One of the major challenges that I've faced over the last two years that I've been

building radical personal finance has been learning how to figure out what to

talk about on my show.

There's really nothing in my life, nor in my past education that has prepared me for how to know that,

how to know what topics to choose, how to know what roads to go down.

And some of the most baffling have been trying to figure out what's an appropriate and

helpful and useful way to talk about things like politics. When do I go into them?

When do I not? What's the right context for doing so.

And the challenge is, oftentimes politics comes across as divisive.

It comes across as bringing a wedge because perhaps you and I believe differently.

Perhaps our political systems are constructed on different presuppositions.

And so it seems to me that often the best course of action is to avoid it.

On the flip side I know that I'm very interested in how other people think and especially when things are strange or questionable or new, I'm interested in how my friends think.

Whether I agree with them or not, I'm interested in knowing how they think.

And as I sit here at 3 o'clock in the afternoon on Wednesday, November 9, 2016, the day after

Voting Day, Election Day in the United States, wherein we learned that the

president-elect of the United States is Donald Trump, a widely unexpected outcome, I find myself faced with that strange

question of do I talk about what do I go into?

Should I go into political philosophy?

How does that relate to finance?

What should I do?

Etcetera.

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