Tie Your Camel: Recent Episodes
Muhammad Shire
In the journey of life, we're all nomads. Tailored content on personal finance, professional growth and paying it forward for Muslims in America.
Over 290 million people where the victims of data breaches in 2021. In this episode we cover basic steps you can take to protect your identity.
The US has one of the most complex healthcare systems in the world. While healthcare is essential, it doesn’t have to be extremely expensive. Today, we’ll look at some ways you can reduce the cost of healthcare.
Market volatility can be your best friend, so let it. No kneejerk reactions, no timing the market. Long term, buy & hold investing, adhering to a consistent investment philosophy.
Life can come at you fast. The future isn’t promised to anyone. Old age is a privilege that many will never experience. Find ways to pull some of your future dreams into your current reality.
If, today, you received enough money to never need to work again, what would you do tomorrow, the next month, three, 10, 20 years thereafter?
Are you retiring from something or to something?
This our year-in-review episode. I look back on the year that was 2021 and share my thoughts on how you can have a more successful 2022.
If you enjoy travel and would like to stretch your dollars to afford more of it, listen to this episode. Just like normal living, the three biggest expense areas when traveling are: Lodging, Transportation & Food. I cover how to cut costs on all three plus more.
Today, we’ll cover an often overlooked but extremely powerful retirement account for married couples where one spouse stays home or isn’t employed, the spousal Roth IRA.
Bad financial advice due to misalignment of interests can prove detrimental to your financial future. Don't fall victim to sales tactics. Listen to this episode.
Tie Your Camel will take a two-week break . We’ll restart releasing new content on 12/8.
We're in the homestretch for 2021, how have you managed lifestyle inflation? This week, we revisit episode 23 of this podcast on tools, tips and tricks we can use to guard against and overcome lifestyle creep.
Conventional wisdom holds that the path to building wealth in America runs right through homeownership. In this episode, we cover seven reasons not to buy a house as well as five reasons to become a homeowner.
You can always go back and iterate but you can never recover lost time. You’ll either win or you will learn. Lessons taught by failure are seldom forgotten. Just start!
Your twenties are some of the best years of your life in many ways. This episode provides simple steps you can take in your twenties to build real wealth for the decades to come.
Your life and family circumstances could be radically different next year. You want to take a thoughtful approach to the benefits you select for the upcoming year.
In the accumulation phase of your life, you want to view volatility as an opportunity to buy great companies at a discount.
From frontline supervisor to senior executive, this episode provides a framework on how to shift your mindset as you grow in your career.
A great resume will get your candidacy noticed and get you an initial screen. This episode provides actionable tips on how to craft a winning resume.
Your earnings in that first decade will more than likely set the trajectory of your lifetime earnings. How much money you make in the first ten years of your career, can either break historic cycles of struggle or threaten to perpetuate them for posterity.
As the world returns to a semblance of normalcy, conferences and business gatherings of many sorts will undoubtedly make a comeback. This episode provides a framework on how to establish genuine professional connections.
Not all MLMs are illegal schemes. Some are legal operations. But even the legal ones are almost always a losing proposition for participants. Avoid them altogether and save your time, money and relationships.
What are the hidden constructs that shape our economic outcome and what can you do to create more opportunities for yourself, your family and your community?
I discuss the role of social capital in economic mobility. Talent is evenly distributed but opportunity is not.
To succeed over the next few decades requires developing learning agility and going with the currents of change, riding from wave to wave without losing balance. Free resources to help you upskill and re-skill are closer than you think!
This episode provides a framework to accurately examine the true cost of the dollars in your pocket so that realize the real effort (in hours worked) that went into earning that money you’re about to spend.
Would you like a single question that can help you discover or easily articulate the true reasons why you’re thinking about leaving your employer? Listen to this episode.
Do you know when you get paid next? Without looking at a calendar or employer portal, do you know exactly when your next check will hit your account? In this episode we'll dig a layer or two deeper into what your answer to this question may reveal about your financial health.
