Life is a portfolio, and you manage it. Welcome to investing! We're going to practice doing it well.
We apply the tools of great investing to money and to the rest of life—our health, our relationships, our hobbies, our purpose—all the areas that money is supposed to support.
We treat life as a series of ongoing investment decisions. Where you invest your time, money, and energy compounds. Let’s make sure they compound in the right direction.
036 - Compounding: How Small Things Become Big Things
Compounding is what allows small investments to become enormous ones...given the proper ingredients.
In this episode, we break down the ingredients that make compound returns possible: the starting balance, continued deposits, rate of return, time, and most importantly, keeping the investment working.
Using Warren Buffett, a $10,000 graduation gift, and a real-life retirement example, we see why compounding looks unimpressive at first--and why interrupting it too early can cost us the biggest returns available.
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Who is Jared Bowers and what is this all about? https://www.vestedjb.com/about/
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7 Oct 2026
035 - Margin of Safety: How Wrong Can You Be and Still Be Right?
Margin of safety is the cushion that allows us to be wrong and still be right.
In this episode, we apply margin of safety--one of investing’s most useful concepts far beyond the stock market--to time, money, relationships, health, work, and everyday decisions.
The goal is not maximum safety. Too little margin makes us fragile, but too much can waste valuable resources. The right margin gives us enough resilience to absorb surprises, avoid game-over scenarios, and keep investing.
For detailed show notes and other resources, visit our website at www.vestedjb.com
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Who is Jared Bowers and what is this all about? https://www.vestedjb.com/about/
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30 Sept 2026
034 - Alignment Check: A Framework for Setting the Right Direction
Recognizing misalignment is useful, but the goal is to actually achieve alignment.
In this episode, we build a six-step framework for getting people, incentives, measurements, costs, benefits, and environments pointed toward the same beneficial future. Strong alignment does more than improve the odds of reaching a goal—it often creates additional returns in areas like meaning, confidence, belonging, security, and happiness along the way.
The Six Alignment Steps:
1. Start with the outcome
2. Measure what is closest to that real outcome
3. Connect costs, benefits, and decisions
4. Shorten the feedback loop
5. Change the environment
6. Be honest about your own and other people's incentives
For detailed show notes and other resources, visit our website at www.vestedjb.com
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Who is Jared Bowers and what is this all about? https://www.vestedjb.com/about/
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