elBenbo’s investment portfolio

I don’t know how many people reading this will care. But I’ve always been a huge fan of Robert Kiyosaki’s investment advice. And over the past few years, I finally started to get off my gluteus assimus and begin implementing some of his ideas. Specifically, his advice on investing in the 4 main asset classes: real estate, business, paper assets, and commodities. Plus, as a 5th “class”, I also believe in investing in my community’s people & future. But, before I show you anything, a caveat: Nothing I write here is advice. Frankly, you’d be an idiot to take any kind of investment advice from me. But, since there has been a handful of people over the last few years who have asked, and are curious, here’s some of what I am doing with these asset classes currently. (If I leave out specifics, that is done deliberately for privacy, etc). All right here goes — Real Estate: This may better-qualify as sort of a hybrid real estate/business. Hardly makes me any kind of serious real estate investor. And as my pal Trevor Mauch said when introducing me to some folks in the real estate investing niche at a mastermind: “The only real estate experience Ben has is he’s bought a house.” He ain't wrong. But at the same time, I met a fellow via that mastermind who invests in gentrifying (my description, not his...) some of his city’s areas via fix & flip and rehab projects. And by investing with them, I get passive income each month without the hassle of managing real estate. Business #1: First is BenSettle. com - i.e. publishing my books (fiction and nonfiction), Email Players newsletter, and other multi-media projects. This is my primary gig, for obvious reasons. Businesses #2 & 3: I also invest in my own software platforms under two different corporate entities. One of them makes Learnistic and BerserkerMail, plus our Profit Pirates coaching program, with our ContraCart and ScuttleCast software tools still being cooked up in the kitchen. The other is our SocialLair platform, which we are augmenting with new bells & whistles for its 2.0 release next year. Business #4: This one apparently is no longer happening. But a few years ago, I eagerly invested in a movie that would serve as a refreshing counter to the constant “woke” bull shyt being shoveled out by Disney that is destroying their brand, whether the Disney fanboys want to admit it or not. The movie was the brain child of two of my favorite writers. But, it ran into some kind of snag recently. And while I may still be able to benefit from it even though it's no longer being made, it just goes to show there is always risk in investing. Paper: Nothing earth-shaking. Mostly just some investments in various mining and some other companies who I am a heavy customer of myself related to getting Email Players delivered each month. Commodities: As for commodities… I am a big fan of precious metals. Particularly silver & lead (ammo). Both of which I believe are extremely important — the former as a way to protect what wealth (big or small) you have now. The latter as a way to protect your life and your family’s lives — which should be everyone’s most valuable assets, the way I see it. Unless of course you think the police exist to prevent crimes from happening or will magically beam in, Star Trek style, if an armed violent criminal attacks you or your family as you all hide under the bed. If that’s the case, Daddy has some swamp land for you to invest in… Community: Finally, there’s community. Whether financially and/or with your time/energy/labor — which is an intangible investment that probably won’t make you “rich”, but it can enrich your life, your family’s life, and the lives of those you are surrounded by. All of which can only benefit you. What I donate (always via money, I’m a funding kinda guy, not a "boots on the ground" volunteer kinda guy) to depends on the time and situation. But I always do at least some of it at the local level, to benefit my town and/or county. I’ll talk more about my “donation portfolio” later if’n that interests you. The pronouns-in-their-bio harpies'll be none too happy with my choices. But nobody cares what they think anyway. Okay, I was wrong. Community wasn’t the last one. The last is my most recent investment adventure in crypto. But I don’t do it myself at the moment. I do it completely passively, via my business partner in the software companies I mentioned Troy Broussard. I am definitely not a “crypto guy” but he certainly is. And he not only invests some of our software profits into crypto using a clever trading methodology he figured out, but he’s going to be using me as a case study too, to help create content for and educate his coaching students on the subject. If you are: (1) interested in learning more about his coaching and… (2) getting a fat discount on it use my affiliate link below by Friday 11/11 at midnight EST Like I said, I don’t “do” crypto myself at this time. But as sure as God made little green apples I am benefiting from it via Troy’s methods which are based both on his experience as both a marketing automation guy (he automates all his trades) and as a former Navy Nuclear Engineer who understands systems. Here is the link: [https∶//www.EmailPlayers.com/crypto]( Ben Settle This email was sent by Ben Settle as owner of Settle, LLC. Copyright © 2022 Settle, LLC. All Rights Reserved. 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