I can’t stand negotiating. That’s why when the tree guy stopped by and offered $550 to cut down the tree I wanted nothing to do with the process….until I reframed my thought process.

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SHOW NOTES

<> Open – Getting Ready for The Short Stack this Friday! A new, short single interview podcast debuting this week.

<> Hotels.com – Save up to 50% off the published rate on a hotel room and help out the podcast.

<> Negotiating for non-negotiators

– Piece at Done By 40 we reference on the show: How We Negotiate Part II

How many times have you tried to save, only to find that you were overdoing it? OG has the solution this week on the podcast.

Also: we break some exciting podcast news at the end of the episode.

Show Notes

<> Open

<> Hotels.com: Score up to 50% of the published rate of a hotel room AND help your favorite podcast at the same time!

<> Discussion of OG’s Piece:

<> Breaking Podcast News!

Amanda Grossman (The CVS Drugstore Game) and Barbara Friedberg (How To Get Rich) join Joe in the basement to discuss limiting beliefs. Amanda explains that a script has played over and over throughout the centuries: people are marred by the false thought, “If only I had….”

Join us for a fantastic discussion of how to break out of this cycle and move toward “more” in your career, your financial plan, and your life in general.

Show Notes

<> Open

<> Hotels.com

<> Discussion of Amanda’s article: If Only I Had….How to Break Through Bad Situations and Personal Limits

Links!

Barbara’s book:How to Get Rich: Wealth Building Guide for the Financially Illiterate

Amanda’s book: The CVS Drugstore Game: Strategies to Turn Pocket Change into Thousands of Dollars Worth of Free Products (The Drugstore Game)

Other books discussed:

Jay Abraham: Getting Everything You Can Out of All You’ve Got: 21 Ways You Can Out-Think, Out-Perform, and Out-Earn the Competition

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How do you keep Benjamins in your pocket while you’re upside-down on the roller coaster? Easy! Listen to this week’s podcast! Robert Niles from ThemeParkInsider.com joins us in the basement to discuss his favorite parks, some regional treasures around the country, how to save money at the park, and how to add value for your vacation dollar. It’s a fun interview and I think you’ll enjoy the discussion.

Paula Pant of Afford Anything joins the roundtable team this week, to tackle the many, many ways to make your road trip completely suck. PK gives us the real low-down on dollar cost averaging. Of course, as always, there’s MUCH more fun packed into this 70+ minute episode.

As always, show notes will appear here throughout the day in more detail Monday.

Thanks again for making us the #1 “New & Noteworthy” show in the investing section of iTunes.

The World’s Most Awesome Show Notes

<> Open

<> Hotels.com: Save up to 50% on your next hotel stay AND help support the podcast!

<> Joe & OG: Honesty in relationships

<> Robert Niles, ThemeParkInsider.com

<> PK

<> Shortwave Roundtable

Len’s Article at Len Penzo dot Com: Having Fun Yet? 9 Ways to Ensure Your Road Trip Sucks

Paula – Afford Anything: Life, Fueled By Debt

Dom – Your Finances Simplified: June Rental Property Income and Expense Report

<> Let’s Give Something Away

<> End Show: Movies

As a big, fat thank you to our early listeners, we’ve re-released an episode that people STILL write to me about. It’s an uber-motivational show with Natalie Sisson sharing her experience riding a bike through Africa and Chris Klinke discussing how he climbed Mt. Everest. By the way….since the interview, he’s scaled it yet again.

We’re re-releasing this one because about half the number of people listened to this episode as the rest. Why? We branded it wrong. The show was set to go off with the release of the film The Hobbit, which we thought would be a huge hit. Err….not so much.

So, if you haven’t heard it yet, you now have another chance. If you’ve already listened….there’s nothing to see here! Move on along…..we’ll see you with new material on Monday.

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Our first real episode features Jennifer Dunn, who used perseverance, great money management techniques and online tools to help her solve some severe debt problems. Whether you’re struggling with debt or not, you’ll enjoy Jennifer’s story.

Besides that, PK discusses the pros and cons of diversification. OG & I lament a ridiculous new hedge fund offering, and we crank up the contest to give something away. My mom’s neighbor, Doug, hurls some trivia your way and we discuss movies and television shows we’ve watched (or not).

In other news…WE MADE IT!!!! If you read the story of how we put together Stacking Benjamins and why we launched in three episodes, you’ll know that our goal was to land on iTunes list of “New and Noteworthy” podcasts. Yesterday I was told that we’d made it! Check out iTunes to see us among the list of the best new shows out there…..

In OTHER OTHER news, you can finally get the show on Stitcher. All you have to do is download the Stitcher app for your smartphone, search for Stacking Benjamins, and BOOM!, you’re listening to OG, the gang, and I.

World’s Best Show Notes

<> Open

<> Show Affiliate: Hotels.com

<> Goldman Sachs launches a ridiculous new hedge fund-based mutual fund for the rest of us.

<> Jennifer Dunn – How She Paid Off a Mountain of Debt

<> PK’s Fractional Sense – Diversification Explained

<> Doug’s Trivial Question

<> Let’s Give Something Away

3 Ways to Enter:

– Tweet (and log your tweet in Rafflecopter)

– Love us on Facebook (and log it in Rafflecopter)

– OR name our secret voice (for Mega-Points!)…and log it in Rafflecopter

<> Doug’s Trivia Answer

<> End Show – Television Shows & Movies

– NCIS (both brands)

– Grey’s Anatomy

– Arrested Development

– Hangover III

– Star Trek

Great news! We’re now available on Stitcher! If you have a smartphone, now all you have to do is download the free Stitcher app, type in “Stacking Benjamins,” and you can listen on the fly. No more waiting for downloads or synching of your device.

Of course, if you have an iPhone, you call also find us on the new Podcast App, which works similarly to Stitcher.

Show #3 of Launch Week!

We round out launch week with a discussion about tax freedom day and a fascinating Q & A with Dominique Brown from Your Finances Simplified and Len Penzo from Len Penzo dot Com.

Thank you to everyone who helped make the launch of our new show a success this week. If you tweeted about the podcast, put something on Facebook, left a review on iTunes….whatever….thanks for all the help. It was a fantastic kick off for what we’re hoping will be a fantastic new show.

Show Notes

<> Open

<> Show Affiliate: Hotels.com

<> Stat of the Week: Tax Freedom Day – How to lower your tax bill

<> Shortwave Rountable: Dominique Brown & Len Penzo

<> End Show:

Movies – Jack Reacher and Great Gatsby.