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Hi and welcome to the Longview.

I'm Christine Ben's Director of Personal Finance and Retirement Planning for Morning Star.

And I'm Amy Arnott, portfolio strategist with Morning Star.

Our guest on the podcast today is David Bach.

David is the author of 12 national best-selling

books, including The Latte Factor, Smart Women Finish Rich, Start, and The Automatic

Millionaire. He just released a 20th anniversary edition of The Automatic Millionaire. David was a

longtime contributor to NBC's Today Show and a featured guest on the Oprah

Winfrey show. He also produced and hosted two public television specials, Smart Women Finish Rich

and the Automatic Millionaire. David started his career at Morgan Stanley, where he was a senior

vice president and partner of the Bach Group. David, thank you so much for being here on the Longview.

Christine, it's truly my pleasure. It's great to be with you again.

Well, it's great to have you.

So we have a ton of questions about work and your advice on personal finance.

But before we get into that, we want to talk a little bit about your life

because you made a decision in

2019 to move your family to Florence, Italy that was pre-COVID, pre-people doing dramatic things like that.

So maybe talk about that impetus to move overseas and you've stayed much longer than you

initially thought you might.

That's all true. I'm laughing because we've been here now seven, seven years. You know,

the impetus was interesting. I was a co-founder, I guess technically still am a co-founder.

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