What if retirement wasn’t the end but in fact just the beginning? What if it wasn’t the time to slow down but the time to kick things into high gear? The uncommon path generally tries to find a way to love what you do so much that you don’t ever want to retire. But for…

What does success look like for you? Having your own definition is not only important in setting goals and tracking progress but it also protects your uncommon path from being upended chasing someone else’s view of success. In this episode, Phillip and Arron share some personal definitions of success as well as some recommendations on…

For most of us, catching a shark is mostly likely to be a reference to a tv show or a run-in with a door to door salesman. But for Joe Snook, owner of Joe Snook Fishing and Charter, catching a shark could be an actual shark on any given Tuesday. But the transition from doing…

The uncommon path is a step by step thing, but it doesn’t mean you can’t make those steps a little easier for yourself when the opportunity arises. This week, we’re talking about automating your goals. The key is to get started and then start moving the goal post bit by bit to help you on…

Life doesn’t always follow the path we expect. For Whitney Maxwell, starting out playing classical pieces led to a winding path of dueling pianos, cruise ships, Swiss clubs, a French major, a Midwest circuit of gigs, and finally back home to Iowa to open up Bloom Music studios. The key to success for Whitney was…

In this Simple Step episode we’re talking about taking the time to dream a little bit. One of the key steps in an uncommon life is to have an idea where you’d like to see your life go. But often that vision gets lost or, never found, under the burdens and business of day-to-day life. …

What do you call it when you have a side gig for 13 years that makes no money? If you’re Ben Fust, you’d call it exactly what you were looking for.  In addition to being the chief audio man here at the Uncommon Wealth Podcast, Ben also has his own podcast, is a house church…

Often times cutting your own path involves being bold, persistent in the face of difficulty and criticism, and an almost supernature focus. One of the risks in this path, however, is blindness. Oftentimes, we can’t see our own risks with the same keen eye we might see it in others. To help, you need that…

Do you act the same way when you’re by yourself as you do when others are watching? The root word of integrity is integer, meaning “whole” or not divided. To have integrity is to be whole, not divided between two different versions of yourself no matter who is watching or, often, when no one is.…

Certainly, with all the fancy computers and smart math folks in the world, there has to be a magic formula out there that balances risk and returns and gets the best investment returns out there for everyone, right? Even if there was such a thing (and we’ll discuss modern portfolio theory out of the gate),…