Welcome to Radical Personal Finance, the 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.

My guest today is Matt Hall.

Matt is a financial advisor and author of the book,

Odds On The Making of an evidence-based investor.

Matt Hall, welcome to Radical Personal Finance.

Glad to be here.

Thank you.

I've got in my hands here, your brand new book called Odds on The Making of an Evidence-based Investor.

And you come highly recommended to me as a guest for the show based upon the input of previous

guests.

So I'm looking forward to our conversation.

I'd love to start though with a little bit of your background

and your story.

What's been your journey through the world of finance

that has resulted in your writing this book here.

Oh my gosh, so there's so much that I want to tell you it'll be hard.

I may meander and go down a path and rely on you to bring us back, But I'll start by saying I feel like I'm sort of accidentally in this industry. My parents are both educators and when I was growing up they talked about students they didn't

necessarily talk about clients or markets and that kind of stuff and much of

this is detailed in in the book I attempted to write a book that I thought needed to exist. I hadn't

found anything like this where you buried all the wonky technical stuff

inside of real life stories. That's essentially what odds on the

making of an evidence-based investor is. It's the wonky buried in into life stories

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