Radical Personal Finance Podcasts, Live Today, from the Country Financial Stage in downtown New Orleans, Louisiana at FinCon 2014. Welcome to the Radical Personal Finance Podcast. My name is Joshua Sheets and I'm your host.

Thank you for being here.

Today's show is a little bit different.

I'm looking out at a crowded lobby full of people.

Never done this before.

Gonna do some live podcasting talking about how should I set up a plan for personal

financial education hope you enjoy it. It's kind of interesting to be here in downtown New Orleans, Louisiana.

It's kind of interesting, kind of weird to be looking at a crowd of faces of people looking at me.

Never had the opportunity to do that before, but it should be a fun, it should be a fun fun show today I'm going to handle a question

from a listener you know doing I knew that I was going to be doing a show here in front of

a room full of people that are interested have an above average interest in personal finance and as I thought about

what would be interesting I thought of a question that I received from an audience

member named Jeff who had sent me an email and Jeff had emailed me a question and he said

You know Joshua I've been listening to your podcast ever since I found them a few weeks ago. Here's my question

Do you think that I should pursue earning a financial planning or retirement planning certificate

just for the sake of learning?

I have no interest in becoming a financial or retirement planner, but have been learning as much

as I can for the last few years, books, podcasts, blogs,

boglehead forums, etc. I've learned a lot about investing, retirement planning,

tax planning, estate planning, personal finance, etc.

I guess I don't know what I don't know.

What should I consider when deciding whether or not to earn a certification?

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