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Brad Barrett | Choose FI Media

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🗓️ 19 December 2022

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

In this episode: using your resources to create change, your employer is your customer, identifying discrimination, and abundance mindsets.

For some on the journey to FI, it may seem like you must at all cost continuously strive to meet your monetary goal as quickly as possible. However, staying in toxic and unfulfilling work environments to hold the course with your goal is not what this journey is about. This week we are re-joined by Diania Merriam to have an intimate conversation about leaving a toxic work environment, navigating internalized beliefs, and the power and control gained while on the journey to FI. The greatest part of this journey is not only the earning and having more financial resources, but rather learning that your money is a tool you can use to reclaim your time! Remember, striving for FI is never about deprivation or devaluing yourself, nor does it mean tolerating poor treatment in order to stay on track!

Diania Merriam:

Website: EconoME Conference (Promo Code "CHOOSEFI")
Podcast: Optimal Finance Daily

Timestamps:

2:00 - Introduction
4:25 - The Resignation
15:46 - Identifying Discrimination
25:07 - Culture Shifts And Subtleties
30:10 - Using Your Resources To Create Change
33:12 - Allowing Your Money To Protect You And Coast FI
40:28 - Operating From An Abundance Mindset
48:57 - Your Employer Is Your Customer
54:20 - Shifting From Saving To Covering Expenses
62:30 - EconoME Conference
66:56 - Conclusion

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Brad, I wanted to let you know about an incredible offer one of our community members just made.
0:05.2	Their family offered to anonymously make a 100% matching donation for every contribution made to the
0:11.6	ChooseUpI foundation up to $5,000 from now until the end of the year.
0:16.7	The generosity blew us away and I wanted to make certain I spread the word on this because we need
0:21.6	your support. We started the ChooseUpI foundation in 2018 and last year alone are two main programs
0:28.4	FI 101 and the pre K through 12 curriculum helped just over 9900 people improve their financial
0:36.3	lives. This was accomplished on a five-friendly shoestring budget as it costs us just a $1.58
0:42.4	to bring financial literacy to each of these nearly 10,000 people. The foundation is a 501 C3
0:48.5	organization so donations are tax deductible and with the matching contribution a donation of even
0:54.2	$5 would be matched to 10 which would help us reach 6 people. So we set up a page to make donations
1:00.8	via PayPal or Card so if you're interested please head to ChooseUpI.com slash donate or if you want
1:07.3	to make a donation through your donor advice fund or via check but want to get counted for this
1:12.1	matching program shoot me an email at feedback at ChooseUpI.com so that's either ChooseUpI.com slash
1:18.6	donate or send me that email at feedback at ChooseUpI.com and thank you very very much.
1:26.0	All right hello and welcome to ChooseUpI. Today on the show we have a long time friend and
1:31.4	multi-time guest on the podcast Diana Meriam. She's the founder of the Economy Conference which is
1:37.5	really a weekend of fun and learning for the FI community and I'm excited to talk about an
1:43.0	upcoming conference which should be fun in 2023 and she's also the host of the optimal finance
1:48.1	daily podcast and it's interesting when you read a piece of content from a friend of yours that
1:53.6	just completely blows you away and actually Diana did that essentially on two successive weeks
2:00.0	with two of her email newsletters and the first was her resignation letter and I read this and my
2:07.3	blood was boiling at the situation that she had to endure and then the following week was the
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