The Investing for Beginners Podcast - Your Path to Financial Freedom

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The Investing for Beginners Podcast - Your Path to Financial Freedom

Andrew Sather, Stephen Morris, and Evan Raidt

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The Investing for Beginners Podcast teaches you how to buy your first stocks and build long-term wealth in the stock market— without the hype or confusing jargon. Hosts Andrew Sather and Stephen Morris break down value investing fundamentals into plain English: how to read financial statements, value a company, avoid common beginner mistakes, and build a long-term portfolio you can actually stick with. Plus, in our At Any Rate episodes with host Evan Raidt, we tackle the personal finance side of wealth building— paying off debt, budgeting, saving, and the money debates every household faces before (and while) investing. Stop chasing "get-rich-quick" schemes and start building your path to financial freedom, one episode at a time. Follow for more.

Episodes

You might think buying shares of Google means you are investing in a search engine, but you are actually buying into a decentralized corporate shell designed to isolate risk and absorb massive losses....
Sep 21, 202642m
Beginner investors want to skip straight to the exciting part—picking stocks, chasing crypto gains, and dreaming of 100% returns. But diving into the market without a rock-solid financial foundation u...
Sep 17, 202652m
Are you spending too much on your car? Is your rent making you "house poor"? In this episode of At Any Rate, Evan and Andrew ditch the vague financial advice and dive into the exact ratios and percent...
Sep 15, 202656m
Most retail investors assume the biggest market gains belong to high-flying mega-cap tech stocks, but historical data reveals a completely different reality: 87% of all 10x stocks over the past decade...
Sep 14, 202658m
In Part 1 of the "Path to Confidence" series, Stephen Morris and Andrew Sather tackle a critical lesson for beginner investors: you must know what game you are playing to avoid gambling away your mone...
Sep 10, 20261h 6m
In this special game-show episode of At Any Rate, Evan puts Andrew in the hot seat for a 15-question financial trivia challenge. From guessing 2026 401(k) contribution limits and average new car price...
Sep 8, 20261h 0m
When analyzing a stock for the first time, retail investors often get blinded by stock price charts, flashy marketing, or news headlines. But if you want to know whether a business is actually compoun...
Sep 7, 202648m
NVIDIA is currently pulling off something unprecedented in financial history: posting startup-like revenue growth (+126% in 2024 and +114% in 2025) while sitting at a massive $4 trillion valuation. Ma...
Sep 3, 202651m
Are you accidentally throwing money down the drain without realizing it? In this episode of At Any Rate, Evan and Andrew break down five sneaky financial missteps that cause people to waste cash—from ...
Sep 1, 202654m
Mainstream financial media tells investors that the only way to build long-term wealth is to throw 100% of their money into index funds and hold on for dear life. But when the market crashes and portf...
Aug 31, 202639m
It’s tempting to fire up a stock screener, sort by top-line revenue growth, and assume you’ve just uncovered a goldmine of breakout stocks. But when a legacy credit card company suddenly posts triple-...
Aug 27, 202649m
What advice would you give your 22-year-old self if you found a DeLorean in your driveway? In this episode of At Any Rate, Evan and Andrew look back at their early 20s to unpack what actually matters ...
Aug 25, 20261h 0m
Wall Street loves a good sci-fi narrative. Between artificial intelligence, private space exploration, and next-generation defense tech, it is incredibly easy to get swept up in the stories these comp...
Aug 24, 20261h 8m
Every investor lives with two competing internal voices: the hyper-optimist who wants to go all-in on an exciting growth story, and the hyper-skeptic who gets paralyzed by uncertainty or cut positions...
Aug 20, 202642m
We all know the "top hits" of personal finance, but what about the silent wealth killers? In this episode of At Any Rate, Evan and Andrew break down six common financial traps that are incredibly easy...
Aug 18, 202655m
A company can post record net income on paper while silently draining its checking account to zero. Mainstream financial media fixates on Wall Street's favorite metric—Earnings Per Share (EPS)—but the...
Aug 17, 202649m
Most retail investors spend endless hours hunting for the next breakout stock, only to ruin their returns by spreading their capital across dozens of minor positions. Buying too many stocks creates an...
Aug 13, 202643m
It has officially been one year since Evan and his wife purchased their first home at 27 years old. In this solo episode of At Any Rate, Evan takes a transparent look at how the finances, lifestyle ch...
Aug 11, 202645m
The stock market isn't just a platform for building wealth; it is a real-time stress test of human psychology. When headlines scream panic and portfolios bleed red, our innate cognitive biases trigger...
Aug 10, 202657m
Tech giants are dropping hundreds of billions on AI infrastructure, but the market is punishing some players and rewarding others for the exact same strategy. In this episode, Thomas Chua from Steady ...
Aug 6, 202651m