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Each Wednesday join me as I share the ins and outs of that quilt life. If you don't have a sewing machine, can bust out a super fly Y seam, or just want to hear about the newest or coolest quilty news, this is the podcast for you
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The pieces of my world-making I stitch together into a quilt: love studies. Black feminism. Other things binding me together at the seams. Cozy up and pour some tea. ismatu.substack.com
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Weekly podcasts with Paul Merriman. Strategic planning for investing at every stage of life.
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Dream of turning your craft into a career? Want your dream job working from home? How about a flexible job that brings joy? Learn how to turn YOUR craft into a successful career! Each week you will hear stories from guests and from your host that teach you how to grow your dream job. Get the best business tips, social media strategies, stories of success, and learn how to be a #girlboss or #bossbabe with entrepreneur, Elizabeth Chappell. Elizabeth has grown a 6 figure business in a couple of ...
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Elizabeth shares lessons learned from hosting live events. If you have considered hosting an event for your business, be sure to listen in and learn some helpful tips to help your event go off without a hitch! Turn your CRAFT into a CAREER! Did you find this podcast helpful? Find more creative business takeaways, tutorials, courses, plus much more …
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Investors need to get past marketing and sales pitches to know what they're getting when they invest. Morningstar is a great place to get that depth. Paul and Chris describe how they each use the free Morningstar tools to evaluate mutual fund and ETF characteristics, such as: * Expense ratios * Liquidity and bid/ask spreads * Geographic focus * Val…
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In episode 172 of the From Craft to Career Podcast, we dive into the inspiring journey of Chantell Hammond, founder of Strategy Square and a dedicated business and marketing coach. After facing challenges with her own Pilates studio due to a lack of marketing knowledge, Chantell made a commitment to learn and grow. She completed her degree and gain…
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Paul updates his list of reasons to use index funds plus comparing the handful of Vanguard Small Cap Value ETFs (VTWV, SLYV, VBR AND VIOV) with the newer Avantis and DFA small cap value ETFs. He also makes the case that AVUS and DFAU total market funds are likely to produce better returns than VTSAX, VTI, VOO AND VFINX. He also discusses the 15 yea…
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Mary Davis, of Mary Go Round Quilts, shares with listeners about her experience hosting a summit. Learn from her and get inspired to try some new marketing ideas! Explore what is available out there and share your product in a creative way. Be sure to tune into episode 171 and spark some ideas for your quilty business! Turn your CRAFT into a CAREER…
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Chris & Paul walk through the changes to The Merriman Financial Education Foundation’s relationship with M1 Finance, including affiliate commissions, a new emphasis on accurate messaging, and improved pre-made portfolio shortcuts (M1 calls them Pies). The new Pies now include all of our Sound Investing equity portfolios, taxable and tax-deferred fi…
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Leadership coach and people strategy expert, Lindsay White, founder of High Voltage Leadership, shares when we should hire someone and how. Lindsay works with small businesses and entreprenuers to help them be more confident and impactful leaders. She helps them create strategies to execute their business plan and lead and nurture their teams. Lind…
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In preparation for his presentation at the Bogleheads Conference Paul reread John Bogle’s “The Little Book of Common Sense Investing” He has been recommending the book since 2007 but in 2017 Wiley published the updated and revised edition. There is some terrific new material in the revised edition. Paul focuses on several topics from the book inclu…
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I had an amazing conversation with David Baughier on the Forget About Money podcast! We discussed my 12 One-Million Dollar Ideas for building wealth, the power of starting early, and why index funds are a game-changer for long-term investing. We also covered the importance of diversification, the benefits of small-cap value stocks, and why sticking…
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Kim Sandberg is the Education Manager at Handi Quilter, as well as a talented teacher and quilter. She offers a wealth of inspiration, covering topics like building confidence in your skills, addressing the common question, "Am I good enough?", avoiding pitfalls as a quilting educator, and marketing. If you're passionate about sharing your love for…
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The strangest part about terminal illness is how often death comes for a peck on the lips and nothing more. A few weeks ago, I flew home to attend my mother's final affairs. Now we sit, smoothies and champagne glasses, watching a movie to spend time together. It's sunny this Tuesday. Here are reflections from Invisible Beauty on Bethann Hardison, f…
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Paul starts the podcast with a discussion of his special presentation to the graduating nurses from the College of Nursing at Texas A&M. This presentation was part of a Life Transitions Series. He discusses how he might be able to do a similar presentation for other groups of graduating college students, as well as groups of investors who are try…
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Taking out the Fear and Emotion of Money with Danielle Hayden. Danielle is the Co-Founder and CEO of Kickstart Accounting, Inc. a bookkeeping and accounting firm that is on a mission to coach six figure (+ beyond) female entrepreneurs so they can better understand their numbers through bookkeeping, financial analysis, and support so they can grow p…
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DCA vs. Lump Sum, Not Trusting SCV, Maximizing Roth, Moving From Ultimate B/H to Smaller Portfolio and More
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Paul starts the podcast talking about the upcoming Boglehead Conference (Sept.27-29) in Minneapolis. The following link lists the speakers and topics. https://boglecenter.net/2024conference/ Q1: Should I invest $300,000 inheritance all at once or dollar cost average? 02:23 Q2: If SCV is such a great asset class why do the companies all have such lo…
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Jennifer Long, one of the most skilled and experienced quilt pattern writers, shares her insights on building a successful career in pattern writing. We discuss the intricacies of pattern writing, along with an exciting announcement for all quilt pattern writers! Turn your CRAFT into a CAREER! Did you find this podcast helpful? Find more creative b…
