The #SerenityWealthNow Show

🏘️ SWN 109 - 08/09/26 | A Neighborhood Answer to Independent Aging 🏘️

This week on The #SerenityWealthNow Show, we sit down with Meghan Schmitz and Lisa Love of Avalon Park. A community built on service. Happier, healthier residents who genuinely love where they live.

🎙️ Join Chris Cooper, Meghan, and Lisa as they break ground on a completely different blueprint for senior living. A neighborhood of seventeen, not a hallway of hundreds. One transparent price, not a savings draining deposit. And how a neighborhood community is taking quality care to a whole new level.

The bigger the deposit, the harder it is to see what you're really paying for. Numbers get a lot easier to trust when the conversation starts with care not cash.

A great neighborhood changes everything. So does great guidance.

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🗳️ SWN 108 - 08/02/26 | Show Up for the Show Me State 🗳️

This week on The #SerenityWealthNow Show, we sit down with returning guest Chris Caplinger, a longtime friend and fellow business owner who's built and sold tech companies. Two guys who've solved problems, served the community and made tough decisions share their instinct toward the calls on this week's ballot.

🎙️ Join Coop and Cap as they cut through the campaign ad noise to break down the four big amendments Missouri voters decide on this Tuesday. It's the conversation people are having all over the state this weekend. No talking points. No spin. Just two business owner buddies, having a beer, no BS, no holds barred.

Amendment 5 alone could reshape how Missourians pay taxes on everything from paychecks to retirement withdrawals for the next decade. The other three carry their own weight on your wallet and the state's direction, whether you've been paying attention or not.

You can't control the outcome on your own, but you can control if you show up. So show up informed.

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🚐 SWN 107 - 07/26/26 | Handing Over the Keys 🚐

This week on The #SerenityWealthNow Show, we sit down with Ben Paese of Brightway Transport Partners. He left a corporate healthcare career, bought an existing business with an SBA loan, and kept the previous owner close as an advisor, so nothing about the mission got lost in the handoff.

🎙️ Join Chris Cooper and Ben as they navigate business acquisition, financing the deal, and getting a fleet of trusted drivers behind the wheel, one ride at a time. Mobility should never be the reason someone misses a ballgame, a doctor's appointment, or a family trip to the botanical gardens.

Every business eventually changes hands. The good ones hand off more than the keys. They make sure whoever's behind the wheel already knows the way.

You don't have to be the one driving. Just make sure you trust the one who is.

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Trump Accounts & The Meaning behind the Marketing

Live on the Vic Porcelli Show - 07/24/26

Chris visits the studio to share his thoughts on the new "Trump Account" and how it stacks up against a 529 and other savings vehicles. But the real conversation isn't about which account wins. It's to focus on the why.

Before you put money anywhere, stop and ask: what am I actually trying to accomplish? What is this money's job?

Both accounts hand a lump sum of money to your kid at 18 and assume they'll be a responsible adult. No strings attached, no take-backs. That should make you pause. The fix isn't picking the "smarter" account. It's pairing the objective with the approach and choosing the right account for your situation. And understanding the real gift is financial education. With great power comes great responsibility.

Taxes, Spending, & The Math Nobody Wants to Touch

Live on the Vic Porcelli Show - 06/18/26

Chris joins Vic for a taxing conversation on income tax, government spending, and the looming Social Security funding gap.

Why tax productivity instead of consumption? Why does Social Security need fixing? Will anyone touch it before 2032?

From the earnings cap to the retirement age to who actually benefits when reform finally comes, it's a real look at the numbers behind the headlines.

You can't control tax policy, Social Security, and other legislative risks. You can build a plan that mitigates their impact.

When the Scammers Come Knocking
Live on The Vic Porcelli Show - 05/22/26

Chris is live in studio to talk financial fraud. Fake bank accounts. Hacked credit cards. Gift card traps. Crypto ATM schemes. The scams are getting more sophisticated and the targets are getting broader.

Monitor often. Use your credit card wisely and pay it off. Know the red flags. And if something looks weird, ask someone who can help you think it through.

If something doesn't make sense, it probably doesn't.