Stop Pressing Life's Easy Button (SB1427)
The Stacking Benjamins Show
Joe Saul-Sehy and Josh ‘OG’ Bannerman, CFP
4.4 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 27 October 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Les Brown, no stranger to hard work and the resulting success it brings, famously said, “Do what is easy, and your life will be hard. Do what is hard, and your life will become easy.” Does the secret to creating an easy life lie in doing hard work first? How much of what seems easy from the outside looking in is actually the result of hours of hard work that was put in beforehand? Joining Joe for a special roundtable discussion that centers around how to do the hard things in order to create an easier life going forward are three people who are no strangers to doing the hard work: Roger Whitney, the Retirement Answer Man; Carl Jensen, creator of the 1500 Days to Freedom blog; and Paula Pant, host and creator of the award-winning Afford Anything podcast and blog. They dive into the complex relationship between hard work and an easy life and offer some gems for Stackers to take away.
In the second half of our show, sponsored by DepositAccounts.com, we discuss some hard work life skills and money skills that you can tackle today that will help you out financially in the future.
Be sure to stick around for our resident hard work expert Doug's astrological-themed trivia! Will either of our two guest contributors pull out the W and Len or OG benefit from their hard work, or will our regular contributor Paula continue her late season charge for our spectacular dollar store trophy?
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Look. This is hot, Ray. |
| 0:08.0 | Symmetrical book stacking, just like the Philadelphia Man's Tribulence of 1947. |
| 0:14.0 | You're right. No human being would stack books like this. |
| 0:18.0 | Listen! You smell something? |
| 0:31.3 | Live from Joe's mom's basement, it's the stacking Benjamin show. I'm Joe's mom's neighbor, Doug, and today we're talking about the value of making life hard on yourself with the guy who makes retirement easy. |
| 0:49.5 | He's the retirement answer man, Roger Whitney. |
| 0:52.8 | Plus, the woman who's farthest of all of us from retirement age and who makes our |
| 0:57.7 | life easier just because we know her. |
| 0:59.9 | Oh, that's barf. |
| 1:01.3 | Oh, it's just gross. |
| 1:02.6 | Paula Pant. |
| 1:04.2 | And finally, the co-host of the Mile High Five Club, I mean, podcast Carl Jensen. |
| 1:12.1 | But that's not all halfway through the show. |
| 1:14.6 | I'll share my starry trivia. |
| 1:17.1 | And now a guy who makes life hard on himself by not staying in the same place for more than two weeks. |
| 1:22.7 | It's Joe Saul C-high. |
| 1:28.8 | Hey, Stackers, happy Friday to you. |
| 1:30.9 | I am Joe Saul-C-Hi, average Joe money on Twitter. |
| 1:33.6 | And what a fun day we've had so far. |
| 1:35.6 | We haven't even started recording yet. |
| 1:38.0 | It's going to be, I'm sure, a great hour. |
| 1:40.3 | So sit back and relax as we meet this cast of characters. |
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