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 Sheets and I am your host. Today we continue our Seven Rings of Freedom series.

This is a series focused on giving you some practical, actionable ideas so that you can generate and achieve increasing levels of freedom in your life and your lifestyle.

One of the reasons that many people pursue financial independence is so that they can have more freedom.

However, they define the word.

I'm convinced, however, that you don't need to be totally financially independent in order to build freedom

for yourself. So if you know that the end that you're pursuing is personal freedom,

why not enjoy it on the pathway to financial independence. This episode is the fifth episode in

this series. First episode was I talked about spiritual liberty, how if you are spiritually

free then you can go through any outward circumstance of bondage or lack of liberty,

and yet sail through it.

And yet, if you are spiritually in bondage, no matter how great the external circumstances can be, how that will affect you deeply personally.

The second episode I talked about spousal liberty and the third about family liberty.

I made a pitch to appreciate the value of a stay-at-home life and

also of homeschooling. I talked about how those lifestyle decisions can massively increase

your personal freedom.

And I think those ideas are under-disgust in the modern world.

Then I pivoted towards a more traditional financial discussion.

I talked about spending liberty.

I talked about the personal freedom that you can enjoy

by being and staying debt free and also by having some amount of savings and I made the

argument that the amount of savings can be much more modest than is commonly considered to be.

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