On today's show, we bring together three important themes that will help you to live a better life now if everything goes great, and also to live a better life later if times get tough.

And those three themes are these, number one. if times get tough.

And those three themes are these.

Number one, how could you build a financial independence plan

for yourself, even with few advantages in your background

through blue water sailing.

Number two, could you build an independent source of income for yourself through a niche of self-publishing.

And number three, could these plans help you to live an independent life now?

As well as protect you in case we face as a culture in a society the so-called end of the world as we know it. Welcome to the Radical Personal Finance Podcast. My name is Joshua Sheath. This is episode 202 of the show and today I have an interview with an author

named Matthew Bracken, author of an excellent series,

if you're in a political thriller fiction, author of the enemies foreign and domestic series as well as the book

Castigo Kaye gonna talk about building a life of Matthew Bracken's work for quite a while since I found it

accidentally a couple years ago you hear a little bit of that story in today's

show but I really enjoyed his novels I enjoy every now and then if I'm going to

read a novel I enjoy often a political thriller or some sort of military thriller or I have a soft spot for

dystopian fiction. It's kind of an interesting world because of a financial planner you have to

doily function both in a world of optimism and in a world of pessimism.

And so I find this type of fiction to be a fun way for me to go back and forth between optimism and pessimism.

I don't necessarily love those labels of categories.

In my mind, proper approach is realism, which is to go back and forth between both of them

continually.

Maybe that's a more accurate way to do it but with

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