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Paul starts with a general discussion of the decision to trust recent returns or make investment based on longer term returns. He uses AVUV and ARKK as two investments you could have made in September 2019. In the discussion he references a video where arkk creator and fund manager predicts future arkk returns. Q: #1: Why should future results look…
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Crochet and Craft Shows with Camryn of Camryn's Cute Creations shares all about her journey to make her love of crocheting into a full time career! She is not only a talented crochet artist, but she sells patterns, crocheted baby products and teaches others how to be successful at craft shows! If you have been wanting to make your craft, art or som…
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Leveraging ETFs, Moving from Cash to Equities, A Track Record You Can't Trust and more Q&A
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1. My husband and I are moving to Fidelity to set up your Ultimate Buy and Hold Portfolio. How do we make the change from our holdings to your portfolio? Do I have to sell all of my holdings? Plus we want to find an hourly advisor to help. Can you make a recommendation? 1:45 2. I have $1million in a money market fund. Do you think it is time to sta…
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1. What is the best glide path (asset allocation) for a 58 year old pre-retiree and then in retirement? This is the link for Chris Pedersen’s 2 Funds for Life glide path. 2:50 2. I don’t need all of my RMD (required minimum distribution). How should I invest the excess? Here is the link to the video on "My 12 Favorite Vanguard Funds for Retirees” a…
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Textile artist shares about her career and the power of creativity. Hear insight and ideas for your creative business! Turn your CRAFT into a CAREER! Did you find this podcast helpful? Find more creative business takeaways, tutorials, courses, plus much more below. SHOW NOTES: https://quilterscandy.com/https://quilterscandy.com/podcast-episodes/pod…
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a series of musings nearly entitled, “I am frightened by the way people tire of the world.” I have had a negative amount of desire to write but Toni Morrison said it’s your job to write when evil wishes to distract you so. Here I am, I suppose. The thesis of today’s musings are that we want the fiction of a happy ending more than we want actual lib…
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Questions for your consideration: how do I appreciate you well for taking part in this space? And, how best can we a public good? Please whatever comment features you have available and let me know! ft. Afternoon of a Swan by Speedy West This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, …
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On July 25, 2024 Paul and Chris made a presentation to the Puget Sound AAII. Paul spoke to the latest research on small cap value and Chris spoke to the latest research on his 2 Funds for Life Portfolio. Following the presentation they answered questions from the guests. Q: What advice do you give on conversion of regular IRAs to Roth IRAs? Q: What…
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Hear Minki Kims story! Minki is a Fine Arts major and has formal training as a sculptor but has turned her artistic talent into using thread, fabric and her sewing machine into beautiful sewn illustrations! She is not only a sewing illustrator, but a fabric and sewing designer and author. Hear her insights and be inspired on episode 164 of the Craf…
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In this podcast Paul discusses an article by Truth Teller Ben Carlson (The Biggest Winners in the Stock Market), regarding a study by Dr. Hendrik Bessenbinder (Which U.S. Stocks Generated the Highest Long-Term Returns ) This study is an update from an earlier study from Bessenbinder that Paul has recommended many times. Paul also discusses an artic…
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Paul, Daryl, and Chris are together again to discuss what they each think are the best single charts or graphs to help people understand investing and make good decisions. Paul starts by asking Chris and Daryl how much we can rely on the past to predict the future. Paul follows that with a deep dive into his choice for the most important chart -- t…
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Jaycee Afuvai is a creative business owner. She is a fabulous embroidery artist who does beautiful work and is known as the Stay at Home Artist. She shares her business story, insights and helpful business tips, especially for new entreprenuers who feel like imposters or have fear of taking themselves and their ideas seriously. She encourages you t…
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One of the most challenging aspects of being a 100% do-it-yourself investor (DYI) is dealing with the emotions of wanting to make major changes in a portfolio due to what may easily be seen as catastrophic news. The DYI doesn’t have a professional to help them think through the difficult times like the 2008 meltdown, the October 19, 1987 22% one da…
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Have you been bothered or hurt by someone has stolen your business idea? In this episode, I address this topic and invite you to think of it differently... for your benefit. If you think your design or idea is unique, then you're kidding yourself. Now obviously there are certain situations when trademarks, brands, logos, etc are stolen that are leg…
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Paul starts the podcast discussing the upcoming (July 13, 2024) presentation for AAII Puget Sound Chapter (9-10:30). Chris Pedersen and Paul will present, “2 Investment Decisions Guaranteed to Change Your Financial Future. ”Here is a link for more information and to sign up for this presentation. Here is the link to sign up. Today’s podcast is a di…
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Our success is not correlated with our effort. This is a big fallacy. Burnt out? We don't have to kill ourselves to get the success that we want. I talk about shifting our mindset and being better served by realizing that you can work less and have even more success. I'll explain what I mean by this, as wrll as how you can avoid burnout and do what…
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Join Paul as he is interviewed by Ed Fulbright, CPA and host of Mastering Your Money on WNCU 90.7 FM in Durham, N.C. How do Grandparents decide to help with education or retirement or legacy building of their grandchildren? You often recommend small cap value as the primary investment vehicle for creating legacy for your grand children. Why did you…
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The following questions were generated during a presentation Paul made to the Orange County and New York City AAII Chapters. 1. How do we go about finding someone (money manager) who follows your portfolio recommendations? Plus what is a reasonable fee to pay for advisory services? In the answer I do mention David Sterman. link:https://huguenotfin…
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