Money Mentor Podcast™

After 22 years in the military, Anthony was still renting. 10 months later, he owns 4 properties. After 22 years in defence, Anthony always thought he was doing well with money. He wasn't. He was renting, holding onto 1 investment property, and every dollar that came in went straight back out. In just 10 months with Infinity, he bought his own home for $660,000, built $40,000 in redraw in around 6 months, and added 3 investment properties along the way. His home loan is now forecast to be gone in 3 years and 4 months. He's doing it all for his 15 year old son, the reason he says he can't slow down. Want to improve your own financial future? Our free webinar is where to start: 👉 https://bit.ly/43V2jKN #ChangingLivesPodcast #PropertyInvestingAustralia #FinancialFreedom

Elly and Taryn work at Infinity Group and used the same strategy as other clients to buy 3 properties. Elly was a teacher paying $700 a week in rent on her own, and driving a novated lease car that cost her more than it saved. Taryn was 27 and renting, sure that buying alone was years away. Both used the same playbook Infinity clients follow. Elly sold her car, did Uber Eats at night, and 2 years on, owns 2 investment properties which have gone up $200,000 in equity. Taryn's parents went guarantor on her first place, and she's already paid off $10,000 since January. Want to improve your own financial future? Our free webinar is where to start: 👉 https://bit.ly/43V2jKN #ChangingLivesPodcast #PropertyInvesting #FinancialFreedom

Jacinta and Josh were staring down a 30 year mortgage. In just over a year they cut it to 6. Jacinta and Josh bought their first apartment at 23, paid the minimum for 7 years, and only chipped $90k off it. Strata issues forced a sale during Jacinta's maternity leave, and they moved in with family for 10 months to save for round 2, a $899k, 30 year home loan. They found Infinity searching for an Australian version of Dave Ramsey. On their own they'd already pulled their timeline down to 19 years. With the debt reduction plan it dropped to 6 years and 7 months, and their balance has already gone from $899k to $784k in just over a year. They'll own their home before they turn 40. Want to improve your own financial future? Our free webinar is where to start: 👉 https://bit.ly/43V2jKN #ChangingLivesPodcast #MortgageFreeAustralia #FinancialFreedom

13 years together, no joint account, constant fights about money. 90 days later, they are $58,000 ahead. Sam and Britt had been together 13 years and never once talked about money, no joint account, just the same quiet arguments coming back around. Britt saved without trying. Sam maxed out a $1,000 credit card and thought nothing of it. After a year of watching from a distance, they finally joined Infinity in April and found out their two properties had been cross securitised the whole time. Ninety days in, Britt has saved money for the first time in her life, they are already $58,000 ahead of plan, and their home loan could be gone in just over three years. The fights about money have stopped. Want to improve your own financial future? Our free webinar is where to start: 👉 https://bit.ly/43V2jKN #ChangingLivesPodcast #MortgageFreeAustralia #FinancialFreedom

Kirsty and Jake weren't broke, they were comfortable. Comfortable still left 13 years on the mortgage. Kirsty has worked in real estate since she was 17 and was terrified of investing in property. Jake runs a waste business and watched Infinity Group for nearly 2 years before he said anything. From the outside they looked sorted, no credit cards, no debt apart from the house, bills always paid. Kirsty says it was comfortable, but it wasn't right, and neither of them knew how to fix it. In under 12 months they have taken just under $150,000 off their home loan and bought four investment properties. Jake's only regret is the two years he waited. Want to improve your own financial future? Our free webinar is where to start: 👉 https://bit.ly/43V2jKN #ChangingLivesPodcast #PayOffYourMortgage #FinancialFreedom

Sean and Monique were told no for 3 years. 90 days in, almost $30,000 is off their mortgage. Sean and Monique had spent years asking for help with their money and hearing no from everyone, financial advisors included. When Infinity said not yet back in 2023, they took it personally and went to work. The 3 years that followed were brutal. The business dried up after Covid, they lost a pregnancy two weeks before Christmas, a tornado cut their power for a fortnight, and they separated for a week to work out what they actually wanted. They came back, signed up in April, and two sweeps later almost $30,000 is gone from the mortgage. Sean still calls it witchcraft. Want to improve your own financial future? Our free webinar is where to start: 👉 https://bit.ly/43V2jKN #ChangingLivesPodcast #MortgageFreeAustralia #FinancialFreedom

