Welcome back to the Ground Up Show. My name is Matt Diavella and this is the podcast where I explore

what it means to live a good life. This week I'm sharing my interview with Remete Sadie.

Remete is the author of The New York Times bestselling book I will teach you to be rich.

A book that I read ten years ago that helped me climb my way out of nearly six figures in

student loan debt. I was honored to have a chance to sit down with him to talk about how to earn

more money, create healthy spending habits, and change the way we've been thinking about money

for our entire lives. To get access to the full 75-minute interview,

become a member at patreon.com slash matt diavella. I hope you get as much value out of this conversation

as I did. Why don't you just start out, give me a little bit of that introduction to the kind of

work you're doing right now and what you've been up to. Sure. I decided years ago to take my

college scholarship money and invest it in a stock market because I thought that's what everybody

was doing in 1999-2000. I lost half my money and I realized I wasn't as smart as I thought I was.

So I started learning about money and at the same time I was learning about psychology.

Over time I basically got really interested in learning how to change my own behavior with money,

with careers, and with negotiation and all kinds of parts of self-development. So I started a blog

called I Will Teach You Be Rich. I was sober when I named that. I don't know if I would

say name again. But start a blog, end it up writing a book called I Will Teach You Be Rich,

which became an instant New York Times bestseller. And now we have 20 different courses on money,

business, psychology, and careers, all different parts of living a rich life. When I think of rich,

I'm thinking, Mink Coat, Red Convertible, Monaco, Top Hat, mustache. When I first read the book,

I was surprised not to see any of that. And maybe you can do that in the 20th edition of the book.

But when you are thinking about and talking about living a rich life or being rich, what does that

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