MtoM #169: Homeless to a Quarter Million Dollars and Finance 101: Risk
White Coat Investor Podcast
Dr. Jim Dahle of the White Coat Investor
4.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 May 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Our guest today has a unique and inspiring story. He shares his journey from college to homelessness to financial success. He talked about what he learned and how he views the world on the other side of homelessness including gratitude for what he has and needing a lot less to be happy. He has paid off six figures of debt and built wealth to a quarter million dollars. After the interview stick around to for a discussion about risk for Finance 101.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the White Coat Investor Podcasts to Millionaire, |
| 0:04.2 | celebrating stories of success along the journey to financial freedom. |
| 0:08.2 | This is Milestones to Millionaire Podcast Number 169. |
| 0:17.0 | Homeless to a quarter million dollars. |
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| 0:51.0 | Welcome back to the milestones to Millionaire Podcast. |
| 0:54.2 | This is the podcast where we take your experiences |
| 0:56.9 | and your accomplishments and use them |
| 0:59.5 | to inspire others to do the same. |
| 1:02.2 | We'll celebrate anything with you, whatever your |
| 1:04.1 | accomplishment might be, whether it's a net worth milestone, whether it's paying off |
| 1:08.2 | some sort of a debt or making some purchase you've been saving up for, whatever it might be, we'll celebrate it with you and use it to inspire others to do the same. |
| 1:19.0 | I want to make sure those of you out there who are still trying to become financially |
| 1:24.0 | literate know about this great resource we have. We call it WCI 101 or |
| 1:28.2 | the Financial Basics you can sign up for this free resource at whitecode investor.com |
| 1:34.0 | slash basics. Basically what you're signing up for is to get a bunch of short |
| 1:37.8 | emails. You'll get every few days for a number of weeks you'll get a bunch of |
| 1:41.9 | short emails that will teach you finance and if you read through these by the time you get to the end of it you will be dramatically more financially literate and the combination of financial literacy and |
| 1:53.8 | financial discipline is so powerful than so unusual in our world that it's like |
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