417 | Year End Wins 2022

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Brad Barrett | Choose FI Media

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🗓️ 26 December 2022

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Happy Holidays! As the year's end approaches, it's only natural to look back and think of all that you’ve accomplished. Whether you just began your FI journey this year or are well on your way, recognizing the improvements you’ve made throughout the year is essential and worth celebrating! This episode is our 6th annual year-end wins episode, and we are re-joined by MK Williams to listen and read submissions from our listeners and celebrate the progress of our audience through different stages of their FI journeys! This episode is meant to not only inspire but remind us how personal this journey is, and remind you to take some time and reflect on the progress you have made this year. Celebrate the wins of your own, no matter how big or small!

Timestamps:

1:27 - Introductions
3:43 - Adrianna's Wins
6:00 - David's Wins And The Post-It Note
9:48 - Will and Abby's Wins And Retirement Accounts
13:45 - Melissa Devon, and Brittany's Wins, Traveling And Saving
16:40 - Dominic and Leila's Wins, Stacking Accounts And Side Hustles
20:35 - Erica's Wins And Leveling Up In Life
24:11 - Justin's Wins And Financial Wellbeing
27:41 - Kristen's Wins And Paying Off The Mortgage
30:38 - Tommy's Wins And Changing Careers
33:24 - Wes And Sarah's Wins, Erasing Debt And Job Upgrades
35:50 - Lindsey's Wins, Travel Rewards And 2-Player Mode
38:18 - Tom and Danielle's Wins, Taking Action And Paying Off Student Loans
40:00 - Kelly's Wins, Budgetting And Communities
42:41 - Yvette's Wins And Making FI Do-Able
44:42 - Dennis' Wins And From Student Loan's To Disney World
47:00 - Valerie's Wins And Dumbfounding The Experts
48:56 - Dilyara's Wins And Crushing Early Stage FI
51:19 - Lauren's Wins And Doing The Legwork
56:28 - 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
1:07.4	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	Hello and welcome to ChooseUpI today on the show we have my favorite episode of the year. This is
1:31.9	the year-end wins episode and incredibly this is our sixth annual episode so 2017 through 2022
1:39.7	this is our sixth year of doing these year-end wins and it's incredibly interesting and gratifying
1:46.2	to see all the action that you the community have taken throughout the year and throughout your
1:51.7	years in the financial independence community and we ask for voicemails we ask for emails and they
1:57.6	come pouring in we're going to try our best to read and play as many of them as possible so stay
2:03.5	tuned welcome to ChooseUpI. Your listening to ChooseUpI.com radio. The blueprint for financial independence
2:13.0	lives here. If you're looking to unblocked as secrets to financial independence and early
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