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Planning Your Moonshot
Do you know what a moonshot is? In baseball, it's a homerun that is so big that it's almost unbelievable, for Elon Musk it's colonizing Mars, for us it's building a personal finance community on four pillars, growth, design, community, and transparency. What's your moonshot? Explore it with us and let us help lead the way through personal finance, business, and personal development conversations.
Episodes
33 episodes
How You and Your Business Can Actually Benefit from Credit Cards
Today we discuss how you and your business can benefit from a strategic credit card strategy. We'll address the rise in American credit card debt, and share a success story, a personal story about using credit cards. Lastly, we will give you th...
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Handling Loneliness as an Entrepreneur
This episode of 'Planning Your Moonshot' starts with a quote from Dr. Miriam Kiermeier, emphasizing that loneliness is more about being unseen than being alone. We discuss a study by Inc. magazine revealing that the top three challenges for CEO...
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Top 3 Finance Problems for Freelancers
In this episode of 'Planning Your Moonshot,' the financial challenges faced by freelancers and contractors are tackled. Topics include strategic budgeting, establishing buffer funds, and using the 'pay yourself first' system with the 50-30-20 r...
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Managing Imposter Syndrome as a Female Business Owner
In this episode of 'Planning Your Moonshot,' host Louis Guajardo explores the concept of imposter syndrome, particularly its prevalence and profound impact on women in the business world. Featuring the story of Vincent Van Gogh and examples fro...
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Overcoming Challenges in Women Entrepreneurship
In this episode of 'Planning Your Moonshot', discussions center around common challenges faced by women entrepreneurs, including work-life balance and unequal access to capital. The episode highlights Arianna Huffington's story as an advocate f...
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How to Handle Every Role in Your Business - COO
In this episode of Planning Your Moonshot, we’re diving into the critical role of the Chief Operations Officer (COO). As a business owner, knowing the role of a COO can be pivotal to your growth. The COO is the person responsible for overseeing...
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How to Handle Every Role in Your Business - CFO
In this episode, we’ll explore the multifaceted role of a Chief Financial Officer (CFO) in a small business. As a business owner, you often wear many hats, including that of the CFO, which involves overseeing financial strategy, cash flow manag...
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How to Handle Every Role in Your Business - CMO
In this episode, we’ll delve into the multifaceted role of a Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) in a small business. As a business owner, you often wear many hats, including that of the CMO, which involves overseeing marketing strategy, brand manage...
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Properly Planning the Purchase of Your First Home
In this episode, we delve into assessing financial readiness for homeownership, starting with understanding your credit score. We discuss the significance of a high credit score for securing favorable mortgage terms and provide tips on improvin...
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How Behavioral Finance Affects Your Relationship with Money
In this episode we explore how financial beliefs formed in childhood, known as Money Scripts, influence our financial behaviors and decisions. Louis dives into the four types of Money Scripts, explaining how they shape our relationship with mon...
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Should you Start a Business in 2024?
One of the scariest parts of starting a business is actually the first steps, but ultimately once you've gone through it once it's not that difficult. In this episode of the Founder's Finances we will go over what you should consider when start...
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Financial Wellness as a Benefit for Your Employees
Financial wellness can be an extremly important benefit to your employees. In today's episode we will discuss how you can implement this benefit in your business for your employees. Educational Topics:Topic #1: What is a fr...
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It's time to start treating your business as a business
This week we discussed turning our hobbies into a business and starting to treat your business as an actual business. There are things that all business owners should be doing to differentiate their hobbies and their business. Listen to this po...
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10:43
Manage Your Wealth Like Billionaires
Step into the family office of your favorite billionaire in todays episode. Let us walk you through how they manage their wealth while also discussing a framework on how we can implement this for your wealth. Educational Topics:
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The Journey to Your First $1,000,000
Last week we took you on a journey to your first $100,000. Well this week we take you along the journey to your first $1,000,000. There's a lot of great content in here so stick around. Educational Topics:Topic #1: Wh...
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The Journey to Your First $100,000
This week we want to take you on a journey. What is that journey you ask? It's the journey to achieving your first $100,000! This is an exciting episode as it will detail why getting to the first $100,000 is so difficult to accomplish. We also ...
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Financial Advisor Admits His Biggest Financial Mistakes!
Everyone makes mistakes along their personal finance journeys, but not every financial advisor is willing to tell you theirs. In today's episode Louis brings you a couple of his biggest financial mistakes that he's made along his path. Listen t...
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Top 5 Personal Finance Mistakes
Today we're looking at the top 5 mistakes that people make when it comes to their personal finances. Have you made these mistakes before? If you have give a listen to learn why and how we can avoid these. If you haven't made these mistakes befo...
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33:16
What to do before your tax appointment
With tax day right around the corner Louis decided to make an episode so that you can go into your appointment fully prepared!Educational Topics:Topic #1: Tax advantaged accounts still allowing deductible contributionsTopic ...
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16:46
Common Business Owner Mistakes
This week Louis discusses a couple of the most notable mistakes that small business owners run into. Educational Topics:Topic #1: What are the most common mistakesTopic #2: How do we create systems to help us avoid thes...
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Creating a Banking System for your Business and Personal Finances!
This week Louis discusses the importance of creating a banking system for your personal and business finances. He discusses the aspect of each system & unique ways to set up each part of your system. Educational Topics:...
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2024 is Here, Time to Track Net Worth!
In this weeks episode Louis will go over how and why tracking to track our net worth. As the new year begins it presents us with the perfect time to begin tracking our net worth. Utilizing 2023 year end statements is the perfect place to start....
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Planning for Quarterly Taxes as an OnlyFans Creator
Join us today as Louis will discuss planning for quarterly taxes. This episode is tailored to OnlyFans model and creators, but is also applicable to other freelancers and business owners such as content creators, solopreneurs, and more. <...
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19:40
Are we doing it wrong: Lessons from how the rich invest!
Ever wondered how some the wealthiest people in the world invest? We took a deep dive into an exclusive group called Tiger21 to see how some of their members are allocating their money. The lessons we learn might not be what you expect. Give a ...
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How to Plan for the Expiration of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act Now!
Hello, everyone, and welcome to the brighter finances podcast. My name is Louis Guajardo, I am the founder of Brighter Days Planning and the lead financial planner. We would first like to thank you for taking some time out of your day to listen...
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