There are financial “rules” almost everyone has heard: max out retirement accounts, avoid debt at all costs, buy a house as soon as you can, keep every dollar fully invested, and trust the stock market to carry you home. In this episode, Christian Allen and Rod Zabriskie pull those rules into the light and ask a better question: what if the rule isn’t wrong because it’s evil, but because it’s incomplete?

Christian and Rod walk through several of the most common pieces of financial advice they personally ignore, not because they are trying to be contrarian, but because real financial planning requires context. They unpack why liquidity matters more than most people realize, why not all debt belongs in the same category, and why blindly following retirement-account dogma can create more friction than freedom.

They also dig into the diff ...