selling financial author, Kim D. H. Butler, resume talking about life insurance and how we can use it for our benefit before our death. Todd and Kim discuss two different working examples of how we can utilize our death benefits during our lifetime. They present the pros and cons of various life insurance policy options and make recommendations on which they believe would be in our best interest. We are encouraged by the hosts to not wait until death to use our insurance to benefit others, but rather to give while we live.

Together again, “No BS Money Guy,” Todd Strobel, and best-selling financial author, Kim D. H. Butler, take on the topic of the hidden tax. It’s a sleepy stealth tax that erodes our savings and injures our earning potential. The hidden tax they refer to in this episode is the well talked about issue of inflation. With an open transparency, Todd and Kim discuss this hidden tax and tell us what the government doesn’t want us to know about who it is benefiting. They teach us about the cautions of lifestyle inflation and give us tools to help us navigate through each of these sly and concealed financial thieves.

What is it you want to accomplish with your money? Is what you’re doing with your dollars helping to make that happen? Join “No BS Money Guy” Todd Strobel and bestselling financial author, Kim D.H. Butler as they discuss the power of focus and help you to know whether or not your financial actions are serving toward reaching your financial goals. When investors try to be fence sitters, they can end up spreading themselves too thin and falling off the fence. Todd and Kim discuss how putting some money firmly on each side of the fence can stabilize us and help prevent a nasty financial tumble. Looking outside the stock market, the two hosts help listeners know how to change the things they can control to produce the best and most immediate financial results.

You’ve heard what the 7 Principles of Prosperity are, now how do you use them to maximize your money? In this episode of The Prosperity Podcast, “No B.S. Money Guy,” Todd Strobel and best-selling financial author, Kim D. H. Butler, teach you just that. Using a real life example, Todd and Kim put the 7 Principles of Prosperity to work and show you how to apply these principles, and employ them to monopolize the growth of your money. Breaking it down, principle by principle, Todd and Kim explain how each of these 7 concepts present themselves in the example of a first lien mortgage situation. They explain the thought process behind using each principle as an opportunity filter to evaluate this first lien mortgage. They determine the candidacy of the mortgage as a potential investment and evaluate its potential for prosperity.

Picking up where they left off last episode, Kim D. H. Butler joins “No BS Money Guy” Todd Strobel, in discussing the remaining 4 principles of the 7 Principles of Prosperity. Kim and Todd start the episode off by reminding us of the first 3 principles, think, see, and measure, and briefly recapping details and applications of these 3 principles. Continuing on, Kim then introduces the remaining 4 principles; flow, control, move, and multiply; going into detail about what these principles are, and what they mean for us. She provides us with strategies, involving these principles, to help us more fully utilize our money and maximize our prosperity potential. After Kim briefly reviews with us the 7 principles, Todd recounts two real-life client examples to help illustrate how using these principles can help us be more financially prosperous and have money flexibility. He then compares that to a story illustrating how ignoring these principles can cause fiscal hurt and restrict our financial freedom.

Bestselling author, Kim D. H. Butler and Todd Strobel sit down to talk prosperity, and discuss strategies to help us reach that lofty goal. Kim shares with us how to get our dollars to do what we want them to, by sharing what prosperity means to her, and how to utilize that kind of mental state. Kim and Todd discuss the differences between Scarcity and Prosperity and the potential benefits of recognizing continuous potential for more resources. We learn how we can experience prosperity without taking away from someone else. Todd and Kim tell us about how we don’t have to take greater risks with our money in order to experience prosperity; we don’t have to settle and deal with risk tolerance. They introduce us to the 7 principles of prosperity and review with us the first three: think, see and measure. 0:17 – Introduction with Todd Strobel 1:21 – Kim D. H. Butler’s take on the word prosperity. 3:10 – Prosperity versus scarcity. 6:22 – Isn’t prosperity related to risk? 10:20 – Introducing the 7 principles of prosperity. 10:30 – Principle number one: think. 13:51 – Principle number two: see. 16:32 – Principle number three: measure. (Opportunity cost) 18:42 – Questions? Reach out to us! 20:44 – Wrapping it up.

Join No BS Money Guy Todd Strobel and Co-Host Best Selling Author Kim Butler. On this we show we often refer to the opportunity cost associated with a particular action or inaction. What is the long term cost of a bad habit? These costs include physical, social and emotional as well as financial! These bad habits include: Obvious-Smoking, drinking or drugs . Not so Obvious-Procrastination, video games, shopping, competitive life style purchases, etc. Can You Think of More Examples? The earlier we can correct bad habits the more time we have to recover lost opportunity cost.

Today No BS money Guy Todd Strobel and Best Selling Author Kim Butler will continue their discussion on the strategies and investment options available to accredited investors.

We drive on highways and bridges mostly without tolls, receive healthcare with little or no personal payment,access TV, Radio and internet programs without cost,and the poor have the highest standard of living in history. What other examples can you think of? Just because we do not pay the value of the services we use does this mean there is no cost? Is there such a thing as truly Free products and services? If not who ultimately pays the cost and can this model be sustained in the near and distant future? Join NO BS Money Guy Todd Strobel and Best Selling Financial Author Kim Butler as they investigate The True Cost of Free!

People believe that being a business owner is risky, but I believe that having only ONE source of income – ONE source that can be terminated at any time (typically by ONE person) – is the real risk. -Best Selling Financial Author Kim Butler Join No BS Money Guy Todd Strobel and Best Selling Financial Author Kim Butler as they look at the past, present and future of owning your own business.