A mid-year review is the best opportunity to review progress against your annual goals, celebrate quick wins and if needed, to course correct. This episode provides a starting point to ask the right questions along the three key themes of this podcast: Personal Finance, Professional Growth and Paying it Forward.
In this episode, I share a framework and tools you can use to prevent and overcome lifestyle inflation.
I discuss Health Savings Accounts, popularly known as HSAs. I review the triple tax benefits and reveal additional ways to maximize the HSA for long-term financial success.
Career advice to incoming freshmen and current college students: When picking a major, find something you enjoy, something you're good at and something the market is willing to compensate you in a way that allows you to live the life you envisioned for yourself.
In this episode, I share a simple framework that can help you become a millionaire over time.
This episode provides an overview of the MBA degree. I touch on the benefits of an earning an MBA, highlight some potential watchouts and share some resources that could help you get into the right schools and help with tuition.
Dear Listeners: Tie Your Camel will be taking a Ramadan break. The next episode will be released 5/19/21. Ramadan Mubarak and see you in a few weeks!
In this episode I propose a mindset shift away from the struggle to achieve work-life balance in favor of pursuing work-life harmony as a lifelong goal.
Moving away from your place of birth or where you’ve called home for a long time is never easy. In this episode, I discuss the key drivers to move away as well as the tradeoffs to consider.
This episode provides easy-to-follow tactics to lower your monthly bills and to cut down on your everyday expenses.
This episode shows that it is possible to receive most of the benefits of owning a newer vehicle without the price tag of paying for a zero-mileage vehicle. Consider buying a slightly used vehicle and you could save as much as 50%.
Today I discuss estate planning. Done right, an estate plan can be your final act of kindness for your loved ones, heirs and causes you’ve cared about in your life.
In this episode I share tips on how to marry your strengths and interests with a professionally fulfilling and financially rewarding career that will allow you to live the life that you want.
This episode explores some common money stressors for married couples and provides tips on how to avoid or overcome them. Put money back in its righful place and use it as an instrument to help you and your spouse live the life you have envsioned for yourselves.
In this episode I define networking and explain why many people struggle with it. I wrap up by providing an alternative approach that is less stressful and easier to apply.
In this episode, I review the cost of college, highlight multiple ways to achieve a 4-year degree and challenge the assumption that college is for everyone.
Each one, teach one! Talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not. Today, we discuss how you can help your company, community and the world by becoming a mentor.
In this episode we cover criticism, constructive feedback and coachability. I provide tips on how, when and from whom to solicit feedback. I highlight the do's and don’ts of giving and receiving feedback and how to overcome the fight or flight response when faced with constructive feedback.
In this episode I provide conceptual and operational definitions of budgeting. I cover different budgeting frameworks and highlight common budget spoilers and how to overcome them. Finally, I share useful tools and additional resources to help you budget successfully.
In this episode I provide an overview of the different investment accounts available whether you are a W-2 employee of a private for-profit employer, a nonprofit employee, a public sector worker, 1099 self-employed or a small business owner.
The process to getting an offer of employment can often be opaque. In this episode we demystify the A to Z of getting the job you want. Following the eight steps we lay out in this episode will help you conquer the job application and interview process.
In this bonus episode, I discuss my four key takeaways for 2020. I also provide an overview of the key focus areas to achieve success across Personal Finance, Professional Growth and Paying it Forward for the upcoming year and beyond.
In this episode we review how to determine the current value of your education, experience and skillset in the professional marketplace. Also, we provide actionable steps on how to approach your manager to increase your compensation. Finally, we review six steps to follow for an optimal job search on LinkedIn.
Emergency funds: the bedrock of personal finance. We review the fundementals of building and maintaining a healthy emergency fund in six steps.
This is a podcast that covers Personal Finance, Professional Growth and Paying it Forward.
Tie Your Camel is a weekly podcast. A brand-new episode will be released every Wednesday.
Remember, in the journey of life, we're all nomads. We may be on different paths, but our journey is the same.