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Radical Personal Finance

RPF 0007 – Strategies to Achieve Financial Independence at an Early Age – an interview with Brandon, the Mad Fientist

Radical Personal Finance

Joshua J. Sheats, MSFS, CFP, CLU, ChFC, CASL, RHU, REBC, CAP

Self-improvement, Business, Education, Investing

4.21.9K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2013

⏱️ 121 minutes

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Summary

Today, we have an in-depth conversation with Brandon, the Mad Fientist. If all goes according to plan, Brandon should have enough money by the end of next year (2014) to never have to work again. He will be in his early 30s. Today’s show goes fairly deep into some of the technical strategies that Brandon is […]

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the Radical Personal Finance Podcast. I'm your host Joshua Sheets and today I'm

0:09.0

very pleased to welcome Brandon, the Mad Fianist to the show.

0:13.0

Brandon, welcome.

0:14.0

Thank you very much.

0:15.0

I'm really excited to be here and I'm really happy to be on this side of the interview for once.

0:20.0

It's going to be nice and relaxing rather than trying to be the interviewer and worrying about asking questions.

0:26.0

Yeah, exactly. It is definitely more nerve-wracking to be on the interviewer side because you're trying to produce a quality product instead of just simply going

0:35.0

with the flow and sharing your story.

0:37.4

So hopefully it'll be fun for it.

0:38.8

Absolutely.

0:39.8

For those of you who don't know, Brandon does record a, he records a podcast, an occasional

0:45.0

interview podcast mainly, at least those are the episodes that I've heard and he writes a blog at

0:48.8

Mad Fientist spelled just like it sounds dot com and I highly encourage you go and check out

0:56.3

Go and check out his writing and his show I've actually Brandon I just interviewed

1:01.6

Paula from

1:03.0

from afford anything.com and I have first heard her off of your show

1:07.0

and went and enjoyed her her website because you had found her

1:10.0

so thanks for that connection there.

1:12.0

Oh that's cool.

1:13.0

Yeah, Paul, that's great.

1:14.0

I'm actually hopefully going to be meeting her in October and look forward to talking to her again.

1:18.0

But I'll look forward to hearing that podcast because yeah, I had a great time speaking with her so.

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