Heroic Investing Podcast
HI 47 – The Macro and Micro Markets of Real Estate Investing
Unlike stocks, bonds, mutual funds or commodities such as precious metals like gold and silver – real estate is a multi-dimensional asset class. The multi-dimensional nature of income property makes it extremely profitable in changing ways based on varying market conditions. This is a wonderful thing...
HI 46 – Triumphing Over Your Obstacles with Aaron Chapman
Aaron Chapman is a mortgage broker in his day job, but he also is a first responder who does search and rescue in Arizona. Before he became a first responder, he had a near death experience that sent him down the path he's on now.
Listen in as Gary and Aaron talk about his journey, one of Aaron's most...
HI 45 – The Psychology of Winning with Dr. Denis Waitley
Gary Pinkerton starts off the show with a description of the hope he has for America. How we need to look at the history of nations around us and decide how we want our future to look. Are we going to continue down the route to socialism, or are we going to grab the reins and lead ourselves in a new...
HI 44 – Remembering 9/11 and Supporting Veterans with Kathy Cunningham
We just observed the 16 year anniversary of the horrible attacks of 9/11, and the nation is still recovering. One of the ways we're doing that is through events such as the Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Run.
The event raises money for families of fallen first responders, as well as money to build...
HI 43 – Beyond Phishing –Now There’s Smishing
Remember phishing? Now there’s smishing, a new kind of electronic identity theft targeting uses of smartphones and tablets. But although the venue may be new, these scammers are simply adapting the same old tried and true tactics that con artists used to use on the telephone.
In those old days,...
HI 42 – The Bitcoin Starts a Life of Crime
How did the FBI end up with over $3 million in Bitcoins? How did the virtual currency become the medium of choice for transactions on the cybernarcotics site Silk Road? And more important, perhaps – why should we care? The saga of the world’s first digital money continues with the Bitcoin’s first...
HI 41 – The Truth Behind Retierment “Myths”
Lists of retirement “myths” – erroneous beliefs about planning for retirement – pop up fairly regularly in financial news. Though each list offers a different number of myths to worry about – five, seven or even ten or more – the goal is the same: to increase awareness about the pitfalls...
HI 40 – Heroic Investors Dropping the Stock Market
Even though the stock market has recovered a bit of late, middle class investors have shown a reluctance to re-enter Wall Street’s less-than-loving embrace. Gone are those high-flying days when stocks, bonds, and mutual funds were considered the keys to a financially solvent retirement, replaced...
HI 39 – Viral Marketing For Heroes
Viral marketing is not just for high falutin’ internet marketers and techno-geeks any more. The continuing development of Web 2.0 with social media websites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, MySpace, and a hundred dozen others brings the power of conveying your message within reach of every human...
HI 38 – Retirement A Tough Call For Some First Responders
There’s apparently an old say that goes like this, “If you are what you do, and you don’t, then you AIN’T!” Many first responders facing the prospect of retirement from a fulfilling, adrenalized life’s work know what we’re talking about. After retirement, then what? Break out the fishing...
