Welcome to Radical Personal Finance, a 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 name is Joshua, I am your host and today we're going to

continue with our September National Preparedness Month series with a

discussion of just-in-time inventory management. I'm going to let a fellow podcaster of mine carry the bulk of this

discussion, but I want to share with you a brief introduction. One of the major tenants that

I have firmly established in my own mind and have sought to share with you is simply this

money is one of your most valuable resources and most of the time money will be

the first thing that you will turn to in a crisis. After all, money is simply the most

marketable commodity in the world and money can buy you solutions to a huge

majority of your problems.

So considering money really should always be one of our first steps with regard to preparedness,

making sure that we have money, have lots of money,

and have lots of money available when we need it. But that doesn't mean that we can then automatically ignore the times when money doesn't work.

Because when money doesn't work, no amount of money will get you out of the problem. No amount of money will solve the problem.

You have to think about those things in advance.

Let me give a couple of examples to spur your thinking on this subject and try to drive my point

home to a visceral level for you. Let's assume that you are concerned about your physical safety. You should be concerned

about your physical safety. And because you're a practical and prudent person, you recognize

that one of the benefits of being wealthy is you can avoid most of the circumstances

where you would become physically unsafe.

You don't have to live in the hood where you're worried about a drive-by shooting putting

some random bullet through your

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