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Hi and welcome to the Longview.

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

Today on the podcast, we welcome back author and blogger J.L. Collins.

Jail's first book, The Simple Path to Wealth, Your Roadmap to Financial Independence and a Rich Free Life,

was published in 2016 and has since sold more

than a million copies. He has recently come out with the second edition of the book, which his daughter

Jess collaborated on. In 2023, he published another book called Pathfinders, extraordinary stories

of people like you on the quest for financial independence. JL.,

welcome back to the Longview.

Christine, it's a pleasure to be back. Thanks for having me.

Well, it's a pleasure to have you here. So we want to talk about the newly revised

edition of the Simple Path to Wealth. The first Simple Path was published in 2016, and it seems

so timeless to me, which I do think helps

explain its really consistent popularity since its first publication. What were the main things

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