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The Beginners Guide to Personal Finance and Wealth Building (Udemy.com)

How to Manage Your Money in Today's Economy, Invest it, & Build Long Term Wealth

Created by: Bryan Guerra

Last updated August 2026

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What you will learn

  • how a few simple adjustments to your financial plan can make you wealthy
  • several great resources & books to learn how to invest & build wealth
  • how to pay yourself first
  • how to save more money
  • how to identify assets & liabilities in your own life so you can buy assets & avoid liabilities
  • how to get rich
  • how to build long term wealth
  • the best places to invest your money
  • the best places to save your money
  • the best investment vehicles to multiply your money
  • things not to invest in unless you want to go broke
  • how to read a company's balance sheet
  • how to invest in the stock market
  • how to invest in ETFs & mutual funds
  • how to budget properly
  • how to re-frame your mindset so you can achieve wealth
  • and much much more!

How it compares

Against the other 33 rated Udemy courses in Personal Finance on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.5 out of 5higher than 33% of them
  • Reviews82#27 of 34 by number of reviews
  • Length13.4 hourslonger than 90% of them
  • Last updatedAugust 2026more recently than 87% of them

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Course Description

Why aren't we all rich?


The average person will make a million dollars in their lifetime, but still fail to amass wealth or ever become a "millionaire." Why is that?


Is it because there's some secret the rich know the rest of us don't?


Of course not. The difference between how the rich handle their money & manage their finances is only slightly different than most people.

Let's take golf for example...the average golfer is only a few millimeters off with their swing. Yet, those initial few millimeters in how they approach the ball makes a massive difference in where it ends up on the course.


You see, the rich follow a few simple, proven laws of managing money. They're only slightly different than the ones most people grow up learning.

If you can adjust your financial approach just a few millimeters, it can massively affect where you "land" a few years from now.


So, what are you waiting for? You have nothing to lose, but time.


Enroll in the Complete Personal Finance Course today & start learning how to Manage Your Money in Today's Economy, Invest it, & Build Long Term Wealth​ just like the rich do.



What You'll Learn...


The Beginners Guide to Personal Finance and Wealth Building

  • The Beginners Guide to Personal Finance and Wealth Building

  • Books on Money & Investing that have Changed my Life

  • Assets vs. Liabilities

  • Cashflow management 101

  • Understanding Income & Expenses for beginners

  • keeping up with the joneses and why you should avoid it

  • paying your self first

  • budgeting tips and strategies

  • the best investment strategies

  • signs of a good and bad balance sheet

  • where to invest

  • things to avoid investing in

  • why you shouldn't invest in bitcoin

  • how to lose money in the stock market (so you avoid it)

  • Life hack - the power of compound interest and starting to invest early

  • 4 questions to ask yourself before you invest

  • why you shouldn't put your money into a savings account (unless you want to lose it)

  • emergency funds, roth IRAs, and 401Ks (retirement planning)

  • best 2 ways to pay off debt

  • best platforms to invest on

  • best current high interest savings accounts

  • what to do if a recession hits and how to handle it

  • how to monitor your credit score (using credit karma and credit sesame)


The Beginners Guide to Stock Market Dividend Investing

  • Why Dividend Investing can be a Massive Tool for Building Wealth & Passive Income

  • Which Stock Platform is Right for You

  • Books on Money & Investing that have Changed my Life

  • Why You Should Invest Your Money & Not Just Save It

  • Life Hack - The Power of Compound Interest & Starting Early

  • Important Investing and Personal Finance Terms You Should Know

  • Biggest Mistakes to Avoid when Investing

  • Important Things to Remember About Dividends

  • Balance Sheets & Cashflow Analysis

  • Biggest Mistake to Avoid When Building a Dividend Portfolio

  • Importance of Understanding a Company's History with Past Dividends

  • Dividend Companies to Pay Attention to

  • The Power & Scalability of a Dividend Portfolio & the Passive Income it Provides You

  • Understanding Tax Liability With Stocks


Bonus Sections you get for free listed below...


