Jan. 5, 2026

There's no shame in a dollar with Andrew Quebbemann | DFS 380

There's no shame in a dollar with Andrew Quebbemann | DFS 380

Get all the inside secrets and tools you need to help you develop your intuitive and leadership skills so you are on the path to the highest level of success with ease. In this episode Andrew reminds us that there's no shame in a dollar and no limit to what's possible when we use money intentionally.

In this episode you will learn:

  1. Money is a tool, not a judgment
  2. Do right by people
  3. Have a Plan B (and C)

About Andrew:

Andrew Quebbemann is a financial services professional with GoldBook Financial. He will share his personal story about his path to accidentally landing in the financial industry and how that project has changed his life and those around him. His journey is about more than just helping people understand investments, it's about helping the community achieve more than they ever thought possible.

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Jennifer Takagi:

Welcome to Destin for success. I'm your

Jennifer Takagi:

host, Jennifer Takagi, and today I have a new friend with me,

Jennifer Takagi:

Andrew cuevaman, and we're going to talk about a super big thing.

Jennifer Takagi:

There is no shame in $1 and I literally just got off with a

Jennifer Takagi:

client, and we were talking about money blocks and abundance

Jennifer Takagi:

blocks. And I love that the title of your talk is, there's

Jennifer Takagi:

no shame in $1 Andrew, welcome to the show. And how did you get

Jennifer Takagi:

into this work? Accidentally? I love it. Me too. Me too.

Andrew Quebbemann:

Probably, like a lot of entrepreneurs,

Andrew Quebbemann:

yeah, no, I have a, you know, science background, biology

Andrew Quebbemann:

background, and was in the pharmaceutical manufacturing

Andrew Quebbemann:

world for a long time. But, you know, as I kind of was working

Andrew Quebbemann:

my way around corporate America, just there was something always

Andrew Quebbemann:

missing, right? I was looking around and, you know, looking at

Andrew Quebbemann:

the impact that we had in our community and and all this

Andrew Quebbemann:

stuff. And, you know, the year that I started my financial

Andrew Quebbemann:

practice, I had written down so every year I do a recap of what

Andrew Quebbemann:

I'm grateful for, what I accomplished for the year before

Andrew Quebbemann:

and then for the upcoming year. You know, what are the things

Andrew Quebbemann:

that I'd like to get done in that year, I had written down I

Andrew Quebbemann:

would like to learn more about personal finance. I had a

Andrew Quebbemann:

financial advisor myself at the time, but just felt like there

Andrew Quebbemann:

was a knowledge gap that I wanted to get to. And then, lo

Andrew Quebbemann:

and behold, eight months later, I dove head first into the whole

Andrew Quebbemann:

industry.

Jennifer Takagi:

I love that because I've taken notes, taking

Jennifer Takagi:

notes. I have a degree in French and Spanish, and I worked for

Jennifer Takagi:

the federal government for many years, and now I'm an energy

Jennifer Takagi:

healer, a podcast as a leadership development trader.

Jennifer Takagi:

And so it's very interesting how people get on these paths, and

Jennifer Takagi:

it's like, I don't want to be on this path anymore. I'm going to

Jennifer Takagi:

go this other way. So I love that. So years in, and you're

Jennifer Takagi:

like, Yeah, I'm going to do finance. I love it. So what's

Jennifer Takagi:

one of the biggest changes that happen for you when you made

Jennifer Takagi:

this big shift. Because with entrepreneurs being the mainstay

Jennifer Takagi:

of my audience, entrepreneurs and coaches like we all have

Jennifer Takagi:

that one big shift mentally, emotionally that took place when

Jennifer Takagi:

we made this hard left turn or right turn, whichever way it

Jennifer Takagi:

went. Yeah. Yeah. So what was that for you?

Andrew Quebbemann:

It was, it was a little scary at first,

Andrew Quebbemann:

because, like I said, and I had asked the people that were, you

Andrew Quebbemann:

know, looking to get me into the business, and I said, you know,

Andrew Quebbemann:

why do you want me? Like, I don't know anything about, you

Andrew Quebbemann:

know, finance, like, I know some stuff, but not to the extent

Andrew Quebbemann:

that you know I would probably need to know to be beneficial to

Andrew Quebbemann:

others, and they're like, no, no, no, we'll train you on that

Andrew Quebbemann:

stuff, but it's the people skills, because I was always in

Andrew Quebbemann:

business development and and so I'm like, okay, so I went for

Andrew Quebbemann:

it. And, you know, initially, especially, there was, like, a

Andrew Quebbemann:

lot of imposter syndrome, because I'm like, you know, what

Andrew Quebbemann:

am I doing here? I gotta learn all that stuff, and I'm trying

Andrew Quebbemann:

to take all these tests and get through all this material as

Andrew Quebbemann:

fast as possible, because at the end of the day, the last thing I

Andrew Quebbemann:

want is to do wrong by someone. Because I had, I had a financial

Andrew Quebbemann:

advisor. I fired my first one. Oh, okay, and it was because we

Andrew Quebbemann:

had rolled some money from a traditional retirement account

Andrew Quebbemann:

into a Roth. And for those of you that don't know, that counts

Andrew Quebbemann:

as income that year, and so I had to pay a huge tax bill the

Andrew Quebbemann:

following year. And I was like, where did you think this money

Andrew Quebbemann:

was coming from? I didn't have it right? So I had to take out a

Andrew Quebbemann:

personal loan to pay my tax bill that year. I was furious. And so

Andrew Quebbemann:

I just I had that in the back of my mind. It's like I always want

Andrew Quebbemann:

to do right by everyone that I'm working with. And so, you know,

Andrew Quebbemann:

the early stages was, you know, they always say when you kind

Andrew Quebbemann:

of, you know, switch jobs, you drink water through a fire hose.

