{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"AWM Insights Financial and Investment News","title":"Control What You Can Control | AWM Insights #272","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":646,"description":"Markets, inflation, elections and geopolitics all shape the numbers on your screen, and none of them are yours to control. In this episode of AWM Insights, Justin Dyer and Mena Hanna return to one of the most powerful reminders in investing: control what you can control. They break down the structural controllables, like your savings rate, your spending and the levers that influence taxes, and the behavioral ones that trip up even disciplined investors: chasing hype, concentrating at the wrong time, neglecting diversification and living on a steady information diet of hype and doom. They close on the hardest discipline of all: recognizing that sometimes doing nothing is the best action you can take.\nConnect With Us\nCall or text us: 626-862-0355\nWebsite: https://www.athletefamilyoffice.com/\nYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCc1NxpK21N1vKWEExC45YEA\nLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/awmcapital/\nInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/awmcapital/\nX: https://twitter.com/awmcapital\nFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/awmcapital/\nChapters\n[00:00] Control What You Can Control: Why the simplest reminder in investing is also one of the most powerful.\n[00:27] What's In Your Hands: Elections, geopolitics and markets vs. behavior, spending and taxes.\n[01:29] Savings Rate Comes First: Inflows minus outflows, and why discipline around a plan matters.\n[02:50] Structural Controllables: Dollars and cents, and why overspending is a sunk cost.\n[03:08] Behavioral Controllables: Keeping up with the Joneses and the pull of material things.\n[03:58] Chasing Hype: Concentration, asset selection and the cost of the shiny object.\n[04:32] When Behavior Becomes Structural: How chasing hype creates structural problems, and the diversification gap.\n[05:12] Your Information Diet: How social media and the news feed hype loops and doom loops.\n[06:46] The Uncontrollables: Markets and inflation, and controlling your reaction to them.\n[08:44] Keep It Simple: Why the basics are hard to...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/zkR8IXleN4cEQw2JTi7I_iJS5GwRQeULdDFqrEYl4EQ/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS82NzU5/YzQxZTBiZjAwNTky/MTU5OWQzZTk5NzFl/YjNjZS53ZWJw.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}