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Welcome to Radical Personal Finance, a show dedicated to providing you with 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 on the show I want to talk to you about some skills that you can develop that will help you in life, in business and in your finances. But these skills are not hard skills.

They're not math skills, and we're not going to talk about a specific

financial planning tactic.

Rather, these are soft skills, things that you can use and develop to enhance your career and enhance in the long term

the outcome that you gain from your work.

I generally tend to keep radical personal finance free of current events, unless they are somehow related to some impending financial news that you need to know, and of course from time to time there's some of that, or unless there are valuable lessons in it.

And today we're going to talk about networking and developing influence and how it can help

your wealth.

But I was inspired to do this based upon recent news events.

As I record this episode and release it on Monday, September 30, 2019, there is quite

the Bruhaha in the United States over the alleged actions of President Trump,

as well as the alleged actions of former President Joe Biden.

The details of that are not material to our conversation except as it relates to the income

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