Andrew Quebbemann:

I felt like I was drinking a hurricane. So it was, it was a

Andrew Quebbemann:

lot at the time, but it was so much fun.

Jennifer Takagi:

And so when it comes to learning new things and

Jennifer Takagi:

jumping in, I like, I'm really good at jumping in and learning

Jennifer Takagi:

new things. I have a friend who calls me like a course junkie,

Jennifer Takagi:

and when I was talking to another coach who was, like,

Jennifer Takagi:

intuitive on a different level, I'm not going to say more

Jennifer Takagi:

intuitive, just kind of a different level, or coming at it

Jennifer Takagi:

from a different angle, and she goes, Well, you were actually

Jennifer Takagi:

put on the earth to learn a whole lot of stuff. So. You're

Jennifer Takagi:

going to keep signing up for courses because you want to

Jennifer Takagi:

learn more, you want to keep learning, and so it's going to

Jennifer Takagi:

keep happening. And I was like, okay, great, gotta plug in here.

Jennifer Takagi:

Okay, great. Like, I'm okay with that. But then I did have some

Jennifer Takagi:

of the imposter syndrome, but it was also a little bit what you

Jennifer Takagi:

said, like, who's going to take me seriously when I do this?

Jennifer Takagi:

When I left my federal job and went into leadership

Jennifer Takagi:

development, every bit I was in housing and everybody wanted me

Jennifer Takagi:

to teach on housing rules. Why do you want to teach on housing

Jennifer Takagi:

rules? I did that for years. I didn't want to do that anymore.

Jennifer Takagi:

I wanted to do leadership development, because the federal

Jennifer Takagi:

government was not really great at that time. Maybe it is now,

Jennifer Takagi:

maybe it is now. I doubt it. I'm good at training people on on

Jennifer Takagi:

leading. Like, they taught us how to manage like, how to do

Jennifer Takagi:

time cards, how to do leave slips, how to write somebody up,

Jennifer Takagi:

but they didn't really teach us how to lead. So I got really,

Jennifer Takagi:

really invested in learning how to do that and doing it, but

Jennifer Takagi:

then people are like, but Jennifer, you're a housing

Jennifer Takagi:

person. You're not a leadership person. So what I thought was

Jennifer Takagi:

going to be an easy translation into clients and work. I mean, I

Jennifer Takagi:

retired and said, Man, I'm going to take a month off. And then,

Jennifer Takagi:

literally, on the 31st day, my phone rang, and this guy was

Jennifer Takagi:

like, Hey, would you please come do this training? I was like,

Jennifer Takagi:

Yeah, that's the rest of my life. My phone's just going to

Jennifer Takagi:

ring. It didn't happen that way, by the way, it did not happen

Jennifer Takagi:

that way. But that whole thing of, wow, like, I'm doing

Jennifer Takagi:

something new. Does anybody believe me? And they didn't like

Jennifer Takagi:

I had to find a whole new audience, a whole new tribe. Did

Jennifer Takagi:

you experience that? Or were your people, like Andrew, you

Jennifer Takagi:

are so smart and you were so great in your pharmaceutical

Jennifer Takagi:

world and all your other things that, yeah, this fits. Did you

Jennifer Takagi:

have an easy transition, or were you like me? And it was hard

Andrew Quebbemann:

for a couple of individuals, it was very

Andrew Quebbemann:

supportive. And they were like, you know, yeah, you know, we get

Andrew Quebbemann:

where you're going. But for most of it, most of the people I knew

Andrew Quebbemann:

were family or whatever, you know, they're not clients, so

Andrew Quebbemann:

we'll just say that. So it is, it is a change and, and I've

Andrew Quebbemann:

talked to people kind of ahead of this, you know, curve of

Andrew Quebbemann:

where I'm at in the industry, and they always say, like, your

Andrew Quebbemann:

family and your close friends will come back to you in like,

Andrew Quebbemann:

year five or six, and at that point, you know, it's

Andrew Quebbemann:

interesting, because some some people, like in the financial

Andrew Quebbemann:

services industry, like, they start to specialize, and so by

Andrew Quebbemann:

that time, they may not be a good fit to help their family

Andrew Quebbemann:

and friends anymore. It's like, oh, this is kind of like, I'll

Andrew Quebbemann:

do you a solid. But, you know, we've we've progressed and we've

Andrew Quebbemann:

grown since then. So I do think that there's a part of that

Andrew Quebbemann:

where you just, you have to figure it out. And I'm sure a

Andrew Quebbemann:

lot of entrepreneurs will agree, it's it's up to you, and so if

Andrew Quebbemann:

they don't do it, and you know, if you have it, and that one

Andrew Quebbemann:

market is great, and they help you out, that's wonderful. But

Andrew Quebbemann:

if they don't, and you still believe in yourself, then you

Andrew Quebbemann:

have to go, find somewhere else to go.

