Episode Description
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You've been told to treat the business you work for like it's your own.
Alex thinks that advice is doing quiet damage — and he's arguing it as
the business owner who could be the one saying it.
Alex and Bindi work through the difference between your profession and
your business. Your profession is what you're paid for. Your business is
what happens to the money afterwards — and almost nobody is running it.
It's a conversation about where the effort goes, what advice is actually
worth, and how to build the team that makes the decisions you only get a
handful of chances to get right.
In this episode:
- Why "treat it like it's your own" lets business owners off the hook for
leading — and lets employees off the hook for managing their money
- The three ways a business owner gets paid, and why building a
retirement on the third one is a gamble
- What a high-paying corporate career actually robs from you (it isn't
lifestyle, and it isn't housing)
- Buffett's punch card — and why Alex thinks you get five real wealth
decisions, not ten
- Pick the asset class first, then the professional — the order most
people get backwards
- What a wrong decision costs when you don't find out for twenty years
- Bindi's zoom-out technique: make up a position and put yourself in it
- Barbecue Chats: your discount is locked in, your base rate isn't —
what a rate move before settlement really does to you
Next episode: Ryan Gilbank on risk management as a muscle you grow, and
what "enough" actually looks like.
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