Not Your Average Financial Podcast™

Not Your Average Financial Podcast™


Episode 227: Top 10 Episodes! The Founder of Bank On Yourself®, Pamela Yellen (Ep. 188)

January 07, 2022

Would you like to hear 10 of THE BEST episodes so far?

Here’s a recent one with Pamela Yellen, the founder of Bank on Yourself®.



In this episode, we ask:


  • Who is Pamela Yellen?
  • What about Pamela’s articles and books?
  • What did Pamela learn from experience?
  • What did Pamela investigate?
  • How does Pamela remember her mission?
  • What about Dave Ramsey and Suze Orman?
  • What is real education?
  • What is infotainment?
  • Has conventional financial wisdom worked?
  • How many actually have financial security?
  • What do people say about Bank on Yourself?
  • What about investment accounts?
  • What about Pamela’s newest book, Rescue Your Retirement? 
  • What about 401(k)s and IRAs?
  • What will the value of your accounts be when it’s time for retirement?
  • Do you know?
  • What about a personal story?
  • What about the go go years of the dot com bubble?
  • What is a paper gain?
  • How is a paper gain different from real wealth?
  • What about paper gains vanishing?
  • How does Bank on Yourself® fit into a financial strategy?
  • What about cash value?
  • What about taking policy loans?
  • What are some examples of what people are doing with policy loans?
  • What has Pamela done with her policies?
  • What happened when Pamela wrote the Bank on Yourself® book?
  • How was she able to access $500,000 in a week, with no questions asked?
  • What about non-direct recognition policy loans?
  • Is this the 8th wonder of the world?
  • What happened to Pamela’s colleagues?
  • What about compound growth?
  • What about guarantees?
  • What about the right to borrow?
  • What is a unilateral contract?
  • What about opportunities?
  • What about emergencies?
  • What would an adequate emergency fund look like?
  • Can you have your money working for you in two places at once?
  • What about the Bank on Yourself® Professional program?
  • What about the intellectual property of Bank of Yourself®?
  • Why is it important to work with someone with the right training to build and care for a policy?
  • How might a policy help you manage your tax burden?
  • Do people have to pay tax on social security?
  • What about commissions?
  • What about the death benefit?
  • What did the father of the 401(k) say?
  • What is he doing with his money?
  • What if you have a 401(k)?
  • What about reading pages 36-37 of Rescue Your Retirement?
  • Would you like a FREE copy of Rescue Your Retirement?
  • Would you like to visit findoutmorenow.com?
  • Would you like to book a meeting with Mark? (Write Rescue Your Retirement book in the notes on the calendar page so we can get you that FREE copy)
  • What are Pamela’s insights?
  • What are the takeaways?

Pamela Yellen, Financial security expert and best-selling author, investigated more than 450 savings and retirement planning strategies seeking an alternative to the risk and volatility of stocks and other investments. Her research led her to a time-tested, predictable method of growing and protecting wealth she calls Bank On Yourself (www.bankonyourself.com) that is now used by more than half a million people.


Pamela is the author of the New York Times bestselling books BANK ON YOURSELF: The Life-Changing Secret to Growing and Protecting Your Financial Future and THE BANK ON YOURSELF REVOLUTION: Fire Your Banker, Bypass Wall Street, and Take Control of Your Own Financial Future.


Pamela has appeared on every major TV and radio network and served as a source for organizations and publications such as the Associated Press, Fox News, Bloomberg Businessweek, Ladies’ Home Journal, Essence Magazine, Aging Today and AARP. Her articles have been featured in thousands of major publications and websites, and she has spoken to more than 1,000 audiences world-wide.


Pamela was born in Buffalo, New York, and has lived in Sarasota, Phoenix, and the San Francisco Bay area. She graduated from the University of San Francisco with a degree in psychology. Pamela and her husband Larry currently live outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico, They enjoy theatre and the arts, hiking, biking, bird watching, traveling, gourmet cooking, working out (Pamela can leg press 200 pounds!), reading, spoiling their two grandkids, and are involved in supporting numerous charitable causes.


Ten percent of all author royalties are donated to educational not-for-profits, such as The Smile Train, The Nature Conservancy, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, Wounded Warrior Project, Heifer International, and Hawk Watch.