Today we are sitting down with the godfather of the financial independence movement, and we're talking all things investing.

We're getting into everything from index funds to the stock market craziness right now to the fire movement.

And it's truly like sitting down with like a kind father figure as he walks us through everything we need to know to be smart and successful investors.

The market doesn't crash when it's feeling comfortable and good.

It crashes when there's a pandemic and it's scared.

But it always passes.

J.L. Collins is known as the godfather of financial independence in the financial

independence community.

An investor in the stock market for the past five decades, he's distilled his knowledge down into

the simple path to wealth, which is sold close to a million copies across 20 languages worldwide.

And if you buy the whole market and hold it at a very low cost, you will outperform all those

professional managers. JL joins us today to really break down investing and all of the

jargon around it and calling out the gatekeeping culture that tries to make things seem too

complicated for you as an investor. Some of these things are so complex that the people created

don't quite understand. And there's a reason for that. The more complex it is, the higher the fees

you can charge around it, and the more you can

convince people that, oh, you shouldn't bother your pretty little head about this. Give me your money.

I will take care of it. We talk about investing strategy, the common mistakes we see people make,

and how JL feels about hot button financial topics like the fire movement, financial advisors,

and ethical investing.

And he does have some pretty hot takes. This is a classic financial episode of financial

feminist and JL is so great at distilling these concepts down into something that will make

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