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Radical Personal Finance

412-Friday Q&A: How Can I Gain Enough Experience to Use my CFP Designation, Can I Unwind My Parents Reverse Mortgage, How Do I Engage In A Meaningful Goal-Setting Process After a Layoff?

Radical Personal Finance

Joshua J. Sheats, MSFS, CFP, CLU, ChFC, CASL, RHU, REBC, CAP

Self-improvement, Business, Education, Investing

4.21.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2017

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

On Fridays we do a live Q&A show! If you'd like to join me on the next one, sign up to support the show as a patron! www.radicalpersonalfinance.com/patron

Today we cover:

  • How Can I Gain Enough Experience to Use my CFP Designation?
  • Can I Unwind My Parents Reverse Mortgage?
  • How Do I Engage In A Meaningful Goal-Setting Process After a Layoff?

Enjoy!

Joshua

Transcript

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0:00.0

It's Friday and on Friday we do Q&A. Well at least we're supposed to do Q&A.

0:07.0

There in November, December, these Q&As were a little bit, shall we say, non-existent. But that changes today. Basically how it worked,

0:17.5

you get to call in and speak to me. Before we get to the phone lines, though, sponsor

0:20.8

the day number one today is so-fai. So-fai is an acronym that stands Spons for SoFi.

0:23.0

SoFi is an acronym that stands for social finance.

0:26.0

Basically, if you've got debt,

0:28.0

you should probably go check out SoFi

0:30.0

and see if you can refinance it for cheaper.

0:33.0

Modern up-to-date company that sat down and said,

0:36.0

how can we apply modern technology to the world of lending?

0:40.0

They started focused on the areas of student loans, dramatically decreased student loan rates.

0:45.0

Many of you even in the audience have gone and refinance your student loans with them and saved a bunch of money.

0:50.0

They've moved on to other areas. They do mortgages, they do other loan products, etc.

0:54.4

And they're working very hard to bring modern technology to an antiquated business.

1:00.0

Go check out the rate, see if they can help you radical personal finance.

1:03.4

com slash sofai. Radical personal finance dot com slash s-o-f-I short for social finance.

1:11.3

This show was also sponsored by

1:12.8

Palladin Registry, a registry service of qualified vetted

1:17.4

researched financial advisors chosen for you. Research for you.

1:24.0

major problem is this.

1:25.0

Joshua, hey, I want to go get a financial advisor, but where do I start?

1:28.0

Do I just go to the guy next door or the person with the best sign or the best advertising?

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