Owning a home feels like success.

But what if that comfort quietly slows your journey to financial freedom?

In this episode of Sweat Your Assets, we explore why buying a bigger house is often mistaken for investing — and how emotion, ego, and habit can disguise consumption as wealth-building.

We talk about the hidden costs of homeownership, the illusion of safety, and why productive assets matter more than impressive square meters. This is not an argument against owning a home — it’s an invitation to see it clearly, and to put your capital where it actually grows.

Welcome to a new episode of Sweat Your Assets.

Thank you for listening,

Alessandro Baroni

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In this episode of the Sweat Your Assets Podcast, we explore the spectrum of human mindsets — and how the way we interpret reality quietly shapes our agency, decisions, finances, and long-term outcomes.

Drawing from reading and lived experience, the episode moves across a wide range of frameworks: from the Law of Attraction and magical optimism, to Stoicism, Growth Mindset, GRIT, cognitive reframing, existentialism, and Zen.

Along the way, we examine:

• how different mindsets influence risk, responsibility, and financial behavior
• why optimism can empower or distort agency
• the difference between denial, reframing, and courage
• how discipline, grit, and realism support long-term growth
• and why true agency comes not from controlling outcomes, but from choosing how we meet reality

This is not a motivational episode in the usual sense.

It’s a reflective guide to understanding the mental lenses we live through — and learning to choose the ones that support clarity, resilience, and intentional action.

Because mindset compounds, just like money.

As always, thank you for tuning in.

Alessandro Baroni

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Welcome to Episode 31 of the Sweat Your Assets Podcast.

If you ever needed a hard dose of motivation to start investing, the kind that cuts through excuses and fancy talk, nothing beats a rant inspired by Charlie Munger. No hype, no shortcuts, just brutal wisdom from one of the sharpest investors who ever lived. This isn’t about getting rich quickly. It’s about getting disciplined, learning why the first $100,000 is the hardest, why compounding only works if you let it, and why endurance beats intelligence every single time.

So if you’re tired of running in place and ready to start building capital that works for you, read on. Munger’s words will sting a little — but they might just change how you think about money forever.

Thank you for listening.

Until next time, Sweat Your Assets.

Alessandro BARONI

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