The Burn Your Mortgage Podcast

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The Burn Your Mortgage Podcast is a Canadian real estate and personal finance podcast for new homebuyers and experienced homeowners. You’ll learn how to buy your dream home, enjoy mortgage-free financial freedom sooner through side hustle and frugal living, and live well while doing it no matter your financial situation. Inspiring, insightful and fun, the Burn Your Mortgage Podcast will transform the way you think about money and debt on your path to independent homeownership.

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The Burn Your Mortgage Podcast: Buying a Pre-Construction New Home in Ontario has its Appeal, but Watch for Potential Pitfalls with Barbara Captijn

Apr 23 2024 26 mins  
Barbara Captijn had a 20-year career in communications and sales in the publishing and consumer goods industries. For the past 15 years, Barbara has been an independent consumer advocate for new home buyers, has advocated at all levels of the Ontario government for better consumer protection, and has written over 20 guest columns published in The Toronto Sun on this subject. Her fi

The Burn Your Mortgage Podcast: Hope is Not Lost for Homeownership – Creative Options for First-Time Homebuyers with Alex Kjorven

Apr 10 2024 23 mins  
Alex Kjorven is a CPA, CA and Chief Product Officer at Ourboro. Ourboro is a private, Toronto-based company dedicated to providing access to homeownership through co-ownership. Ourboro co-invests up to $250K towards a buyer’s down payment, purchasing a share in the future value of the home. Once they are in their home, additional programs, such as maintenance check-ups and renova

The Burn Your Mortgage Podcast: Everything You Wanted to Know About Home Insurance with Stefan Tirschler

Mar 07 2024 28 mins  
An 18-year veteran of the Canadian insurance industry, Stefan Tirschler has extensive experience advising Canadians as they journey through the process of buying, understanding, and using home insurance. At Square One, Stefan works with a team of creative professionals whose mission is to make home insurance effortless, whether getting a quote or making a claim. Holding one of the

The Burn Your Mortgage Podcast: No Regret Decisions with Shannon Lee Simmons

Feb 29 2024 27 mins  
Shannon Lee Simmons is an award winning Certified Financial Planner, speaker, bestselling author, Chartered Investment Manager and founder of the New School of Finance. She is a personal finance writer for the Globe and Mail as well as CBC Radio’s Metro Morning money columnist and was a financial expert on The Marilyn Denis Show. Shannon’s latest book “No-Regret Decisions”

The Burn Your Mortgage Podcast: 2024 Rental Market Outlook with Giacomo Ladas

Feb 22 2024 31 mins  
Giacomo Ladas is the Communications Manager for Rentals.ca, a free-to-use, leading marketplace connecting private landlords and renters across the country. He fosters relationships with journalists, bloggers, and industry thought leaders. He is integral in the Rentals.ca National Rent Report publication as he handles all media inquiries throughout the year. In my interview with Gia

The Burn Your Mortgage Podcast: Building Credit as a Newcomer to Canada with Bruce Sellery

Feb 02 2024 24 mins  
Bruce Sellery is a personal finance expert and the CEO of Credit Canada, the longest-standing non-profit credit counselling agency in the country. He appears regularly on Cityline and Breakfast Television, has a national money column for CBC Radio, hosts a radio show on SiriusXM, and speaks at events from coast to coast. He is also the author of the Globe & Mail bestseller, “

The Burn Your Mortgage Podcast: How Failing to Consult with a Mortgage Broker is Borderline Personal Finance Negligence with Rob Carrick

Jan 26 2024 30 mins  
Not all journalists get to live their beat, but Rob Carrick does. His personal finance column in The Globe and Mail is one regular guy’s attempt to make sense of the world of money. He’s married with two 20-something kids and constantly figuring out ways to spend and invest intelligently. He asks the same questions you would and applies his experience and contacts to get answer

The Burn Your Mortgage Podcast: Homeownership, the Foundation of Financial Independence with Jonathan Chevreau

Jan 12 2024 25 mins  
Jonathan Chevreau is a veteran financial columnist, blogger and author based in Toronto. He was the Financial Post’s personal finance columnist between 1993 and 2012 and editor-in-chief for MoneySense Magazine from 2012 to 2014. He still writes the Retired Money column for MoneySense. In 2014, he launched the Financial Independence Hub, which usually publishes four blogs every we

The Burn Your Mortgage Podcast: Taking Control of Your Time as a Busy Landlord through Technology with Tomas Ronis

Jan 05 2024 21 mins  
Tomas Ronis is the founder and CEO of Rhenti. Being both a landlord and a renter, Tomas has a unique perspective of the residential rental industry that enables the Rhenti team to build digital leasing tools for landlords in a way that shifts renters to the forefront of the experience. Rhenti is the busy landlord's trusted leasing platform, connecting them with more renters, faster

The Burn Your Mortgage Podcast: Beat the Bank with Larry Bates

Dec 15 2023 22 mins  
Larry Bates is an independent investor advocate, author of Beat the Bank: The Canadian Guide to Simply Successful Investing, consultant and speaker. Larry enjoyed a 35-year banking career with several major financial institutions in both Canada and the U.K. including as Global Head of Debt Capital Markets for RBC. Over the course of his career, Larry both collaborated with and advi