Oct 19, 2022
Joe Saul-Sehy is the creator and co-host of the Stacking Benjamins show and co-author of “Stacked: Your Super Serious Guide to Modern Money Management.” He was a financial advisor for 16 years and represented American Express and Ameriprise in the media.
He fully admits that he was a money disaster before putting his financial house in order. He was “The Money Man” at Detroit Television WXYZ TV. He’s appeared online in 200+ places like CNBC and The Wall Street Journal.
The Stacking Benjamins Show was called the “Best Personal Finance Podcast” by Kiplinger. Lifehacker listed the show as one of the top 10 of 2021. Joe and the SB team have won five
Plutus Awards and the Academy of Podcasters “Best Business Podcast” award (beating well-known shows like The Tim Ferriss Show, How I Built This, and Gimlet’s StartUp).
Listen in for some great takeaways about Joe’s journey to creating one of the most successful podcasts to date and how following his passions have led to great success.
You will want to hear this episode if you are interested in...
- How an English major ended up in personal finance [3:46]
- What Joe means when he says he was “living a sham” [9:28]
- Why Joe sold his practice at age 40 (while managing $60 million) [18:34]
- What Joe wants readers to get out of his book, “Stacked” [21:42]
- Why Joe believes we need as many voices as possible in personal finance [28:25]
- Learn more about Joe’s podcast, “Stacking Benjamins” [32:00]
- What Joe believes it takes to be a successful podcaster [36:00]
- Why story-telling is such a powerful medium to convey information [38:08]
- What Joe did that brought him joy and put him in the mindset for success [44:06]
Resources & People Mentioned
- Stacked: Your Super Serious Guide to Modern Money Management
- The Hardy Boys Detective Handbook
- The E-Myth Revisited
- The Richest Man in Babylon
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Bio
Current board member at large of The Plutus Foundation.
Former board president and Board Member of Partnership For The
Pathway.
While Joe’s “money expert story” includes being a former financial advisor (16 years) and representing American Express and Ameriprise in the media, his real story is how he was a money disaster in his early life, pulled his financial house into order, and left his business at age 40 to pursue an entirely different path.
Joe was the “Money Man” at Detroit television WXYZ-TV, appearing
twice weekly. His advice has appeared in Bride, Best Life, and
Child magazines, the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Sun-Times, Detroit
News and Baltimore Sun newspapers. He’s also appeared online in
more
than 200 different places, including CNBC.com and WSJ.com.
The Stacking Benjamins Show was called the “Best Personal
Finance Podcast” by Kiplinger. Lifehacker listed the show as one of
the top 10 of 2021. Joe and the SB team have won five
Plutus Awards and the Academy of Podcasters “Best Business Podcast”
award (beating well-known shows like The Tim Ferriss Show, How I
Built This, and Gimlet’s StartUp).
The Stacking Benjamins Show is created in Joe’s mom’s basement in Texarkana, Texas, where Joe lives with his spouse Cheryl and their cat Cooper.
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