Never Say Impossible Radio interview the well known Jordan Goodman about MONEY
Jordan Goodman
America’s Money Answers Man
Money means different things to various people. For some, it means freedom, independence, and for others it gives them a sense of security and a feeling of happiness because they are able to experience life as they want to on a financial basis. Money does not buy happiness. However, on the other hand, you will feel stressed and anxious if you run out of money and cannot pay your mortgage or put food on your table.
Many Americans simply do not know how to manage their money. I will admit it. I was one of those people who believed that I needed to enjoy my life as I lived it. I gave little thought to the future, and I was way too trusting of the banking institutions and our system. I was young and foolish. Later in life, I witnessed my children making the same mistakes that I had made. Why don’t we require children to learn about managing money at a very early age? I am talking about young children in grade school. I think it is the missing gap in most elementary schools. So many children today feel entitled to wealth because as parents, we want them to have everything their hearts desire. It took me many years to acquire my first home, enjoy luxury vacations, save for the future, and feel financially comfortable. My children, on the other hand, had it all within the first year or two of marriage. Were they saving for a rainy day or an unexpected illness? I doubt it.
Here are eight questions to ask yourself. If you can’t answer them easily, you need help managing your money. The last decade taught us many lessons about where and how to invest our money.
- Do you know the difference between a stock and a bond?
- What is an annuity?
- How much of your income should you be saving on a monthly basis?
- Is real estate still a great invest me in today’s economy?
- Do you know what diversification means?
- Are you knowledgeable about mutual funds or Ira’s?
- Is the stock market a gamble?
- How do you get out of debt?
I am excited to have Jordan Goodman, known as America’s Money Answers Man visiting Never Say Impossible Radio today. Jordan is going to discuss money as we move from 2014 into 2015. We will take a peak at what we can expect from the economy which affects all of us.
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Jordan Goodman has spent the past 37 years focused on one mission: to help Americans do better with their money. In a career spanning newspapers, magazines, books, radio, television, live events, tele-seminars, and the Internet (www.moneyanswers.com), he has helped millions of people to solve their financial problems and realize their financial dreams.
An honors graduate of Amherst College, Jordan had just received his masters degree from the Columbia University School of Journalism in 1977 when he launched an award-winning, consumer-oriented newspaper insert, INFO, which reached 4 million readers every week. That early foray into consumer journalism soon led to an 18-year stint at MONEY, the foremost personal-finance magazine in the U.S., where Jordan reported and wrote on every aspect of personal finance. During his tenure at MONEY, he also became a regular presence on radio and television programs around the country. When Jane Pauley and Bryant Gumbel of the “Today Show” wanted to refute some of the more dubious strategies of financial guru Charles Givens in 1986, it was Jordan they asked to face down Givens. When Ted Koppel needed a financial expert to explain to “Nightline” viewers the implications of the stock-market crash of October 19, 1987, it was Jordan to whom he turned.
While at MONEY, Jordan also began to write the first of his 13 highly acclaimed books on personal finance. The Barron’s Dictionary of Finance and Investment Terms (1984), which Jordan co-authored with John Downes, has been translated into Spanish, German, Russian, Japanese, and Chinese, and has sold over 3 million copies worldwide. Now in its ninth edition, it is considered a classic in its field and a staple on the syllabi of college personal-finance and business courses, MBA classes, and securities training seminars.
Jordan also authored;
Barron’s Finance and Investment Handbook
Everyone’s Money Book
The Everyone’s Money Book Series
Reading Between the Lies
Master Your Money Type
Fast Profits in Hard Times
Master Your Debt
It’s been 17 years since Jordan, in such demand as a keynote speaker, author, and guest expert on radio and television, left MONEY to focus on independent projects. He is the host of the weekly national Money Answers Radio Show which appears on the online VoiceAmerica Business Radio Network at www.voiceamerica.com. Once or more each week, he appears as a commentator on major TV news networks such as CNN, CBS, ABC, Fox News Network and Fox Business Network. During frequent trips around the country, he is a guest on local and regional radio and TV stations as well as a keynote speaker for such diverse audiences as the military, corporate employees, college students, and trade association members. He also participates in non-profit personal-finance-literacy programs such as those sponsored by the Jump$tart Coalition. And virtually every day, often several times a day, from a microphone on the desk in his home office, he speaks to millions of listeners through his regular guest appearances on countless radio shows. These include such prominent programs as “Sunday Morning Magazine” on KMOX that reaches numerous Midwestern states (and on which he has appeared for 30 years); “The Boomer’s BrainTrust TV Show” on 100 stations (20 years); KOA’s Money Monday hour with Mike Rosen in Denver (5 years), and WHYN in Springfield, Massachusetts (10 years).
Along the way, Jordan also has reached vast national audiences as a weekly commentator on CNN’s “Business Day” for 3 years; on Public Radio International’s “Marketplace Morning Report” weekly for 6 years; on the Mutual Broadcasting System’s “America in the Morning” daily for 8 years; and as a guest expert on NBC-TV’s “News at Sunrise” weekly for 9 years.
The son of a father who was a political-science professor for 32 years at the Ivy League’s Brown University, and a mother who was a dedicated community-service leader in Providence, Rhode Island, Jordan early on melded his father’s focus on world events with his mother’s emphasis on serving others. His parents’ formative influences, combined with his firsthand experience of a traumatic family financial crisis when he was a teenager, in large measure explain both the career path he has pursued with such passion and the reasons why he is today widely known as “America’s Money Answers Man.”
In all he does — in his books, his media appearances, his live speeches, his teleseminars, and even in the hundreds of email replies he crafts each month in response to listeners who write to ask for his advice, Jordan:
- teaches the underlying principles of responsible personal finance.
- makes clear the impact of current events on the consumer’s wallet.
- provides outstanding resources that can help the consumer to take the next smart step.