Jennifer Takagi:

So I love the title of this. There's no shame

Jennifer Takagi:

in $1 and being in like an energy, healing, entrepreneurial

Jennifer Takagi:

space. Yeah, I literally read a Facebook post. Somebody post a

Jennifer Takagi:

question, posted a question, and it was like, How much do you

Jennifer Takagi:

charge for a session? And so people were chiming in,

Jennifer Takagi:

actually, I don't think anybody actually gave $1 amount, but

Jennifer Takagi:

they were like, well, I offer this experience. So you're like,

Jennifer Takagi:

Okay, well, they, they're going to charge more than a this

Jennifer Takagi:

whatever. You're like, trying to eke it out. But one woman put

Jennifer Takagi:

you should not charge for your gifts and talents. That is

Jennifer Takagi:

wrong. And I thought, what? And I keep it keeps coming up. I was

Jennifer Takagi:

on a panel a couple of weeks ago, and this woman said, Oh,

Jennifer Takagi:

well, I don't like to charge for that because, like, I want to

Jennifer Takagi:

give back. And I was like, Holy crap, Oly, who's going to pay

Jennifer Takagi:

your electric bill? I don't understand. So transitioning

Jennifer Takagi:

that into, there's no shame in $1 how does that come up for you

Jennifer Takagi:

and your clients, and how do you navigate that?

Andrew Quebbemann:

Yeah, no, that's that's a great lead in

Andrew Quebbemann:

because if you want to give back, like, I coach hockey on

Andrew Quebbemann:

the weekends for little kids, I teach them how to play. That's

Andrew Quebbemann:

giving back to the community. I do that for an hour. It's fun.

Andrew Quebbemann:

You know, that's whatever when it comes to, you know, when

Andrew Quebbemann:

there's no shame in $1 when I say that, and I want you guys

Andrew Quebbemann:

to. Say it with me, like, there's no shame in $1

Jennifer Takagi:

there's no shame in $1

Andrew Quebbemann:

Yeah, and when you feel the feeling behind

Andrew Quebbemann:

that, when you say that, I, you know, I find a lot of people

Andrew Quebbemann:

when they grow up, and maybe this is, you know, I don't know,

Andrew Quebbemann:

I don't know what the younger generation is experiencing now,

Andrew Quebbemann:

but we didn't talk about our money. We didn't talk about our

Andrew Quebbemann:

neighbors money. It wasn't polite to ask what someone got

Andrew Quebbemann:

in a new job. It wasn't polite to ask how much a car cost and

Andrew Quebbemann:

and so you have this pattern as a kid growing up for a long time

Andrew Quebbemann:

that we're not supposed to talk about money, and when that

Andrew Quebbemann:

translates to you, then as an adult, now you have a family,

Andrew Quebbemann:

you're looking for a new job, you're trying to understand your

Andrew Quebbemann:

company benefits, you're trying to set your kids up for success,

Andrew Quebbemann:

but now you've been conditioned to have this, oh, I can't talk

Andrew Quebbemann:

about this or, or this should be just as hard as it was for my

Andrew Quebbemann:

kids, as it was for me, or, like, all this stuff gets

Andrew Quebbemann:

wrapped into what should otherwise be. Like, money is a

Andrew Quebbemann:

tool. It creates options. It creates flexibility. There is

Andrew Quebbemann:

nothing else in it. It doesn't it goes from, you know, bad

Andrew Quebbemann:

ideas to good ideas. You know, it's just there as a lever for

Andrew Quebbemann:

you to create a life that you want. Some people wish they had

Andrew Quebbemann:

more. Some people are content where they're at. That doesn't

Andrew Quebbemann:

matter. But like the richest people, they talk about money

Andrew Quebbemann:

all the time. They they talk about how they use it, how they

Andrew Quebbemann:

leverage it, how they do this and that with it. And so that's

Andrew Quebbemann:

where I think it comes in, where this this shame, or I should be

Andrew Quebbemann:

here, or I should have done this, or it would be really nice

Andrew Quebbemann:

if, if those are the types of questions, and I hit that all

Andrew Quebbemann:

the time with clients, if those are the types of questions that

Andrew Quebbemann:

you're facing for yourself, do you want to keep living that

Andrew Quebbemann:

way? Or would you rather say, Hey, I've got this done. It's

Andrew Quebbemann:

okay. I know what. You know what can't happen. I know that I've

Andrew Quebbemann:

done everything in my power to make sure that my future is

Andrew Quebbemann:

secure. My family's future is secure. And so that's where it

Andrew Quebbemann:

starts to show up.

Jennifer Takagi:

Well, it's interesting you say that I don't

Jennifer Takagi:

know that money was really discussed too much in my

Jennifer Takagi:

household, like I knew how much my dad made, but having been in

Jennifer Takagi:

housing and then federal government, like my pay was

Jennifer Takagi:

posted, like you could look up what I made, and, you know,

Jennifer Takagi:

somebody was like, Oh, how did you afford that? Well, you know,

Jennifer Takagi:

how much I make, so obviously I just made different choices with

Jennifer Takagi:

my money. Yeah, you made with yours. And so my belief is,

Jennifer Takagi:

always, we all have X amount of dollars, and the question is,

Jennifer Takagi:

what are you going to do with your ex? Yeah, like, do you want

Jennifer Takagi:

to go buy the most expensive outfit and have one? Or do you

Jennifer Takagi:

want to buy something less expensive and have 15 like so

Jennifer Takagi:

what do you want to do with your ex? So that's kind of how I've

Jennifer Takagi:

always looked at it. But I'm learning more and more in this

Jennifer Takagi:

entrepreneurial journey of mine that the wealthy people do talk

Jennifer Takagi:

about money, and you go to a conference and they're talking

Jennifer Takagi:

about, well, I had a six figure day, did you? And I'm like, I

Jennifer Takagi:

didn't have a six figure day today. Like, No, I did not. How

Jennifer Takagi:

do I get that? Let's talk about getting me a six figure day. I

Jennifer Takagi:

want a six figure day like, tomorrow would be great. I would

Jennifer Takagi:

be all about that. So it's interesting, and it's

Jennifer Takagi:

interesting how those stories come up. I've taught some energy

Jennifer Takagi:

clearing classes around that on like, attracting money into your

Jennifer Takagi:

life, and it's like, what number one, what are your stories?

