It's All Money
Finance isn't for you.Money is for "experts" and that's not you.Financial content is too "complicated" and it's not for you.In this day and age, those are common and valid statements to make.But what if it were different?It's All Money is that show.Imagine listening to a 20 minute episode and walking away with one nugget that could help you with money. Not a "system" you don't have time for or global "movement" to sap all your emotions. Just one tip that could help you feel informed in the moment of a financial decision. That's financial confidence, in...
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Saving Torched Data With DriveSavers
It’s a Digital Age, no, it’s a Cloud Digital Age, no no, it’s an AI,Cloud, Digital Age where everything is saved forever and lives in your pocket, anytime you want. <br />Until it breaks. <br />Gets dropped in a lake. <br />Hard drive with all your crypto goes click click click. <br />Pirate hackers hold your business server hostage for ransom. <br />Or unfortunately for many in California, a device with your digital life is lost in a wildfire. <br /> <br />What then? <br /> <br />Suddenly your technology problem crosses over to a financial problem. And that’s why we named the show “It’s All Money...
10 Ways To Avoid The Inheritor’s Dilemma
Kicking off season 3 of It’s All Money with a special double-episode answering what seems like an obvious question- is inheriting money a good thing? <br />Well...maybe. <br />In the next 20 years, the largest wealth transfer in the history the USA is about to take place. Whether giving or receiving...are you prepared? Do you have a plan? <br />Sonoma Wealth Marketing Director Dano Weir and Managing Principal Daren Blonski examine 10 ways to avoid The Inheritor’s Dilemma: <br />Why are emotions the first piece to address in an inheritance plan? <br />What are the risks of co-mingling assets? <br />Does this mean you...
How The Glen Ellen Star Won 12 Straight Michelin Bib’s
Following an unbelievable 12th straight Michelin Bib Gourmand award, host Dano Weir had to track down Chef Ari Weiswasser and Managing Partner Spencer Waite of the Glen Ellen Star restaurant for an episode of It’s All Money. <br />Just what is a Michelin Bib Gourmand award? How is it different from a Michelin Star? <br />Awards are amazing, but they only happen with great food and great people. What early decisions and values both in and out of the kitchen have led to their business success? <br />How did success at Glen Ellen Star lead to the opening of their second restaurant, S...
What The Gold?!
It’s one of the oldest "stocks" ever...GOLD. <br />It’s over though, right? That’s the late-night TV infomercial stuff? Your grandpa had it in a safe but you’re living in the future and everything’s digital now? ...right? <br />Then why’s it up 43% this year, and 105% in the last 5 years? Stock or not, shouldn’t your advisor be aware of an asset soaring like that? <br />This week on It’s All Money, hosts Dano Weir and Daren Blonski CFP® sit down with Jason Bowman from Napa Gold and Silver, for an insider’s take on what’s happening in the...
Crypto Goes Legit?
First came seashells, then gold, then paper, and now, hold your breath, crypto. <br />That last one is hard to swallow because of it’s mysterious, scandalous, and in one case truly unknown origin. But like it or not, crypto is becoming a part of the world outside your friend’s boyfriend’s cousin’s basement. <br />On this episode of It’s All Money, Sonoma Wealth CEO Daren Blonski CFP® and Marketing Director Dano Weir look at the real-world proof that crypto is going legit. <br />Major trading firms which offer crypto investments. <br />Countries with strategic bitcoin reserves. <br />Crypto can n...
8 Secrets Learned Retiring Thousands
(00:00:00) 8 Secrets Learned Retiring Thousands<br /> (00:02:16) Don’t retire away, retire to something<br /> (00:06:19) The go-go years, the slo-Go years, and the no-go years<br /> (00:11:40) People are living longer<br /> (00:18:26) Social Security isn’t designed for retirement<br /> (00:22:09) Everyone gets along until you die<br /> (00:24:46) Buy memories, not things<br /> (00:27:31) Checks and balances<br /> (00:30:37) SOMEthing physical<br /> <br /> Roth! Not Roth! Bonds! Social Security timing! <br />Financial advisors yapping about retirement all seem to hit the same 4 topics, don’t they? What about the rest of the story? <br />For advisors with eyes, there are details and secrets that fall between the crack...
From The Ritz To Cotati: The Amazing Business Story Of Acme Burger
It’s 2025! Every business is Robots! Franchises! CORPORATE! <br />...then how is an upstart local restaurant with humans expanding from 1 to 5 locations in under 6 years? Through a global pandemic? In one of the world’s most highly competitive restaurant markets? On the back of good ol’ burgers and fries?? 🍔🍟🥤 <br />This week on It’s All Money, we sit down with Erica and Todd Kniess of Sonoma County’s own Acme Burger. Why would a former Ritz Carlton chef choose burgers for his biggest business venture? What organizational structure did they implement to ensure happy, motivated staff? Why does offering families a place to “drop y...
Why Bitcoin Is Different Than Other Cryptos
Imagine 17,134 grains of sand in zen garden sand box. ONE is an absolute winner. Could you pick it? Could you pick it from a much smaller box of 534 even? <br />That’s essentially cryptocurrency right now. Dismissing cryptocurrency is a logical reaction and yet- would you believe as an asset class, if all of crypto were on the Fortune 500, it would be a top 10 company by market cap? Bigger than Berkshire Hathaway? Bigger than Tesla? Bigger than Visa? <br />That's a lot to fathom. So our own Daren Blonski CFP® is here to share his take on the crypto space right now, wit...
4 Strategies When Interest Rates Won’t Drop
We’re in year 3 of interest rates being basically 2-4x what they were the prior 3 years. Just this past month, June 2025, Fed Chair Jerome Powell said “For the time being, we are well positioned to wait to learn more about the likely course of the economy before considering any adjustments to our policy stance.” In other words, NO. <br />At Sonoma Wealth, we plan toward potential futures and outcomes in finance, but also help clients operate under current circumstances. Life doesn't stop for some desired future. If interest rates remain high, how can you adjust? Or even take advantage? <br />In this...
CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER® Reacts To Bad Internet Money Advice
We’ve all been doomscrolling on a phone at god-knows-AM when some stranger in a video says something that makes “sense” about money. Ever wonder what a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER® might say to that same video? In this fun episode of It’s All Money, we open up the pandora’s box of internet money advice and let our Managing Principal, Daren Blonski CFP® give his take. Additionally, Marketing Director and Podcast host Dano Weir shares how an average person might process and logic through some of this content, and the pitfalls therein.<br /><br />• Why not just put your emergency fund...
