Camp Mustache – Q&A with Mr. Money Mustache, Afford Anything, & The Military Guide
Financial Independence Podcast
The Mad Fientist
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 12 September 2016
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Summary
Today on the Financial Independence Podcast, I’m excited to share a live Q&A session with Mr. Money Mustache, Paula Pant from Afford Anything, and Doug Nordman from The Military Guide!
This panel discussion took place back in May at Camp Mustache — an annual retreat in the Pacific Northwest organized by Mr. Money Mustache readers.
In this episode, you’ll not only hear about…
- Mr. Money Mustache’s biggest splurges
- The investing mistakes I still can’t seem to avoid
- Paula’s favorite thing about financial independence
- Doug’s suggestion for discovering the meaning of life
…, but you’ll also get varied and diverse perspectives on some of the most important questions facing those on the path to financial independence and early retirement!
Highlights:
- Top recommendations for people who are close to achieving financial independence
- How to stay motivated when pursuing FI
- What is the meaning of life
- How to foster a good online culture and community
- Tips and tricks to stop you from trying to time the market
- The biggest challenges of reaching FI and how to overcome them
- What we splurge on and why
- Mr. Money Mustache’s thoughts on being featured in the New Yorker
- How to handle changes in your relationships after reaching FI
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'm blind if you win it through finance. |
| 0:05.0 | Hey what's up everybody, welcome to the Mad Finestist Financial Independence |
| 0:09.0 | podcast, the podcast where I get inside the brains of some of the best and brightest in the |
| 0:12.0 | personal finance |
| 0:12.6 | space to find out how they achieved financial independence. |
| 0:15.1 | I'm really excited about today's episode because it's unlike any of that I've done before. |
| 0:20.0 | This one was recorded live back in May at Camp Mustache in the Pacific Northwest. |
| 0:25.7 | If you're not familiar with Camp Mustache, it's like a weekend conference put on by Mr Money Mustache Readers and it's about 50 people. |
| 0:35.4 | They all come to a really cool lodge in the middle of the woods in Washington State |
| 0:40.4 | and spend the weekend hanging out talking finances drinking beer and |
| 0:45.6 | roasting marshmallows on the campfire and it's a really good time. But on the |
| 0:50.4 | last day of camp mustache it's usually a time when Pete, aka Mr. Money Mustache, |
| 0:57.0 | takes questions from the audience and we sit around and he answers everybody's questions. |
| 1:02.0 | So I asked if I could hijack that session. he answers everybody's questions. |
| 1:03.0 | So I asked if I could hijack that session this year and sort of do a panel discussion where the audience |
| 1:07.8 | members ask a bunch of questions and we recorded as a podcast and record all the answers. It was a lot of fun to do and there's some |
| 1:16.8 | incredible stuff that comes out of it. So here it is. It's a panel discussion from Camp |
| 1:22.3 | Mustache with Mr. |
| 1:23.5 | Monti Mustache. Paula Pant from Afford Anything. |
| 1:26.0 | Doug Nordman from the Military Guide and me, the Mad Finestist. |
| 1:29.5 | All right, welcome, K Mustache. Nice, welcome Welcome everybody. I'm really excited to get two old podcast guests back on the show. My first ever interview is sitting to my right. The main man himself, Mr. Money Mustache. Thank you Mr. Finestist. |
| 1:54.0 | Welcome back. |
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