#35: Rich Life Chat with Ramit Sethi

A Beautiful Mess Podcast

Elsie Larson and Emma Chapman

Leisure, Home & Garden

4.8 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2020

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Hi! This week we are sharing our first interview episode with one of our personal heroes, Ramit Sethi. In this episode, we ask Ramit ten questions from our listeners and there are some very good, vulnerable questions in there. We chat about Covid pivots, what a rich life means to us, and more! Visit the show notes at abeautifulmess.com/podcast

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0:00.0	You're listening to the A Beautiful Mess Podcast. This week I'm
0:09.3	interviewing one of my personal heroes Ramit setty author of I will teach you to be rich. If you have
0:15.1	money guilt or goals that you can't quite reach I hope this episode will be an
0:18.6	encouragement and an inspiration to you which had about COVID pivots, side hustles, and how to find your own rich life.
0:26.0	Okay, so I first mentioned your book, I will teach you to be rich in episode 8, which is self-help books that changed our lives and okay so
0:36.6	welcome from me everyone thank you very much for having me
0:39.9	all right so I wanted to tell you a little bit about my childhood and how your book
0:48.0	changed my life. So I was raised in the Midwest in a middle-class family and I grew up in what I love to
0:54.5	call a little Caesar's Pizza childhood. It was not fancy but very average. I
1:00.8	didn't feel poor, I didn't feel rich and I didn't care about money I never thought about money it wasn't a big subject in my life and in fact I feel like my first
1:10.7	experiences with rich people or knowledge about millionaires was from movies
1:16.0	and they were more like villains than people.
1:19.6	Like I didn't really get a chance to ever meet a nice kind millionaire until I was well into my 20s.
1:27.2	So we started to have success in our 20s and kind of overnight went from earning a very low income to a very high income
1:36.1	and it was exciting but also stressful. I dealt with a ton of shame and
1:41.8	confusion and guilt for years because I didn't know
1:44.7	what to do with myself I didn't know how to act in front of my friends should I
1:48.9	try to hide it should I try to downplay it should I be proud should I be
1:52.4	investing in all these things I
1:54.1	don't know what they are I was just very confused and stressed by it all and that is
2:00.5	when I have learned about your book I will will teach you to be rich, which was the perfect book title whenever I saw it because they literally wanted someone to teach me how to be rich.
2:10.0	And it really did change my life. The thing that was so magical from it was learning to define our money values.
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