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Radical Personal Finance

438-The Audience Demographics of Radical Personal Finance (And What Surprised Me the Most!)

Radical Personal Finance

Joshua J. Sheats, MSFS, CFP, CLU, ChFC, CASL, RHU, REBC, CAP

Self-improvement, Business, Education, Investing

4.21.9K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2017

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

I recently completed a brief demographic survey of the Radical Personal Finance audience. I learned a ton about who you are!

I thought it would be fun for me to share it with you and share how it impacted me.

Enjoy!

Joshua

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Radical Personal Finance Audience Demographics    
    
Gender    
Male    78.9%
Female    21.1%
    
Age    
13-17    0.2%
18-20    0.6%
21-24    6.9%
25-34    48.5%
35-44    29.8%
45-54    9.9%
55+    4.2%
    
Marital Status    
Single    27.4%
Married    70.1%
Divorced    2.4%
Widowed    0.1%
    
Race    
Asian    4.5%
Black    3.9%
Caucasian    82.1%
Hispanic    4.5%
Native American    0.1%
Pacific Islander    0.7%
Other    4.2%
    
Education    
Less than high school graduate    0.4%
Graduated high school / GED    1.7%
Trade / Technical school - no degree    1.5%
Attended college but did not graduate    5.4%
Two year college degree    5.3%
Four-year college degree    50.1%
Masters degree    26.6%
Doctoral degree    9%
    
Income    
<25k    2.8%
25k-49k    7.6%
50k-74k    14.7%
75k-99k    16.5%
100k-199k    40.8%
200k+    17.6%

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Radical Personal Finance, the show dedicated to providing you with the knowledge,

0:04.2

skills, insight, and encouragement you need to live a rich and meaningful life now while

0:08.9

building a plan for financial freedom in 10 years or less.

0:12.1

Today we're not going to talk about a specific

0:13.9

financial planning question. Rather I'm going to talk up to you about who you are and

0:19.6

who your fellow listeners are.

0:23.2

I'm going to report to you on some demographic data

0:25.8

from a recent advertising, or excuse me,

0:28.0

recent demographic survey that I completed,

0:30.5

which was very interesting to me to learn who is listening to this show.

0:38.0

I'll paint a picture for you. I love these pictures that many of you were sending

0:41.9

into me.

0:42.8

By the way, I ask you if you haven't yet sent me a picture.

0:47.0

Please just send me a quick family picture.

0:48.3

I want to put some pictures on a screen saver and print some out

0:50.6

so I can always keep in mind who my listening audience is with actual

0:54.6

faces that's super helpful to me in addition to that please make sure that you take a

0:59.2

moment and record a quick two to three minute voice memo on your phone and email that to

1:04.4

Joshua at radical personal finance dot com telling me what you've learned and

1:07.6

what you've changed in your life as a result of radical personal finance.

1:10.6

I'd like to do a special episode 500 of the show and put that

1:16.8

together so that you can share your story with other listeners. Other

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