Episodes

Episode 56: How Much Do You Really Need to Retire on $100,000 a Year?

In this episode of The Wealth Guide Podcast, host Malissa Vourakis sits down once again with the Ryker Capital team — Jack Oineza, Ricky Regmi, and Dean Desoukey — to tackle the question everyone asks but few can answer clearly: what does it really take to retire on $100,000 a year?

Episode 55: Do This To Legally Pay LESS TAXES in Australia

In this episode of The Wealth Guide Podcast, host Malissa Vourakis sits down with the Ryker Capital team, Jack Oineza, Ricky Regmi, and Dean Desoukey, to answer a question that every Australian has asked at some point: how do you legally pay less tax?

Episode 54: What Really Happens to Your Super When You Retire?

In this episode of The Wealth Guide Podcast, host Malissa Vourakis is joined by the Ryker Capital team, Jack Oineza, Ricky Regmi, and Dean Desoukey to tackle one of the biggest questions Australians face: what really happens to your super when you retire?

Episode 53: How to Legally Claim Up to $10K From the ATO Without Spending a Cent

In this episode, we have Tuan Duong, Principal Quantity Surveyor and founder of Duo Tax, Australia’s most reviewed and highly-rated quantity surveying firm, helping thousands of investors maximise their tax deductions with affordable, ATO-compliant depreciation schedules.

Episode 52: The Real Costs of Buying Your First Home (And How to Make It Work)

In this episode, we have Michaela Shaw, Lending Specialist at MoneyQuest Penrith & Blue Mountains, a finance professional known for making the lending journey feel approachable and stress-free, especially for first-home buyers.

She talks about the mindset blocks holding Gen Z back from entering the property market, the biggest myth about credit scores that could sabotage your borrowing power, and how to take advantage of lesser-known government schemes to get into your first home sooner.

Episode 51: The Secret to Becoming a TOP Mortgage Broker (Most Brokers Don’t Know This!)

In this episode, we have Michael Mitry and Ted Naim from Eden Mentoring, an MFAA-endorsed and FBAA-accepted mentoring program dedicated to equipping new brokers with industry-leading guidance, ethical expertise, and decades of mortgage experience.

They talk about why choosing an accredited mentor can make or break your career, how to build a client pipeline that grows itself, and why most brokers fail within their first two years—and how to avoid their mistakes.

Episode 50: The BEST Mortgage Brokers Don’t Sell—They Educate! Here’s Why

In this episode, we have Julian Mattatia, General Manager of Sales and Marketing at the MoneyQuest Group, and Matthew Phelps, State Manager for NSW/ACT at MoneyQuest.

They talk about why mortgage brokers must shift from a transactional model to a long-term client advisory approach, how referral partnerships with financial planners can dramatically boost business growth, and the biggest mistakes new brokers make when transitioning into the industry (and how to avoid them).

Episode 49: How TOP Mortgage Brokers Leverage Financial Planners to Scale Fast

In this episode, we have Julian Mattatia, General Manager of Sales and Marketing at the MoneyQuest Group, and Paul Wright, National Growth Manager at the MoneyQuest Group.

They talk about why the traditional, transactional mortgage broker model is dying, how brokers can transform into trusted advisors who retain clients for life, and the biggest mistakes new brokers make when starting out (and how to avoid them).