Benji and Cherry had $1 million sitting in the bank and a $750,000 mortgage they never paid off. They weren't struggling, and that was the problem. The cash sat there earning interest they were taxed on while they kept paying interest on the home loan, and Cherry was sceptical of Infinity from the start, convinced anything that sounded this good had a catch in it. What changed her mind was seeing their super broken down and realising what retirement would actually look like if they carried on exactly as they were. In this episode they talk about paying the home loan off straight away, why they still stick to a weekly budget now that they don't have to, and the 10 year goal Benji is not shy about. Want to improve your own financial future? Our free webinar is where to start: 👉 https://bit.ly/43V2jKN #ChangingLivesPodcast #PayOffYourMortgage #FinancialFreedom

In their 50s, Brad and Fiona paid $45,000 to the bank in a year, but less than $10,000 came off their home loan. Their mortgage had kept creeping up, and they knew they needed a plan for retirement. After looking closer, they realised they had paid $45,000 to the bank in one year while reducing their loan by less than $10,000. After watching the free webinar and completing the masterclass, they saw a potential path to pay off their home loan in less than 5 years. Now, just 90 days in, the future feels very different. Want to improve your own financial future? Our free webinar is where to start: 👉 https://bit.ly/43V2jKN #ChangingLivesPodcast #MortgageFreeAustralia #RetirementPlanning

Clare thought the age gap meant she'd have to work long after Stewart retired. 2 years on, that's changed. Clare and Stewart started with an $855,000 home loan, a credit card maxed out at $12,000 most months, and repayments that barely dented what they owed. Because of the age gap between them, Clare had quietly made peace with being the one still working long after Stewart stopped, funding a retirement that wasn't hers yet. A free webinar during a storm on holiday cracked that open, though she spent the next six months convinced it might be a scam. Two years on, their mortgage term has gone from 28 years to nine, and retiring together is finally on the table. Want to improve your own financial future? Our free webinar is where to start: 👉 https://bit.ly/43V2jKN #ChangingLivesPodcast #MortgageFreeAustralia #FinancialFreedom

Jim Chalmers says you'll "get over" the broken tax promise, but Sydney rents just hit $900 a week. This month we unpack Chalmers' admission that Labor broke its negative gearing and capital gains tax promise, and what "you'll get over it" actually means for renters and investors. We cover the case for capping migration to housing supply, why first home buyer loan applications are down 19% while rents keep climbing, and the RBA's rate hold despite underlying inflation sitting at its highest level in years. Then the full data deep-dive: Sydney's price slump versus Brisbane and Perth's building boom, Melbourne's approvals slide, investor lending down 14.9%, and the auction clearance rates hinting at an early spring revival. Money Mentor YouTube Channel: @moneymentorau Dr Andrew Wilson on LinkedIn: /dr-andrew Follow and subscribe to stay up to date with the latest episodes. Want to improve your own financial future? Our free webinar is where to start: 👉 https://bit.ly/43V2jKN #WilsonMonthly #AustralianPropertyMarket #NegativeGearing

Darrel and Andrea paid off $9,000 in a year. In their first 90 days with Infinity, they paid off $17,000. For years, Darrel and Andrea felt like they were doing everything right, paying the loan, saving, refinancing, and still going nowhere. When they finally sat down and ran the numbers, they were blown away to learn they'd been losing $200 a week without realising it, and admit they kicked themselves for waiting two years to find out. In their first 90 days, they paid off $17,000, almost double the $9,000 they'd managed in the whole year before. They've since bought their first investment property, started a second through their SMSF, and say it's taken a big weight off their shoulders. Want to improve your own financial future? Our free webinar is where to start: 👉 https://bit.ly/43V2jKN #ChangingLivesPodcast #MortgageFreeAustralia #FinancialFreedom

