The Personal Finance Podcast

The Personal Finance Podcast

Andrew Giancola from Master Money reveals all of his personal finance, money, investing, business strategies, income sources, stock, and real estate investing tips so that you can build more wealth than you ever thought possible. Discover how to increase your income at your job and create multiple passive income streams that work for you, so you have the time and freedom to do what you love. Whether that’s travel, or having freedom from your day job. Since 2013, Andrew has been sharing the wins and losses of his personal finance journey. You will learn how to invest to create wealth in stocks, index funds, real estate, building businesses, and side-hustles. You will learn how to save more money, get a raise, set up simple budgets, build habits, personal growth, and money hacks that will take you to the next level with your finances. Take control of your money so you can live a stress-free, rich life. Anyone can be wealthy, Andrew will show you how. Hit subscribe and get ready to change your life.

Episodes

November 19, 2025 41 mins
Join the community built to help you master your money, stay accountable, and reach financial freedom. 👉 Join Master Money Academy today! In this episode of The Personal Finance Podcast, Andrew and his wife Irene dive into crazy Reddit AITA stories answering questions about wild money situations in relationships—from the boyfriend who demanded a luxury car after learning his girlfriend won lottery money, to the manipulative par...
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👉 Join Master Money Academy today! In this episode of The Personal Finance Podcast, Andrew talks withChris Hutchins—host of All The Hacks and one of the smartest people in the travel rewards world, to answer the burning question: Is travel hacking still worth it as credit card annual fees skyrocket and loyalty programs devalue points left and right, breaking down Chase versus Amex strategies, the rise of cashback alternatives, ...
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November 12, 2025 42 mins
Join the community built to help you master your money, stay accountable, and reach financial freedom. 👉 Join Master Money Academy today! In this episode of The Personal Finance Podcast, Andrew continues with Part 2 of 21 Things to Do Before You Retire revealing 11 more critical milestones most people miss including building a healthcare plan to protect against rising medical costs, creating a 2-3 year cash buffer to survive ma...
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Join the community built to help you master your money, stay accountable, and reach financial freedom. 👉 Join Master Money Academy today! In this episode of The Personal Finance Podcast, Andrew reveals the 10 critical retirement milestones most people miss, from defining your dream retirement and hitting 25 times your annual expenses for financial independence, to creating a withdrawal strategy that makes your money last, b...
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Join the community built to help you master your money, stay accountable, and reach financial freedom. 👉 Join Master Money Academy today! In this episode of The Personal Finance Podcast, Andrew breaks down the average retirement savings by age in 2025 using Fidelity's data from millions of 401(k) accounts—revealing how much people actually have saved in their 20s, 30s, 40s, and 50s compared to what they should have, showing tha...
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Join the community built to help you master your money, stay accountable, and reach financial freedom. 👉 Join Master Money Academy today! Get all of Brian's Prompts from this episode here! In this episode of The Personal Finance Podcast, Andrew teams up with Brian Feroldi—making his fifth appearance on the show—to reveal how to use AI as your personal junior analyst to research and analyze stocks faster without replacing y...
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Join the community built to help you master your money, stay accountable, and reach financial freedom. 👉 Join Master Money Academy today! In this episode of The Personal Finance Podcast, Andrew brings back Dustin Heiner for Part 2—a live coaching session where Dustin creates a personalized roadmap to help Andrew generate $10,000 per month in real estate cash flow over the next decade, starting with $250,000 to invest and reve...
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Join the community built to help you master your money, stay accountable, and reach financial freedom. 👉 Join Master Money Academy today! In this episode of The Personal Finance Podcast, Andrew reveals 25 terrifying financial statistics that expose why most Americans are struggling with money, from 78% living paycheck to paycheck and total U.S. debt hitting $18.39 trillion, to credit card balances exceeding retirement savings f...
