The Games of Life
The Games of Life
The retirement journey is one of the greatest and most fulfilling trips you’ll ever embark on, and proper preparation and strategy can help you maximize your current situation while building towards a future that is everything you’ve been dreaming of. Hosted by The Journey Financial Group president Ambar Reddekopp, The Games of Life Podcast aims to educate listeners on the many nuances of retirem…Social links:
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Sequence, Strategy, and Success: Winning Your Financial Game
Ever played Sequence and thought it was just luck? Turns out, winning—at games and in life—is all about strategy, patience, and connecting the right moves at the right time. In this episode, Ambar Reddekopp reveals how goal setting for retirement and beyond mirrors the twists and turns of a board g…
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Guess Who? Part 2: AI Scams: Can You Spot What’s Real?
Scammers have a new secret weapon—artificial intelligence. In this episode, Amber Reddekopp reveals how AI is transforming fraud, from voice cloning and deepfakes to convincing chatbots and fake online deals. Discover real-life examples, learn why “trust but verify” is more important than ever, and…
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Guess Who? - Spotting Scammers in Real Life
What if the next person trying to scam you isn’t a stranger, but someone you know—or even a computer? In this episode, Amber Reddekopp exposes the most common frauds targeting retirees and families, from investment clubs and identity theft to romance scams and tech support traps. Learn how scammers…
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Alphabet Soup? Choosing Your Medicare Path
What happens when your Medicare decision locks you in—and your health takes a turn? In part two of the Games of Life Medicare series, Ambar Reddekopp unpacks the complexities of Medicare Advantage. From alphabet soup plans to hidden co-payments and county-specific coverage, this episode explores ho…
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Operation Medicare: Don’t Hit the Buzzer
Feeling like Medicare is a game of Operation? One wrong move and—buzz! In this episode of Games of Life, host Ambar Reddekopp, president of Journey Financial Group, sits down to dissect the complexities of Original Medicare. From navigating Parts A through D to avoiding costly prescription pitfalls…
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Connect 4 part 2: Five ways to improve credit scores
Ambar Reddekopp of Journey Financial Group discusses how she helps people better their credit scores. Ambar shares the different types of credit and how managing each properly can slowly raise the score, but also how closing and opening accounts too rapidly is a bad move. Ambar also explains the di…
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How credit scores work
Ambar Reddekopp of Journey Financial Group discusses the moving target that is credit scores. Ambar shares how the way they are graded has changed over the years and is confusing and then she explains what comprises them. Then Ambar shares five factors that move credit scores and why paying one’s b…
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Escape Room Part 2: different keys to getting free of debt
Ambar Reddekopp of The Journey Financial Group explains the methodical process for people that want to get out of debt. Ambar discusses the agenda for meeting new clients and simply finding out how bad their debt is and what their APR rates are. Then she shares three different keys – debt rollup pl…
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Escape Room Pt 01 - The Dangers & Expenses of Debt
Ambar Reddekopp of The Journey Financial group relates being in an escape room to one of the most cumbersome and dangerous parts of people’s financial health: debt. Ambar explains how amortized debt is structured to make paying it off hard and for big companies to profit. She also defines the diffe…
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Chess: the importance of estate planning
Ambar Reddekopp relates the strategy and duties of pieces in the game of chess to the trickiness and gravity of estate or legacy planning. She shares how one’s documents are like pawns – the first line of defense. And Ambar shares how wills, trusts, taxes, and the entire plan itself fit onto the ch…
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