Jennifer Takagi:

Money is bad. The root up so it's, it's the love of money is

Jennifer Takagi:

evil when it's actually the the no money is the root of all

Jennifer Takagi:

evil, but it's actually the love of money is evil, because, like,

Jennifer Takagi:

if all your energies go into only money, then you don't have

Jennifer Takagi:

the family that you're enjoying with your money, or charitable

Jennifer Takagi:

events you're doing with your money, like, you know, telling

Jennifer Takagi:

About the money, which is very different, very different.

Andrew Quebbemann:

So go ahead, if you want one dress that's

Andrew Quebbemann:

most expensive, that's fine. If you want 15, that's fine, like

Andrew Quebbemann:

that, that doesn't matter. And when I talk with folks like

Andrew Quebbemann:

we're trying to understand your goals and your priorities, and

Andrew Quebbemann:

then we're going to have some tough conversations too. Because

Andrew Quebbemann:

the other thing. That kind of comes up in all this is we've

Andrew Quebbemann:

got a limited amount of time, and we don't know how much we

Andrew Quebbemann:

have. And I kind of go back to like, there's this great, lovely

Andrew Quebbemann:

man by the name of sad guru, and this is his quote, but says

Andrew Quebbemann:

people only think other people die. And like, think about that

Andrew Quebbemann:

for a second. That means that we have the ability to direct our

Andrew Quebbemann:

energies in a given day, and we should try to maximize that,

Andrew Quebbemann:

whatever that is, and so, you know, when we're going through

Andrew Quebbemann:

everything, it's okay if you want, you know, to buy a new

Andrew Quebbemann:

house. It's okay if you don't want to buy a new house, but

Andrew Quebbemann:

creating yourself again, I go back to the options and

Andrew Quebbemann:

flexibility of being able to do what you want on your terms,

Andrew Quebbemann:

rather than on the terms of whatever is going on in the

Andrew Quebbemann:

world. That can be very empowering for people to just be

Andrew Quebbemann:

able to say that's great, I'm good over here.

Jennifer Takagi:

Well, it's interesting you say that because

Jennifer Takagi:

I've been in Spain almost three weeks now, and I've got one more

Jennifer Takagi:

week to go, and I'll go back home. And it's been wonderful,

Jennifer Takagi:

and I did this last year, also for a month, and in a coaching

Jennifer Takagi:

group, coaching call, it was like the last one of a series,

Jennifer Takagi:

and we're talking about options, possibilities, like, what do you

Jennifer Takagi:

want to do? And somebody goes, Yeah, well, being an

Jennifer Takagi:

entrepreneur is having your life and going to Spain for a month.

Jennifer Takagi:

I don't want it, and I'm not going. And I went, Oh my gosh,

Jennifer Takagi:

let's be clear, this is my choice. You get to make your

Jennifer Takagi:

choice, yeah. And then somebody goes, Oh, I would love to come

Jennifer Takagi:

visit. I can't afford it. And I said, well, a plane ticket is

Jennifer Takagi:

$757 if you can get the plane ticket, I've got a place for you

Jennifer Takagi:

to say, Oh no, I can't do that. Okay, fine. Yeah, not wanting to

Jennifer Takagi:

do it and not affording it are not the same thing, right,

Jennifer Takagi:

right?

Andrew Quebbemann:

And there's all kinds of different tools and

Andrew Quebbemann:

options. And you know, how do you put this all together, and

Andrew Quebbemann:

that's where it becomes very individualized for every person.

Andrew Quebbemann:

But even for business owners, like everything you know is very

Andrew Quebbemann:

tied, like all of my business is very tied to also my personal

Andrew Quebbemann:

life, it's very hard to separate it all and and just being able

Andrew Quebbemann:

to say, you know, hey, no matter what happens, I've got a plan B,

Andrew Quebbemann:

and maybe I've even got a plan C, you know, that we can fall

Andrew Quebbemann:

back on if something happens like that's a very liberating

Andrew Quebbemann:

feeling, and that's ultimately what I want for everyone that I

Andrew Quebbemann:

work with, everyone that I talk to, I love to educate, because

Andrew Quebbemann:

there are a lot of tools. There's like, 85 different tools

Andrew Quebbemann:

that we can use. Not everything is good for every person,

Jennifer Takagi:

but everybody has a different plan, right?

