The Power of Intention, High-Income Skills, and Overcoming Financial Hurdles | ASK ME ANYTHING

Order of Man

Ryan Michler

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🗓️ 24 September 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In Part 2 of this Ask Me Anything Ryan and Kipp tackle real listener money
questions - from Roth vs. traditional 401(k)s and how to start saving at
48, to scaling rental portfolios, buying land, and running a meat
processing business. They also discuss high-income skills, the psychology
of debt and “usury,” and whether cashing out investments to pay a low-rate
mortgage makes sense. Packed with actionable prudence, blunt honesty, and
practical frameworks for financial decisions. Tune in, take notes, and
move to action.

SHOW HIGHLIGHTS
00:00 - Intro
01:33 - Roth vs. Traditional 401(k) (Mike Cole)
04:22 - Biggest moves at 48 with nothing saved (Lonnie McIntyre)
10:57 - Scaling rentals: use equity or let it pay off (Jeremy Fulmer)
14:07 - Considering closing 401(k) to buy land (Mike)
16:57 - Starting a meat processing business (Jeff Kessler)
23:18 - Experience vs. price: creating convenience & premium services
26:21 - High-income skills & why connection matters (Jonathan Webster)
34:05 - Usury, debt culture & values (Jason Cole)
41:51 - Paying off mortgage vs. investing (Chris Edmondson)
47:35 - Iron Council / Order of Man promo & outro

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0:00.0	I think you either have to create a cool experience or extreme convenience.
0:07.0	To me, those are the two things. If you can make somebody's life easier or you can make it a really cool experience, then that's what you would do if you didn't want to compete on price alone.
0:20.9	Kip, what's up, man?
0:21.8	It's weird to be recording on a Friday morning.
0:24.6	We're usually doing Monday morning, but here we are on Friday.
0:27.1	So we're not even going to be able to talk about the crazy stuff that happens over the weekend
0:32.5	when everybody's kind of tapped out and doing their own thing.
0:37.1	Yeah. Instead, we'll talk about the crazy stuff that happened during the week, which might be
0:41.1	closer from a timeline perspective. So I don't know, maybe we're good.
0:45.3	Yeah, we'll see. We'll see how it goes. Well, I'm looking forward to it. This is part two.
0:49.8	There was a lot of good questions based on our Asked Me Anything last week regarding money and debt and investing and saving and everything else, budgeting.
0:58.4	So I figured we'd take the remainder of the questions for this week.
1:02.4	And then the following week, we'll go ahead and move into a new realm and a new topic.
1:06.5	I'm curious what you think that topic should be.
1:09.2	Do you have anything in mind or anything in particular?
1:14.5	No, I don't.
1:15.5	Okay. Well, I mean, I, I'd want to give some thought to it, but.
1:18.3	And the guys listening might have some ideas too.
1:20.3	So if you have ideas, you can do one of two things to share those ideas with us.
1:24.5	Go to Facebook.com slash groups slash order of man sign up there um i just
1:30.9	re-recorded an intro video because the intro video that was on there was from five or six years ago
1:36.1	and i look completely different and so there's some updated videos there but then you can ask
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