At Home Radio with Kate Jones & Friends: Recent Episodes
Kathryn J. Jones
Looking for a comfortable space for conversations that aim to connect rather than divide us? You've come to the right place, and you've found your new home - At Home Radio! This is the show that welcomes guests to share unique perspectives and insights, and invites listeners to be at ease and at home with a variety of subjects, from the serious to the lighthearted.
All 14 episodes in this series with David Hawkins focus on compound interest, which is a powerful way to make your money grow. In this episode, David outlines how people can use this tool to reach their financial goals, and he wraps up his advice with words of encouragement. "You CAN do this," he says.
David is the author of Ask the Mailman: A Simple Plan of High Yield Stock Investing for Uncommon Wealth, available at askthemailman.com or on Amazon.
David Hawkins, author of Ask the Mailman: A Simple Plan of High Yield Stock Investing for Uncommon Wealth, makes the bold statement that if he had it to do all over again, he would not have a traditional individual retirement account.
That's not to say that he's against IRAs. In fact, it's quite the opposite. He's for them because IRAs encourage people to save.
However, people who already are savers — as David is — will accumulate more money outside an IRA than within one. In this episode, David explains his reasoning behind this contention.
David's book is available at askthemailman.com and on Amazon.
Kate had the great pleasure recently of interviewing two candidates for public office on the local level.
The experiences that they bring to public service differ greatly. One is a decorated Marine officer who has led servicemen and women from all branches through three combat deployments. The other is a 30-year-old graphic designer who first ran for office because she didn't see people in her age group represented in government.
Yet, both have the same passion for leading with integrity and serving unselfishly.
In this episode, Kate talks with Chris Banweg, who is continuing his service to the country as a member of the United States Marine Corps Reserves.
Chris talks about why he serves, how he defines good leadership (integrity is an important part of that), the importance of voting, and getting through hard times.
For more information about Chris, visit https://www.citizens4banweg.com/.
Writer-creator, puzzle addict and enthusiastic connector Susan Terkel has a natural curiosity about people and their stories. She has a marvelous way of finding commonalities with strangers, usually within 30 seconds of meeting them.
Kate saw this play out recently at PodPopuli, a recording studio in Hudson, Ohio, just before Susan's recording session. Then, a couple of weeks later, Kate had her own Susan Terkel moment at another studio 19 miles away in Akron.
When an engineer at Akron's Area 67 Recording Studio heard that Kate lives in Hudson, he said, "I know a famous author there. Susan Terkel." Turns out he lived in Hudson for a while himself and hung out with one of Susan and her husband Larry's sons.
Small world, isn't it? Susan comes to this realization on a very regular basis and, yet, every single time she's surprised and delighted. It's magical, she says, and she never takes that magic for granted.
In this wide-ranging conversation, Susan covers a lot of topics including:
- Being a worrier (she's a Jewish mother, after all)
- Comparing life to a puzzle
- Meditating every day
- Writing (plus advice for would-be writers)
- Knitting, sewing and "upcyling"
- Doing for others
- Making friends with people of all ages
- Laughing
- Sharing her secrets to a successful marriage
Listen, learn and laugh.
In this episode, David answers the question: Should you have an IRA? The answer may surprise you.
The former "charter member of the IRA," which he got into when Ronald Reagan started the program in 1980, says that if he had it all to do over again, he would consider going with only two types of individual retirement accounts : the Roth IRA and an employer-matching IRA. He also recommends stock trading accounts.
His book, Ask the Mailman: A Simple Plan of High Yield Stock Investing for Uncommon Wealth, is available on askthemailman.com and Amazon.
David Hawkins is passionate about giving everyone, young and old, the benefit of his investment experience. And if you're a young person, David especially wants you to hear what he has to say. You have time on your side, so investing small amounts of money in dividend-paying stocks can lead to great wealth as long as you're disciplined and keep feeding the investment money machine.
In other words, if you avoid spending your money now on immediate gratification, you'll thank yourself later.
