Episode 373: Brad Barrett: Financial Independence and 1.3 Million Podcast Listeners

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Entrepreneurship, Business, Careers, Freelancing, Marketing, Small Business

4.8 • 648 Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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https://fizzleshow.co – Brad Barrett is co-host of the enormously popular Choose FI podcast, which features stories of financial independence and reaches over 1.3 million listeners a month. On today's episode Brad shares how he grew the podcast, what financial independence is, and what it means for entrepreneurs.

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. Welcome to The Fizzle Show. I'm your host, Corbett Barr, and this is our podcast about
0:08.0	earning a living independently doing something you love. And today, we are joined by Brad Barrett of
0:14.4	ChooseFI. I'm excited to have Brad on because he has a very interesting financial independence story, which is something
0:23.2	we'll get into. But he also has a very interesting entrepreneurial journey, which has led him
0:28.7	to running the Choose FI podcast, which is an immensely popular podcast in the financial independent
0:34.8	space that gets over 1.3 million downloads a month.
0:39.1	Brad, thank you so much for coming on today.
0:41.4	Yeah, thanks for having me, Corb. I'm really excited.
0:43.7	Yeah, I've listened to the FI, the Choose FI podcast, a bunch.
0:47.9	And you cover bread and butter financial independence topics, which I want to get into
0:52.2	today on the show because we haven't
0:54.5	really covered that on the Fizzle show. And I think that's such an important thing for entrepreneurs.
0:59.9	But you didn't just pop into running a financial independence podcast. You have an interesting
1:06.5	backstory as well. Before we get started, tell us a little bit about ChooseFI, the business that
1:13.0	you're running now. Sure. Yeah. And again, thanks for, thanks for the nice intro there. Yeah,
1:18.2	it's been a, it's been a circuitous journey for me. And I'm interested to talk about the
1:22.3	interplay between that and financial independence and entrepreneurship generally. But
1:27.0	yeah, ChooseFI, I guess we started it about three and a half years ago.
1:33.7	And it's interesting because it does actually, the Genesis story of it starts with some of
1:40.1	my other entrepreneurial journeys.
1:41.9	And we will get into that.
1:43.1	But my co-host, Jonathan and co-founder,
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