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264 | Recognizing Scarcity and Uncertainty | Leisa Peterson
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264 | Recognizing Scarcity and Uncertainty | Leisa Peterson

Your money story informs so much of your life even if you're not aware of it. For 30 years, Leisa Peterson has been researching and studying how tra…

263 | Pick Your Five: Accountability & Decision-Making
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263 | Pick Your Five: Accountability & Decision-Making

Jonathan draws a parallel between the episode on Monday with professional poker player Annie Duke and hitting his weight loss goals. Finding himself…

262 | How to Decide | Annie Duke
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262 | How to Decide | Annie Duke

Annie Duke is a world champion poker player and author of Thinking in Bets, a book which makes the case for embracing uncertainty in our decision-ma…

261 |"Nothing Gold Can Stay" | What is a HELOC?

261 |"Nothing Gold Can Stay" | What is a HELOC?

After 18 years of ownership, Brad says goodbye to his beloved Honda Civic, Golden Boy. When it comes to car ownership, ChooseFI often talks about on…

260 | What's your Survival Number? | Jully-Alma Taveras
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260 | What's your Survival Number? | Jully-Alma Taveras

Immigrating to the United States as a child, by early adulthood, Jully found herself caught up in our consumer culture and had acquired five figures…

259 | Kristi & Big ERN
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259 | Kristi & Big ERN

In our eighth Households of FI touchpoint episodes, Kristi was successfully following the standard path with a six-figure job and keeping up with th…

258 | Back to Basics Part 2: The Income Side of the Equation
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258 | Back to Basics Part 2: The Income Side of the Equation

Brad has been taking part in a mastermind group and teaching its members about financial independence. While they understood the “Why of FI”, how to…

257 | Back to Basics: Getting Started with FI
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257 | Back to Basics: Getting Started with FI

In this ChooseFI Back to Basics episode, we review Health Savings Accounts (HSA). What happens when you need to finally pull money out after funding…

256 | Double Your Income by Flipping the Second-Hand Market | Flea Market Flippers

256 | Double Your Income by Flipping the Second-Hand Market | Flea Market Flippers

How can you recognize the value in the secondhand market, begin optimizing a strategy, and turn it into income? Today's guests, Rob and Melissa Step…

255 | If People Can Do it Then I Can Do it Too | Leslie Tayne Connects with Vivian
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255 | If People Can Do it Then I Can Do it Too | Leslie Tayne Connects with Vivian

Picking back up with the Household of FI series, Vivian is a single mom who found FI in the last year, but initially, it seemed impossible. It wasn'…

254 Creating a lifestyle not a Job | Corbett Barr

254 Creating a lifestyle not a Job | Corbett Barr

Building a business online has never been easier than right now, but Corbett Barr was forging his path in the early 2000s when it was hard. We're di…

253 | Back to Basics
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253 | Back to Basics

Going back to the basics of ChooseFI being a crowdsourced show, Brad and Jonathan address what's going on in the FI community with a wild card Frida…

252 | Life Rebuilt | Julia Harder

252 | Life Rebuilt | Julia Harder

Everyone's path to FI is going to look a little bit different and there is so much we can learn from each other. Hoping to inspire and share lessons…

251 | Should I Pay off the Mortgage on the Path to FI? | Brad Connects with Martin and Ayesha

251 | Should I Pay off the Mortgage on the Path to FI? | Brad Connects with Martin and Ayesha

Martin and Ayesha are both natural savers who have been great about living below their means but lacked a real plan. Their goals are to maximize inv…

250 | Money Lessons From My Grandparents | Anne Zonca
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250 | Money Lessons From My Grandparents | Anne Zonca

Once you realize financial independence is possible for you, how do you ensure the money lessons you've learned are consistently passed down to futu…

249 | Carol connects with The Retirement Answer Man Roger Whitney

249 | Carol connects with The Retirement Answer Man Roger Whitney

Brad is back after taking August off of work as his Red X month. Though his original vacation plans were changed because of COVID, he made the best …

248 | You Are More Than Your Financial Capital | Laura Oldanie
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248 | You Are More Than Your Financial Capital | Laura Oldanie

What does it look like when you are invested in building wealth, environmentalism, and sustainability? How do you combine raising your net worth whi…

247 | Zach and Marilyn Talk Real Estate Investing | Paula Pant

247 | Zach and Marilyn Talk Real Estate Investing | Paula Pant

Continuing the financial independence case study series, Households of FI family, Zach and Marilyn are a married couple with young kids. Using Dave …

246 | Overcoming and Battling Financial Abuse | Rachael Partleton
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246 | Overcoming and Battling Financial Abuse | Rachael Partleton

  What happens when someone is using your finances to prevent you from making decisions that are in your own best interest? What does financial abus…

245 | Matt & Megan get International Tax Tips | Dave McKeegan

245 | Matt & Megan get International Tax Tips | Dave McKeegan

To watch the video highlights, click on ChooseFI.com/245 Matt and Megan are a dual military family on the path to FI. Matt is serving in the UK Roya…