Many Tips on How to Speed Read Effectively and Learn from Books Quickly and why that will help you with whatever your goals are


Personal Productivity, Office Productivity, Personal Success and Transformation

  • personal productivity, office productivity, and personal success tips

  • 10 things that will make you more money today

  • 5 life hacks for more personal success and productivity

  • 5 success tips and life hacks to shortcut your personal development

  • 6 things you can do immediately to increase your income (major life hack!)

  • 5 tips for entrepreneurs, start ups, and small businesses

  • how to go from debt & despair to successful

  • the grass is never greener on the other side (another major life hack!)

  • what an ice cube can teach you about business and life (life hacking 101)

  • financial mistakes to avoid making when you're young

  • 10 ways you can make money from home and make money online

  • how to find a good mentor


Entrepreneurship and Small Business Mindsets for Success

  • How to properly set goals and hack your life's mission

  • the opposite of focus

  • taking inventory of your day

  • how to build momentum (the secret life hack that's helped me succeed)

  • physical health and how that relates to success

  • the one mistake everyone makes (avoid this!)

  • focus on the long game (not short term stuff)

  • stay broke (yup, you read that right!)

  • how and why to build a network

  • why you should never stop learning

  • how, why, and when to diversify

  • how to think in decades (not years)

  • avoid debt when you're growing a business or when you're young (trust me - life hack)

  • the creator mindset vs. the consumer mindset

  • flywheel strategy in business (how amazon uses this one business component to bulldoze the competition)

  • how and why to reverse engineer your customers pain points and your products complexity

  • eating your customers pain ahead of time


How to Reach Your Full Potential

  • Why you need to believe in yourself

  • how to study and breath motivation, achievement, and success

  • the compound effect (probably the biggest life hack I know of)

  • why mots people don't become rich

  • self limiting beliefs to avoid

  • examples of how not to become rich (so you can avoid them!)

  • getting your mindset right

  • success quotes

  • doing the mental math

  • how to increase your income over time

  • why you need to stay broke and stay hungry

  • what success means to you

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Instructor Details

Bryan Guerra

Bryan Guerra is the Founder of Invert Media. Invert Media is an Online Education Company. It's mission is to make high quality education affordable and accessible to the entire world.


He runs a successful eCommerce Business, creates content and courses to educate aspiring Entrepreneurs, and loves his wife and his dog. Feel free to message him, he’s always willing to help…

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Reviews

4.5

82 ratings on Udemy

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By Daniel Birkenmeier on 3/30/2021

Fast short videos with very little actual usable information for beginners. several incomplete videos, and LOTS of repetitive topics that don't provide any tangible information. Just feels like a personal advice course verses an actual informational course.

By Margaret on 10/31/2020

Yes it is a good mach for me.thanks a lot

By Ch Srinivasa Raju on 7/8/2020

I personally not followed these steps, by wwatching these videos i defiantly improve my financial status

By Arshi Anand Gupta on 7/7/2020

It was great to know all of this but I think it was not very useful for me right now as I am not earning. Maybe later it helps me.

By Fernando Romo Gutierrez on 6/25/2020

Info in the course is a solid 4/5, but I think that the title is misleading because it focuses heavily on investing as personal finances could be reduced to it. Even though I recognize that the info is concise and the lectures are well organized. I would recommend this just for people who are into investing in the market.

By Santosh Prajapati on 5/17/2020

good content and explaination

By Vishal on 5/14/2020

it was good enough but you could make it much better.

By Oluwaseun Abiodun Adekoya on 5/12/2020

Just exactly what I expected...Thumbs up

By Trevor Corbett on 4/17/2020

First of all, I sincerely hope you are well and staying safe during this horrid Covid19 pandemic. I LOVED the course, and will refer to it a lot in my journey. I am currently unemployed with little to show for all my years of working, During this unemployment period I have basically lost most of my savings trying to survive on extremely low unemployment government payments, but intend to amend my financial position in the next few years and well, become financially wealthy with the helpful information in this course. I have some great ideas on profitable long term investments that I can make, once I have raised enough finance to cover my emergency plan and daily household expenses. I had no idea of how or where to start changing my situation, and I am pleased to have enrolled in the course, as this has given me the means to start and many other ideas I can investigate and pursue along the way. You are a legend and an inspiration. Again thank you so much.

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Overall Score : 90 / 100