My Brother – Using the Power of Money to Pursue Your Passion
Financial Independence Podcast
The Mad Fientist
4.8 • 1.7K Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2018
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode of the Financial Independence Podcast, I interview my little brother while drinking wine next to a canal in Venice!
Brian, who is three years younger than me, isn’t actively pursuing financial independence but he’s done some really impressive things with his money and has used the power that money provides to fully pursue his passions.
In fact, he’s currently in the middle of a ~6-month mini-retirement and is using the time off to travel and hopefully take his music career to the next level.
We dive into a lot of interesting financial topics but we also degenerate into some brotherly chat, which produced classic quotes like this one: “I took my solids elsewhere.”
Highlights:
- How we are different when it comes to money (including his much more extreme level of frugality)
- Why he chose to live in a place with no heat, hot water, air conditioning, sink, or toilet
- How to save money as a musician/artist
- Why focusing on buying more gear misses the point and how you can avoid that common trap
- How to utilize the power of quitting even if you aren’t financially independent
- What it’s like tasting the early retirement lifestyle
- Why learning a language abroad is a great way to travel
- The pros and cons of having a day job when you’re an artist
- How to get a dream job in the arts
- Using mini-retirements and part-time work to pursue your passion
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I'm blind to give you a true finance. |
| 0:05.0 | Hey, everyone to the Financial Independence Podcast. |
| 0:09.0 | The podcast where I dissect the brains of some of the best and brightest in personal finance |
| 0:12.0 | to find out how they achieved financial |
| 0:14.0 | independence. |
| 0:15.0 | I'm your host, the mad scientist, and welcome to my laboratory. |
| 0:18.0 | Wow, it's like you're really here with me. |
| 0:21.0 | You may notice some additional sound effects today and |
| 0:24.9 | that's all thanks to today's guest, which is my little brother Brian. He was the mastermind |
| 0:30.0 | behind my original podcast intro music, which is what you heard at the beginning of this |
| 0:33.6 | episode and I asked him to create some music that I could talk over when I'm doing |
| 0:39.0 | intros just like this one. I was getting sick of just hearing my boring voice all the time so |
| 0:43.6 | now you can hear some sweet synth sounds underneath it which I think is a lot better. |
| 0:47.4 | Anyway as I mentioned I have my brother on the show today and he's three years |
| 0:51.4 | younger and although he's not actively pursuing financial |
| 0:55.0 | independence he's done some really interesting things with money that I think people |
| 0:58.5 | on the path if I could learn a lot from not only that is actually a lot more frugal than I am and he's really quite extreme |
| 1:05.7 | with his frugality, which you'll soon hear about. So without further delay, this is an interview |
| 1:10.2 | with my little brother Brian that we recorded next to a canal in Venice Italy actually so hope you enjoy it. |
| 1:18.0 | Hey brother hello. |
| 1:21.0 | So before we start let's set the scene a little bit. We are sitting here on a |
| 1:25.2 | canal in Venice. We've been here for a couple days eating a lot and this is our |
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