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Ready to grow your wealth through smarter investing decisions? With The Meb Faber Show, bestselling author, entrepreneur, and investment fund manager, Meb Faber, brings you insights on today’s markets and the art of investing. Featuring some of the top investment professionals in the world as his guests, Meb will help you interpret global equity, bond, and commodity markets just like the pros. Whether it’s smart beta, trend following, value investing, or any other timely market topic, each week you’ll hear real market wisdom from the smartest minds in investing today. Better investing starts here. For more information on Meb, please visit MebFaber.com. For more on Cambria Investment Management, visit CambriaInvestments.com.
Carl Richards – Rewiring Your Financial Mindset in the Age of Comparison | #602
The Meb Faber Show - Better Investing
1 hour 3 minutes
2 weeks ago
Carl Richards – Rewiring Your Financial Mindset in the Age of Comparison | #602
Today’s guest is Carl Richards. Carl is a Certified Financial Planner, built and sold an investment firm, and hosts the podcast 50 Fires, which is backed by Chip and Joanna Gaines. He’s also the author of The Behavior Gap and The One-Page Financial Plan and his newest book is called Your Money: Reimaging Your Wealth with 101 Simple Sketches.
In today’s episode, Carl discusses the emotional aspects of money and how our perceptions of wealth can be influenced by societal norms and personal experiences. He introduces concepts like the emotional balance sheet and the overnight test for investment decisions, emphasizing the need to align financial choices with personal goals rather than external pressures. The discussion also touches on the impact of news and social media on financial behavior.
(0:00) Starts
(1:15) Introduction of Carl Richards
(5:32) Emotional aspects of money
(12:19) The overnight test
(20:26) Focusing on what you can control
(24:36) Fundamental investing principles
(28:11) Social comparisons and social media effects
(32:28) The concept of perceived wealth
(37:16) Lifestyle inflation and hedonic adaptation
(44:39) Diversification and performance chasing performance
(48:22) The impact of news on investments and when to sell
(52:13) Scarcity vs abundance mindset
(54:51) Celebrating milestones, Carl's future plans, and reader responses
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The Meb Faber Show - Better Investing
Ready to grow your wealth through smarter investing decisions? With The Meb Faber Show, bestselling author, entrepreneur, and investment fund manager, Meb Faber, brings you insights on today’s markets and the art of investing. Featuring some of the top investment professionals in the world as his guests, Meb will help you interpret global equity, bond, and commodity markets just like the pros. Whether it’s smart beta, trend following, value investing, or any other timely market topic, each week you’ll hear real market wisdom from the smartest minds in investing today. Better investing starts here. For more information on Meb, please visit MebFaber.com. For more on Cambria Investment Management, visit CambriaInvestments.com.
