Podcast Episodes

Learning How to Spend Money (While Enjoying Every Dollar Spent)

After decades of saving/investing, it's hard to immediately flip a switch and go into spending mode.

Spending is a skill that you should develop on your way to FI, so that you're better at it when th…

Published on 7 hours ago

Valuable Lessons from My Eighth Year of Freedom

In 2021, I decided to stop doing annual updates.

At that time, I thought I had FI figured out and was just living a "normal" life (so no need to talk about it anymore).

Well, a lot has changed since …

Published on 1 year, 2 months ago

The Power of Quitting

Saving up a bunch of money gives you power - power you can use to make your life better and your journey to financial independence quicker.

The only way to take advantage of the power though is to us…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

Happiness Through Subtraction

If you want to use money to make you happier, stop thinking about what you can buy with it.

Instead, think about how you can use it to remove the things in your life that make you unhappy.

Full Artic…

Published on 1 year, 4 months ago

Bill Perkins - Memory Dividends, Time Buckets, and Maximizing Net Fulfillment

Out of all the episodes of the Financial Independence Podcast, this is the one I wish I heard when I was on my journey to financial independence.

Bill Perkins, author of Die with Zero, joins Chris Hu…

Published on 1 year, 6 months ago

The Best Advice from JL Collins

To celebrate the release of JL Collins' new book, Pathfinders, I collected all the best advice from his Financial Independence Podcast interviews!   Jim has been on the show three times:   First, b…

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago

Parker Hewes - Your Money and Your Health

Health is similar to finances in that there are many overly-complex things people say you need to do, but there are just a few simple things that actually matter.

What is the "spend less than you ear…

Published on 2 years ago

Jillian Johnsrud & Chad Carson - Small and Mighty Real Estate Investing

On today's episode of the Financial Independence Podcast, I welcome back Chad Carson from CoachCarson.com!

Chad just released a new book, The Small and Mighty Real Estate Investor, and I wanted to ge…

Published on 2 years, 2 months ago

Ramit Sethi – How to Spend (and Actually Enjoy It)

On today's episode of the Financial Independence Podcast, I welcome back Ramit Sethi from I Will Teach You to Be Rich!

I needed someone to come on the show to provide some tough love and Ramit was th…

Published on 2 years, 8 months ago

My Family - Raising Money-Smart Kids

Over the last few years, I interviewed members of my family to find out two things:

How I became the Mad Fientist (i.e. where did I get my extreme ideas about money)
What advice they'd give to paren…

Published on 2 years, 11 months ago