EP22 - Get off your *** and manage your money! - Chris Odegard the Prolific Investor

Sunday, December 18, 2022

Show Notes

Chris Odegard, the Prolific Investor, joins the Money Seed Podcast to flip the conventional wisdom on retirement finances on its head.  Chris went through a divorce nine years ago, and then decided to take his own financial future into his own hands.  He has since found financial freedom and has quit his nine to five.

Chris recently published his first book, Get off Your A$$ and Manage Your Money: Why You Need Alternative Investments, which discusses the following:
( https://www.amazon.com/Get-off-Your-Manage-Money/dp/1737726408 )

- Why the traditional 401k doesn't work for 92% of Americans
- Why only 36% of Americans are ready for retirement
- What steps you can do to build cash flow
- Real alternatives to the 401k mindset
- Why alternative investments outperform traditional investments on 11 of 13 categories
- Why real estate is such a good investment

Chris runs the blog and podcast The Prolific Investor, where he discusses all of these topics in detail.  ( https://theprolificinvestor.net/blog/ )

The books Chris mentioned in this episode include:
- Get off Your A$$ and Manage Your Money by Chris Odegard
- Tax Free Wealth, 2nd edition by Tom Wheelwright 

The vending machine videos mentioned in the podcast are:
https://www.forbes.com/advisor/business/start-a-vending-machine-business/
https://youtu.be/ur9Mgxe411Y