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BiggerPockets Money Podcast

15: The Pillars of FI, Pt. 2: Designing the Life You Want with Brad Barrett and Jonathan Mendonsa from Choose FI

BiggerPockets Money Podcast

BiggerPockets

Education, Investing, Business

4.53K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2018

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

This is the last half of the epic interview with Brad and Jonathan from Choose FI. Continuing where we left off from last week, we finish up the Pillars of FI conversation, including beginner level topics you can be doing such as frugality and index fund investing but also touch on more advanced topics like tax optimization and travel hacking. If you have not yet listened to part one, you can find that here.  This episode - along with last week’s part one - is a must-listen for anyone on the path to FI, or just getting started. Links from the Show BiggerPockets Forums Richmond Savers Mr. Money Mustache Articles Listen to the episode on BiggerPockets   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Bigger Pocket's Money, Show14, Part 2.

0:05.0

It's that little extra bit of intentionality and setting priorities.

0:09.0

Okay, that saves me $80 a month and compounded over decades. That's a boatload of money.

0:15.0

It's time for a new American dream, one that doesn't involve working in a cubicle for 40 years,

0:20.5

barely scraping by. Whether you're looking to get your financial house in order,

0:23.7

invest the money you already have, or discover new paths for wealth creation, you're in

0:28.7

the right place. This show is for anyone who has money or wants more.

0:33.0

This is the Bigger Pocket's Money Podcast.

0:36.0

How's it going everybody?

0:36.7

I'm Scott Trench and I'm here with my co-host, Miss Mindy Jenson.

0:39.3

How you doing today, Mindy?

0:40.8

Scott, I am doing fantastic. I am out in the Pacific Northwest with my family on

0:45.2

vacation my husband is going to be running a marathon this weekend and we came

0:49.6

out here for the girls spring break and the Pacific Northwest is so much different than the Denver area. It's so green.

0:56.0

Everything here is so green. Of course every time I walk outside it's raining so that's probably

1:01.1

leading to the greenery. But enough about me. Let's get on into today's show. We have the second part, the wrap-up episode of the bigger pockets money interview with ChooseFI. Brad and Jonathan are here to continue with

1:16.1

their pillars of financial independence. The 10 foundational points of what it

1:21.6

really takes to get to financial independence.

1:24.4

Yep, so again, this is the second part of that episode.

1:27.0

You can pick it up right here and get some great information or what we recommend is go back and

1:31.4

listen to last week's episode

1:33.3

before you get into this one so that you can kind of

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