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The Personal Finance Podcast

How to Build Your Investment Portfolio (The Portfolio Pyramid!)

The Personal Finance Podcast

Andrew Giancola

Business, Investing, Entrepreneurship

4.71.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2026

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Most new investors start building their portfolio completely backwards. Here is the exact framework to build it the right way from the very first dollar.  👉 Join Andrew's FREE Portfolio Pyramid Masterclass. What You'll Learn in This Episode The complete Portfolio Pyramid framework and exactly how much of your money belongs in each of the three tiers Why the foundation should make up 80% of your portfolio and what happens to your wealth when you skip it The specific index funds and ETFs that belong in your foundation and why they outperform most professional money managers What the growth layer is, what goes in it, and the individual stocks Andrew is personally buying right now When you have actually earned the right to add speculative assets to your portfolio and how much is too much The biggest mistakes investors make at every tier and how to avoid all of them Four advanced Q&As covering a guaranteed $99K teacher's pension, lowering taxes on a $1M 401k rollover, Medicare costs in retirement, and protecting your portfolio as you age Start Here  Join the community built to help you master your money, stay accountable, and reach financial freedom.   👉 Try Master Money Academy FREE for 7 days today! 👉 Join Andrew’s FREE Investing for Beginners Masterclass. 👉 Join The Master Money Newsletter where you will become smarter with your money in 5 minutes or less per week Here! Partner Deals Indeed → Get a $75 sponsored job credit http://Indeed.com/personalfinance Policygenius → Free life insurance quote http://policygenius.com Acorns → Start investing + get $5 bonus http://acorns.com/pfp Monarch → The all-in-one financial tool + Get 50% Off at http://www.monarch.com/PFP Shopify → Sign up for your one-dollar-per-month trial today at http://shopify.com/pfp   Wayfair → Get 80% OFF on April 25th through the 27th http://wayfair.com   DeleteMe → 20% off with code PFP https://joindeleteme.com/PFP20/ Tool/s Mentioned Investment Calculator Retirement Calculator  Resource/s Mentioned Trust and Will   Episode/s Mentioned The Simple Path to Wealth (With J.L. Collins)  The Biggest Retirement Mistakes People Make (Avoid These!) Jesse Cramer  Watch Next How to Invest Your First $10K  The Financial Priorities That Matter Most (By Life Stage)  AI Is Coming for Your Job. Here's How to Prepare Financially   How to Reduce Your Car Insurance (And Save Thousands)  The $10K, $100K, $1M Milestones That Change Everything Connect with Andrew Instagram Website TikTok X LinkedIn YouTube Question for you: Where are you right now in the Portfolio Pyramid? Are you still building your foundation, starting to add growth layer investments, or have you moved into speculation territory?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

On this episode of the Personal Finance Podcast, how to build your portfolio with the portfolio pyramid.

0:16.5

What's up, everybody, and welcome to the personal finance podcast.

0:22.1

I'm your host, Andrew, founder of mastermoney.co.

0:25.1

And today on the personal finance podcast, we're going to be diving into how to build

0:30.3

your portfolio with the portfolio pyramid.

0:33.0

If you guys have any questions, make sure you join the master money newsletter by going

0:37.3

to mastermoney.co

0:38.8

slash newsletter. And don't forget to follow us on Apple Podcast, Spotify, YouTube,

0:44.4

or whatever podcast player, you love listening to this podcast on. And if you want to help out

0:49.1

the show, leave a five-star rating and review on Apple Podcast, Spotify, or your favorite podcast player. Can I thank you guys enough for leaving those five-star rating and review on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or your favorite podcast player.

0:55.2

Can I thank you guys enough for leaving those five-star ratings and reviews?

0:58.4

It really does help us grow this show and spread this message.

1:03.2

So today, we're going to be diving into the portfolio pyramid.

1:07.0

Now, the portfolio pyramid is our framework showing you exactly how to build a portfolio

1:11.7

based on where you are with your finances. And this is intended to help a lot of you out there

1:17.8

stop making the dumb mistakes that most new investors make. Most new investors will come in very

1:23.4

confident, whether or not you made a lot of money in your career and you think that will

1:28.0

translate over to being a good investor, or if you are someone out there who is just a new investor

1:33.0

taking information from TikTok, Instagram, or YouTube, and you feel as though you are ready to

1:39.0

go when it comes to investing, you need to learn to build your portfolio in the right order.

1:45.7

So at the beginning here, what I'm going to be talking through is a framework to consider

1:49.6

building your portfolio and a framework to consider following.

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