Jennifer Takagi:

Like, my idea of retirement is different than yours. And, like,

Jennifer Takagi:

right? And what I want to do and how I want to live it and do it,

Andrew Quebbemann:

yeah, yeah. And, you know, I wish everyone

Andrew Quebbemann:

all the success in the world. I mean, it just the I guess my

Andrew Quebbemann:

belief in all this is that the relationship that you have with

Andrew Quebbemann:

money, it's a tool, it's a lever. And then the the

Andrew Quebbemann:

relationship that you have with the person in your life you

Andrew Quebbemann:

know, financial services, professional financial advisor,

Andrew Quebbemann:

right, wealth services, CPA, whatever those relationships, I

Andrew Quebbemann:

don't believe should be transactional. You know,

Andrew Quebbemann:

there's, there's a lot of listening, there's a lot of

Andrew Quebbemann:

care, there's a lot of, you know, there's a lot of

Andrew Quebbemann:

conversations where, at the end of them with you know, when I

Andrew Quebbemann:

first meet someone, very quickly, we get into a realm

Andrew Quebbemann:

that I don't think most people go into with their best friends.

Andrew Quebbemann:

Because I'm going to ask you, what happens if you die, right?

Andrew Quebbemann:

And I don't know that most friendships, I don't talk about

Andrew Quebbemann:

that with most of my friends. Maybe everyone's different, but

Andrew Quebbemann:

you're getting to a level there in that kind of conversation

Andrew Quebbemann:

where it gets very real and it can get very raw, and so it has

Andrew Quebbemann:

to be a safe place. And so for those of you that have these

Andrew Quebbemann:

relationships, are looking at having that relationship with

Andrew Quebbemann:

someone you know, trust your gut if it sounds too good to. Be

Andrew Quebbemann:

true. It probably is. But you know, it's kind of the situation

Andrew Quebbemann:

where, when you're happy, everything is great, and every

Andrew Quebbemann:

interaction that you have is great. When you think about what

Andrew Quebbemann:

might happen on your worst day, the list of people I bet you're

Andrew Quebbemann:

willing to call is very short, and I believe the person that is

Andrew Quebbemann:

responsible for holding on to your money and helping you

Andrew Quebbemann:

direct those decisions on how to go about all that should be on

Andrew Quebbemann:

natural list.

Jennifer Takagi:

I love that, because you should be able to

Jennifer Takagi:

call them, and I had conversations with friends

Jennifer Takagi:

because I'm very comfortable with my person. And when I my

Jennifer Takagi:

lack of a better term, 401, k, when I got it, of course, we

Jennifer Takagi:

just put it in the safest thing ever, yeah. And then when I hit

Jennifer Takagi:

a certain age, he said, every year, in December, I'm going to

Jennifer Takagi:

look at where you are tax wise, and then we're going to roll

Jennifer Takagi:

over as much as we can to keep you in the same tax bracket,

Jennifer Takagi:

yeah, to get the money out. And it's going to take five to seven

Jennifer Takagi:

years, depending on, you know, the market, multiple things. And

Jennifer Takagi:

so slowly but surely, we got all the money moved over so that

Jennifer Takagi:

when I was really ready to take it, the taxes had already been

Jennifer Takagi:

paid. And I know this is something you really can't talk

Jennifer Takagi:

about, you know, given your position, but these are the kind

Jennifer Takagi:

of things that you need somebody in your corner to talk you

Jennifer Takagi:

through. Yeah, how to make those decisions? And it's like, oh, I

Jennifer Takagi:

don't want to do that now. Like, I want to wait and and then I

Jennifer Takagi:

found out, like, when I could actually start drawing from it

Jennifer Takagi:

with no penalties, whereas I had friends with limited, less than

Jennifer Takagi:

limited experience, and they kept saying, you're going to get

Jennifer Takagi:

dinged for that? I was like, I'm not getting dinged for anything.

Jennifer Takagi:

Like, I'm going to pay my appropriate amount of taxes on

Jennifer Takagi:

that, use my money. They're not dinging me. Yeah, it's following

Jennifer Takagi:

the rules in Atlanta laid out systematic plan, so yeah, and

Jennifer Takagi:

and when a bad day comes and we're all going to have a bad

Jennifer Takagi:

day, we need to be able to call somebody who can help us get to

Jennifer Takagi:

our financial resources that we've we've put aside and put

Jennifer Takagi:

back for that. So I love that we we need a short list, and our

Jennifer Takagi:

financial person needs to be on it.

Andrew Quebbemann:

Yeah, it's, it's a very, it's a very

Andrew Quebbemann:

personal thing for people. I mean, I'll just share a quick

Andrew Quebbemann:

story like the what I'm most one of my most proud stories so far

Andrew Quebbemann:

in this career as a financial services professional, good

Andrew Quebbemann:

client of mine, and she's also a friend. We put some work in

Andrew Quebbemann:

place and like, okay, we're not on the track that we want, but

Andrew Quebbemann:

we know we've got some work to do, but we know how to get

Andrew Quebbemann:

there. So cool. Four months later, I got a phone call from

Andrew Quebbemann:

her, and she goes. Dad died, and it was unexpected. I knew him

Andrew Quebbemann:

personally as well. He's a very nice guy, a super lovely human

Andrew Quebbemann:

just came out of the blue, and she goes, now, what you know? He

Andrew Quebbemann:

didn't have anything you know. I don't know of anything you know.

