#69: Be Your Own CFO with J.D. Roth

The Art of Manliness

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🗓️ 23 May 2014

⏱️ 31 minutes

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I talk to J.D. Roth, founder of the personal finance blog Get Rich Slowly, on why we all need to become the Chief Financial Officers of our lives. J.D. and I discuss taking financial practices from the business world and applying to our personal finances. If you've been wanting to get a better hold on your finances, you'll get a lot of this podcast.

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0:00.0	Brutmicae here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness Podcast.
0:19.6	So we've talked about on the site that an important part of manhood or manliness across
0:24.3	cultures across time is being autonomous and independent and for modern Western men,
0:31.5	a big part of becoming autonomous and independent and free standing is getting a hold of our finances,
0:37.6	being on top of our finances. But if you're like most men today, you probably don't think much about
0:42.5	your money except for checking your checking account balance every now and then. But if you really
0:47.2	want to get ahead with financially, you need to treat your personal finances much like a CFO or
0:54.2	chief financial officer of a business would at least that's the argument that personal finance
0:59.2	writer JD Roth makes in his new ebook Be Your Own CFO. So JD Roth is the founder of a popular
1:04.5	personal finance website called getrichslowly.org. And he just came out the new ebook called Be Your Own
1:10.2	CFO along with an online personal finance course. And in today's podcast, JD and I talk about what
1:17.4	it means to be CFO of our own personal finances and how switching to that sort of mentality can help
1:24.1	us immensely with getting ahead financially. Great podcast. It's crammed with just like really useful,
1:31.1	practical takeaway tips. So I think you're really going to enjoy it. So stay tuned.
1:38.2	JD Roth, welcome to the show. Thanks Brett. Glad to be here. Let's tell let's talk a little about you
1:43.1	for our listeners who aren't familiar with you or your work. You call yourself the accidental
1:49.0	personal finance expert. Right. How did you accidentally become a personal finance expert?
1:54.4	Well, the bottom line is I sucked at money for a long time. I spent, I grew up in a household
2:00.8	where my parents didn't really know how to manage money. They were always broke. When they did
2:05.3	have money through a windfall or whatever, they would just spend right through it. So the balances
2:09.8	in the checkbooks were always zero. I went to college. I developed poor personal finance habits
2:15.3	myself. By the time I graduated, I had the start of a credit card problem. I just grew
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