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Conversations with Tatum 2

The podcast is moving quickly, we have our first two episodes live!  Here is what we have gotten done this week: Step 5 "Get Your Podcast Artwork Created" was completed as you can see below in the podcast player. This process was fairly simple and cheap, I payed the freelancer $20 to complete the task. I would recommend using  Fiverr  if you already have a good idea of what you want the artwork to look like. Here is what I sent as my order requirements "Looking for podcast artwork for a family podcast call 'Conversations with Tatum'. Tatum is a 7-year-old boy with blonde hair and blue eyes. Looking for some options." I attached the picture that was used as the artwork. I was hoping for a couple of options, but I'm satisfied with the end result. One thing that isn't discussed in the guide  is the intro and outro music. It is something that is important to have. I did a little research about royalty free music and decided that I didn't want to lear...

Podcast Listening List week ending 7/25/20

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Here is a list of podcasts that I listened to this week:

Credit Cards

I tried to follow Dave Ramsey for a while. It is the only way I could get my wife on the same page as me financially. But one piece that I think that Dave gets wrong is the no credit cards, whatsoever. I get it, there are some people that do not have the discipline or competency to pay off their balance every month. And I know that there are studies that prove that you spend more when using cards than cash, but for us naturally frugal folks it makes sense to take advantage of these tools that reward you for spending money that you were going to spend anyway. There are also different methods out there of collecting and using points for travel, but I have always been a fan of cash back cards. Cash is more fungible than points, I can take it and invest it where I can't do that with points. So I have leveraged (pun intended) several different cards to build a card portfolio that delivers the highest cash back with the least effort. Here are the cards that I use: American Express - Blue...

Podcast Listening List week ending 7/18/20

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Here is a list of podcasts that I listened to this week: https://tim.blog/2020/06/25/david-yarrow/ https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/when-does-a-pandemic-start-to-erode-civil-liberties/ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/honoring-the-alliance-during-covid/id1089013200?i=1000479605587 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/mcconaughey-didnt-get-hacked-twitters-tboy-hack-hasbros/id1386234384?i=1000485262417 http://revisionisthistory.com/seasons?selected=season-5 https://fivethirtyeight.com/videos/white-democrats-want-to-reduce-racial-inequalities-until-they-dont/ https://www.atlantafalcons.com/video/podcast https://www.capitalism.com/podcast/passion-into-profit-turn-a-part-time-hobby-into-a-full-time-income/ https://www.smartpassiveincome.com/podcasts/inside-start-online-membership-community-kevin-fremon/