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Roaming Returns
Most nomads just relocate their hustle—freelancing, content grinding, or trading time for money on the road.
We’re Tim & Carmela, the Income Investing Nomads.
On Roaming Returns, we break down how to build hybrid income streams—dividends, value investing, strategic flips, and tax-smart strategies—that decouple your time from your income.
So you can fund your freedom, travel full time (even in a van), and stop deferring your life.
No hype. No one-size-fits-all dogma. Just real numbers, tested strategies, and honest conversations about how to make work optional.
New episodes drop every Tuesday.
Episodes
113 episodes
112 - Why You’ll Overpay for Stocks but Not a House (And What That Says About You)
Most people say they'd never overpay for a house—but then turn around and invest in overvalued stocks like it's no big deal. Why?In this episode, we unpack the psychology behind financial inconsistency—and what it says about you...
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Episode 112
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111 - Bombs, Fear, and Buying the Dip: The Truth About Geopolitical Selloffs
Is the U.S. bombing Iran the start of a market crash—or the best buying opportunity you’ll see this year?In this episode, we unpack decades of historical data showing how stocks behave during wars and geopolitical conflic...
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Episode 111
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110 - Don’t Trust the Headlines: Inflation & Jobs Are Getting Worse
Forget the fluff—this episode unpacks the real story behind the headlines. We dive into the numbers the media won’t tell you:✅ Inflation’s hiding big jumps in electricity + natural gas, even as energy prices fal...
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Episode 110
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53:18
109 - Every Weekly Dividend ETF Ranked—Which Ones Actually Pay Off
22 weekly dividend ETFs are now on the market—but not all are created equal. In this deep-dive, we not only compare performance across YieldMax, Roundhill, and Defiance—but we also show you how to use these tools for real financial e...
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Episode 109
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108 - Doubling Down In The Market Chaos Unlocked A 13% Dividend Gain
🔥 Van Life Portfolio – Q2 2025 Update (13% Income Growth Despite Market Drop)This isn’t your grandpa’s dividend portfolio.In this episode, we give a full Q2 breakdown of our high-octane, high-yield “Van Life” portfolio—desi...
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Episode 108
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51:21
107 - Minimizing Losses During Market Pullbacks: Conservative Portfolio Update
The market dropped nearly 15% this spring... but our conservative dividend portfolio? It grew income by almost 10%.In this episode, we walk through our Q2 2025 Retirement Portfolio update—showing how even as the market got wrecked...
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Episode 107
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34:51
106 - Now's The Time To Buy Dividend Royalty: Our Top Picks In Every Sector
With Q1 earnings in the rearview, and warnings flashing for Q2 and beyond, we scoured the sectors forecasted to underperform—and uncovered a goldmine of dividend-growing stocks. In this episode, we break down high-quality dividend growers in al...
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Episode 106
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105 - What Q1 Earnings Really Say About 2025 - Don’t Trust the Hype
As Q1 earnings wrap up, we’re diving deep into what the data is actually telling us about where the economy — and the stock market — are headed next.✔ 78% of S&P 500 companies beat earnings✔ EPS growth is up 13.4% YOY✔ But co...
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Episode 105
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104 - 10 Ugly Stocks in Our Portfolio — Here’s What the Metrics Say
Are your portfolio losers actually hidden gems—or ticking time bombs? In this episode, we break down the 10 biggest losing stocks in our portfolio to determine if they’re value plays or just value traps.We dig into:✔️ Dividend Yield...
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Episode 104
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103 - Why Doing Nothing Could Save Your Portfolio
Why doing nothing might be the best move for your portfolio right now.In this episode, we dig into action bias — that psychological urge to "do something" when the market tanks — and explain why it ca...
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Episode 103
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102 - The 2 Most Important Financial Moves to Survive 2025
In this episode, we get brutally real about two financial moves you NEED to have locked down right now: budgeting and emergency funds. Markets are shaky, inflation isn’t cooling, consumer sentiment is crashing — and the people who...