Andrew Quebbemann:

I know you talk to him and you know, so we started going

Andrew Quebbemann:

through everything. And you know why I'm proud of is because she

Andrew Quebbemann:

came into it with so many emotions flying around, and at

Andrew Quebbemann:

least we were able to take the How am I going to pay his

Andrew Quebbemann:

mortgage? How am I going to get through this? What kind of taxes

Andrew Quebbemann:

do I have to do for him, like all this other stuff, we got to

Andrew Quebbemann:

take off her plate to give her more time and space to do what

Andrew Quebbemann:

she needed to do to emotionally heal from unexpectedly going

Andrew Quebbemann:

through that situation. And that was, you know, I was very

Andrew Quebbemann:

grateful to be there for her and for me to be that person that

Andrew Quebbemann:

she called, that we helped, you know, figure that out. That's

Andrew Quebbemann:

the kind of stuff where life is like, there's just sometimes it

Andrew Quebbemann:

throws you a curve ball,

Jennifer Takagi:

and you've got to do it. My I have one of. My

Jennifer Takagi:

dear favorite aunts passed away, and my cousin's an only child,

Jennifer Takagi:

and he was like, I don't know how to make two house payments

Jennifer Takagi:

and my car payment and her car payment, and I don't know how to

Jennifer Takagi:

do any of this. And I reached out to my uncle, which was her

Jennifer Takagi:

brother in law, and I was like, I can't manage this. You're

Jennifer Takagi:

gonna have to step in as the patriarch of the family now and

Jennifer Takagi:

find out, because I have no idea what she had, what she didn't

Jennifer Takagi:

have. Did she have an Andrew in her corner that they could call?

Jennifer Takagi:

You know, those are the kind of questions that that come up and

Jennifer Takagi:

they and you got to figure out a way to navigate them. So if you

Jennifer Takagi:

have it a little bit pre outlined, it can make it easier

Jennifer Takagi:

on your on your family members and loved ones when that day

Jennifer Takagi:

comes, because it's going to come, hopefully later,

Andrew Quebbemann:

yes, hopefully much later. Hopefully

Andrew Quebbemann:

everyone lives to 120

Jennifer Takagi:

and healthily. Like, it's healthily, that's a

Jennifer Takagi:

big one. Okay? So, like, what is one thing you can share with the

Jennifer Takagi:

audience that we should either start doing today or make sure

Jennifer Takagi:

is in place? Yeah? Now? Like, what can we do? Because we

Jennifer Takagi:

probably have somebody in their 20s listening, going, Ah, that's

Jennifer Takagi:

way off. And then we've got somebody that I know personally

Jennifer Takagi:

in their late 70s going, is it too late? So we've got both ends

Jennifer Takagi:

of the spectrum listening here, yeah.

Andrew Quebbemann:

Well, for the those of

Andrew Quebbemann:

the audience that are in the early stages of their career and

Andrew Quebbemann:

they're looking forward to a very long and happy career and

Andrew Quebbemann:

very successful there is nothing like time in when it comes to

Andrew Quebbemann:

finances. If you look historically the stock market,

Andrew Quebbemann:

it tends to go up over the last 100 years. It's always gone up,

Andrew Quebbemann:

right? We've got downturns for sure, but it's always gone up.

Andrew Quebbemann:

So you've got that working for you. When you're younger, you've

Andrew Quebbemann:

got time so you can do less and have still an outsized impact.

Andrew Quebbemann:

So taking advantage of your full company of benefits, things like

Andrew Quebbemann:

that. You know, getting into a habit of saving money somewhere,

Andrew Quebbemann:

it doesn't really matter so much where in the early stages. But

Andrew Quebbemann:

just getting habit. If it's $10 great, if it's five, that's

Andrew Quebbemann:

okay. If it's 1000 fantastic. Doesn't matter. Just start when

Andrew Quebbemann:

you kind of get on towards, you know, the middle of your career,

Andrew Quebbemann:

for those of the listeners in the 30s and 40s, something

Andrew Quebbemann:

that's often overlooked is getting your trust and will set

Andrew Quebbemann:

up. Now, I'm not an attorney, so I'm not here to offer any legal

Andrew Quebbemann:

advice, but your trust and will and how that gets set up can

Andrew Quebbemann:

dictate a lot of the rest of your plan, and a lot of people

Andrew Quebbemann:

seem to go around not knowing those details and some really,

Andrew Quebbemann:

really cool things that are within there that you do not

Andrew Quebbemann:

have to Be a multi, multi millionaire to take advantage

Andrew Quebbemann:

of.

Jennifer Takagi:

Well, to that point, I knew somebody who

Jennifer Takagi:

passed away without a will, and he had a daughter from a

Jennifer Takagi:

previous marriage that was now grown, and because there was no

Jennifer Takagi:

will, everything should have reverted to the daughter, not

Jennifer Takagi:

the wife, yeah. And so they ended up coming to a very

Jennifer Takagi:

equitable agreement that, you know, because it was her stepmom

Jennifer Takagi:

for many years, and they came to an equitable agreement. But I

Jennifer Takagi:

was like, holy, crap. Holy how, like, how could you not what?

Jennifer Takagi:

And the response I got from a friend was, maybe that's how he

Jennifer Takagi:

wanted it. And I was like, Oh, I never thought about that. Like,

Jennifer Takagi:

I like, I just think the wife should be taken care of first.

