1100-Investing Into People, Not Money: Patronage Roundtable with Greg Treat

Radical Personal Finance

Joshua J. Sheats, MSFS, CFP, CLU, ChFC, CASL, RHU, REBC, CAP

Finance, Retirement, Insurance, Business, Money, Education, Self-improvement, Financial, Independence, Growth, Advice, Investing, Family, Personal, Radical, Christian, Faith

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🗓️ 29 May 2025

⏱️ 103 minutes

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In today's podcast I share the audio from a recent roundtable discusion with attendees of RPF Family Camp. We have a two-week discussion going related to patronage networks and we decided it would be good to host a verbal Q&A discusion instead of just keeping everything in text...now you get to listen in!

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1:05.5	conditions apply. Welcome to radical personal finance. Today I have something slightly different. We're going to have a roundtable discussion on basically what I think of as orders and structures of society, specifically related to wealth and wealthy people. We're going to discuss a concept of patronage. Now, this discussion, you'll hear with the various callers that are on the line, this
1:30.6	discussion is coming out of a discussion that many of us have been having in our private
1:35.8	group as those who attended the Radical Personal Finance Family Camp.
1:40.0	Our primary guest here today is Greg Retreat.
1:42.6	Greg has appeared previously on Radical Personal Finance.
1:45.6	He came to Family Camp and gave a presentation discussing how to build a family dynasty,
1:52.4	how to build family governance over time, basically a family office that will endure.
1:56.7	A couple weeks ago in our private group for attendees of Family Camp,
2:05.0	I shared some articles about the Great House.
2:13.4	One of those articles I have previously shared on Radical Personal Finance from Johan Kurtz. It's episode 987, if you're interested in pausing this and going back and listening to that particular article.
2:21.3	987 is called Invest Your Money into founding a great house to change the world.
2:25.4	And so it seemed very germane and it sparked a great conversation among us on the topic of patronage societies.
2:33.1	And many of us have questions, many of us have comments,
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