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Biz Mafia : Where Business Gets Made

Bryan Taylor and Pat Linden

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Welcome to the BizMafia Family, an exclusive society where business legends and industry captains gather for compelling sit-down conversations. As you take your oath, remember: it’s not personal—it’s business. Immerse yourself in the raw and unfiltered narratives of tenacious visionaries who climbed the ranks by out-hustling and outmaneuvering their rivals—leaving them sleeping with the fishes. Each episode reveals stealth insights from these proven titans, crafted for gritty entrepreneurs o ...
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Welcome to the ”An Optimistic Future: Our Actions Matter” podcast, where we explore the incredible power of individual actions to shape our collective future. In each episode we delve into important social, environmental, and economic issues, and discover how everyday choices can make a world of difference. From insightful discussions and expert interviews, we are compiling a list of simple steps we can all take to effect positive global changes. Together, through conscious choices and meani ...
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Step into the real-life world of entrepreneurship, where success isn't handed to you on a silver platter, but earned through the gritty embrace of challenges – pivotal stepping stones for learning, growth, and ultimate triumph. The time has come to unleash your complete entrepreneurial potential. In this riveting sit-down, we're joined by the seria…
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An interview with Amy Hill, owner and operator of Snowy River Farms in Cooksbrook, Nova Scotia. She discusses the myriad benefits of supporting small farms, ranging from economic to environmental to personal health promotion. Snowy River Farms website: https://www.snowyriverfarms.com/ Snowy River Farms Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/snowyrive…
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Welcome to the BizMafia Family, an exclusive society where business legends and industry captains gather for compelling sit-down conversations. As you take your oath, remember: it’s not personal—it’s business. Immerse yourself in the raw and unfiltered narratives of tenacious visionaries who climbed the ranks by out-hustling and outmaneuvering thei…
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We're going to talk today about four different things. We're going to lead off with annuities. When we talk to new clients, and we talk to people who listen to the show, the feedback is everyone's heard about annuities, and everyone's heard about CDs. It's because it's what banks do. It's safe. It's a reasonable return, and there are expectations t…
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We are here every Saturday morning during the seven o'clock hour. We like to talk finance. Normally we come in here every weekend, and we like to discuss four or five topics that fill the hour. We're going to do something a little different this morning, and we hope you stick around for it. We've compiled a list of over 50 questions that we've gott…
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We are going to talk about four different things today. Each one of them is going to be about 15 minutes, so we'll take up a little bit of time on each topic. First, we're going to get into sectors of the market and investing within sectors. It helps you pick a sector within the market that gives you a little more general insight. We're going to ge…
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We are here every Saturday morning at the same time to talk about finance, financial wealth, and understanding and managing your portfolio, whether you do it yourself, or you happen to be a fan of Rigg Wealth Management or anybody else out there. We want to help you understand that there's proactive stances and actions you can take to make yourself…
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I want to cover a couple of things that we're going to talk about today. Our segments are going to be the stock market being up and down, how much do we need to pay attention. Some horror stories, some dos and don'ts. Our third segment's going to be, "How much money do I need to retire?" We're going to end up with teaching our kids and families abo…
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We've got four segments that we're going to talk about and fill today. The first one is what to do if you're in your 30s. Is it too late? Of course, it's not too late, because we talk about how time is the best thing you can have on your side when saving. We're going to talk about, "What if you're 35, and what can we do?" The second segment, we're …
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Now, that fall is here we wanted to bring everybody back in for one big round table discussion. Again, welcome WRR listeners. We are here again to talk about financial strategies and financial management. Our show is different. There's a lot of other financial shows on the airwaves here in Dallas?Fort Worth, but we really don't do the hard sell. We…
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Today, we're going to capture that essence. Normally we have a full segment, 10, maybe 11, 12 minutes of a particular topic. Today, we're going to change it up a little bit. We've got some questions from some of our listeners, emailed as well as voice mails. We're going to go down through a nice list of questions that people have asked about stocks…
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What is Your Risk Appetite? We're going to occupy the hour with four topics. We're going to start out with the topic of how to measure one's risk. What's the risk appetite? It's different for every single person, so we're going to talk to Bryan about that. Speaking of world politics and stuff, world history and its influence on investing. That'll b…
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Doing nothing is the decision not to do something, and that gets you nowhere in a hurry. We just try and remind you that doing something, as little or as big as it may be, doing something is the proper plan. We're here each week at this time, right here on WRR, to talk about the terms and the vocabulary, because the fear of the unknown and not talk…
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Today, we're going to capture that essence. Normally we have a full segment, 10, maybe 11, 12 minutes of a particular topic. Today, we're going to change it up a little bit. We've got some questions from some of our listeners, emailed as well as voice mails. We're going to go down through a nice list of questions that people have asked about stocks…
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We're here to talk about financial management, savings, and planning for retirement, but really, it's about how to be frugal, how to invest properly, and how to have more money than when you start. A lot of people, as we've talked about before, just don't understand the financial realm. It's not a language we all speak. Sometimes it's just as forei…
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Bryan Rigg is our wealth professor. This is "Wealth Strategy with Bryan Rigg." We are here at this same time every weekend to talk to you about financial management and running your own world with your own finances. Sometimes you need some help. A lot of times you need help. We're here every week to talk the finance talk, but not in the vocabulary …
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We've got some segments we're going to burn, but first, we're going to talk about politics and examples of what's being so impactful in politics, the pros and the cons, and why politics can be such an influence on not just the economy but the market. Then we're going to talk about banks as a method of investing. Everyone has a checking and savings …
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Today we're going to hit on a few topics that I think you'll find interesting. We're going to talk about savings plans for college education, then we're going to roll into some big mistakes that people make in saving for retirement. Later in the show, after the bottom of the hour, we're going to deal with the cost of healthcare after retirement. Ho…
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What we're talking about today is leading off we'll talk about stocks and bonds. Now, you hear the words stocks and bonds together, but we're going to talk about how they're actually different. We're going to talk about what it's like to save at 55. Is it really too late to start planning if you happen to be in your mid 50's? The answer is no, but.…
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Folks, we're glad you're with us here for the next hour. I want to say thank you for letting us contribute to part of your day. We are here every weekend at this time. It is the weekend. It's a great weekend. We're looking forward to having you with us. We're going to talk about a few topics today. We're hitting on four in particular we think you m…
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Coming up today, we're going to talk about stock markets being up and they're down. Is it anything to worry about? Do we need to watch and worry about it? We'll also talk about what banks ?? what they do with our money when we give it to them for savings and checking. We talked off air about what we do with our kids, and how we raise our families, …
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