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Episode 102
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101 - Weekly Dividend ETFs That Might Beat YieldMax? Let’s Talk Roundhill
Looking for weekly dividend income ETFs that could outperform YieldMax? In this episode, we break down Roundhill’s new WeeklyPay ETFs—NVW, TSW, AAPW, COIW, and PLTW—and compare them head-to-head with YieldMax equivalents (like NVD...
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Episode 101
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100 - The Market Crashed So We Screened 200+ Stocks for Value
Ready to stop panic scrolling and start buying smart? In this episode, we dive deep into how we find value, even in a market downturn. Because buying in a recession is the key to unlocking wealth. 🔍 We screened hun...
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Episode 100
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099 - How to Survive a Bear Market Without Sabotaging Your Portfolio
Are we in a bear market, a correction, or just a panic spiral?We break down exactly what you need to know to not sabotage yourself during a volatile market. With personal losses of 3 years’ worth of gains in just 3 weeks,...
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Episode 99
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098 - Why You Can’t Evaluate REITs Like Regular Stocks
Most investors analyze REITs the wrong way, and it’s costing them. In this episode, we break down the key metrics that we look at when evaluating REITs. Traditional stock metrics like P/E ratios just don’t cut it and AFFO i...
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Episode 98
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51:24
097 - Is Reinvesting YieldMax Dividends A Mistake? The Data Points To Yes!
Does Investing in YieldMax ETFs Actually Work? The Data Says… So many people say you can’t make money with YieldMax ETFs—but is that true? We pulled the data on TSLY, CRSH, NVDY, DIPS, CONY, and FIAT to put this claim to the test.
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Episode 97
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46:47
096 - Our High Yield Portfolio Dividend Payouts For Q1 2025
We made a whopping $5,379 the last 3 months on about $99,000 of portfolio value. If the dividends keep coming in like they have this quarter, our high yield portfolio is clocked to make double the amount of dividend yield of the con...
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Episode 96
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095 - Our Conservative Portfolio Dividend Payouts For Q1 2025
With the market’s in panic mode, this is a great time to show that focusing on dividend payouts and share increases is a much better way to track your portfolio. Not it’s ever changing value. When we recorded, this portfolio w...
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Episode 95
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094 - The Best Free Resources To Find Stocks To Buy
If you’ve been wondering where Tim finds stocks to invest in, you’ll find out today. No, he doesn’t just pull tickers out of a hat. The investments we talk about come from scouring many resources and then digging further to see if t...
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Episode 94
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093 - How I Get Dividend Payouts Every Week Of The Year
What if you could get a dividend every week just like a paycheck instead of waiting months or even quarterly to see any cash flow? There’s a reason that most people don’t stick with investing. Standard approaches take forever to see...
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Episode 93
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092 - Do Stock Split Returns Outperform the Market?
You’ve heard us talk about stock splits before when we mentioned getting into Chipotle and Nvidia. Tim noticed that both of these stocks go back to their pre-split price and jumped on the opportunity to gain capital appreciation. Th...
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Episode 92
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091 - Earn Big Dividends On Tech & AI With These Unknown ETFs
If YieldMax ETFs seem too risky with their synthetic holdings and NAV erosion, we totally get it. They’re not for everyone. We’ve found a sick alternative that actually holds the stocks they write options on. These yield...
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Episode 91
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090 - The 60/40 Investing Strategy No Longer Works... Do This Instead
Chances are that you’ve heard about the 60/40 portfolio strategy. If not, it’s a classic way to balance your investments and mitigate the higher risk of stocks in market downturns. History shows that this method has worked pretty go...
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Episode 90
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53:35
089 - 12 Coins We're Holding For 2025's Crypto Rally
We’ve been dropping hints the last few months about how crypto’s going to be on fire in 2025. If you take advantage of this boom, you can X your money many times over. Then those profits can greatly boost the capital you'll have to invest in di...
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Episode 89
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44:27
088 - 20 Reasons Why Your Goals Are Falling Flat And How To Fix Them
Last episode we outlined what a successful goal setting process looks like and all the things that you need to take into consideration.But what happens when you’re struggling to stick to your goal or it’s not working?That means it...
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Episode 88
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