LifePower 23: Credit, Debt, Saving, Investing & Home Buying
What you'll learn
- Build, manage, and use personal credit and credit lines
- Better manage monthly income and expenses
- Use investing strategies to build wealth
- Successfully navigate the world of mortgages and real estate purchases
Requirements
- You should have basic knowledge about using spreadsheets but you don't need a specific spreadsheet software
Description
Get the personal finance tools that enable you to use the complicated credit, debt, cash flow management, saving, investing, and real estate systems to your advantage.
Learn to Manage Your Money
Building and managing your credit score
Using credit cards
Taking out and managing personal loans
Personal budgeting
Saving and investing
Buying real estate
Learn to Master the Financial Tools that Many of Us Were Never Taught
Your ability to use modern financial tools and systems is a crucial ingredient for a successful and happy life. Credit scores, credit cards, student loans, mortgages, tax-deferred investment accounts, and financial instruments like index funds, mutual funds, ETFs, stocks, and bonds are fundamental to existence in our modern world. The topics in this course are relevant to people in all developed economies.
Ignorance is an expensive choice and there are plenty of organizations who would be happy to keep taking advantage of people who can’t navigate these systems. In this financial empowerment series you won’t get bombarded with boring math formulas. You’ll have fun. Let’s take on the system together.
Four Core Skills as the Heartbeat of Your Financial Future
Perfect for smart people who are starting to work, save, and build wealth, through this financial empowerment course you’ll learn how to use credit and debts, how to manage your cash flow, how to save and start investing, how to buy real estate in your name, and more.
Starting with a section on building, managing, and using your personal credit and managing debts, you’ll learn how to use master some of the financial systems that we interact with on a daily basis. By understanding the different levers in credit, interest rates, and debt many people will be able to instantly apply their learnings to save thousands of dollars or more... quickly.
After mastering credits and debts, the series will take you into the Eazl Cash Flow Dojo where you’ll learn more about income and expense management. You’ll have an opportunity to put your learning into practice immediately by developing a snapshot of your personal cash flow.
Once you’ve mastered the use of credit, loans, and cash flow you’ll work on developing an investor’s mindset. You’ll learn how to use tools like ETFs, index funds, and tax-deferred accounts as tools for growing your wealth. The series will address core investing principles like the risk/reward relationship, asset diversification, and speculation vs. investing.
You’ll learn how to acquire real estate and use mortgage loans in the final section of the series. Complete with Eazl’s proprietary Home Buying Cheat Sheet, you’ll learn how to build your real estate acquisition team, how to negotiate with sellers of properties, how to get a good deal on a mortgage, and how to lower the transaction costs associated with real estate acquisition.
Those who complete the course will receive a verifiable certificate and everyone who participates will have access to a suite of support resources from the team at Eazl.
Who this course is for:
- This course is for people who have questions about how to use credit, debts, mortgages, personal budgets, and investment accounts
Instructors
![Davis Jones](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
- 4.5 Instructor Rating
- 46,112 Reviews
- 277,283 Students
- 16 Courses
Davis Jones is the Chief Learning Officer for Eazl, a business school whose courseware is used by organizations like Tesla®, Harvard, the World Bank, and Lyft® and more than 400,000 students worldwide. Mr. Jones also participated in the Harvard University Graduate School of Education Leaders of Learning.
Mr. Jones began his career in digital education following the publication of Career Hacking™, a learning experience helping people making career transitions. Today, it is the best-selling career management course in the history of the Internet and is integrated into undergraduate and graduate-level programs at the University of San Francisco, EDHEC Business School, Sonoma State University, and many other colleges and universities in the US and abroad. Following the publication of Career Hacking™, Mr. Jones negotiated commissions for Eazl to produce courseware on digital marketing, digital customer service, and multiple other business topics. Today, this courseware is used by organizations in both the private (e.g. Tesla®, PayPal®) and public (e.g. the World Bank) sectors.
Mr. Jones earned undergraduate (economics) and graduate (MBA) degrees from traditional universities. He is also a committed lifelong learner. In addition to his participation in the Harvard Graduate School of Education Leaders of Learning program, Mr. Jones has earned credentials from New York Museum of Modern Art® (Teaching with Themes), Udemy® (Trademark Law), and independent learning organizations (Yes I’m a Designer™ / Adobe Illustrator®).
- 4.5 Instructor Rating
- 46,144 Reviews
- 278,355 Students
- 17 Courses
Since launching in 2013, Eazl courseware has received more than 20,000 5-star reviews. Today, Eazl courseware helps teams at Tesla®, PayPal®, Lyft®, Apple®, Adidas®, Harvard, the World Bank, and many other leading organizations make faster progress on their goals.
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