A couple of months ago, a guy named Joshua emailed me to ask if I’d be a guest on his new show – the Radical Personal Finance podcast. I agreed and we ended up having a very interesting two-hour conversation, which he published to his site.
Since then, however, Joshua has been forced to take down his podcast (for undisclosed reasons) and since he’s not sure when he’ll be able to put it back up again, he has agreed to let me publish our interview here (thanks!).
I couldn’t bear to hear myself talk for a full two hours though so I decided to edit the interview down into two smaller parts and today, I am publishing part one.
It was great being on the other side of the interview for once so hopefully you enjoy hearing a bit about my personal journey to financial independence.
Update: Joshua’s podcast is back!
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Highlights
- Different Paths to FI
- Frugality and Sacrifice
- How to Have an Expensive Hobby
- Travel Hacking
- Slow Travel
In part two of the interview, we dive into some complex but very powerful strategies for pursuing financial independence and early retirement.
I was wondering where RPF went. Hopefully he is back on the air soon as he was getting some good guests. Thanks for posting the abridged version of part one. I enjoyed it.
Glad you enjoyed it, Prob8. I too hope he’s able to get the podcast up and running again soon.
Looking forward to getting together in St. Louis in a couple of weeks!
Hey Mad that was fun to listen to. Thanks for sharing your work!
Chris
My pleasure, Chris.
In the other half of the interview, we dive into some really interesting topics so hopefully you enjoy the second part as well!
Thanks for sharing and it definitely helps put things in perspective what the ultimate goal is. Also enjoyed the Travel Hacking portion.
Great, glad you enjoyed it. I just posted the second half of the interview so let me know what you think!
Travel hacking is just one way of making more than what a dollar is worth. I think that for all expenses in live there is a hack these days. Hacking Chipotle anyone?
I completely agree (and now I want a burrito) :)
Joshua at Radical Personal Finance relaunched his podcasts & website this month. He’s making good progress at getting a new podcast out nearly every weekday. Check it out at http://radicalpersonalfinance.com/
Cool interview. Your approach to travel hatching is brilliant.