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The Personal Finance Podcast

13 Personal Finance Cheat Codes That Can Change Your Life

The Personal Finance Podcast

Andrew Giancola

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Join the community built to help you master your money, stay accountable, and reach financial freedom. 👉 Join Master Money Academy today! Watch this episode on Youtube. In this episode of The Personal Finance Podcast, Andrew reveals 13 strategies the rich use to build wealth on autopilot—from the wealth gap formula that reverse engineers your path to freedom, to invisible multipliers that compound into six-figure advantages most people completely ignore. Here's what we're covering today: 💸 Strategy 1: Automate everything so wealth builds without willpower 🧠 Strategy 2: Prioritize high-leverage skills over penny-pinching 🏦 Strategy 3: Treat your savings rate like a game and level it up 🧰 Strategy 4: Use the tax code as a wealth-building tool 📊 Strategy 5: Build multiple income streams early (even small ones) 🪙 Strategy 6: Use debt as a wealth tool, not a trap 🪄 Strategy 7: Exploit invisible multipliers like credit scores and employer matches 📊 Strategy 8: Reverse engineer wealth with the "wealth gap formula" 🏠 Strategy 9: Hack housing—your biggest expense 🪙 Strategy 10: Play the long game with time arbitrage 🧠 Strategy 11: Think in net worth, not income 🧑‍💼 Strategy 12: Get the right team in your corner 🔑 Strategy 13: Optimize for freedom, not just money How Andrew Can Help You: Listen to The Business Show here. Don't let another year pass by without making significant strides toward your dreams. "Master Your Money Goals" is your pathway to a future where your aspirations are not just wishes but realities. Enroll now and make this year count! Join The Master Money Newsletter where you will become smarter with your money in 5 minutes or less per week Here! Learn to invest by joining  Index Fund Pro! This is Andrew’s course teaching you how to invest!  Watch The Master Money Youtube Channel! , Ask Andrew a question on Instagram or TikTok Learn how to get out of Debt by joining our Free Course  Leave Feedback or Episode Requests here.  Car buying Calculator here Thanks to Our Amazing Sponsors for supporting The Personal Finance Podcast DELL: Get a new Dell AI PC starting at $749.99, at Dell.com/ai-pc  Indeed: Start hiring NOW with a SEVENTY-FIVE DOLLAR SPONSORED JOB CREDIT to upgrade your job post at Indeed.com/personalfinance Acorns: Start investing automatically with Acorns and get a $5 bonus at Acorns.com/PFP  Chime: Start your credit journey with Chime. Sign-up takes only two minutes and doesn’t affect your credit score. Get started at chime.com/  Thanks to Policy Genius for Sponsoring the show! Go to policygenius.com to get your free life insurance quote. Shopify: Shopify makes it so easy to sell. Sign up for a one-dollar-per-month trial period at  shopify.com/pfp Go to https://joindeleteme.com/PFP20/ and Use Promo Code PFP for 20% off!  Links Mentioned in This Episode: How to Open an HSA (and Why You Should Consider it!) - Money Q&A The Bucket Method For Managing Your Savings (Master Multiple Savings Goals) The Million Dollar Money Decisions You Should Be Focusing On  rental property calculator  Connect With Andrew on Social Media: Instagram TikTok Twitter Master Money Website Master Money Youtube Channel  Free Guides: The Stairway to Wealth: The Order of Operations for your Money How to Negotiate Your Salary The 75 Day Money Challenge Get out Of Debt Fast Take the Money Personality Quiz Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.6

On this episode of the Personal Finance Podcast, 13 personal finance chicos that can change your life.

0:59.6

Music podcast, 13 personal finance chikos that can change your life. What's up everybody and welcome to the personal finance podcast?

1:02.6

I'm your host, Andrew, founder of mastermudy.com.

1:09.4

And today on the personal finance podcast, we're going to be talking about 13 personal finance cheat codes that can change your life. If you guys have any questions,

1:16.7

make sure you join the Master Money newsletter by going to mastermoney.com slash newsletter. And don't forget to follow us on Spotify, Apple Podcast, YouTube, or whatever podcast player you love

1:22.2

listening to this podcast on. And if you want to help out the show, consider leaving a five

1:26.1

star rating and review on Apple Podcast, Spotify, or your favorite podcast player. And by the way, if you're watching on YouTube, make sure you hit that follow button and give me that thumbs up. I think that is one of the things that helps us on YouTube. And for next year in 2006, we're going to do a lot of cool stuff on YouTube. So excited about that and some of the bonus content that you guys are going to get there. So today we're going to be diving into personal finance cheat codes that can change your life. And if you learn how to follow some of these cheat codes, you can dramatically improve your finances just by learning some of these things. And so we're going to go through 13 different things. And I want to bring you as much value as we possibly can. I want you to have idea generation when you go through this. And I want you to start taking action on some of these things when we go through this list. And so as we go and progress through this list, I want you to think through, well, how can I apply this to my life? How can I actually take action on some of these today? That's the way

2:18.2

I want you to listen through on this episode. Now, some of these are going to be talking through

2:21.7

financial freedom. Some of these are going to be talking through tax situations, ways to actually

2:25.6

optimize the way that you move your money around. So there's a lot of different cool stuff we'll be

2:30.0

diving into today. So action-packed episodes, without further ado, let's get into it.

2:36.8

Number one, and if you've been listening to this podcast for any amount of time, you know this is

2:41.7

probably going to be on this list, and this is because it is one of the ultimate cheat codes

2:45.9

that are out there, which is to automate everything, making sure that you build systems that run without you when

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