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Radical Personal Finance

1134-Friday Q&A: Too Many Children, Building a Family Seat

Radical Personal Finance

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

Self-improvement, Business, Education, Investing

4.21.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2026

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

On today's Friday Q&A we discuss:

  • 1:30 How do you know when you have too many children?
  • 22:19 What should I consider in trying to build a Family Seat?

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Today, in Radical Personal Finance, it's live Q&A.

0:18.4

Welcome to Radical Personal Finance, a show dedicated providing you with 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. My name is Josh Rashid. I'm your host. Today on the podcast, I'm going to do a live Q&A. It's been several weeks since we've had these. Remember that if you would like to join me for one of these shows where you talk about anything you want, you raise any questions, you discuss any topic that you want, Patreon.com

0:41.0

slash radical personal finance to join these shows.

0:48.4

Try to do these every Friday whenever I can arrange the appropriate recording technology,

0:55.4

the appropriate microphone, etc.

1:05.1

So patreon.com such radical personal finance and meeter the shows based upon Patreon support because that allows me to have an hour, two hours instead of five or six hours if I let them out to everyone.

1:10.3

We go now. Brent, welcome to the show. How can I serve you today, sir?

1:15.7

Hi, Joshua. It's a pleasure to be on the call. I'm glad I was able to get through.

1:16.2

Absolutely. So, question for today was about children and how many.

1:23.5

So I think you have a lot of experience in this realm, having a big family.

1:27.2

I'm coming from a big family.

1:29.5

I currently, my wife and I have six kids and the seventh is on the way in September.

1:36.2

And it wasn't until we had our six kid, I think, that we even really felt the stretch and thought,

1:46.1

boy, it's been kind of like a lot of kids.

1:53.2

I know some people feel that a lot earlier, but we have strong Christian theological convictions about being open to life and letting that be a decision for God, but we're, we're Catholic, like, we're evangelical

2:02.7

Protestant, more of a reformed flavor of that. And so we don't really have a strong conviction

2:08.0

necessarily against the non-abortion types of birth control necessarily, but we just, we're not

2:15.3

really felt comfortable with that, seeing all the scriptures about children being a blessing.

2:20.1

So we wondered if you've maybe thought through any of this,

2:24.5

being that you also begin to be what society would consider a large number of kids.

2:30.2

So how do you think through this?

2:32.3

Have you thought about it?

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