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Her money comes to you through PRX. Hey everybody, thank you so much for being with me today.

It's Jean Chatsky and this is her money and I am well I'm thrilled actually to tell you

that Vicki Robin is in the studio with me today she's not in Seattle or near Seattle where she usually is. She is on the

road. She's in New York. And for those of you who don't know, Vicky, she has made such a difference in the way millions of people over the last couple of decades

have decided, which is a very important word, have decided to live their financial lives and have decided

how to manage their time.

Vicky and her late partner, Joe Dominguez, who wrote a really seminal book called

Your Money or Your Life, challenged a whole generation to think about what they were really working for and how they were living,

whether they were doing it authentically or just trying to keep up.

And the two of them together are really credited with sewing some of the

seeds of the fire movement as it is today. Vicky of course though did not stop with

her first book. She's written others, including,

Blessing the Hand that Feeds Us, Lessons from a 10 Mile Diet,

where she explores food and farming and sustainability.

She's got a popular TED Talk. She's had quite the journey and she is

here to fill us in on all of it. Hi Vicky. Hi Jean. So nice to have you here and

in person and I don't want to get stuck in the past but I do want to just give my audience who may not know of your amazing work a little taste of where it started

can you just give us a little bit about how you got on this journey to begin with?

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