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 Jason Vita.

Jason, I'm holding in my hands your book called you only live once the roadmap to a

financial wellness and a purpose, excuse me, the roadmap to a financial wellness and a purpose

the roadmap to financial wellness and a purposeful life

so if your subtitle and the slogan of my show are that similar

we're gonna have a good interview today. Welcome.

Hi Josh, thank you so much for having me on instead of the year.

So we're going to talk about your book, but I'd first like to kick it off.

Tell us a little bit about your story, especially as it relates to money. Where did you start and what's been your path up to now in some of your ventures currently?

Yeah, I think the most interesting part for many people is that I started my relationship with money

with you know working cleaning toilets serving drinks and found myself four years later in the boardroom

making a six-year salary moving from New Jersey where I was raised to living out in

Apollo Alto, California.

Okay, so I'm going to stop you there because that sounds interesting,

that's good marketing speak,

but I want to know more specifics.

What type of work were you doing when you started?

Yeah, so, I mean mean I started as a bartender.

I started as a bartender in Newark International Airport and I mean it all really started with

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