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On a recent trip, I had a little time to myself and so I loaded Netflix and watched the sobering and award-winning movie, All Quiet on the Western Front. I was completely enthralled by the story and couldn’t help but think about the many young men and women back in the trenches again, this time, […]

Housing’s spring selling season is approaching! Alchemy of Money partners with Certified Financial Planner Stephen Rifici at Ameriprise. I’ve known Stephen for a long time, and we were recently catching up about the spring market, and what real estate entrepreneurs should be expecting. CFA Chief Economist Russell T. Price put together a little outlook and […]

You have to be it. Before you can have it. Think about it. You have to be a top producer now before you receive recognition for it later. You have to be a highly profitable business owner now, creating what will eventually be realized as a wildly profitable business later. You have to be a […]

Gary Keller recently posted, “The biggest challenge we all face is learning outside our personal experience. If we don’t figure this out, we are likely to make really tough mistakes.” That quote sat with me all week and made me think: Why is it so hard to learn outside our comfort zone, what exactly is […]

Recently I went on a mindfulness retreat in Costa Rica with Tara Brach, Jonathan Foust, and Jake Tarr. It was a moving experience with 3 key themes that persisted throughout the retreat. First, the set-up. My intention for the 3 days of social silence was best captured by the poem Tara Brach read at the […]

The story goes, a traveler was on his way from the city to a mountaintop village and stopped at a waystation for some refreshment.  “Where are you headed?” asked the waystation attendant.  “To the mountaintop village because the market is saturated in the city and I need to make a living,” the traveler replied. “By […]

For years I hired from my gut. If we had good synergy, you had a more than decent shot at getting the job.  That rarely worked out. Then I dove into a formalized hiring process with multiple defined steps. It was difficult to manage but incredibly valuable in building my hiring capacity.  Now, many years […]

We engage 2023 with mixed signals. On one hand, the economy seems to have been more resilient than expected with Q3 and Q4 jobs and GDP numbers looking good, and inflation possibly starting to ease. On the other hand, the real estate market has been hammered, consumer debt is rising quickly, and layoffs are starting […]

The condition of your finances today is a reflection of your past decisions. Not your future.  Unless you continue to make the same decisions and take the same action. Then the condition of your finances today is predictive of your financial future.  No matter the state of your finances, consider it a gift. Your money […]