189: Dividend Investing with Kevin Martin
Invest Like a Boss
Sam Marks Johnny FD Derek Spartz
4.8 • 518 Ratings
🗓️ 5 August 2021
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Kevin Martin is a Lawyer & 20 year military veteran turned Travel Vlogger! He is also an avid dividend investor and uses them as his primary source of income. In early 2019, Kevin decided to quit his job as a lawyer at a corporate law firm to travel the world! You can follow his adventures on YouTube.
Kevin has also recently started a YouTube channel dedicated to dividend investing that can be found here.
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Where we are:
- Johnny FD – Ukraine / IG @johnnyfdk
- Sam Marks – Barcelona/ IG @imsammarks
- Derek Spartz - Venice Beach / IG @DerekRadio
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- Polymarket
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Time Stamps:
- 13:37 – Tell us about your “full time travel” life?
- 14:13 – How did it feel when you first started?
- 15:29 – Were you investing while you were a Lawyer?
- 16:15 – What were some of the early investments?
- 19:15 – How have your investment strategies changed since then?
- 20:44 – Do you automatically reinvest in your dividends?
- 21:30 – What is the difference between a dividend growth stock and a normal stock that doesn't pay dividends at all?
- 31:02 – What are your thoughts on picking individual dividend stocks vs investing in dividend funds?
- 32:22 – What are your thoughts on the non-traditional dividend funds?
- 35:39 – What are your lowest and highest dividend yields in your personal portfolio?
- 36:58 – What can you tell us about this new project starting your portfolio from scratch?
- 41:02 – Johnny and Derek review
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| 0:00.0 | What is up bosses? Super excited to tell you about our brand new sponsor, Polymarket. It's the world's |
| 0:07.0 | leading information markets platform where you can trade on the most pressing global questions |
| 0:12.4 | all on the blockchain. If you're a news junkie and you're following everything that's going on |
| 0:17.9 | in the market, maybe you think Trump will run for president again, |
| 0:21.3 | or the U.S. will have record high COVID cases. If you think you know the answer to these questions, |
| 0:27.1 | you can trade on those beliefs and even earn a return if you're right. I'm going to tell you |
| 0:33.0 | all about Pollymarket later in the show. But if you want to get a sneak peek, just go to |
| 0:37.9 | polymarket.com to make your account today. And for a limited time, when you use referral code |
| 0:43.7 | boss, you'll get up to $100 reimburse on your first trade. So head over to polymarket.com. |
| 0:50.6 | That's P-O-L-Y, M-R-K-E-T-D-com. Referral Code Boss, get up to $100 reimburse on your first trade. |
| 1:00.4 | Like I said, I'll tell you more in a few minutes, but for now, let's get the show started. |
| 1:05.2 | Welcome to the Invest Like a Boss podcast. I'm Sam Mart and I'm Johnny FD. |
| 1:09.2 | We're self-made entrepreneurs who invest our own money |
| 1:11.3 | and use modern technology to invest like a boss. Join us each week for exclusive interviews with our |
| 1:15.7 | network of modern investors, business owners, and multimillionaires to discover new ways to invest |
| 1:20.1 | our hard-earned cash. Hey bosses, this Johnny FD and welcome to episode 189 of the Vest Like a Boss podcast. I'm in |
| 1:31.5 | Harkey of Ukraine and Derek is out in Venice Beach, California. What is up, Johnny? You're in |
| 1:38.2 | Harkey. So you haven't been back to Kiev since we were there, right? That was God over two weeks ago now. |
| 1:43.1 | Yeah, I was in, I hung out in |
| 1:45.1 | Odessa for about a week and I came to hierarchy for the last two weeks. And it's been great. I actually |
| 1:50.3 | looked at a few more apartments and I almost made a deal on one today. But I, I've kind of stopped |
| 1:55.0 | myself. You are becoming like the big boss landlord of Ukraineraine there are worst places in the world to be the |
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