Michelle Schroeder-Gardner is one in a million. In 2011 she had started her blog Making Sense of Cents as a hobby to share her ideas of how she was managing the money in her early 20s. It wasn’t until after six months of blogging for fun, she was told by a friend she could actually make a few bucks through her blog.
Six months later she made her first $100 and began to realize there was room for growth. Fast forward to 2017 and she is consistently earning over $100,000 every single month from her blog! Not only is she generating an incredible income from her laptop, she is also doing all of this while living in an RV full-time with her husband so they can travel all over the United States.
I wanted Michelle to come on the show to share how she is as normal as normal can be, yet she also has such an incredible accomplishment - financial freedom and the ability to live the life many only dream about.
During the interview, I ask...
All the show notes, links, and anything Michelle and I mentioned can be found at https://www.moneypeach.com/session62
“Inoperable brain cancer”.
These were the words spoken by the team of doctors who met with Andy and her family to share with her the devastating news of what was causing her extreme and sudden headaches.
Andy Ptacek; wife, daughter, friend, and mother of two small boys would now be facing the greatest challenge any of us could ever imagine - defeating brain cancer.
Andy and her husband were featured on the Money Peach Blog in the very early days when the blog was first started. They had an amazing success story of paying off $75k of debt in only 7 months (see link for show notes below).
A year after paying down their debt, they would soon face an even greater challenge: an inoperable tumor found on the outside of Andy’s brain.
The good news: After multiple attempts to have Andy to share her NEW success story, she finally gave in and agreed to the interview. She knew this would be a tough conversation and asked her husband Bruce to sit in with us during our conversation (you will notice him pop in the background of the interview).
During our conversation, Andy shares her view on what really matters most in life when you stare into the eyes of what she perceived as her own mortality.
• What did Andy promise herself when she was diagnosed?
• How did she find the strength and motivation to stay positive through it all?
• What happened that caused her to almost give up?
• What did she do just 1 year after brain surgery? (This will absolutely shock you!)
Note: Many of you may be asking why I would interview Andy’s story of survival on the Money Peach Podcast. This is a fair enough question and you will understand why in the end.
Hint: Money touches every aspect of your life. Even the parts you never think about...like inoperable brain cancer.
All the show notes, links, and anything Andy and I mentioned can be found at http://www.moneypeach.com/session61
Mark Asher was once co-host of the #1 sports radio talk show in Arizona. He made up half of the “Gambo and Ash Show”, the local drive-time afternoon radio program where local sports dominated the airwaves for the drivers of Arizona.
It’s unheard of for a radio show to last 5 years in today’s world and the Gambo and Ash Show went on for 12 years. But as the saying goes, all good things must come to an end. Their radio show was #1, Mark was living out his dream, and life was great - until one afternoon when he came in and was fired in a blink of an eye.
I asked Mark to come on the show to share what it’s like to go from #1 and on top of the world, to then having your life completely flipped upside down in a blink of an eye.
However, just like every good story, there is a happy ending that Mark never imagined happening.
All the show notes, links, and anything Mark and I mentioned can be found at http://www.moneypeach.com/session60
I received an email from Brian Winch of CleanLots and he told me, “I’ve been cleaning up litter in and around commercial properties for over 30 years and I’ve been earning a 6 figure income from it.”
Wow! That is an email I’ll read all day long!
I decided to head on over to his website and sure enough this guy started a side hustle back in 1981 and now generates an incredible income doing what he calls “walking around parking lots and picking up trash”.
Since one of the most common questions I receive is “how can I earn extra money to…..?” I decided to bring Brian on the show to share how anyone (literally a-n-y-o-n-e) can start their own litter pickup service and generate income right away.
I ask Brian…
• To share his story
• What is the first step if someone were to get started today?
• How much can one really earn when getting started?
• Why there is the need for people to pick up litter?
• How many hours per week and when can you put in the work?
• How can we find out more?
All the show notes, links, and anything Brian and I mentioned can be found at http://www.moneypeach.com/session59