Woody and Natalie were in their 50s with an $800,000 mortgage, and the plan was to use super to clear it. Good jobs, no debt except the home loan, and no real plan beyond the status quo. The retirement plan was to use super to pay off the mortgage and downsize, and it never sat right with Woody. There had to be a better way. They talk about the light bulb moment that interest is calculated daily, the savings account they were holding while owing $800,000, and the slush fund Woody quietly ran for years. Less than two years later the loan sits at about $630,000, and Woody rang the bank because he could not believe it was real. Want to improve your own financial future? Our free webinar is where to start: 👉 https://bit.ly/43V2jKN #ChangingLivesPodcast #MortgageFreeAustralia #FinancialFreedom

Kelly turned 50 last year with $666,000 still owing, and it started to feel like they had left it too late. Want to improve your own financial future? Our free webinar is where to start: 👉 https://bit.ly/43V2jKN After more than 20 years working at CommBank, the only advice she had ever heard was to pay the minimum. Retirement had started playing on her mind and she had no confidence in what was waiting. Rubes had been at her about Infinity for around 18 months, but she quit the first webinar half an hour in. 90 days later, they are sitting roughly $18,000 ahead. In the whole of the previous year they put $14,000 on the home loan. Kelly talks through what she saw on the calculator that changed her mind. #First90Days #MortgageFreeAustralia #RetirementPlanning

Gemma and Toby were comfortable. Good jobs, a house they'd built on ten acres, a $425,000 mortgage they weren't losing sleep over, which is exactly why doing nothing felt so easy. Then Gemma sat through a free webinar, decided to test what she'd heard about credit cards, and closed hers from the front seat of her car. They talk through the declined card that changed how she spends, Toby's scepticism right through the first strategy meeting, and what a 30-year loan looks like now, with three investment properties, a wedding in Tassie and four months at home with their son. Want to improve your own financial future? Our free webinar is where to start: 👉 https://bit.ly/43V2jKN #ChangingLivesPodcast #PayOffYourMortgage #AustralianHomeowners

Everyone told Vince and Carmela they were lucky. Seven years on a 1.99% loan, they'd paid off $7,000. Want to improve your own financial future? Our free webinar is where to start👉 https://bit.ly/43V2jKN Vince and Carmela met at 19, built their dream home, and spent the next thirty years refinancing it, so many times Vince has lost count. Credit cards were the safety net. One Christmas Eve they bought the kids $1.99 toys off a 7-Eleven rack. Seven years on a fixed 1.99% rate took their loan from $216,000 to $210,000. Six months after joining Infinity Group it's at $173,000, and Vince has done the maths on what that's taken off the life of the loan. In their late fifties, they thought a pension was the plan. Then someone told them they could buy a property. #ChangingLivesPodcast #PayOffYourMortgage #FinancialFreedom

They thought they were doing everything right, until they realised how much longer they'd be paying off their mortgage. This honest conversation follows the moment everything changed, from scepticism and uncertainty to a clear financial plan with a goal they never thought was possible. 👉 If this story resonates with you and you want to start setting yourself up for financial freedom, it all starts with our free webinar: https://bit.ly/43V2jKN Before joining Infinity, Joanne and Ray had a family home, an investment property and money sitting in offset, but they still felt unsure whether they were making the most of their finances. While Joanne was ready to make a change, Ray wasn't convinced and questioned whether they needed help at all. After taking the leap, they discovered a strategy that completely changed the way they viewed money. Within their first 90 days they had already made significant progress on their mortgage, and for the first time could see a path to becoming debt free in under 10 years. If you've ever wondered whether you're doing enough with your money, their journey may answer a few of your own questions. #FinancialFreedom #Mortgage #PersonalFinance

Before reaching 90 days with Infinity, Sam and Brad had paid off a personal loan, reduced their mortgage by $17,000 and purchased two investment properties in one week. 👉 If their financial journey resonates with you and you want to start setting yourself up for financial freedom, it all starts with our free webinar: https://bit.ly/43V2jKN Before Infinity, their money was spread across eight accounts. They had a $445,000 mortgage, $25,000 in debt and could not understand why their hard work was not helping them get ahead. With Brad frequently working away and their children potentially requiring long-term support, the financial pressure went far beyond numbers. Sam was hesitant to trust anyone with something as important as their family's future. After attending the Infinity Masterclass, they decided to change how they managed their money. Sam and Brad share the early progress they made, what finally gave them confidence and why building a more secure future for their children means so much to them. #FinancialFreedom #MortgageRepayment #MoneyMentor

