Welcome to Radical Personal Finance a show dedicated to providing you with the knowledge, skills, insight, and encouragement you need, live a rich and meaningful life now, while building a plan for financial freedom in 10 years or less.

Next week I am starting a live webinar series and I want to tell you a little bit about what

I'm going to do and invite you to join me for that series.

But before I do, I want to begin with a story.

About an hour ago I received this email from a listener.

Listener writes in and says, hey Joshua,

just wanted to say thank you for all you've published

in preparedness over the last years.

It got me interested in taking care of my family

and having a plan for emergency situations.

That has come in handy since in the last week the city I live in has had confirmed cases of

the coronavirus and has shut down the roads into the city, greatly disrupting food supplies.

Further, they've recommended everyone stay indoors for two weeks.

Thanks to you, I have stored up 40 liters of bottled water,

two independent water filtration systems, 100 pounds of rice, 30

pounds of flour, 15 pounds of sugar, 5 pounds of salt, 30 liters of oil, a bunch of

canned foods, peanut butter, jelly, etc.

I actually had just started prepping.

A goal this year is to build up a three month supply, so those reserves are insufficient

in a variety of ways I need to fix. But I'm thankful that due to your teaching I had already

started prepping and so now in a very unexpected situation I have no worries whatsoever

that my family will be fine even if the two week suggested self-isolation

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