850: Protect Yourself and Your Family by Believing That Bad Things Happen

Radical Personal Finance

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

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🗓️ 24 February 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

In light of the Russia/Ukraine conflict, we need to pay careful to the lessons we can learn from the pain that our fellow humans are experiencing.

Today's lesson: believe that bad things can happen. To you.

Joshua

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0:00.0	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.
0:11.0	My name is Joshua Sheets, I'm your host. Today on the show I want to talk about belief.
0:17.0	The power of believing in the possibilities of what is actually in front of you.
0:26.0	I've been thinking this morning about the war in Ukraine right now between Russia and Ukraine. And for context today is
0:36.9	Thursday February 24, 2022 and in the last 12 to 18 hours there has been a dramatic change in the relationship between Russia and Ukraine and the conflict has now gone kinetic.
0:55.0	It's hard for me to understand fully at the moment in the fog of war
1:00.0	what's actually happening, but there are abundant reports of Russian attacks on Ukraine.
1:08.5	There's plenty of evidence of incursions, of Russian tanks, troop carriers, etc. across the border.
1:14.6	There's a massive breakdown in international relations.
1:20.3	Ukraine has closed its embassy in Moscow, cut off diplomatic relations with Russia, around the world,
1:26.0	many nation states are issuing strong condemnations of the actions of Russia, etc. And so clearly we are and we have
1:36.3	entered a new phase of this particular conflict. This is something that's actually
1:41.6	come up on radical personal finance in the past few weeks, which I'll be talking about in a moment,
1:47.0	where we had a listener call in and said, hey, my parents are in Ukraine, what should we do? Should we get them out? Should we not, etc?
1:54.0	And so we've been talking about this. But as I consider the topic and what I wanted to say about the topic,
2:00.9	I believe it's a useful learning point for us and I don't have any insight or wish to
2:09.1	make any commentary on the actual details on the ground.
2:13.0	It's unknown.
2:15.0	I want to always condemn violence, immoral violence.
2:20.0	I always want to condemn immoral violence.
2:21.0	I always want to stand for peace and for righteousness and so that should be the
2:27.2	evidence that should be the first thing of course but beyond that I don't have
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