By Vena Jones-Cox Long, navel-gazing post/manifesto ahead: Anyone who's started a business will tell you that you HAVE to have a really big "Why"--bigger than 'the money' or the desire to not work for someone else--if you're going to get through all the hard work and disappointments and market cycles and fear. For some people,...

By Vena Jones-Cox I’m very slowly, very painfully, and with a lot of stops and starts, learning something uncomfortable about myself. In my heart, I’m still the workhorse/get ‘er done/no one can outwork me, person I was 30 years ago. I’m the one who’s always ready to jump in, take out the trash, move the...

by Vena Jones-Cox If you got into real estate anytime in the last decade, you’ve spent most of your investing life in a market where prices went up, inventory stayed tight, and competition never really let up. There are some real advantages to that kind of market. Flips, both wholesale and retail, sell fast. Renters...

By Vena Jones-Cox When I was 2 or 3 years old, my mother took me on trips to the library almost every week. While she checked out the latest mystery novels, I always went to the same shelf in the children’s section and pulled down the same worn, tea-colored book called “I Can’t, Said the...

Tax expert and investor Scott Ellsworth is joining us to share his best advice foryear-end tax planning: what you can still do this year to lower your 2025 tax bill,what’s changed thanks to the Big Beautiful Bill, and what you might be missing ifyou haven’t talked to your CPA in a while. Listen in here