1126-Friday Q&A: How Goes the New Business, Foreign Currency Transaction Amounts, A Day in the Life of Joshua, etc.
Radical Personal Finance
Joshua J. Sheats, MSFS, CFP, CLU, ChFC, CASL, RHU, REBC, CAP
4.2 • 1.9K Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2026
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
On today's Friday Q&A we cover:
- 1:00 How things are progressing with Life of Fred
- 14:47 How much foreign currency to have after moving abroad
- 28:39 A day in Joshua's life
- The Future of the Retirement Course
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Radical Personal Finance, a show dedicated to providing you with the knowledge, skills, insight, and encouragement you need to live a rich and meaningful life now while building a plan for financial freedom in 10 years or less. |
| 0:09.5 | My name is Joshua. I'm your host, and today is Friday, January 9, 2026. |
| 0:14.7 | And on this Friday, as we do on any Friday in which I can arrange a microphone and a phone line and all that stuff. We do a live Q&A. You call in, |
| 0:22.8 | talk about anything you want, ask any questions that you want, discuss anything that you are |
| 0:28.0 | thinking about. To gain access to one of these Friday shows, you can do that by becoming a patron |
| 0:32.6 | of the show. Go to patreon.com slash radical personal finance. That will gain access for you to one of these Friday Q&A shows. |
| 0:40.9 | We begin with Jordan in New York. Jordan, welcome to the show. How can I serve you today? |
| 0:46.3 | Hey, thank you. It's good. Talk to you. I wanted to ask about your acquisition of the Life of Fred math company and how it's going and anything |
| 0:55.9 | you want to share about sort of the negotiation in getting the company as well how's that for a |
| 1:01.5 | softball that was very kind of you it has been an adventure and it's been an exciting adventure because it's something that is different. |
| 1:13.8 | But it's been an adventure. Let me, let me, let me, let me consider what I want to set, |
| 1:17.3 | want to share. I don't think I want to share anything publicly at this point in time |
| 1:22.9 | regarding the acquisition of Fred. I will say that I have got some good stories and I will share |
| 1:32.1 | them in a different context or in the future, but I'm not ready to share them now. On the whole, |
| 1:39.9 | yeah, there's some, there's some very fun, very radical aspects to it that are fun. |
| 1:47.5 | So I want to share with them, but I can't quite, I can't, I can't do that yet. |
| 1:52.4 | So we will see about the future. |
| 1:55.4 | All right. |
| 1:56.3 | On the whole, I, I will say, I really enjoyed the process of, of purchasing Fred. |
| 2:04.9 | It's something, you know, any long time listener here at Radical Personal Finance knows |
| 2:10.8 | that I have grown and changed throughout this entire, this entire journey. |
| 2:16.9 | And I started in the early days of the podcast, |
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