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My name is Joshua Sheets.

Today on the podcast, I am thrilled to welcome somebody that I have admired for quite a while.

Johann Kurtz, Johann, welcome to Radical Personal Finance. Thank you so much. It's wonderful to be here. Today in the podcast, we're going to be talking about your new book called Leaving a Legacy. What's the subtitle? Inheritance, charity, and thousand-year families. And I love that subtitle, as I myself am hoping to build a

thousand-year family. And I have long admired some of the families who have done this. However,

longtime radical personal finance listeners, this will not be the first time they've been

introduced to your work. In episode 1025 from June of 2024, I read your essay called The Rich Should Leave Their

Their Wealth to their children, not charity on the podcast and had good feedback to that.

And I want to thank you for writing that essay. It's been inspiring to me.

And I think it cuts right at the heart of what we're going to talk about today.

So I'd like to begin, though. You seem to have a deep passion for this topic of leaving a legacy. And you and your writing systematically undo some of the assumptions that I have made

about just how the world should be. So I'd like to begin. Tell us a little bit about your

background and why some of these topics are so important to you. Sure. Well, if I had to frame it in terms of my background, it's sort of, you know, of course,

a mixture of things I've come across over the years and has become more urgent to me,

thanks to more recent trends I've observed. But in terms of my background, I went to a school

that is considered one of the better schools in London and Britain, and probably one of the better schools in the country.

And frankly, that was a slightly disappointing experience in that this is a part of the world that is heavily romanticized,

these very old English schools.

My school is 600 years old, something like that. And you would expect it to be

this almost sort of mythical experience with old stones and ancient wisdom being passed down

and beautiful old things being revered. But it was very far from that. And you had this very

dignified institution that was populated by people who I felt were

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