Taking Charge of Your Finances with Sam Dogen
The Dad Edge Podcast
Larry Hagner
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2022
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
28% of Americans don't have any savings to cover bills in case of emergencies. And another 21% said they had some money saved up, but not enough to cover even three months of expenses if needed. Being a husband and father means that we are the providers for our families. My guest shares simple and effective strategies to lower our financial stress, save for emergencies and how to work together as a team with our wives to create a financial future that we can feel good about.
In 2009, Sam Dogen founded Financial Samurai, one of the top independently owned personal finance sites today with over 1 million organic visitors a month.
During the middle of the financial crisis in 2009, he began Financial Samurai to help make sense of the financial crisis. He had been working in finance for 10 years and thought he had been doing all the right things with my money – saving 50%+, diversifying into real estate, maxing out my 401(k), etc. Yet, he still lost about 35% of my net worth within a matter of six months. It was a humbling experience.
On the bright side, the financial crisis made him realize that he no longer wanted to work in the financial services industry. He lost the hunger to make lots of money and climb the corporate ladder after 13 years in the business. Instead, the downturn focused his attention on something he really enjoyed doing: writing and connecting with others online.
He found himself addicted to Financial Samurai before work, during his lunch break, and after work. He was having so much fun! Therefore, in the Fall of 2011, he came up with the idea of negotiating a severance to be free from work for good.
Sam has been married for 14 years and is the father of 2 kids.
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| 0:00.0 | 28% of Americans don't have any savings to cover bills in case of emergencies and another |
| 0:05.5 | 21% said they had some money saved up but not enough to cover even three months of expenses if |
| 0:12.4 | needed. Being a husband and father means that we are the providers for our families. Today my |
| 0:17.2 | guest shares simple and effective strategies to lower our financial stress, save for emergencies |
| 0:22.4 | and how to work together as a team with our wives to create a financial future that we can feel |
| 0:27.2 | good about. Welcome to the Dad Edge podcast. The Dad Edge movement creates leaders of men, |
| 0:35.3 | leaders of families and leaders of communities. We will not only impact this generation of fathers |
| 0:41.2 | but the next generation as well. The kids we are raising will have better chances and odds stacked |
| 0:46.9 | in their favor because of the amazing example that their fathers emulated for them. |
| 0:52.0 | We are here to change the world. We are here to change relationships. We are here to |
| 0:57.3 | positively disrupt this generation of fathers so no man goes to their grave with regrets. |
| 1:03.2 | We disrupt the drift of busyness and replace it with razor-focused intention, |
| 1:08.1 | passion, purpose and direction. We are the Dad Edge and we're here to change the game. |
| 1:21.7 | Hey, what's up guys? Welcome to the Dad Edge podcast. I'm Larry Hagner. Your host and founder |
| 1:34.9 | of this podcast show and movement. As you guys heard in the intro, all you have to do is Google |
| 1:41.1 | statistics around money management and around stress and force and impact on physical mental |
| 1:48.7 | emotional health. Finances is definitely one of those things that it's on the mind. It's on the |
| 1:53.6 | hearts of men, husbands as we provide. It's something that greatly stresses us out. |
| 2:00.2 | Quick side story before I introduce my guest today. I have been on this journey of financial |
| 2:07.2 | literacy with my own kids for the past several years now. So much so that we have sit down talks |
| 2:13.6 | around money management, saving for the future. Also being able to spend money that you make on |
| 2:20.5 | things that you enjoy and striking that balance. But my goal and I'm sure yours is the exact same, |
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