This month's Wilson Monthly Market Update kicks off with a hard look at the Prime Minister's recent comments on negative gearing reform — and why the reasoning behind restricting it to one or two properties doesn't match how Australian tax law actually works. From there, the conversation moves into what's shaping up to be one of the biggest questions facing renters and investors alike: as investors exit the market ahead of new taxation changes, what happens to an already undersupplied rental market?The episode also breaks down the government's expanded Help to Buy scheme and asks whether shared equity solves affordability or just shifts ownership (and risk) onto taxpayers, before moving into the regular data deep-dive: the RBA's rate-hold heading into a bigger August decision, a mixed inflation print with underlying inflation ticking up to its highest level since 2004, an easing unemployment rate, home building approvals split sharply between the booming Perth/Brisbane markets and the still-struggling Melbourne/Sydney unit sector, and the latest auction clearance rates — including early signs of a possible turnaround in Melbourne.As always: rents, rates, building approvals, capital city price trends, and the long-term data that puts the current cycle in context.Money Mentor YouTube Channel: @moneymentorauDr Andrew Wilson on LinkedIn: /dr-andrewIf you enjoyed our podcast, make sure you follow and subscribe to stay up to date with the latest episodes.👉 Follow the link ⁠https://bit.ly/43V2jKN⁠ to watch the free webinar and start your Infinity journey now!

In this episode of "The Money Mentor," Rachael sits down with Luke and Kellie - and this one carries an important warning for anyone who has ever placed their trust in the wrong hands. In 2017, they did everything by the book - hired a financial planner and followed professional advice to the letter. They were advised to sell their house and ‘rentvest’. Years later, sick of renting and moving multiple times they realised they wanted stability for their children and a home of their own. They had solid careers, worked hard, but with a new home and large mortgage, they still felt they could never get ahead. When interest rates started climbing, the fear became very real, and without a budget to fall back on, the cracks began to show. Luke and Kellie had grown up in families where finances were always a struggle, and they knew they wanted to build a brighter future for their children. Then an Instagram ad changed everything. One Infinity webinar was all it took - Kellie was sold and she quickly brought Luke on board. What followed was nothing short of a transformation. A $528,000 mortgage on their home was reduced to just $20,000 in just three years. They now have four investment properties, and a portfolio worth five million dollars. But Luke and Kellie are quick to point out that the biggest shift wasn't in their bank account - it was in their mindset. For the first time, they stopped hoping their future would work out and started building it with intention. Luke and Kellie didn't need more advice. They needed the right advice - and everything changed when they found it. Ready to change your financial future? 👉 Start by watching the FREE webinar and see what's possible: ⁠⁠https://bit.ly/43V2jKN

In this episode of "The Money Mentor," Podcast Rachael sits down with Kale and Grace - and if you are young and wondering whether now is the right time to get serious about money, this episode is for you. At twenty-six and twenty seven, they had done something many their age only talk about - they got into the property market. But six months in, with a sizeable mortgage, almost nothing in savings, a wedding on the horizon, and a social circle with very different priorities, anxiety started to creep in. They looked around and found nobody in their world having the same conversation. Then they found Infinity - and the professional advice they needed to move forward without fear. What followed was a masterclass in what is possible when young people choose differently. Almost $100,000 stripped from their mortgage and two investment properties secured. Not only did Kale and Grace find the professionals, at Infinity they discovered a supportive community of people who share their goals, and who freely talk about the oddly taboo topic - wealth creation. In this episode Kale and Grace share what it feels like to swim against the tide, how they kept each other motivated, and what they would say to every young couple sitting on the fence right now. Kale and Grace didn't wait - and now they are unstoppable. Ready to change your financial future? 👉 Start by watching the FREE webinar and see what's possible: ⁠⁠https://bit.ly/43V2jKN