In this episode, he talks about the dos and don'ts of IRAs. Should you put your money into an individual retirement account or is there a better way to save for the future? Listen and find out.
David is the author of Ask the Mailman: A Simple Plan of High Yield Stock Investing for Uncommon Wealth. The book is available on askthemailman.com and Amazon.
Jim Trusso experienced his first major health issue — a ruptured appendix — when he was only 12 years old. During surgery, his appendix burst, endangering his life and extending his stay in the hospital. He ended up missing half of school that year.
More than 20 years went by as Jim lived a normal, healthy life. Then out of the blue, at age 35, he had a heart attack and ended up being one of a handful of patients in the United States to undergo what was then an experimental mammary artery bypass surgery. He had two subsequent heart procedures, in 1983 and the last one, in 1999, after his heart stopped during a bikeathon for multiple sclerosis.
Heart issues and other health problems haven't stopped Jim, who's now 79 and living within bicycling distance to the beach near his home on Little Oak Island in South Carolina. He bikes every day, participates in Dragon Boating and volunteers at the Charleston Aquarium. He and his wife, Susan, travel extensively.
Hear more about Jim's experiences and philosophy of good living in this episode.
Thinking of buying a home? David Hawkins, author of Ask the Mailman: A Simple Plan of High Yield Stock Investing for Uncommon Wealth, has a suggestion: Make sure that homeownership aligns with your personal goals because it's not necessarily the best and ultimate goal for everyone. Find out more in this episode of At Home Radio.
For people who are ready to buy a house, David Hawkins covers the types of home loans to consider and shares a couple of stories based on his own experience.
Michael Weber, leader of the rock band The Michael Weber Show, is a guitarist and so much more — studio co-owner, musical director, film composer, touring sideman, and buyer and seller of musical instruments. Actually, he's a "self-employed entrepreneur," he says, because that description encompasses his many facets including his ability to promote himself as a musician (thanks in part to his degree in advertising from Kent State University).
At only 23, Michael is pretty much a veteran of the music business, having done his first professional gig while still in elementary school. At that point, he already had a band with three of his friends, and they decided to rent a venue to put on a concert. Michael, with his parents' help, served as the promoter, and after expenses, each band member took home about $100. Not bad for a bunch of kids.
Around that time, he also had the chance to play onstage with Counting Crows and learned a valuable lesson in being a more engaging performer. He took that lesson to heart and, to this day, his aim with every performance is to be the kind of entertainer who steps up on stage and sets fire to it with his energy and flash. By the way, the next time he played with Counting Crows — at the ripe old age of 12 — he was taking solos and arranging on the fly.
In this episode, Michael talks about his career, his influences (Stevie Ray Vaughan, Jimi Hendrix, B.B. King, Buddy Guy), his work with The Shadows of Knight (best known for their mid-1960s hit "Gloria"), hanging out with the Gin Blossoms at a recent gig in Wisconsin, and how he's the Love Machine. And, of course, so much more!
Follow Michael's career on his website, on Facebook under his name or under The Michael Weber Show, and on Instagram.
How does borrowing to invest differ from borrowing to buy things? Find out from David Hawkins as he takes listeners step by step through his method of borrowing to grow money in a safe and profitable way.
David Hawkins, author of Ask the Mailman: A Simple Plan of High Yield Stock Investing for Uncommon Wealth, further explains the concept of borrowing to invest by laying out the strategies that he uses.
A few years ago, Katie Andrews was living in Brooklyn and working as a producer in post production. In her early 30s, she had reached a stage in her life when things just weren’t going well. She needed something to pull her out of her funk, and skateboarding turned out to be just what she needed. Today, as she moves back to New York City for another job producing color correction on commercials and movies, she feels inspired to build on what she learned from skateboarding and help others find community and self-confidence.
When you put as much money as you can into your dividend-paying stocks, eventually the cash dividends will be large enough so that some can be used to pay bills. It’s like getting an extra paycheck, says David Hawkins, who speaks from experience. Learn more in this episode.