Jennifer Takagi:

But those are the things you have to consider, like, where do

Jennifer Takagi:

you want it to go? And do you want your spouse, wife, husband,

Jennifer Takagi:

whatever, and for business to be taken care of,

Andrew Quebbemann:

yeah, and for business owners in particular,

Andrew Quebbemann:

because you've got, you know, a business owner like it's it

Andrew Quebbemann:

feels like another member of the family, right? Oh, yeah. So that

Andrew Quebbemann:

also comes your exit strategy. What do you want that to look

Andrew Quebbemann:

like, how you want partners to be able to exit or, you know,

Andrew Quebbemann:

all that stuff, like, how you want those shares of that

Andrew Quebbemann:

company like, you know, obviously, we all want to drive

Andrew Quebbemann:

and grow and develop. Well, if you turn yourself into, you

Andrew Quebbemann:

know, multi million dollar company and develop sorts of

Andrew Quebbemann:

issues that you didn't used to have. Right? That's you can

Andrew Quebbemann:

navigate those. But, you know, and this is the unfortunate

Andrew Quebbemann:

part, for those of the audience that are kind of right around

Andrew Quebbemann:

the corner from retirement financial professionals as a

Andrew Quebbemann:

whole, we're not plumbers in that like, if the pipe does

Andrew Quebbemann:

burst, we really, usually can't fix it. We're kind of more of a

Andrew Quebbemann:

planning commission than a than a fix it commission. But you

Andrew Quebbemann:

know, for those that are like, kind of around the corner from

Andrew Quebbemann:

retirement, you know, spending down your lifetime savings

Andrew Quebbemann:

usually the biggest concern there is, what happens if I run

Andrew Quebbemann:

out of money, you know, then, then what? And so it does help,

Andrew Quebbemann:

even at that stage, to talk to someone in the financial

Andrew Quebbemann:

industry to discuss how that looks and the tax implications

Andrew Quebbemann:

like you went through with your person, that all does matter,

Andrew Quebbemann:

and you can still have an impact on your retirement at that

Andrew Quebbemann:

point, and so I still would recommend that folks reach out

Andrew Quebbemann:

to someone to have that conversation even at that stage,

Andrew Quebbemann:

like it's not. It might be too late to retire in the way that

Andrew Quebbemann:

you want to retire, but it's not too late to retire with a plan

Andrew Quebbemann:

and with some intelligence behind it.

Jennifer Takagi:

It is, and it's kind of like I'm a note taker.

Jennifer Takagi:

I've got pages of notes right here so far. It's the idea of,

Jennifer Takagi:

like going into a nursing home, you have to spend down your

Jennifer Takagi:

assets? Well, okay, let's look at that. Like, where can you put

Jennifer Takagi:

your assets so they're safe? I saw a cute little video on

Jennifer Takagi:

Facebook, and this guy goes wealthy people go to nursing

Jennifer Takagi:

homes and they don't lose everything. And it was like,

Jennifer Takagi:

wait, what? And again, it's a financial it's totally legal.

Jennifer Takagi:

Financial strategies, like how to manage your money, and just

Jennifer Takagi:

because I never want to be that 100% financially savvy person. I

Jennifer Takagi:

want 100% financially savvy person in my corner, guiding me

Jennifer Takagi:

and giving me options that I can choose from. Because what is it?

Jennifer Takagi:

Options and flexibility. Those are your two key things. Like, I

Jennifer Takagi:

don't know what I'm going to do, but I want somebody who does to

Jennifer Takagi:

tell me, give me some options.

Andrew Quebbemann:

And can I swear on your podcast please?

Andrew Quebbemann:

Yes. It doesn't have to roll downhill. I love it, like you

Andrew Quebbemann:

mentioned before, how, like, you know, all of a sudden your your

Andrew Quebbemann:

cousin had to deal with that situation where, you know, their

Andrew Quebbemann:

their mom passed, and now you know, the uncle had to step in.

Andrew Quebbemann:

It doesn't have to be like that. There are things that you can do

Andrew Quebbemann:

to set it up. Because I think most when I talk with people

Andrew Quebbemann:

looking at setting up their children, everyone loves their

Andrew Quebbemann:

children to death. But when it comes to like a topic of leaving

Andrew Quebbemann:

a legacy, whatever that looks like, and it can be a lot of

Andrew Quebbemann:

money, people get a little bit nervous because maybe they

Andrew Quebbemann:

didn't have that kind of money that they inherited. So they're

Andrew Quebbemann:

asking themselves all kinds of questions, but having to take

Andrew Quebbemann:

care of like a second mortgage houses, they tend not to sell

Andrew Quebbemann:

immediately, and sometimes they do, but they tend to not be able

Andrew Quebbemann:

to be sold immediately. Maybe some work has to be done in the

Andrew Quebbemann:

house before it's sold. Or all kinds of stuff happens. There

Andrew Quebbemann:

are things that happen when you pass. And I promise you, no

Andrew Quebbemann:

one's ever said, Wow, I wish someone had left me, left me

Andrew Quebbemann:

less money, because then I would, you know, have to deal

Andrew Quebbemann:

with all this myself. Like it's a pretty immediate thought, but

Andrew Quebbemann:

they like my really good friend, he told his parents this. He

Andrew Quebbemann:

goes. I want the time and space to be able to grieve. I don't

Andrew Quebbemann:

want to have to worry about all this other stuff with probate

Andrew Quebbemann:

and the government and what taxes are like. That's a

Andrew Quebbemann:

headache that I don't want to think about. I want to think

Andrew Quebbemann:

about just you and the good times that we've had and the

Andrew Quebbemann:

memories and everything that goes with that. And so that's

Andrew Quebbemann:

kind of your your option. And I think that's where, you know,

Andrew Quebbemann:

some people make decisions to set some stuff in place, to give

Andrew Quebbemann:

their families that ability to do that.

