Financial Savvy For Magicians

By Wolfgang Riebe

Are you starting out, or fairly new to the magic profession? Are you an established pro that needs honest and open advice on how to become wealthy as a magician? This book should be the first and most important book in your magic book library!

You may know secrets of magic tricks, but more importantly, do you know the secrets to a wealthy magician lifestyle?

Let's be honest, besides a handful of famous magicians...
How many wealthy magicians do you really know?
How about magicians that can retire comfortably tomorrow?
Magicians that can withstand years of COVID-19 and not be affected financially?
Magicians that will need family, friends and social assistance when they retire?

The sad reality is, most magicians focus on the tricks, rather than planning for their future and building their wealth; that's the REAL SECRET!

This is book is not written by a financial guru trying to sell you products! However, it is a book written by a magician, for magicians who has a verified, successful, iconic magic career and shares solid, hard-core information based on real-life experience!

Not everyone will have the talent, or luck to get that big break, yet there is money to be made in the magic profession. The problem is that most magicians cannot manage their money properly and hence never end up being able to retire comfortably. The big question is... do you still want to be desperately competing for shows and standing on stage when you are 65? Or do you want to sit back, relax and enjoy many Memorable Magical Moments from an incredible magical career because you learnt a few practical tips from someone who has done it?

Warning! This book is written in lay language with blunt wording and vital, to-the-point information for over 18's! If you are entitled and believe the world 'owes you' – then this book isn't for you! If you are open-minded, prepared to listen and also accept a kick up the rear end in order to help you achieve your dreams, then you need to buy this book now!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wolfgang Riebe
• Release date: Dec 21, 2020
• ISBN: 9781005395629

Wolfgang Riebe

Wolfgang began his career as a magician on British television on BBC & ITV, later traveling around the world as a headline act on cruise liners before tackling expeditions throughout the Arctic & Antarctic where he performed world-class illusions to thousands of international passengers.In later years he relocated to Cape Town from where he focused on the EMEA market combining strategically planned illusions with speaking in order to reinforce corporate messaging throughout Africa, Europe and the Middle East. He completed a thesis in Complexity Thinking and its affect on Innovation amongst leadership in multi-national organisations at the York St John university in the UK.In 2012 the National Speakers Association (NSA) awarded Wolfgang the CSP (Certified Speaking Professional) designation, which is the highest award given to any professional speaker in the speaking world. This designation is currently only held by less than 800 professional speakers globally.His passion is to share life truths and connect people through logical thinking and fun, as can be validated through his You Tube channel (inspiringtheworld) with over 1000 videos. In 2015 he appeared as a TEDx speaker and is currently based in Geneva, Switzerland where he focuses on the English Speaking meetings & events market and has performed in over 165 countries during the last 30 years.From symposiums, conferences, strategic planning sessions, cruise liners, television to expeditions, his vast variety of incredible life experiences make him the perfect host as your Keynote Speaker, Master of Ceremonies and Celebrity Comedy Entertainer, turning your whole event into an unforgettable sophisticated experience where creates Memorable Magical Moments for everyone.

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FINANCIAL SAVVY FOR MAGICIANS

What I Wish I Knew 30 Years Ago

When I Started My Magic Career

by Wolfgang Riebe

Published by Mind Power Publications

Copyright © 2020 by Wolfgang Riebe

www.wolfgangriebe.com

www.comedyillusionist.com

E-Format ISBN: 978-1005395629

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WARNING

This book contains lay language and blunt wording in terms of the terminology and expressions used. It is a book written because of a ‘calling’ to help young people change their lives for the better.

Sadly with all the self-righteous, liberal and politically correct groups on the planet today, people are to scared to call a spade a spade and tend to beat about the bush when it comes to offering sincere, solid and no holds barred guidance. In my opinion, too much pampering and fear of not wanting to offend! Well, there’s none of that in this book!

For me, it is about teaching you about life and that there is a lot more to spending your life as a professional magician than just doing magic. It is aimed at giving you a chance at success. I have published so many magic books and always been ‘nice’ and often feel that this has not made any difference. So maybe it’s time I change my approach and use the same methods I use when I personally mentor people ‘one-on-one’ as this is the only place I have seen results. Be prepared, this book is going to kick your arse and stir the pot in the hope that the ‘wake up call’ will drive you to make something of this incredible career.

