Episode 69: Taxes with Sam Driver CPA
This week, Josh has a CPA on the show to discuss taxes! We asked this CPA, Sam to come up with 3 tax topics that seem to be top of mind for you mature business owners.

This week, Josh has a CPA on the show to discuss taxes! We asked this CPA, Sam to come up with 3 tax topics that seem to be top of mind for you mature business owners.
While we’ve done past episodes where we discussed what we do at Gulf Coast Financial Advisors, what we’ve haven’t done to date is produce a show that spells out the type of client we are looking for, our ideal client so to speak, and that is exactly what we are going to do today.
On this week's episode, we discuss 2 questions with John Luke. 1. Are we in a stock market bubble? And 2. If we are in a bubble, does it matter?
There are many commentators and market analysts claiming that we are in the middle of another stock market bubble, this one fueled by sky-high market valuations of tech companies that are heavily investing in artificial intelligence, or AI for short. There’s a saying that history doesn’t repeat itself but it does rhyme, so over the next 2 episodes were going to do a deep dive on the current state of the stock market and if investors should be worried about a market crash similar to the dot.com crash of 25 years ago.
One of the most common questions we get from clients is what should they do with their 401k, specifically the question “What should I do with my 401k when I retire?”. And more often than not the 401k accounts are probably the largest retirement assets a client has. So what I want to do today is answer this question, and probably just as important, answer what NOT to do.
The title of today’s episode is “How to Avoid Financial Advisor Fraud”. And we are going to expand that to include investment managers and hedge fund managers – basically anyone that manages other people’s money. In this episode we are going to detail some of the boxes you want to check with anyone with which you wish to invest, and discuss the red flags to look for, some obvious, some not so obvious, unless you know the business well.