Jennifer Takagi:

Yes, yes. And I was very fortunate. My parents

Jennifer Takagi:

passed away 12 days apart, which was not fortunate. That was

Jennifer Takagi:

horrific. But we did have there. They did have things set in

Jennifer Takagi:

place. And so we did have a chance to, like, take a breath,

Jennifer Takagi:

like, We barely got through one funeral when the death next

Jennifer Takagi:

death happened. So it was like, Oh, wow. Okay. So yeah, that can

Jennifer Takagi:

be, it can be a lot. And just because I don't. Want to be the

Jennifer Takagi:

financial professional, doesn't mean I can't get somebody in my

Jennifer Takagi:

corner. And a lot of times, depending on the investment and

Jennifer Takagi:

how you're setting things up, the the fees for somebody like

Jennifer Takagi:

you are handled on the back end and elsewhere, versus me having

Jennifer Takagi:

to walk in with several $1,000 for you to tell me what to do

Jennifer Takagi:

and how to do it like there. There are ways that this works.

Jennifer Takagi:

That's not a lot out front. I'm just going to say that from

Jennifer Takagi:

personal experience, I don't know what your policy is, but

Andrew Quebbemann:

that it depends on the individual right,

Andrew Quebbemann:

depends on what we end up, you know, working with, you know,

Andrew Quebbemann:

everyone on but yes, there are ways, you know not everything is

Andrew Quebbemann:

as is necessarily you know it, I guess what I've said before, you

Andrew Quebbemann:

do not have to have millions and millions of dollars to leverage

Andrew Quebbemann:

someone in their knowledge. Because, you know, I said this

Andrew Quebbemann:

when my brother went to law school, I was like, and I

Andrew Quebbemann:

started to learn more about what it was that he was learning and

Andrew Quebbemann:

why he was learning it. It was like, Okay, so he's actually

Andrew Quebbemann:

reading the rule book, right? There are most everyone else,

Andrew Quebbemann:

including me at that, you know, for for all that stuff, it was

Andrew Quebbemann:

like, we're running around playing the game, but not

Andrew Quebbemann:

knowing the rules, yeah, the game like we don't have any

Andrew Quebbemann:

choice. We're in the game. You know, we were born where we were

Andrew Quebbemann:

in the world, and that's, you know, we got the rules in front

Andrew Quebbemann:

of us for what they are, and the financial world is the same. The

Andrew Quebbemann:

The rules are out there. It takes a lot to keep up with

Andrew Quebbemann:

them. You know, especially these days, obviously, if anyone's

Andrew Quebbemann:

watching the news in the US, the story changes often. And so

Andrew Quebbemann:

keeping up with that kind of stuff and implications of it,

Andrew Quebbemann:

they may not be good or bad, but they might change something. And

Andrew Quebbemann:

so we have to pivot. And so that's the kind of stuff that's

Andrew Quebbemann:

harder to keep up with, you know, for a family running

Andrew Quebbemann:

around, you know, running the business, getting kids to soccer

Andrew Quebbemann:

practice and baseball and football and all the rest of

Andrew Quebbemann:

this stuff, life is a lot to manage. So, you know, have

Andrew Quebbemann:

yourself a team around you that supports you know, your goals

Andrew Quebbemann:

and your vision and gets you to where you want to go.

Jennifer Takagi:

Oh my gosh, I love it. So number one, we want

Jennifer Takagi:

options. Number two, we want flexibility. And number three,

Jennifer Takagi:

we need a team that's going to help us navigate the path.

Jennifer Takagi:

Because we don't have to be experts in all of it, right?

Andrew Quebbemann:

I'm not an expert in all of it. I use

Andrew Quebbemann:

attorneys all the time, exactly.

Jennifer Takagi:

Oh my gosh, Andrew, this has been a super

Jennifer Takagi:

fun and helpful conversation for me. Thank you for being here. I

Jennifer Takagi:

will have in the show notes, all places to get a hold of you if

Jennifer Takagi:

people want to reach out. Do you have a favorite platform where

Jennifer Takagi:

people can find you?

Andrew Quebbemann:

LinkedIn is definitely the platform where

Andrew Quebbemann:

I'm most active on I do have Facebook and Instagram as well,

Andrew Quebbemann:

which you're welcome to reach out to me there. I guess the

Andrew Quebbemann:

only one I don't have is Twitter. Never really understood

Andrew Quebbemann:

that one. I just mentally never got there.

Jennifer Takagi:

So I used to have it because I had a platform

Jennifer Takagi:

that was so great, it just automatically posted all my

Jennifer Takagi:

stuff. And then I lost that platform, and I'm like, I don't

Jennifer Takagi:

even know how to log into my account anymore, and I don't

Jennifer Takagi:

even know if it's called Twitter these days, so I don't even

Jennifer Takagi:

know. I probably have something from long ago, far away. Andrew,

Jennifer Takagi:

this has been delightful, talking to you people. I'm just

Jennifer Takagi:

going to say, reach out. Have a financial planner, have somebody

Jennifer Takagi:

in your corner, because I love that idea. Have somebody on your

Jennifer Takagi:

team.

Andrew Quebbemann:

Thanks for being here. Thanks for having

Andrew Quebbemann:

me. Jennifer, appreciate it.

Jennifer Takagi:

I'm Jennifer Takagi with destin for success,

Jennifer Takagi:

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