Deal with it, grow up and take the guidance in the purity of spirit it is meant. If you can’t deal with that and get offended by anything that doesn’t fit within your bubble of existence, give the book to someone with the drive who really wants to change their life for the better.

Simple as that!

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DEDICATION

I dedicate this book to all those magicians that I have mentored and who today have become successful business people because they listened to my guidance. And there are a number of you…

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WAIVER OF LIABILITY

I am not a Financial Advisor, nor qualified in any way to give financial advice. The information in this book is based on personal life experience, financial experiences, common sense and a desire to learn. I am sharing my insights in the hope that you can benefit from this and am in no way suggesting you should do what I did. However, I do believe with common sense and the right guidance everything I share is useful and can help you forward. But should you be a moron, misuse and misunderstand the information herein through ordinary or gross negligence, or similar - it’s on you. Hence NO LIABILITY can be accepted for any of the advice acted upon. Please use common sense before acting on any of the information shared.

The act of purchasing and/or reading this book is considered acceptance of this waiver.

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CHAPTERS

PROLOGUE

INTRODUCTION

TIP 1: TAKE RESPONSIBILITY

TIP 2: GET AN EDUCATION

TIP 3: DON’T SQUANDER YOUR MONEY

TIP 4: THE REALITIES OF LIFE

TIP 5: ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF THE SELF

TIP 6: YOU ARE THE ‘SANDWICH GENERATION’

TIP 7: YOU WILL PAY HIGHER TAXES

TIP 8: UNDERSTAND BUDGETING

TIP 9: PATIENCE - LEARN TO SAVE

TIP10: BUILD A CONTINGENCY FUND

TIP 11: SAVE FOR RETIREMENT IMMEDIATELY

TIP12: LAST WILL & TESTAMENT

TIP 13: NEVER CASH IN SAVINGS

TIP 14: COVER ALL RISKS

TIP 15: FIND A FINANCIAL ADVISOR

TIP 16: ALWAYS REMAIN INFORMED

TIP 17: ASSETS & LIABILITIES

TIP 18: DON’T THINK LIKE A MAGICIAN

36 BONUS TIPS ON SAVING MONEY

LAST THOUGHTS

FUNNY QUOTES ABOUT MONEY

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PROLOGUE

I have been a professional magician for over 30 years, travelled the world, had my own prime-time TV shows, written numerous books and basically lived the dream, even though I am not an American magician! This may be a shock for many of you and hard to believe, but yep, even outside the USA one can attain fame and fortune and live one’s dream!

One difference with myself is that I started focusing on the corporate sector and incorporating motivational speaking (with a magic touch) in what I do, and hence made many new speaker friends in the professional speaking world. One of them is a dear speaker friend, Dave Rogers with whom I was having a zoom chat a while back and we were looking at topics we could collaborate on, plus exploring avenues for launching some new self-help courses as COVID-19 infringes more on our world towards the end of 2020.

He made a suggestion I tackle a topic, ‘Myself now, versus 10 years ago and what I have learnt and would do differently.’ Wow, what a topic and very apt for today! However, as I am now over 55 and I look back on the incredible life magic has given me; yes I was stupid when I was younger and luck helped me a lot. The last 10 years saw a huge change in the world, but all in all, had I had different advice, or had things explained differently to me 30 years ago, I may have been a lot better off than I am today.

So rather than teach you the secrets of tricks, I am going to teach you the secret of living a magical life in retirement.

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INTRODUCTION

I’m a magic nut! I’m sure many of the male magicians have heard their wive’s tell them that their magic drives them nuts. I can talk about magic, develop ideas, watch other magicians and basically relate anything to magic 24/7/365. I love magic!

Simple as that! The fact that I made a success and good money, plus lived a celebrity lifestyle is all a bonus, plus admittedly, a lot of luck. Today I look around and see my magic hero’s dying poor, colleagues my age struggling and I wonder what they did all their magical lives? I mean, I saw all the publicity, posters, shows and accolades they supposedly received - so where did the money go? Was it all a lie? Was it their best kept secret ever? What happened?

I grew up in a 3rd world country where my hero magician as a youngster was a huge TV star. Before he died I hear he rented a room in the maid’s quarters of a friend. What happened?

So… this book is about sharing tips, tricks and ideas that I wish someone had told me when I was 20 or 30. Advice I wish someone had given me so that I could have made a few better placed strategic decisions