Stop Repelling the VIPs in your life! Words and tonality matter
Gary's Gulch
It has been said that you never get a second chance to make a first impression. Whether it is with your potential client, a new boss or your future mate, words and tonality carry a lot of weight and the ones you are using may be torpedoing your chances. Are you presenting yourself using words and a timid tone that are both full of toxic baggage? Listen in and let's find out. Highlights Questioning speech impacting opportunities. The future relationship with AI. Generational gap in job interviews. Confidence through vocal inflection. Authoritative communication vs....
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Can Passive Investing be done safely with Whitney Elkins-Hutten
Gary's Gulch
Many alternative investors see passive investing in syndications as the Easy Button for mailbox money. There are many pitfalls in all kinds of investments including syndications and the only way to reduce that is through education and personal involvement in due diligence. That's why I introduce you in this podcast to one of the best investor educators in the industry. Enjoy this interview with Whitney Elkins-Hutten. Highlights Historical outsourcing of financial management. The importance of self-education in finance. The risk of abdicating financial responsibility. Pitfalls of...
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Advice from my Dad - Happy Father's Day!
Gary's Gulch
Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there! I reflect on stories and wise sayings my father shared and lived out when I was a kid. Like your dad, he taught me timeless lessons that four decades later still fuels my passion for greatness - listen in to see how compassion, wisdom, kindness and street smarts from dad can lead to Agency, Freedom and preserving the American dream for your family. Highlights Inspirational wisdom from Uncle John. Father as best friend and mentor. Building a leaf book with Dad. Grace and learning from mistakes. Hardship, judgment, and...
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Reduce Taxes without the High Risk
Gary's Gulch
In this episode, I discuss the tools available in 2025 and for the next few years that allow business owners and high-earning W2 earners to eliminate the very destructive higher tax brackets without taking risk that you lose all the investment. Saving your hard-earned money from taxes is a powerful emotion and enables the "tax tail to wag the dog" - we get into investments we would not have made with people we don't know because of this emotion. Listen in to hear how reducing taxes is achievable with lower risk strategies in Hierarchy of Wealth Tier 2 - things you directly control. ...
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Trump Tariffs: The American Wealth Engine!
Gary's Gulch
Those in our government and corporate media would have you believe Tariffs are an act of war and recipe to destroy the American economy and way of life. They pretend that tariffs were not used before or that they were not what fueled our country for 150 years before we created income taxes. They're intentionally leading you astray. Under President Trump's approach we've already seen success with the best economy in the month of May in the last 30 years. Trillions of dollars of foreign country investment in the US. You can use the same principals and tools in your own personal economy - listen...
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MAGA Economic Strategy - Leadership Trumps Basic Math
Gary's Gulch
ent actions and their impact on the economy. Individuals look at the reconciliation act called the One Big Beautiful Bill act (OBBB) and that it cuts potentially $4.5T in revenue over the next 5 years and they determine that means our debt will go up by that amount. President Trump is using leadership tools to move our economy in the opposite direction. Specifically he's spurring significantly greater production domestically while simultaneously bringing in revenue from outside the country, specifically massive investment and tariffs. Tariffs are how we funded our country to be #1 in the world...
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Culture Drives your Team's Success
Gary's Gulch
If you run a team, a company or another organization, Culture above all else Drives your Success. And you have to Truly KNOW your people to build and sustain a winning culture. Highlights Empower your subordinates (employees; teammates) so they take the action you’d take, not ask ‘what should I do?’ Breed Readiness and Competency; the process I used and share here is: Study – Discuss – Role Play – Simulate – Perform – Learn from it Checking the organization's Temperature often; have TWO independent ways to know what your people are thinking and what’s going...
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Baby Boomers in a Trance, a Risk to Freedom in the USA
Gary's Gulch
Baby Boomers will retain the largest voting block through the 2026 midterms and while they are moving conservative, it is not happening quickly enough because of the hold that legacy media continues to hold on this cohort. I need agency-minded followers out there to adopt a boomer, have conversations with them, take them to lunch, expose them to what alternative media has been reporting for 5+ years - President Trump is creating huge wins every day but that message is not getting to the Baby Boomers via CNN or even Fox. Pitch in, get vocal with these seniors and let's MAGA! ...
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Want to Continuously Improve? Keep Score!
Gary's Gulch
Good teams get it right about half the time. Great teams work hard, build skill, and get it right most of the time. Exceptional teams excel because they critically review even their best performances to see what wasn't perfect that they could learn from and do better on the next time. It is a process that some call Plan-Do-Review and it was essential to high performance in the nuclear submarine force and for every team I've been on since. Highlights Networking with clients in person. Aspire for More Mastermind Group. Introduction to captive insurance. Switch to exclusively using Delta...
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Busting Financial Myths
Gary's Gulch
In this episode I tackle some common 'partial truths' that I hear from financial pundits and as concerns from clients who have encountered them and been sucked into their surface level statement. Context is huge, and understanding if these financial myths have any truth or apply at all to your situation is key to long term success. Please provide feedback if this episode was valuable or if you disagree - Highlights Lies vs. myths in finance. Misleading financial taglines. Whole life insurance expense debate. Liquidity during crises. Universal life insurance misconceptions....
info_outlineEveryone has the right to freedom of expression. But is there a limit on how free you are to express your thoughts and opinions?
In today’s episode, Gary discusses why freedom of speech is fundamental to all other freedoms. He also touches other important topics such as misinformation and self-censoring. Gary also talks about how it once again ties directly with the lesson of the Master Key System Part 12.
Highlights
- The possible effects of misinformation
- What self-censoring is
- Why people are afraid of saying the truth
- Interesting excerpts from the Master Key System Part 12
- The three steps to eternal vigilance
- Where all the success can come from
Links and Resources from this Episode - The Master Key
- Why Men Fight
- Connect with Gary Pinkerton
- https://www.paradigmlife.net/
- [email protected]
- https://garypinkerton.com/