Author name: The Enlisted Money Guy™ - Brandon Lovingier, ChFC®, MQFP®

Your “why” for investing is one of the most overlooked, yet so important, pieces of your investing journey. Why? Great question! There’s a lot of technical aspects to investing, but we can get hung up on those and forget about what’s going to keep us pushing toward our goals. Striking a Balance Between Technical and […]

This is the second Enlisted Money Confession and I think more than one of us can relate to this story! Remember, we’re a community who shares our successes and struggles so we can all learn together. At the end we’ll discuss the “Credit Card Swiping Sailor’s” story and teachable moments we can apply to our

The “traditional” arguments on Roth versus traditional miss so much. I’m hoping to go beyond the typical “taxes now versus taxes later” argument to help you decide what’s best for you. (Hint: Probably Roth.) Enlisted service members in particular have some unique advantages making the Roth Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) or Roth IRA the best

You’ll never have it easier as an enlisted investor than when you’re an E-1. Why? Time. Time is on your side my friend! If I could go back in time, I’d tell my 18-year-old self to invest more into my TSP from day one. I’d also told myself, “You’ll be a millionaire if you put

Sometimes we find ourselves in a really tough spot financially. More often than not, debt plays a major role. So, what do you do when your debt is taking control of your life? In short, you need to get help and make some changes. Luckily, there are a lot of great resources available to service

Investing seems to be the one thing everybody gets excited about. That’s also one of the areas where I see people arguing the most about what’s the “right” thing to do. When I heard about the book, How I Invest My Money, I was really intrigued to hear how financial planners and professionals actually invest

I’ve had an on again, off again relationship with debt my whole life. It created a way for me to have some independence as a teenager with a truck loan, but that same “opportunity” debt provided me led to some significant stress. I always fundamentally knew I had to pay back everything I borrowed. However,

Buying a brand new 2010 Chevrolet Silverado was the best and worst financial decision my wife and I ever made. I’d just received orders for Germany at the time, and we were preparing for the move. The Army would pay to ship one vehicle, but we had two. I had an F-150 (her name was

We’re all working hard to get ahead (of who exactly?) with our finances while also balancing all the normal parts of our life. This is a constant ebb and flow for me. I’m super driven to help people, but I often have to force myself to take a step back and reset. I’m balancing serving