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Join the community built to help you master your money, stay accountable, and reach financial freedom. 👉 Join Master Money Academy today! Watch this episode on Youtube. In this episode of the Personal Finance Podcast,  we are going to talk to Dustin Heiner about how to achieve financial independence and replace your job with real estate investing—exploring what your life would look like if you never had to work another day...
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Join the community built to help you master your money, stay accountable, and reach financial freedom. 👉 Join Master Money Academy today! In this episode of The Personal Finance Podcast, Andrew breaks down the five powerful strategies that let you retire at 50 without losing money to penalties or surprise taxes—from building a taxable brokerage account that serves as your early retirement bridge, to unlocking a Roth IRA convers...
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Join the community built to help you master your money, stay accountable, and reach financial freedom. 👉 Join Master Money Academy today! Watch this episode on Youtube. In this episode of The Personal Finance Podcast, Andrew breaks down the seven types of income that separate people living paycheck-to-paycheck from those building real wealth—from earned income where you trade time for money, to royalty income that pays you...
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Join the community built to help you master your money, stay accountable, and reach financial freedom. 👉 Join Master Money Academy today! Watch this episode on Youtube. In this episode of The Personal Finance Podcast, Andrew reveals 13 strategies the rich use to build wealth on autopilot—from the wealth gap formula that reverse engineers your path to freedom, to invisible multipliers that compound into six-figure advanta...
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Join the community built to help you master your money, stay accountable, and reach financial freedom. 👉 Join Master Money Academy today! In this episode of The Personal Finance Podcast, Andrew walks through the 10 practical steps that can flip your finances in 6-12 months. Watch this episode on Youtube. Here's what we're covering today: 🧭 Step 1: Get crystal-clear on your retirement goal using the 25× rule 🏦 Step 2:...
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In this episode of The Personal Finance Podcast, Andrew introduces the 401k Sprint strategy—a game-changing approach where you max out retirement contributions for just 5-10 years instead of grinding for 30-40 years straight, proving that a 25-year-old who contributes $23,500 annually for only 5 years can retire with over $2 million while someone starting at 60 can still add $430,000 in just 5 years using catch-up contributions. He...
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In this episode of The Personal Finance Podcast, Andrew answers 15 listener questions ranging from Solo Roth 401k strategies and crushing $117,000 in student loans to whether a 19-year-old should build credit and how to pass brokerage accounts to your kids without tax headaches. He covers retirement account drawdowns, traditional versus Roth decisions based on tax brackets, why high-fee mutual funds usually lose to ETFs, and whethe...
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In this episode of the Personal Finance Podcast,  we are going to do a Money Q&A  about should you pay off debt or invest first. Today we are going to answer these questions: Question 1: Should I build my emergency fund to $20,000 first, or start paying down my mortgage and investing at the same time? Question 2: Is my bonus payoff plan the best option, or should I prioritize my 12% personal loan or Roth IRA contributio...
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In this episode of The Personal Finance Podcast, Andrew shatters the biggest lie about millionaires—that they're born rich or got lucky—by revealing that 80% built their wealth from scratch, with teachers, engineers, and regular folks who never earned six figures proving you don't need a trust fund to win with money. He exposes how real millionaires actually live: driving Hondas instead of BMWs, using coupons, and putting 17% of th...
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In this episode of The Personal Finance Podcast, Andrew exposes how credit card companies profit from keeping you trapped in 20-25% interest debt that can stretch a $10,000 balance into decades of payments, then reveals his tactical 6-step plan to eliminate that debt in under a year using balance transfer cards and finding just $875 monthly through expense cuts and side hustles. He breaks down why this isn't just about math but abo...
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In this episode of The Personal Finance Podcast, Andrew reveals five side hustles that could replace your day job income with real businesses that solve actual problems: how a $75,000 roll-off dumpster setup can generate $300,000+ annually, why job site cleaning requires minimal investment but locks you into $50,000-$100,000 contracts with single contractors, how AI implementation consulting lets you charge $200-$500 per hour with ...
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