Investing in dividend-paying stocks makes your money work hard for you, and it will work even harder if you can find more money to invest. So, you might ask, how do you “find” money? David Hawkins, author of Ask the Mailman: A Simple Plan of High Yield Stock Investing for Uncommon Wealth, tells how.
Cleveland graphic artist Ben Small says that it’s a wonderful thing to create art, and that’s what he does outside of his day job. He spends up to 40 hours a week making drawings that on one hand are influenced by his interests in science fiction and animals, and on the other hand by his love for the colors and spirals of Art Nouveau. Products are for sale with some of his designs on the online shop Redbubble.
You can find Ben's Redbubble page by visiting https://www.redbubble.com/ and searching for bensmall (one word, lowercase).
In this episode, David Hawkins, author of Ask the Mailman: A Simple Plan of High Yield Stock Investing for Uncommon Wealth, covers the fine points of compound interest. David’s book is available on askthemailman.com and Amazon.
David Hawkins invests in stocks that pay dividends because, he says, that’s the best way to make compound interest work the hardest. In this episode, he gives step-by-step instructions on how to get started!
There’s a reason Kelly Gunther is known as the Comeback Kid. Setbacks don’t deter her. The Long Track Speedskater who competed in the 2014 Sochi Olympic Winter Games shares her story to help others strengthen their resolve to be their own comeback kids. As Kelly will tell you, “How many times you get knocked down is how many times you get up.”
What do The Grasshoppers and Guy Lombardo have in common? They both appear in Sheldon Zoldan’s “Song of the Day” series. To find out more about the longtime journalist’s yearlong endeavor chronicling music, culture and history, tune in to Episode 10 of At Home Radio!
When Joy York was a girl growing up in northern Alabama, she and her cousins would sit on Mama Levy’s front porch listening with rapt attention to ghost stories that had been passed down through the family for generations. Joy must have inherited her maternal grandmother’s knack for storytelling because Joy’s suspense novel Genuine Deceit, published in 2021, is a riveting tale with twists and turns and a lot of action.
A healthy spine is something a lot of us take for granted until we have neck pain or a sore back. Then suddenly we’re very much aware of how spinal pain detracts from our quality of life. In this episode, listen to Dr. Andrew Bang, a chiropractor with Cleveland Clinic, talk about the importance of a well-functioning spine and how to keep yours happy and healthy.
Antiques dealer Steve Sherhag specializes in Early American furniture and artwork. Not only does he have a passion for the furnishings themselves, he loves to learn their stories. After digging through barns seeking out gems in the rough, he takes them home and lives with them for a while. Then, when he’s ready to let them go, he tells potential buyers all he knows about each piece and why it’s special. You can hear for yourself at the antique shows he runs or attends in Ohio, Vermont and New Hampshire.
In the second part of our series on how to master our financial destinies, David goes into further detail about compound interest, dividends and avoiding risk. He says investing in dividend-paying companies is the best way that people can get their money to multiply.
David Hawkins had a desire to do something that would benefit people he didn’t even know, and that was his motivation for writing Ask the Mailman: A Simple Plan of High Yield Stock Investing for Uncommon Wealth. In his book, David shares what has worked for him over decades investing in the stock market. And he says anyone can benefit, from schoolchildren to retirees.
Geography professor and world traveler John Allensworth has been an explorer since he was a curious little kid pedaling to the far corners of his neighborhood to discover what was there. Many decades later, he maintains his curiosity about places, people and other cultures. His advice for when it’s safe to travel again? See the country, see the world, and try to have a childlike curiosity about the unfamiliar!
About 18 years ago, Frank Satullo began writing about free things to do in his hometown of Cleveland. What started as a side gig out of his basement eventually evolved into OhioTraveler.com. In this episode, Frank talks about how he turned a passion project into a successful business that gives him the freedom to do what he loves.
Kate talks with Lauren Corriveau, an entrepreneur with several missions including being a force for goodness and joy after devastating loss.